Chinese New Year Festival
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For a spectacular three weeks of fun, excitement, colour, entertainment, performances, boat races, markets and cultural exhibitions you just have to wait for Sydney's Chinese New Year Celebrations 2010. This festival, also called the Lunar New Year marks the most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. Each successive year is named after one of 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac calendar and the year 2010 is going to be the 'Year of the Tiger'. Sydney's Chinese New Year festival is also the largest celebration of the Lunar New Year outside Asia.
The event will start on Friday, the 12th of February 2010 at 18:30 hrs with the official launch of the festival at Belmore Park. In the launch lions and dragons come to life alongside acrobats and dancers to mark the onset of a new year and bid farewell to the year gone.
The festival markets will be held from 12th February 2010 to 14th February 2010 at Belmore park. With stalls offering food, traditional gifts, produce, oriental art and craft works and activities and traditional entertainment with dragon and lion dances you can be sure to experience an authentic Chinese flavour of events, activities and food. You can also try your hand at tai chi, mah jong, lantern making, Chinese drumming or even lion dancing.
The spread of the events across the 3 weeks of the festival will also include film screenings, sporting events, the New Year Twilight Parade and the Dragon boat races that are very popular.
If you want to celebrate the Chinese Australian culture then you surely wouldn't want to miss this colourful event.
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178497 - 2023-06-15 20:40:17