This Friday February 12th, the Chinese New Year festival gets underway as we welcome the Year of the Ox. Celebrating the start of the new year in the traditional Chinese – Lunar Calendars. Beginning with the new moon, the Spring Festival starts with New Year’s Eve and concludes with the Lantern Festival on the 15th…
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Discover Shadow Puppetry with Gateway Theatre
Lunar New Year is coming soon, with pandemic restrictions keep us at home, many will be looking for family activities to keep them entertained. Gateway Theatre is using the occasion to celebrate one of the oldest puppetry traditions in the world, Chinese shadow puppetry! With its origins in the Han Dynasty, shadow puppetry remains one of the…
5 – Year of the Rat Lunar New Year Celebrations
Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year is one of the most important events for Asian families as millions make visits to their home countries, towns and family, to celebrate the Year of the Rat. New Year celebrations and traditions have worked their way around the globe thanks to the vast Asian diaspora. Locally,…
Soar Over Taiwan at Fly Over Canada for Lunar New Year
Fly Over Canada celebrates the Lunar New Year by inviting guests to Soar Over Taiwan. From today, January 16 to February 16, 2020, Soar Over Taiwan, experiencing the water at Green Island, flying above the famous Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival, over the shores of Sun Moon Lake, past tea farms and into the heart of…
Picks of the Week – February 14, 2018
Happy Valentine’s lovebirds! This week Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year Celebrations offer plenty to get you out of the house, the picks of the week will help to sort out what’s on. Chocolate: Perfect for your after dinner chocolate craving, the Hot Chocolate Festival wraps up tonight. Romance: Romance week at Vancouver TheatreSports League wraps up tonight but…
Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival Parade
Thousands of specators braved the rain to line the streets of Chinatown to watch the Chinese New Year Parade and help usher in the Year of the Rabbit. Featuring the largest assembly of traditional Lion Dance teams in Canada, the Parade winds its way through Pender, Main and Keefer Streets in the heart of Vancouver’s Chinatown. Organized…