Free First Sunday
Lunar New Year Celebration: Lion Dancing
Cal VSA Lion Dancers bring good times and good fortune; plus, all-day equine-themed art activities for the Year of the Horse.
Celebrate Lunar New Year with lions, laughter, and good luck courtesy of the Lion Dance Team from UC Berkeley’s Vietnamese Student Association. A traditional art form in Vietnamese and Chinese culture, the lion dance combines movement and martial arts in a playful and spectacular experience for all ages. In addition to two dynamic lion dance performances and all-day Mahjong, a large-scale Chinese brush painting demonstration (of a horse, of course!) by Pauline Tsui offers inspiration for Lunar-New-Year-themed art activities.
Schedule
Cal VSA Lion Dance Performances
11:30 AM and 2:30 PM
Author Talk with Eddie Ahn
2 PM | The creator of graphic memoir “Advocate” talks community, Chinatown, and environmental justice
Mahjong at the Museum
10:30 AM–4 PM | Take a lesson and play all day!
Art Activities
10–4 PM | Year-the-Horse-themed Drop-in Art Activities
12:30 PM | Large-scale Chinese Brush Painting Demonstration
1:30–2:30 PM | Monthly Makers: Chinese Brush Painting
Tours
11 AM | Lunar New Year Storytelling, ages 3–6
11 AM | New Japanese Clay
1 PM | Lunar New Year Storytelling, all ages
2:30 PM | Collection Tour
3:30 PM | New Japanese Clay
Organizers & Sponsors
Cultural celebrations are made possible by Bank of America. This program is supported by Hiba Academy Bay Area.
Sustained support for the Asian Art Museum’s Lunar New Year Celebration is generously provided by the following endowed funds:
- John S. and Sherry H. Chen Endowed Fund for Chinese Art and Programming
- Arlene Schnitzer Endowed Fund for Chinese Art
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