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Celebrate the new year at our free family festival, just a stone's throw away from London's original Chinatown in Limehouse. Listen to classic Chinese folktales, take part in workshops, get stuck into celebratory crafts and enjoy a Dragon dance. 🥾 London Chinese Lunar New Year Parade 2025: start time, route and everything you need to know. Year of the Snake at Greenwich Peninsula. London Museum Docklands, E14 4AL. Free. In 1985, the launch of official Chinese New Year Celebrations in London, as organised by the London Chinatown Chinese Association, coincided with the area being officially named ‘Chinatown’ by Westminster City Council. This reflected the importance of the area to the diaspora entrepreneurs and communities. When is Chinese New Year celebrated in London? Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, always falls between late January and mid-February. In 2025, Chinese New Year falls on 29 January. The 2025 Chinese New Year festival in central London, organised by the London Chinatown Chinese Association (LCCA), takes place on 1 and 2 February. Welcome the Year of the Snake with mesmerizing dragon dances enchanting folktales vibrant crafts and lively community-led events at the London Museum Docklands on 1st Feb 2025. Where you can celebrate the new year at their free family festival just a stone's throw away from London's original Chinatown in Limehouse. London's Chinese New Year Parade and Trafalgar Square celebrations on 1 and 2 February 2025 Museum of the Home in Hoxton invites you into this British Vietnamese house for Tết. Image: Londonist When is Chinese New Year celebrated in London in 2025? Lunar New Year at London Museum Docklands. Things to do; Classes and workshops; Isle of Dogs 1 Feb 2 Feb 2025. Photograph: Museum of Chinese New Year 2025 falls on Wednesday, January 29, and will see the Year of the Snake - a symbol of wisdom, intuition, and creativity, seen by many as a time for renewal and spiritual growth. As well as this year's main parade through Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square , for which full details are yet to be released, London will come alive Lunar New Year 2023. ©London Museum. Our address is London Museum Docklands, No.1 Warehouse, West India Quay, London E14 4AL. Learn about the Chinese zodiac The first Sunday of the Year of the Wood Snake, February 2, will see the largest Lunar New Year celebrations outside Asia taking place in London. What began in the 1970s as a small community Book free tickets for the Lunar New Year festivities at the National Maritime Museum. Lunar New Year Family Festival at Museum of London Docklands. 10 – 11 February 2024. Welcome the Year of the Dragon at the Museum of London Docklands’s weekend family festival. Under 5’s Craft Celebrating Chinese New Year at Redbridge Central Library: A special Rhyme time and craft session to celebrate Chinese New Year. 28 January 2025, 10:30-12:00. Free, drop in on first come, first served basis. Under 5s. Chinese New Year crafts at Waltham Forest Libraries: Snake crafts taking place at libraries across Waltham Romney Rd, London SE10 9NF. A free and fun event for the whole family. Come and enjoy Chinese New Year at the National Maritime Museum. Created with the Newham Chinese Association, Greenwich Vietnam Women's Group and the Association of Chinese Women, Woolwich; this year is packed with activities for everyone to get stuck into. This year, the Museum of the Home is celebrating the Lunar New Year with a fun family day of creativity and storytelling. Join them on 18 February for free events, including storytelling and crafting sessions, as well as the chance for children to create their own temporary home in the museum's interactive family playhouse. He has previously told “Jimmy’s First Big Chinese New Year”, “Wintermelon Story” and “A New Year’s Reunion” at the Museum of the Home Tony has written and performed his solo play with music “Passion on the Night Tube” at the Vault2020 Festival. Start the new year with a roar! Listen to classic Chinese folktales, learn how to ribbon dance, master martial arts moves and make crafts inspired by this celebration. This family-friendly weekend is perfect way to introduce the little ones to the different traditions of Lunar New Year. Booking required- Booking opens Mon 29 Jan at 9am. Dragon As the Lunar Year dawns, join the Science Museum to celebrate the Year of the Dragon and the opening of Zimingzhong å‡ æ—¶è šç , their new exhibition about Chinese clockwork. Amongst lion and dragon dancers, Chinese drummers, and New Year’s arts and Chinese New Year – Science Museum Lates Read More » 2. Lunar New Year at the Museum of London Docklands From Dragon Kung Fu to a silent disco, dragon puppets to ribbon dance workshops, there's plenty of activities for kids of all ages to From Chinatown to London Docklands, check our full list of events taking place across London on Sunday 11 February to bring in the Chinese New Year in both traditional and extraordinary fashion The Science Museum's new exhibition Zimingzhong 凝时聚珍 celebrates the ingenuity of Chinese clockmakers: explore it after dark at this Lunar New Year themed late.
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