Photos: The 3rd Annual AAPI Dragon Boat Festival at White Rock Lake

Dallas’ Dragon Boat Festival is not something to overlook. Hosted at Bath House Cultural Center under the shade of White Rock Lake’s majestic oak trees, the event filled the area with tent after tent of boat racers, artist stalls, and crafts like upcycled kimonos with What’s Wong Art (@whatswongart) and a kid-friendly collage-flower activity with Lo Song (@lure.n). Performers in beautiful traditional clothes showcased everything from Chinese fan dancing to kung fu, while the rowers, some of whom had come from as far as Oklahoma City, braved the lake’s windy waters.

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Residents of East Dallas, the area between Northwest Highway and Interstate 30 to the east of U.S. Highway 75 in Dallas, fancy themselves a world apart from the glamorous clichés of North Dallas, preferring a more laidback lifestyle but with big-city attractions still close at hand…

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