Named one of the top ten Parades in the world by International Festivals & Events Association, the Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco is one of the few remaining night illuminated Parades in North America and the biggest parade celebrating the lunar new year outside of Asia. The two-week Chinese New Year Festival and Parade, sponsored by Southwest Airlines in recent years, includes two fairs, the Chinese New Year Flower Fair and Chinatown Community Street Fair, the Miss Chinatown USA pageant, and concludes with the parade. Miss Chinatown USA is traditionally present at the parade, as is a Golden Dragon which is To celebrate its 40th Anniversary, Southwest Airlines is staging one of its most lavish Parade floats, featuring all things Lunar New Year including dozens of intricately carved New Year figurines, countless popping firecrackers, pinwheels, fans, a myriad of lucky symbols and blossoms, lions, and dragons. Catch the Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year parade on FB Live as viewed from the Judges' Stand! Click [Get Reminder] to get notified when our cameras power up to catch the start of the parade and continue to the end when all 288 feet of our Golden Dragon comes through to end the night with a BANG a series of 200,000 bangs as two strands of firecrackers are lite! The Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco is one of the few remaining night illuminated Parades in North America and the biggest parade celebrating the lunar new year outside of Asia. Float Description from 2019 – “Happy New Year” Southwest Airlines welcomes the New Year with this year’s honored lunar animal, the Pig, starring on an elaborately painted scroll surrounded by a wall of auspicious peonies, red lanterns, and golden clouds. The Year of the Pig promises abundance and goodwill. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, the proud presenter of the annual Southwest Airlines ® Chinese New Year Festival and Parade, will unveil a new event to usher in the lunar year 4719, the Year of the Ox. The "Year of the Ox on Parade" will be an inaugural event in the spirit of the "Hearts in San Francisco" project. 11 life The Chinese New Year Parade comes rain or shine and is free for all. You can purchase tickets for bleacher seating for $30.00. To learn more about the festival and parade or for more general Over 100 units will participate in the Southwest Airlines® Chinese New Year Parade. A San Francisco tradition since just after the Gold Rush, the parade continues to delight and entertain the many hundreds of thousands of people that come to watch it on the street or tune in to watch it on television on KTVU Fox 2 or KTSF Channel 26, 6:00-8:00 p.m., on Saturday, February 11, 2017. Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year! Southwest Airlines is once again the title sponsor of the San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade in this Year of Hare. To celebrate its 40th Birthday, Southwest Airlines is staging one of the most lavish Parade floats ever with all things Luna celebrated Chinese Lunar New Year in grand style. Today, the City by the Bay’s Southwest Airlines® Chinese New Year Festival and Parade attracts over 2.5 million people, making it the largest Asian event in North America, and the largest general market event in Northern California. 4 Posted by CNY Festival & Parade March 1, 2021 December 27, 2023 Posted in Parade, Video Tags: Chinese New Year, float, parade, southwest airlines Southwest Airlines welcomes an auspicious New Year as the Ox looks through the window to a celestial realm. Southwest Airlines®, title sponsor of the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade, and the SF Chinese Chamber of Commerce invite you to attend all the New Year festivities during the celebration beginning January 18 th thru March 1, 2020. SOUTHWEST AIRLINES® CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL AND PARADE YEAR OF THE RAT CALENDAR AND DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS Chinese New Year Festival and Parade attracts over 2.2 million people, making it the largest Asian event in North America, and the largest general market event Alaska Airlines Chinese New Year Festival & Parade, San Francisco, California. 5,696 likes · 129 talking about this. Celebrating the Year of the Snake! Posted by CNY Festival & Parade March 1, 2021 February 17, 2021 Posted in Parade, Video Tags: Chinese New Year, float, parade, southwest airlines Southwest Airlines welcomes an auspicious New Year as the Ox looks through the window to a celestial realm. Chinese New Year Festival & Parade. Named one of the top ten Parades in the world by International Festivals & Events Association, the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco is one of the few remaining night illuminated Parades in North America and the biggest parade celebrating the lunar new year outside of Asia. Though I am saddened we cannot come together in-person to observe the Chinese New Year Parade tradition in 2021, I am thankful that the great people at the Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Festival have created this online space for us to continue to connect with such a special event. 2021 Chinese New Year Festivities. The Southwest AirlinesÒ Chinese New Year Festival & Parade, dazzling the streets of downtown San Francisco with beautiful floats, talented cultural performances, and live music, has drawn over millions of spectators and television viewers year after year. Since the 1860s, the Chinese Americans in San Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Festival & Parade (San Francisco, USA) The lunar new year is celebrated during this annually held event. The festivities are held in San Francisco’s Chinatown area and there will be flower fair, beauty pageant, a Chinatown run (5K or 10K) and a street fair.
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