At Xiaopei Chinese Dance in Dublin, the U.S. China Dance Association will perform at the 2025 San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade opening ceremony. January 24, 2025 Lunar Knorr Year: The Taste of Celebrations The public art project, which was introduced in 2021, will display five Wooden Dragon statues in and around San Francisco from Sunday, January 28 – Saturday, March 2, 2024. The Dragon Statues spotlight publicly submitted artwork that reflects upon the culture, people, and traditions surrounding the Chinese New Year. The Yau Kung Moon Richard Ow and Susan Yee Kung Fu lion dance teams perform during the Chinese New Year Flower Market Fair in Chinatown, San Francisco, on Jan. 30, 2022. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with San Francisco’s dazzling Chinese New Year Parade on Saturday, Feb. 24, with comedian and actor Awkafina as the Grand With an A-list grand marshal—Awkwafina!—sold-out crowds and a brand new dragon, San Francisco is throwing everything in its arsenal at this year’s Chinese New Year Festival and Parade. The largest Lunar New Year parade outside of Asia, the celebration will snake its way through downtown and Chinatown Saturday evening in an event that San Members of the San Gabriel Valley Chinese Cultural Association practice their dragon dance routine on Market Street, ahead of the 2024 Alaska Airlines Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco Dragon dancers filled the streets during the 2023 Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco. Justin Katigbak/Special to the Chronicle Lunar New Year is celebrated over 15 days, with dates based on There will be a brand new dragon in this year’s Chinese New Year Parade finale, celebrating the Year of the Dragon. The parade’s organizer, the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce, has announced the roster of floats and entertainers who will participate, including a 289-foot golden dragon that debuted in public on Lunar New Year’s Day, Feb. 10, for a Taoist “awakening” ceremony. Lion and dragon dances, a staple of Lunar New Year celebrations, are two of the most popular and historical forms of Chinese entertainment. San Francisco troupes will perform hundreds of those This Lunar New Year began on February 10th and heralds the Year of the Dragon. The fifth animal in the Chinese zodiac, the dragon symbolizes prosperity, luck, wisdom, and strength. The Chinese New Year Parade has a long history in San Francisco. It’s been named one of the top ten parades in the world by the International Festivals & Events Association and is the biggest Lunar New Year parade outside of Asia. Over 100 units usually take part, with elaborate floats and costumes, firecrackers, and the newly crowned Miss 2019 Chinese New Year Parade (Year of the Pig) on Kearny Street at California Street in downtown San Francisco. The earliest recorded New Year's celebration was "a great feast" on February 1, 1851, [7] and the first dragon dance in San Francisco was held for the New Year in 1860. [8] In the 1860s, the Chinese community wanted to share their Chinese culture with others; they blended their traditions with a favorite American tradition—the parade—and The Chinese New Year Flower Market Fair is held on the weekend before Chinese New Year Day. Here's Yau Kung Moon San Francisco with their ending lion dance p SAN FRANCISCO -- The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is based on cycles of the moon and falls on a different day every year. In 2025, the Year of the Snake begins on Jan. 29 LionDanceME was founded in 2012 by Norman Lau, who took a traditional Chinese cultural art and transformed it into a modern entertainment company. LionDanceMe currently runs school programs at 7 different high schools in San Francisco and works with over 600 students every year in order to spread the art of lion dancing to the future generations. The Chinese New Year Parade 2025 will celebrate the Year of the Snake on various dates across major cities. In Hong Kong, it’s on Jan 29. In London, it’s on February 2; Chicago’s on February 9; San Francisco’s on February 15; and New York City’s on February 16. Join the community for the largest Vietnamese Lunar New Year-Tet Festival in San Jose. Families can enjoy lucky money and gifts, live entertainment, lion dancers, a student talent contest, contests for children and adults, a visit from Miss Vietnam California, fashion show, magic show, carnival rides, games, exclusive food booths, local vendors, live DJ, and more! Meet all the dragon statues just installed around San Francisco to celebrate the Lunar New Year’s Year of the Dragon, as these intricately designed, wooden dragon monuments now adorn SF parks 865 Market St., San Francisco . LUNAR NEW YEAR CONCERT. San Francisco Symphony is ringing in the Year of the Serpent with its annual Lunar New Year Concert conducted by Francesco Lecce-Chong. Don’t miss the pre-concert reception and the post-concert banquet dinner in Zellerback Rehearsal Hall in honor of the event’s 25th iteration. 201 Van by Arnold Woods San Francisco has long had one of the biggest celebrations of the Chinese New Year. The annual festival and parade lasts for two weeks and features a parade with floats, costumed school kids, acrobats and stilt walkers, bands, firecrackers, and the Golden Dragon, operated by a large team of people. 2021 is []
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