In 2025 Vancouver celebrates the Lunar New Year with the 51st annual Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown. It’s an impressive event! The Year of the Snake begins on January 29th in 2025. Running since 1973, the parade takes place on the first Sunday after the start of the New Year. In 2025, consequently, that means the parade happens on The 2025 Lunar New Year kicks off on Wednesday, Jan. 29, followed by the centrepiece parade in Vancouver’s Chinatown on Feb. 2, and wrapping up with the Lantern Festival on Feb. 12. Here’s Vancouver Canucks Lunar New Year Game. What: Vancouver Canucks host their annual Lunar New Year Game on January 21 when the Buffalo Sabres come to town. There will be a variety of special Lunar New Year activities to enjoy during the celebration. When: January 21, 2025 Time: 7 pm Where: Rogers Arena – 800 Griffiths Way, Vancouver This month-long celebration to ring in the Chinese Year of the Snake kicked off on Jan. 2 and continues through to Feb. 2. The event will feature "exciting collaborations, culinary pop-ups, special tastings, mural colouring, and more." Visitors can check out the Lunar New Year-themed Yucho Chow Studio! and get entered to win festive prizes. Best time to go to Vancouver. Chinese New Year 2025 in Vancouver. One of the biggest celebrations in Canada. Dates: January 27–February 21, 2025. Chinese culture; Lunar New Year; Street festival; Exhibition art; Cultural event; Parade The biggest celebration in Metro Vancouver is bound to be Vancouver’s 51st Chinatown Spring Festival Celebration and parade taking place on Sunday, February 2. Anticipated to draw a crowd of 100,000 spectators, the highlight of the event is a grand 1.3 km parade. Festivities continue with the free Spring Festival Cultural Fair at the Chinese Cultural Centre and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Plaza from 2 to 4 pm, with multicultural artistic performances and more for all ages to enjoy. Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival Celebration and Parade. When: February 2, 2025 Time: 11 am (parade start), 2 to 4 pm (fair) • Feb. 10: Lunar New Year “Build a Drag” Celebration at Lansdowne Mall • Feb. 10 – 11: Lunar New Year at the Chinese Canadian Museum • Feb. 10 – 11: Get Lucky Art Show The Chinese New Year Parade takes place most years in Vancouver’s Chinatown on the Sunday after New Year’s Day from 11:00 am until around 1:30 pm. The parade goes up Pender Street, turns at Gore Street and then returns along Keefer. For many Vancouverites, the Chinatown Spring Festival Parade is the highlight of Lunar New Year celebrations. The Chinese Benevolent Association of Vancouver along with other community organizations has organized this annual event for over 50 years. The parade snakes its way along East Pender and Keefer streets in Chinatown. A new attraction around Christmas last year was the Vancouver Chinese Lantern Festival which featured performances and over 30 light displays at the PNE. The event was scheduled to return to Vancouver from February 1 to March 31, 2019. Unfortunately, however, it has been CANCELLED due to challenges associated with obtaining work visas. It is May 21, 2024 @ 10am - May 23, 2024 @ 8:30pm 2024-05-21 10:00:00 2024-05-23 20:30:00 America/Vancouver The World Championship of Chinese Cuisine 2024 Taste the Favor of the New World Festival and Celebrate Together with Vancouver Chinese Cuisine Day Doors open at 10AM PNE Forum The city also hosts many highly anticipated cultural festivals, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, and the Chinese New Year Parade. Discover public art installations and murals, many of which will make you stop in your tracks to take in and appreciate. For further information about the PNE visit: www.pne.ca About the PNE: Owned by the City of Vancouver, the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) is a healthy and vibrant non-profit organization dedicated to providing over 3 million visitors a year with first-class cultural, sporting and family entertainment events. Please be informed the 2025 Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival Parade will take place on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 11:00 am. We would like to invite you to join us and other Vancouver organizations in celebrating our 51st Anniversary where dragon and lion dances and other performers will gather to celebrate the Lunar Chinese New Year - Year of the Snake! The 2025 Lunar New Year kicks off on Wednesday, Jan. 29, followed by the centrepiece parade in Vancouver’s Chinatown on Feb. 2, and wrapping up with the Lantern Festival on Feb. 12. Here’s Fifteen people have been charged with mischief for last year’s Breakout Festival riot at the PNE amphitheatre, Vancouver police say. 2025 Lunar New Year in Metro Vancouver: How to enjoy the Hoobiyee is a First Nation event celebrating the Nisga’a New Year in March at Vancouver’s PNE Forum. It features Indigenous dance groups from across BC. In 2024 the event took place on March 1st and 2nd. Vancouver Chinese Lantern Festival 2017. Where: Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver (entrance at the corner of Renfrew Street and Hastings Street) When: Friday, December 15, 2017 to Thursday, January 21, 2018. Tickets: Adults (13-64) – $19; Seniors (65+) – $14.50; Children (4-11) – $13.50; Children under 3 years old – free. Nightly Vancouver Chinese Lantern Festival. Dec. 15 of the first lunar month of the Chinese New Year celebrations. only thing taking place at the festival. Twice nightly, the PNE Amphitheatre
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