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Lunar New Year Celebration
February 10 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
$12
The Year of the Dragon is coming! Celebrate the lunar new year with traditional dance performances, fireworks, activities like cut paper art, lantern/fan painting, origami & more.
Food available for purchase.
Indianapolis Chinese Performing Arts Inc (ICPAI) at 7pm.
Lunar New Year is one of the most important celebrations of the year among East and Southeast Asian cultures, including Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean communities, among others. The New Year celebration is usually celebrated for multiple days—not just one day as in the Gregorian calendar’s New Year. In 2024, Lunar New Year begins on February 10.
China’s Lunar New Year is known as the Spring Festival or Chūnjié in Mandarin, while Koreans call it Seollal and Vietnamese refer to it as Tết.
Tied to the lunar calendar, the holiday began as a time for feasting and to honor household and heavenly deities, as well as ancestors. The New Year typically begins with the first new moon that occurs between the end of January and spans the first 15 days of the first month of the lunar calendar—until the full moon arrives.
Artwork by Julie Xiao