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Saturday 1 February and Sunday 2 February 2025. 10am-3pm. Manchester Art Gallery. Free Manchester Art Gallery is one of three key institutions holding the city’s remarkable Chinese collections and archives, so this will be a great opportunity to dive into what our collection has to offer. Welcome the Year of the Snake through art with us. Free, places limited, book on Eventbrite. Crossing the Boarders – Manchester Art Gallery Year of the Snake Family Trail, Manchester Art Gallery . Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd February 2025. Celebrate the Year of the Snake with an exciting new family trail at Manchester Art Gallery! Pick up a sketchbook and pencil, then explore the gallery on the snake trail. Lunar New Year through Art, Manchester Art Gallery. To celebrate Chinese New Year, guests are invited to hear from volunteer tour guides Tik Yu and Anita Ngai about objects related to China and Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February 2025. 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 city’s legendary Dragon Parade and illuminated night dragon dance finale. Thousands of red lanterns Live performances 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 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 Chinese New Year falls on Wednesday, 29 January and Manchester’s Chinatown will host a weekend of festivities on February 1 and 2 to mark the event, which is also known as the Spring Festival 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) Come and celebrate the Year of the Snake as Jinlong Culture & Performing Arts returns with a spectacular line-up of exciting programmes! After 5 years of dormancy since Covid, the show brings back their 18 metre dragon that illuminates the stage to bring joy and blessings for the 2025 Lunar New Year. The show also features their popular acts including cheerful lions, Britain's best 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. Lunar New Year isn’t just a celebration—it’s an explosion of culture, tradition, and joy. This year, Lunar New Year falls on January 29, 2025, marking the start of the Year of the Wood Snake, an event that happens once every 60 years. The snake, one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, is often considered the most enigmatic. esea contemporary and MAO (Museum of Asian Art), Turin, are pleased to present ‘Shadow and Void: Buddha¹⁰’, an innovative collaboration between the UK’s only non-profit gallery dedicated to East and Southeast Asian contemporary art and one of Europe’s foremost institutional collections of Asian art. Chinese New Year Festival. Chinese New Year in Manchester is a long-established and internationally recognized celebration, making it one of the largest events of its kind in the UK. The festival spans various parts of the city, including Chinatown, cultural venues, and popular shopping and leisure districts. 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 40 Years of the Future: Jo McGonigal x Frank Bowling | Castlefield Gallery | Open now until Sun 2 Feb 2025 | FREE. Castlefield Gallery explores fresh and dynamic new ways of thinking about the relationship between painting, sculpture and architecture in 40 Years of the Future: Jo McGonigal x Frank Bowling. Platt Hall has busy programme of activity at the Hall. However, the building is not currently open to general visitors. Older people are a large part of the gallery ’ s audience, and we value their input and support. Manchester Art Gallery is an active member of the Age Friendly Manchester Cultural Offer consortium; we run a range of programmes within the gallery and in residential settings to enable older people and staff to connect, be creative and enjoy our collections and exhibitions. Chinese New Year 2025 also known as Lunar New Year falls on Wednesday, January 29 and the Manchester dragon parade returns to the city centre on February 1 and February 2 Chinese New Year 2025 falls on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, marking the beginning of the Year of the Snake.
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