Lunar New Year Celebration

February 17, 2019 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Brattleboro Museum and Art Center

10 Vernon St, Brattleboro, VT

Lunar New Year of China, Korea, and Vietnam: Lantern Festival
Asian Cultural Center of Vermont (ACCVT) presents Lunar New Year of China, Korea and Vietnam. Sunday, Feb 17th, 1-3:00 at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (10 Vernon St, parking next door in the lot for 28 Vernon St). Lunar New Year celebrations run from Feb 5th to Feb. 19th and conclude with the Lantern Festival. We will celebrate the Lantern Festival with stilt walkers, sweet rice balls and the Korean card game Hwatu (Go Stop). It’s a potluck. Li Fei Osborne returns to share a dance of the Yi people (one of the Chinese ethnic minorities) and then teach us all a Yi dance. Join us to dance with the Dragon, do Qigong, join in a Korean tug-of-war, make a paper lantern, and sing an Asian New Year song. You don’t have to be Asian or know anything about Asia to participate! We usher in The Year of the Brown Earth Pig, a year full of joy, a year of friendship and love; an auspicious year because the Pig attracts success in all the spheres of life. Don’t miss the chance to dance with the 30-foot Vietnamese dragon. It will arrive around 2:15, and then parade up from the Museum towards Main Street bringing us luck for the coming year. According to Chinese folklore, this enormous marionette, requiring at least 9 people to hold, is forever chasing the ‘heavenly pearl’ in its pursuit of wisdom. Seth Harter, Director of Asian Studies at Marlboro College, brought this extraordinary dragon back from the village of an accomplished Vietnamese craftsman. During the rest of the year, the dragon ‘lives’ in the Marlboro College dining hall. More information on the website: http://accvt.org/ Phone inquiries: voicemail – 802-257-7898; day of event – 802-579-9088

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