Join us for a bank holiday weekend of family fun at London’s biggest waterside festival.
Festival higHlights
As well as our usual activities for all the family including live music, food stalls, arts and cra s, particular highlights include;
saturday
Opening Ceremony (1:30PM)
Pageant of Decorated Boats (2PM)
sunday
Boat Handling Competition (11AM)
Blessing of the Waters, Boats & Boaters (12:45PM)
Teddy Bears’ Picnic (3PM)
Illuminated Boats Parade (9PM)
monday
Boat Handling Competition (10:30AM)
Awards Ceremony (1PM)
Volunteer with us
IWA Canalway Cavalcade is organised and run solely by volunteers. Its future relies on people giving their time to all kinds of activities in the run up to and during the event. Would you like to be part of this 40 year legacy? We need all the support we can get; find out how you can get involved by visiting our website.
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Directions
Tube - Paddington has three tube lines: Bakerloo, Circle and Hammersmith & Ci line (exits directly onto the towpath). Warwick Avenue is also on the Bakerloo line.
Rail - Paddington - GWR & Elizabeth line - platform 8 leads to a footbridge for access to the canal towpath: follow signs to Grand Union Canal, Li le Venice or Sheldon Square.
Bus - To Bishop’s Bridge Rd/Li le Venice: routes 18, 46, 16. To Westbourne Terrace/ Cleveland Terrace: routes 7, 23, 27, 36, 205. To Warwick Avenue Station: routes 6, 187.
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The Inland Waterways Association is the only national, independent chari campaigning for Britain’s rivers and canals. waterways.org.uk/join
opening times
saturday, 29 sunday, 30
Cavalcade to Little waterways boats, live nd plenty of the biggest and a firm Waterways over the May 2nd of May - at Venice its best, full The theme is decorated to the festival -
monday, 1ST may (10AM-5PM)
Entertainment & Shopping for All
See the heart of the London waterways transformed with colourful boats, live music, refreshment stands, craft stalls and moreorganised by volunteers om the Inland Waterways Association (IWA).
Cavalcade Enquiry Line 01494 932730 Option 5.
There is a packed programme of events both on and o the water including a themed pageant of decorated boats on Saturday; boat handling competitions and an evening procession of illuminated boats on Sunday and a parade of historic and working boats on Bank Holiday Monday. Younger visitors can try their hand at kayaking, visit a Teddy Bear’s Picnic or watch a traditional Punch & Judy show in Rembrandt Gardens.
kinds of boats including historic, residential and working narrowboats, cruisers and widebeams.
RiverThames
entertainment & shopping for all
There is a packed programme of events both on and o the water. Highlights include a pageant of decorated boats on Saturday; boat handling competitions; an evening procession of illuminated boats on Sunday.
Younger visitors can try their hand at kayaking, visit a teddy bears’ picnic or watch a traditional Punch & Judy show in Rembrandt Gardens.
RiverThames
There will be music playing, food stalls selling a huge selection of delicious snacks and meals, a real ale bar, as well as a varie of craft, canal-ware and clothing outlets throughout the festival.
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Throughout the festival there will be music playing, food stalls selling a huge selection of delicious snacks and meals, a real ale bar, as well as a varie of cra , canal-ware and clothing outlets.
Come and join in the fun at this unique event.
opening times
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IWA Canalway Cavalcade