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Manchester, January 2025 – Hello Oriental, Manchester’s renowned East Asian food hall in Circle Square, is set to host an unforgettable Chinese New Year celebration on Sunday, 2nd February 2025. In the heart of Circle Square, just off Oxford Road, Hello Oriental will host a Chinese New Year celebrations are set to take over the city this February, with plans including a huge dragon parade, live performances and fantastic food. Taking place across Sat 1 Feb & Sun 2 Feb, the famous red lanterns will transform the city’s streets as they come alive with a vibrant array of free, family-friendly festivities. The heart of Manchester will soon come alive with colour, culture and celebration as the city gears up for its much-anticipated Chinese New Year festivities. Taking place on 1 st and 2 nd February 2025, this year’s celebrations promise to be a dazzling display of traditional and contemporary Chinese culture, cantered on the iconic Chinatown Chinese New Year Celebration at Manchester Central Library Across the weekend of 1-2 February, Bowen Education will present a cultural exchange event, showcasing the best of Chinese traditions and Manchester’s spectacular Chinese New Year celebrations for 2025 have been unveiled - and will feature a huge dragon parade, acrobatic performances and a food market. Just days after the official 1 – 2 February 2025 12pm – 10pm Chinatown. Celebrate Chinese New Year in Chinatown with live performances, stalls, a funfair, Manchester’s famous red lanterns and the city’s legendary Dragon Parade This weekend celebrations will be held in the city centre for Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year. Chinese New Year falls on Wednesday, 29 January and Manchester’s Chinatown will host a weekend The annual Chinese New Year Dragon Parade will take place in the city centre from Oxford Street to Chinatown. There will be further celebrations in the car park and surrounding streets of Chinatown. Road closures. Chinatown From 5am Saturday 1 February to 11.59pm Sunday 2 February: Nicholas Street (George Street to Faulkner Street) Taking place from 12pm, the dragon will be accompanied by traditional lion and ribbon dancers, Chinese Opera performers, twelve Zodiac animals and Ancient Army characters, making their way to Manchester’s popular Chinatown, which is celebrating the Lunar New Year with a live performance stage, fun fair and street food stalls from 12pm – 7pm. Fireworks in China Town in Manchester City Centre as people celebrate Chinese New Year in 2019 (Image: Joel Goodman) Chinese New Year 2025, The Year of the Snake falls on Wednesday, January 29, and will be celebrated in Manchester on Saturday, February 1 and Sunday, February 2. Manchester holds one of the Manchester’s legendary Dragon Parade will make its way through the city centre once again next weekend. As Manchester gets ready to celebrate Chinese New Year 2025 – which begins next Wednesday (29 January) and runs through to Sunday 2 February – and mark the ‘Year of the Snake’, the iconic Dragon Parade will be making its grand return to the streets of our city centre next weekend With Lunar New Year fast approaching, Hong Kong Cultural Community and co-organisers have announced that a Lunar New Year Market will be making a return to Manchester in 2025. Featuring more than 110 diverse vendors , the market is set to double in scale, offering a mix of cultural festivities, mouthwatering cuisine, and vibrant performances. Celebrate Chinese New Year in Chinatown Manchester (M1 4FH) (with live performances, food stalls, a funfair, Manchester’s famous red lanterns). Follow the famous 175ft dragon through the city’s streets as it makes it way to Chinatown, accompanied by a parade featuring a selection of activities such as traditional Lion and Ribbon dances Specialising in traditional Chinese buns, pastries and decorative cakes, Wong Wong Bakery is the perfect place to stop off for a treat, Lunar New Year or not. At this bakery you can expect both sweet and savoury buns, alongside matcha flavoured cakes, cream rolls, moon cakes and more, alongside freshly baked Chinese bread, chicken cookies and Year of the Dragon 2024 – Chinese New Year in Manchester; Manchester celebrated the start of the Year of the Rabbit in style with the return of the Dragon Parade in 2023; Celebrate Chinese New Year in Manchester China Town; Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations Beacon Lighting; Tags Celebrate Chinese New Year in Manchester with the return of the city’s legendary Dragon Parade, plus live performances, stalls, a funfair and Manchester’s famous red lanterns. Parade Sunday 22nd January 2023 12:00 to 13:00 Route : Windmill St., Mount St., Peter St., Oxford St., Oxford Road, Portland St., Princess St., Faulkner St., Chinatown Carpark Performance [] Chinese New Year in Manchester (Image: Manchester BID). Throughout the Sunday in Chinatown there will be performances of acrobatics, singing, poetry readings, dancing and kung fu from 12 noon to 7pm. In a new route for 2024, performances will begin at 12pm at the Oxford Street and George Street junction, before the parade makes its way to Chinatown via Portland Street, Princess Street and Faulkner Street, ending in Chinatown - which will be celebrating Chinese New Year with a live performance stage, fun fair, Chinese arts and crafts Chinese New Year in Manchester is a long-standing internationally recognised festival and one the largest events of its kind in the UK. Events celebrate Chinese culture spanning Chinatown, cultural venues and Manchester’s shopping and leisure districts.
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