Kilt skating is taking off in New York City — even during the pandemic. After all, this year’s kilt skate motto is: “our faces may be masked, but our knees will be bare!” The third annual Tartan Kilt Skate NYC was held once again in the heart of Manhattan, presented by American Scottish Foundation in association with Bryant Park.
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What began as an idea by the Scottish Society of Ottawa (SSO) to have the 2021 kilt skate take place as a safe, socially-distanced “Home Edition” series of mini-events has morphed into a pan-Canadian party that will take place this Saturday across six time zones. February 27 will see an as-yet undetermined number of skaters across Canada join together in the first-ever Great Canadian Kilt Skate Zoom & Facebook Party.
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If the Home Edition competition for the Kilt Skate Capital of Canada were a horse race, the pack is rounding the bend and heading into the homestretch. One horse that has run off the pace is now making a determined bid on the outside and may overtake the leader. With one week left in the Great Canadian Kilt Skate, can Toronto’s plans to host a Zoom and Facebook kiltskate party win the roses? The early signs are that it can!
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The pandemic has made us innovate. When public health protocols made community events problematic, we adapted. Everyone was encouraged to kilt skate in a safe, outdoor, socially distanced manner in what we dubbed the Great Canadian Kilt Skate — Home Edition. Now in the GreateriToronto Area (GTA), they’re taking innovation to the next step: the Great Canadian Kilt Skate Zoom & Facebook Party. Join it from 11 a.m. until noon on Saturday February 27.
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It’s on! A Kilt Skating community event has been scheduled in the heart of Manhattan for Thursday, February 25 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. This is the third annual Tartan Kilt Skate NYC, hosted by the American Scottish Foundation in partnership with with Bryant Park.
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This year, we’ve invited everyone to send us photos and videos from their own socially-distanced kilt skate. It’s part of the Great Canadian Kilt Skate — Home Edition. Over the past weeks we’ve received terrific photos and videos. We’ve highlighted them over the weekly blogs.
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A polar vortex may have descended on much of Canada bringing subarctic temperatures, but the days are getting longer and brighter. And no matter what the thermometer says, Canadians are getting out onto the ice in our kilts and tartans. For the MacPherson family in Ottawa, kilts add a new twist to the national game.
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A cold front hit much of Canada this past week and it may have discouraged some kilt skaters. But the Scots have a word for obstinate determination to do something that seems totally irrational to everyone else. That word is THRAWN. And “thrawn” may be the word that best describes those determined to celebrate Scottish culture with bare knees and ice. And pink skates no less!
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across canada, communities host kilt skates to celebrate scotland’s contribution to our multicultural fabric.
