🎉🧧 This is Lunar New Year San Jose: Bridging Generations 2024! 🧧🎉
For over 30 years, the Tet Festival has been led by the elders in our community, but this year, they passed the baton to the youth in San Jose and we took on the task with a clear mission – to produce a an inclusive festival that bridges communities across generations, celebrating diversity, and igniting collective inspiration.
Our overarching vision is to preserve traditions, honor those before us, and nurture new legacies to foster intergenerational healing, learning, and growth together.
You don’t want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime inaugural festival hosted by Vietnamese American Roundtable (VAR), NorCal UVSA, and The Viet Museum.
Festivities include:
lion dancing
Chinese music
children’s crafts
storytelling
Please double check the event information on the event website as sometimes events are canceled or details changed.
Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with festivities including traditional lion dancers, local school performances, calligraphers, and more.
Join us for an exciting lineup of events, including mesmerizing lion dancers showcased on America’s Got Talent, captivating IChing readings, skilled calligraphers, and red envelope scratch-off giveaways, plus more!
Please double check the event information on the event website as sometimes events are canceled or details changed.
The San Mateo County History Museum will join in Redwood City’s annual celebration of the Asian Lunar New Year.
Outdoor performances on Courthouse Square and indoor activities within the History Museum will be free to the public.
Children’s activities within the History Museum will include making traditional New Year’s red envelopes, writing lucky symbols in Chinese calligraphy, making paper lanterns, learning to use chopsticks, adding with an abacus and playing folkloric games.
Please double check the event information on the event website as sometimes events are canceled or details changed.
The San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade is the highlight event of the annual Chinese New Year celebrations in San Francisco.
The San Francisco Chinese New Year celebration is now the largest Asian event in North America as well as the largest general market event in Northern California. The celebration includes two major fairs, the Chinese New Year Flower Fair and Chinatown Community Street Fair. All the festivities culminate with Chinese New Year Parade.
Nowhere in the world will you see a lunar new year parade with more gorgeous floats, elaborate costumes, ferocious lions, and exploding firecrackers.
Sit along the parade route or secure your seat by purchasing Bleacher Seats in advance.
Please double check the event information on the event website as sometimes events are canceled or details changed.
Free admission and family fun! Welcome the Year of the Dragon with art-making activities, cultural demonstrations, and live performances. This celebration honors both international and local Lunar New Year traditions.
Featured Activities:
Location: Circle of Palms Plaza
11:30AM: PERFORMANCE BY KOREAN CULTURE CENTER – URISAWE From Fan Dance to Samgomu, Urisawe is dedicated to offering the best performances and classes when it comes to Korean Dance.
3PM: PERFORMANCE BY RISING PHOENIX DRAGON AND LION DANCE ASSOCIATION For over a decade, Rising Phoenix has been practicing the art of modern Lion Dancing in San José, California. Consisting of high school students and young professionals, they strive to keep the traditional art of lion dance alive.
Hands on Activities at the Museum
PAPER DRAGON PUPPET Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with this easy puppet project, that will teach you the basics of making many distinct puppets.
CHINESE SIGNATURE SEALS Make your mark with this easy stamp-making activity inspired by traditional signature seals. Once you have made your stamp, use it to sign your artwork.
TÒ HE Based on a Vietnamese Tet tradition, Chopsticks Alley will be hosting a sculpting activity in which kids can make their favorite figurine on a stick!
Please double check the event information on the event website as sometimes events are canceled or details changed .
