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UC Irvine honored a decade of Lunar New Year celebrations with a pre-event at the Student Center’s Pacific Ballroom and main event at the Irvine Barclay Theater on Jan. 21. UCI’s Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese programs and clubs performed traditions, including the dragon dance and the UC Irvine’s Lunar New Year Festival creates an atmosphere of pure enchantment in which captivating performances and cherished traditions come alive – from the enthralling dragon dance and the feeding of the lions to the beloved wishing tree; dynamic rhythms of Hansori at UCI, the Hikari Taiko drummers and the KKAP UCI dance team; and UCI's Lunar New Year Celebration is possible through the generous support of the UC Irvine Long-U.S. China Institute and its partners the School of Social Sciences, School of Law and The Paul Merage School of Business in concert with the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, School of Humanities, School of Social Ecology, UCI Libraries, Center for Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown by Chiou-ling Yeh (2008); This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. Event: Annual Lunar New Year Festival Date: January 21, 2025 Time: 9am-2pm Performance: 11am-12pm (Chinese Orchestra, Jodaiko, TRANCE VSAUCI, and Gio Nam Mua Lan (Southern Wind Lion Dance) Location: UCI Student Center Pacific Ballroom ABC *Opportunity drawing and photo booth The Department of East Asian Studies celebrates the 2023 Lunar New Year with a performance. Photo: Miriam Maritza Aguilar. "The 12-animal zodiac is important to people of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Mongolia, Tibet and other East Asian cultures, although its origin is somewhat obscure, possibly beginning in animal worship of northern nomadic tribes. UCI Lunar New Year Festival : Barclay Lobby and Theatre *The dragon dance begins at 3:30 p.m. followed by the feeding of the lions at 3:45 p.m.* Step into an atmosphere of enchantment at UCI’s Lunar New Year Festival, where captivating performances and cherished traditions come alive. The Lunar New Year Festival will start at 3:30 p.m. across the street (Pereira Drive) at the Irvine Barclay Theatre (bldg. 1, grid D5 on campus map). INFORMATION: Media planning to attend should contact Cara Capuano at 949-501-9192 or ccapuano@uci.edu. Attendance is free and open to the public. Chinese lettering artist Louie Valdivia creates a message on a card behind a dragon figurine during the UCI Lunar New Year 2024 celebration at the Irvine Barclay Theater on Monday. (Don Leach The Year of the Rabbit is nearly upon us, officially getting underway on Sunday. The students and faculty at UC Irvine got a head start Tuesday on celebrating the Lunar New Year in person at both Share Share on X (Twitter) Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on EmailEVENT: UCI will be celebrating the upcoming Lunar New Year – heralding the Year of the Pig – with an academic discussion, multicultural entertainment, lion and dragon parades, food, light and sound show and more. WHEN/WHERE: Monday, Jan. 28, with an academic discussion with […] UC Irvine Athletics has received a $5 million gift to bolster its highly successful NCAA Division 1 baseball program. The donation is the largest in the history of UC Irvine Athletics and comes from Steve and Linda Borowski (above center, with family) to found and name a new player development center. Taught in Chinese using Pinyin romanization system and both traditional and simplified forms of Chinese. Prerequisite: CHINESE 2A. CHINESE 2A with a grade of C or better. Placement into CHINESE 2B is also accepted. Overlaps with CHINESE 2DB, CHINESE 2MB. Restriction: CHINESE 2B and CHINESE 2DB and CHINESE 2MB may not be taken for full credit The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law banning the popular social media platform TikTok on Jan. 17, citing national security concerns. TikTok, owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance, introduced a new emphasis on short-form media globally. Within just a year of its 2016 launch in the Chinese market the app attracted about 100 million users. The Chinese Program at the University of California Irvine is pleased to announce its annual Chinese Calligraphy Contest to be held on Tuesday 5/21/2019. This event is open to all students who are currently enrolled in a Chinese language class at UCI campus. As we enter the new year, the Merage School’s API initiative team cordially invites you to celebrate the 2023 Lunar New Year with us! Lunar New Year is one of the most important festivals in many East and Southeast Asian cultures, and each community celebrates the Lunar New Year with foods and traditions that focus on prosperity and abundance to welcome in the new year. Share Share on X (Twitter) Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on EmailEVENT: UCI will celebrate the Lunar New Year with a variety of academic activities, cultural entertainment, parades, music, dancing, food, fireworks and more. WHEN/WHERE: Monday, Jan. 30: Academic events begin at 9 a.m. in EDU 1111 at the School of Law (bldg. 3, grid […] UC Irvine faculty and students enjoy the New Year’s “Vietnamese Craps Game,” which features illustrations of a gourd, a crab, a fish, a deer, a rooster and a shrimp, corresponding to the dice bearing the same pictures at the Department of East Asian Studies’ Lunar New Year celebration in 2020. Dear Friends of UC Irvine School of Law, 2024 marked the 15th year since our first class of students arrived at UC Irvine School of Law in August 2009. As we approach the end of this year, we have gathered some of the year’s notable moments in this roundup of top stories.
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