Celebrate Chinese New Year in Manchester, as we welcome the Year of The Snake. Featuring Manchester’s famous red lanterns, live performances, stalls and funfair, plus the return of the city’s the legendary Dragon Parade. The event is also known as Spring Festival and as Lunar New Year to other Far Eastern countries. READ MORE: Manchester’s Chinese New Year 2025 celebrations revealed with huge dragon parade and 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 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. Chinese New Year celebrations will take place in Manchester this weekend - here's everything you need to know from the parade and Chinatown celebrations to road closures 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 Mark the start of the new Lunar calendar and celebrate Chinese New Year with live performances, traditional workshops, amazing authentic food and the legendary city centre Dragon Parade on Sunday 11 February. Important road closure and event information. 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: The dazzling 175-foot dragon is back for Manchester’s 2025 Chinese New Year celebrations, joined by Chinese Opera performers, 12 Zodiac animals and ancient army characters. How to celebrate Chinese New Year in Manchester 2025. All the events across the city to celebrate the Year of the Snake, including a parade. Next week, Chinese New Year celebrations will get underway to mark the annual celebration. This year, it falls on a Wednesday (January 29) but many will celebrate throughout the week and into the weekend. As many visitors will have already have noticed, Manchester's city centre streets have already 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. 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 Chinese New Year Manchester. 10 — 11 February 2024 Entrance is free — Visit now. The UK’s brightest Chinese New Year celebrations are returning to Manchester this February, as the city comes together to celebrate and welcome in the Year of the Dragon. The Dragon is a symbol of power, nobility, honour, luck and success in traditional 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. 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. 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 This year’s celebrations, organised by the Federation of Chinese Associations of Manchester (FCAM), in partnership with Manchester City Centre Business Improvement District (BID) and the city Food Sorcery: Cooking Together - Chinese New Year | Didsbury | Sun 22 Jan | 6.15pm-9.30pm | £160 for 2. Promising the perfect blend of a meal out and a cookery class, Food Sorcery’s immensely popular Cooking Together series celebrates Chinese New Year with a relaxed yet highly informative session for all abilities, led by expert chef Chorchaba Harper, in which guests arrive to canapes and a This will be the first event to mark Chinese New Year in 2024, the bicentenary year of the University of Manchester."Sonic Reverie – A Chinese New Year Concert" will be performed by Chinese students and alumni of the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music. It will showcase both established and emerging composers from
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