Posts Tagged ‘Lunar New Year’
Celebrating the Year of the Rabbit, with dances and stories from Asia and the Pacific islands
In the spirit of unity, Alameda County has been hosting a Lunar New Year celebration for 15 years. Monday’s program at Lincoln Hall — the first one in person since the pandemic lockdown in 2020 — included five traditional performances reflecting the Bay Area’s diverse Asian communities. The audience of about 400 mostly was made…
Read MoreA Lunar New Year museum experience
Kids ran around relentlessly, and parents did their best to keep up. This was the scene at the Oakland Museum of California’s Lunar New Year Celebration, an annual event that drew residents from across the Bay Area. A line of traffic formed on Oak St. just for museum parking. As attendees continuously flooded through the…
Read MoreHundreds celebrate the Lunar New Year at Oakland museum
The museum welcomed in the new year with a fun-filled festival of Chinese and other Asian traditions for the fourteenth year in a row, as hundreds of children and parents learned how to write Chinese characters and watched performances in celebration of the Year of the Sheep.
Read MoreThis weekend in Oakland
Community events and activities for the weekend of February 11-13. Got an event we didn’t know about? Please add it in the comments!
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