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The Canberra Lunar New Year celebration is on Saturday 1 February, marking the first new moon of a lunar calendar year. Honour the Year of the Snake by winding your way around Woolley Street. Get there from 10am to celebrate the Lunar New Year with a free street party that includes exciting performances and flavoursome food. Welcome the Year of the Snake with Hyatt Hotel Canberra. To celebrate the Lunar New Year, enjoy a vibrant evening at the Promenade Café from 29 January to 1 February, including a Seafood Buffet, authentic Asian cuisine and a live lion dance performance by the Prosperous Mountain Lion Dance troupe. Canberra Lunar New Year Festival As the sixth sign of the Chinese zodiac, the snake symbolises wisdom, elegance, and mystery. People born in 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001 or 2013, and those celebrating their birth year in 2025, are said to possess sharp intellects, natural charm, and an enigmatic aura. Lunar New Year is all about family, traditions, and food. What: Canberra Lunar New Year Festival with entertainment, food stalls, and activities. Where: Woolley Street, Dickson. When: 10am to 10pm, Saturday 1 February 2025. Cost: Free. For the full program and more information, visit the Lunar New Year Facebook event. Quotes from Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Michael Pettersson: The dragon is one of the 12 zodiac signs that create a 12-year cycle, but in traditional Chinese cosmology, there is also a five-year cycle of basic elements: metal, wood, water, fire and earth. Celebrate Lunar New Year at Woolley Street, Dickson, from 11 am to 11 pm on Saturday, 10 February. Canberra, get ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year! Head to Dickson for a day full of festivities and welcome the Year of the Snake 2025. Enjoy cultural performances, delicious traditional food, live music, and much more! Bring your friends and family along for an unforgettable experience. Overview. Canberra Dragon Dance will perform a spectacular Chinese dragon, lion and kung fu show to welcome in the Year of the Snake. It is part of the Lunar New Year Festival in Dickson. * Welcome the year of the Snake 2025, come c elebrate Lunar New year with us! Open through out the New Year period. Extended Opening on Wednesday 29th January 2025 for Chinese New Year. Canberra Lunar New Year Festival in Dickson 1st February 2025. Book your table today, Preorder your menu. (see special menu below) Chinese New Year Special It's the Year of the Dragon in 2024 - a creature that symbolises such things as power, prosperity and strength. This Saturday, February 10 will be Canberra celebrations of the Lunar New Year. 16 – 21 January |Woolley St, Dickson | visitcanberra.com. Ginninderry Chinese New Year Lion Dance. Paddy’s Park is marking the Year of the Rabbit with a beautiful pop Chinese celebration in the heart of Ginninderry. The event will bring with it rich culture, lion dances and delicious food as a way to unite the community—rabbit style. Celebrate the year of the Snake - Chinese New Year 2025 In Canberra with a bunch of interesting events. From extensive dinners to lantern making workshops in Canberra there is a lot to do on the occasion of the Chinese New Year 2025 in Canberra. Posted on 8 February, 2024 2024 is the Year of the Wood Dragon – representing power, success, honour, and luck among the Chinese – and as the Lunar New Year quickly approaches, we’ve created a guide on where to celebrate. Dickson, known as Canberra's Chinatown, will be bringing in the Lunar New Year with a bang over two big weekends in 2023. The festivities will include community group performers, a lion dance, roving artists and the big reveal of a Zodiac Rabbit sculpture. Ring in the Year of the Snake with a vibrant Lunar New Year street party on Woolley Street, Dickson, on Saturday 1 February. Hosted by the City Renewal Dickson businesses have been invited to be a part of the Lunar New Year Festival and will receive the traditional gift of tangerine trees. Highlights of the program include: Music: ANU Chinese Classical Music Ensemble, Kim Yang, Ding Guili and Lucy Sugerman. Performances: Project Beats and Red Cedar Traditional Chinese Dance. Members of Subsdance dance group members dress as the Chinese Zodiac animals at Canberra's Lunar New Year Celebrations in Dickson. Picture by Elesa Kurtz There was something in the air at Dickson Their traditional Chinese New Year menu features eight dishes with highlights including Mapo Tofu Dumplings with pork, tofu and fermented chilli dressing, Barramundi with kombu soy, cherry tomatoes and coriander and a dessert of steamed pandan cake with sea coconut jelly. lime sorbet and kaya curd for $88 per person. Every year in Canberra, you’ll find a range of exciting Lunar New Year events. In 2022, we celebrate the Year of the Tiger. Traditionally celebrated across East and Southeast Asia, the Lunar New Year (known as Chinese New Year, Tết in Vietnam, or Seollal in Korea) starts on the first new moon of the year and ends with the first full moon. Lunar New Year celebrations in Canberra. Traditionally celebrated across parts of East and Southeast Asia, Lunar New Year commemorates the start of a new year and begins on the first new moon of the lunar calendar. As it is based on the cycle of the moon, the date changes slightly each year. This year, it falls on Saturday 10 February 2024. 22 January–2 February | 6 Cape Street, Dickson | $78 per person | See Eventbrite for more information Chinese New Year at the Hellenic Club. Canberra Prosperous Mountain Lion and Dragon Dancers will be back for a special Chinese New Year performance on Sunday 2 February at Ginseng Hellenic during Yum Cha at 1 pm.
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