This year's Festival is dedicated to our two friends that lost the battle to cancer: Leon Lawrence and Lynn Stout.  
Leon Lawrence was a fan of dragon boating and its Festival.  He was an advocate of the event and worked tirelessly to ensure the success of each year's festival.   We are forever grateful to Leon's love and dedication to the Finger Lakes international Dragon Boat Festival. 
Lynn Stout, our beloved Gorges paddler and a friend,   She was one of the Gorges Paddlers that wanted to ensure everyone has the opportunity to be on the water through dragon boating.       

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Our Organizers

Ithaca Asian American Association (IAAA)
Ithaca Dragon Boat Club - Program of the Ithaca Asian American Association
Multicultural Resource Center (MRC)
Ithaca Asian American Association (IAAA)

​IAAA has been hosting the annual Finger Lakes International Dragon Boat Festival since 2006.  Its mission is to seek to establish a sense of community among various local Asian American groups, and raise cultural awareness in the greater Ithaca community through education, leadership development, healthy living, fitness, and athletic competition.
Ithaca Dragon Boat Club of IAAA

​IAAA purchased two dragon boats from Dalian, China in 2004 and established the Ithaca Dragon Boat Club as a program to promote the not only the sport of dragon boating but its culture and heritage of Asians and Asian Americans.
Multicultural Resource Center (MRC)

​The Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) was formed in 1987 by Marcia Fort, a woman of color & leader in the community and Eileen Brown a white ally, as a project of the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC). It formed to address the lack of ethnic, cultural cross-community understanding in schools and communities in Ithaca by starting a multicultural resource library located in the Beverly J. Martin public elementary school. The MRC was incorporated on January 1, 1998. (http://multiculturalresourcecenter.org/