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 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 Fireworks in China Town in Manchester City Centre as people celebrate Chinese New Year in 2019 (Image: Joel Goodman) 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. As the dark streets light up, welcome in the Year of the Dragon. Featuring Manchester’s famous red lanterns, live performances, stalls and funfair, plus the return of the city’s the legendary Dragon Parade. January-February: Red Lanterns across the city centre including new extended locations in partnership with Manchester Accommodation BID The showstopping highlight of Manchester’s Chinese New Year celebrations sees Chinatown and the city centre erupt with colour, music, performance and the legendary Dragon Parade. Gather from 12 noon on 2 February to follow the dazzling 175-foot Dragon as it makes its dramatic way to Chinatown. 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 2025. Manchester City Centre. Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 February. Chinese New Year 2025 / Credit: Chinese NY Manchester (via X) Manchester’s legendary Dragon Parade will make its way through the city centre this weekend. Chinese New Year Set Menu at Hello Oriental. Sun 11th Feb, 2024 Hello Oriental. Acclaimed Asian street food haven Hello Oriental will usher in the Lunar New Year with a special set menu. The food hall and market will host a culinary celebration for the Year of the Dragon with a three-course set menu taking inspiration from across Asia. A new parade route has been confirmed for this year's celebrations. 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 workshops and Mancs will be able to gather in St Peter’s Square as the city waves goodbye to 2024 and welcomes a new year. The family-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration has never taken place at St Peter’s Square before, nor has the iconic Manchester Central library hosted any sort of fireworks display. 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 Join the spectators on both sides of Victoria Harbour on the second day of Chinese New Year to witness an astounding fireworks display as Hong Kong ushers in the Year of the Snake! Don’t miss the chance to kick-start the new year with this awe-inspiring spectacle. Coordinator: Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau The 2025 Chinese New Year Fireworks Display will light up the sky over Victoria Harbour on Thursday (January 30), the second day of the Chinese New Year, at 8pm to celebrate the festival with members of the public and visitors in Hong Kong. LIVE: New Year celebrations in Manchester - Thousands welcome in 2024 as fireworks make big return Happy new year! More than 60,000 people flocked to Manchester city centre to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Spectators watched a 175ft paper dragon weave through streets between Albert Square and Chinatown to the sound of drums and cymbals. For the 18,000 Chinese people living in Greater Manchester, it is the most important event on the calendar and organisers again pulled out all the stops to celebrate 2010 This year’s family-friendly end of the year celebration marks the first time St Peter’s Square has been used for the New Year countdown event, which will take place on Tuesday 31 December from 10pm to 12.30am, and the first-time ever that New Year fireworks have been let off from the roof of Manchester Central Library. 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 2019 was the last year a fireworks display was held in an official New Year's Eve celebration in Manchester city centre (Image: Joel Goodman) "Coming as it does after the dark days of the last few Jan. 22–28, 2025: New Year Shopping. Before Chinese New Year's Eve, people buy New Year's food and snacks, New Year's decorations, and New Year's clothes, fireworks, etc. Chinese New Year in China, like Christmas, is a boom time for shopping.
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