For the 2024 edition, many of you wanted to buy the shirt reserved exclusively for our instructors. So for 2025, you can pre-order it now, but you must do so before March 19. It's a high-quality unisex Canadian flannel shirt, specially designed for the OCF 2025 Canada edition! Reserve your shirt before March 19, 2025 […]
Jamie Barnes' film « A canoe Perspective » sums up the values of the Open Canoe Festival perfectly. It will open the Festival on Friday, April 18, 9:30 p.m. under the Tipi. Finding purpose, identity and perspective through canoe expeditions… In May 2022, British adventure filmmaker Jamie Barnes travelled to Scotland with Canadian long-distance canoe paddler Martin […]
Price change: March 18. Registration closes: April 4. Don't wait any longer! There are some events that come up every year and that you pass by saying to yourself: "not concerned" or "déjà vu". I'm interested in the river, in paddling sports in general, in outdoor sports, I do a bit of kayaking, packrafting, inflatable […]
The Open Canoe Festival's 2025 lottery promises to be a memorable one! Our partner Destination Rivières is giving away an 7-day canoe trip to Swedish Lapland (excluding travel). How to win? Register with OCF to enter the grand prize draw. Canoeing adventure on the Lainio älven: the boreal river and you... July 27 to August […]
You were expecting a canoe that is both very light and very durable... Esquif has done it! Esquif made a big splash back in 2015 with the development of T-Formex, the successor to its cousin, the now-defunct Royalex. Since not all paddlers necessarily need the extreme durability that traditional T-Formex offers, Esquif now presents, for […]
The emblematic brand of inflatable canoes and kayaks GUMOTEX joins the main sponsors of the Open Canoe Festival! Numerous test boats will be available, and as always, several workshops will be dedicated to inflatable boating. The OCF 2025 will also be an opportunity to showcase plenty of new products from Gumotex, including the new Scout, […]
Becky Mason inherited her paddling skills and deep love for canoes from her father, the legendary canoeist Bill Mason, author and filmmaker of the Path of the Paddle series. She carries on the family tradition by sharing her passion for canoeing through a variety of avenues, including paddling instruction, filmmaking, writing, workshops, demonstrations, and slideshow presentations. In […]
POOLIDOR is an electronic music duo that blends traditional music from Berry and North Africa. They produce a raw, hypnotic sound by combining organic timbres and percussion with the gleaming waves of electro. On stage, a hurdy-gurdy, complete with pedalboard and bicycle wheel, faces a vinyl turntable. This timeless construction is complemented by machines, violin […]
Here's the Open Canoe Festival 2024 video. This year, we wanted to show the OCF's DNA, what we want to share with this event. Only the international side doesn't stand out, but we haven't forgotten our many foreign coaches and the 13 European countries taking part. Thanks to all of you!
The Drôme is one of the last wild rivers in Europe, with a natural, torrential flow. It meanders for 106 km from its source to its confluence with the Rhône. As a result, it is home to some exceptional flora and fauna, and in particular to two experts in camouflage: On the banksThe ringed plover: […]
