Rivers Festival 13th Jul 2013 – 21st Jul 2013

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The Rivers Festival returns in July with a wide range of cultural and leisure activities to celebrate York’s rivers and – The Ouse and The Foss!

Family-friendly fun and games will be taking place on and besides York’s rivers when the River Festival starts on Saturday 13 July and flows through until Sunday 21 July.

◦Galtres Parklands Festival presents a weekend of music, merriment and mayhem with a Pirate theme in St Sampson’s Square (13-14 July)

◦Rowntree Park Birthday Party (13 July) lights up the south bank of the Ouse,

◦Dragon Boat Races on the River Ouse (14 July)

◦The annual York Canoe Race (20 July).

And if that line-up isn’t enough to float your boat, there’ll be a fishing competition, York Canoe Club have organised a Kayathlon, a Cardboard Canoe Race and ‘come and try it’ canoe sessions too.

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