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• Lunar New Year 2019: The Year of the Pig

  • Start
    05 Feb 2019
  • End
    19 Feb 2019
  • Location
    Everywhere

  This year the Lunar New Year falls on February 5 and lasts 15 days until February 19! We will be celebrating the Year of the Pig, sometimes called The Year of the Boar.

  
  

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• Boston Chinatown Lion Dance Parade in Celebration of the Year of the Pig

  • When
    17 Feb 2019
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Chinatown Boston MA

  Please come join us for Chinatown's 2019 Lion Dance Parade in celebration of the Year of the Pig.
  
  This event is for all ages and free to the public.
  
  A traditional celebration featuring martial artists, brightly colored Chinese costumes worn by lion dancers, and traditional food and music.
  
  One of the most popular Chinese New Year activities in Boston is the huge Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown, accompanied by the Chinatown Main Streets Cultural Village featuring culture and arts demonstrations, book reading, arts and crafting. 

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• FCCNE Lunar New Year Celebration at the Pao Arts Center

  • When
    17 Feb 2019
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    11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Pao Arts Center, 99 Albany St, Chinatown Boston 02111
  • Registered
    55 registrants

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  Celebrate the Year of the Pig with FCCNE in Chinatown!

  
  

  Boston's Chinatown hosts the biggest Lunar New Year parade in New England with troupes of colorful lion dance dancers ringing in the Year of the Pig. Plan to be part of the action, then come join us to warm up indoors at the Pao Arts Center in Chinatown and have your creative and artistic impulses flourish during the New Year!

  FCCNE will be at the Pao Arts Center Lunar New Year Festival with CCI (China's Children International)  - and we want to see you there!

  We have our own room at the Pao Arts Center celebration! Come meet other FCCNE adoptees and families, chat with some of the CCI adoptees who are 18 or older volunteering that day, add your wish to our New Year's wish tree and more. Meet old and new friends and enjoy Boston's Chinatown on its biggest day of the year!

  Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center is planning a wonderful time inside where you can drop in for free family-friendly activities from 11:00am-3:00pm including Chinese and English calligraphy demonstrations, and exhibitions tours. 

  Drop In Lion Dance Workshop at 12:30, 1:15 or 2:00 for 5-12 year olds.  Are your kids excited by the colors, sounds, and movements of Chinese Lion Dance on the streets of Chinatown? Come learn the steps of this traditional Chinese dance so they can ring in the new year with fun and health. You will learn with Nüwa Athletic Club. This Boston-based organization provides an environment for Asian American girls and women to enhance their physical and emotional development through teamwork, sportsmanship and cultural activities including lion and dragon dance. Workshops are a half hour long.
  

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  Everything above is FREE but there are two fee-based workshops that you will need to sign up for in advance - space is limited:

  Fee based workshops:
  

  11:00am - 12:30am: In the Kitchen: Dumplings - Learn how to make dumplings, a traditional new year dish. You will learn how to make, fold, shape, and cook dumplings with local BCNC community member YuYan Su. Dumplings are a popular Chinese dish for the new year. YuYan Su will be teaching two recipes: one that appeals to traditional palates as well as her own delicious, unique Chinese American recipe. $30 per person. Click here to register
  

  1:00 - 2:30pm - In The Kitchen: My Love Tea 101: Tea & Love - Tea is a staple in Chinese kitchens and tables. Come take this workshop to taste and learn about the ceremonial role of tea in Chinese culture.You will learn from Dr. Xingcai Zhang, a research fellow at Harvard/MIT who was the President of the World Tea Organization, North American Chinese Tea Association, and mylovetea.com. $30 per person. Click here to register

  
  Be sure to catch all the other Lunar New Year activities happening in Chinatown that day such as the 2019 Chinatown Lion Dance Parade and the Chinatown Main Street Cultural Village.
  
  

  Directions: The Pao Arts Center is located in the One Greenway building, 99 Kneeland Street. For GPS driving directions, use 66 Hudson Street, Boston, MA 02111. From Hudson Street, walk up the stairs and across the deck to the 99 Albany Street entrance. The public parking garage entrance is on Hudson Street. The Pao Arts Center is accessible by the MBTA green, red, and orange lines.

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• The Joy Luck Club: On Stage

  • Start
    15 Mar 2019
  • End
    31 Mar 2019
  • Location
    The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742

  
  

  THE JOY LUCK CLUB tells the story of four older Chinese-American women and their complex relationships with their American-born daughters. The play moves from China in the early twentieth century and San Francisco from the 1950s to the 1980s, as the eight women struggle to reach across a seemingly unpassable chasm of culture, generation and expectations to find strength and happiness.
  

  The Joy Luck Club

  By Susan Kim

  Adapted from the Novel by Amy Tan

  More information and tickets: theumbrellaarts.org/production/joy-luck-club
  

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