Festival Plaza

Festival Plaza is the perfect place for you to celebrate crossing that Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend finish line with your friends and family! 

 

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Food vendors

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Rooted Family Lactation and Feeding tent

Exciting news for new parents participating and those supporting participants at Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend! Introducing the Rooted Family Lactation and Feeding tent, conveniently located in Festival Plaza steps from the start and finish lines. 

Capture your experience

This year Festival Plaza will have photo stations from Desjardins and Run Ottawa. The perfect locations to commemorate reaching your Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend goals with an Instagram-able pic!

Celebrate with some good tunes

DJ Prosper will be providing the soundtrack to your celebrations all weekend! DJ Prosper is an Ottawa-based hip-hop artist turned DJ with over 20 years’ experience. He has worked as hype man for R&B legend Ashanti, co-founded the hip-hop group GPM with his wife Melissa over 10 years ago, and is the new in-arena DJ for the NHL’s Ottawa Senators. 

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Meet up with your friends and family

Meeting friends? Cheering on a participant? Festival Plaza is a great place to meet after you’ve finished your event.

And more…!

Festival Plaza will also have an Info Kiosk, a water refilling station, various food trucks and picnic tables. A great spot to have a bite to eat and refuel while you’re waiting for your runner or after you’ve completed your event. 

Watch the Canadian 10K Championships and the Tartan Ottawa International Marathon live broadcasts on the big screen at the stage, and afterwards celebrate cheer on the Canadian 10K Championship and Tartan Ottawa International Marathon elite athletes as they receive their medals on the Festival Plaza stage!

There are also 70 comfort stations located in Festival Plaza for your convenience.