Colorado Dragon Boat, a Denver-based group celebrating and promoting Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities across the state, had a tough 2020.
The nonprofit was able to pull off last year s edition of the Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival. The annual event, which was launched in 2016, took place just before the cultural scene came to a screeching halt over COVID-19. But over the summer, the signature Colorado Dragon Boat Festival which started in 2001, later giving rise to the film fest and other related activities was canceled and replaced with a virtual event. While the online offering wasn t as thrilling as the races on Sloan s Lake the most comprehensive in the country the organization was happy to have a chance to connect with its community, which desperately needed something to rally around.