Chinese New Year 2012 Events happening at these states:
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Alabama
Alaska
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
The Chinese New Year 2012 - Year of the Dragon - falls on January 23, 2012
For those who want to share their 2012 Chinese New Year Events, please email us.
We are in the process of updating our calendar of events so please bear with us.
Note: Please confirm all information with the organizers/ website, especially before driving to an event.
Alabama
Boutwell Auditorium
Kid friendly and handicapped accessible
Chinese New Year Celebration
Date: January 28, 2012 Address: 1930 8th Ave N Birmingham, AL 35203-2204
Celebrating Chinese New Year Festival at Boutwell Auditorium 春節停課
Celebrating 2012 Chinese New Year Festival
at Boutwell Auditorium January 28, 2012, 11am-4pm
Alaska
The Alaska Chinese Association
Chinese New Year of the Dragon 2012
Celebrating Chinese New Year of the Dragon is scheduled on January 22, 2012. The Association is calling for local artists to join the show at the event. Please submit your program to Kurt Wong (830-2500) or Tina Meiser (243-8886) if you are interested in performing at the celebration.
FPL Celebrates Chinese New Year -no announcement yet
Arizona
Phoenix
Phoenix Chinese Week Celebration The Year of the Dragon January 27-29, 2012 at the Chinese Cultural Center visit, http://phoenixchineseweek.org/2011_Festival_Info.php
Tucson
Lunar New Year
Tucson Chinese Association Proudly Presents: Year of the Dragon (FUNDRAISER)
Tucson Chinese Association Proudly Presents: Year of the Dragon (TASTE OF CHINA)
Saturday, February 4, 2012
5k Run and "wok" - The Year of the Dragon
Sunday, February 5, 2012
455 North Galvin Parkway (between Van Buren St and McDowell Ave - use Zoo entrance) Beautiful Papago Park is the setting for a 5K run and walk to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Dragon. Age division medals in the run (5 year splits) and for the walk (10 year splits). Continental breakfast, plenty of door prizes and a free kids dash. Papago Park - Ramada 9 & 10 - Plenty of parking available at the NE corner of Phoenix Zoo parking lot.
Time: Packet pickup and registration 8:00 am. Race start at 9:00 am. Price: $22.00 Early Registration - $25.00 after 1/29 available online or at stores listed above. Make checks payable to Running Masters. No debit or credit at stores or race day registration. $30.00 Day of race registration fee. To register online at active.com: Click here
Special Dharma functions to be held on Sunday, Jan 8, 2012 to pray for world peace and good fortune in the coming year. For more information on Dharma activities, http://www.hsilai.org/en/event_subpages/event_information/2011/02/2011_ChineseNewYear/2011_Chinese_New_Year_Events_EN.pdf
Chinatown Welcomes Year of the Rabbit With Midnight Temple Ceremony Sunday, January 22, 2012 10pm - 12midnight
Chuan Thien Hau (Cam Au) Temple 750-756 N. Yale Street Los Angeles , 90012
Free
Chinatown community gathers to welcome good health, prosperity, and harmony for the “Year of the Dragon.” Thousands will gather at a local temple to make offerings to the deities, set off firecrackers to awaken the spirits, and burn incense to usher in good fortune for the new year. Participants includes lion dancers, Buddhist and Taoist monks, the heads of family associations, and many others from the Southern California Chinese community. This tradition takes place on the eve of Chinese New Year’s Day (1/23/12) and is typically followed by several days of return visits to the temple for blessings and public celebrations.
Chinese New Year Day - Year of the Rabbit
Monday, January 23, 2012
New Year Festivities in Central Plaza
Jan 28, 2012 11:00 am - 8:00 pm | Saturday
Central Plaza 943-951 N. Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90012
West Plaza 949 N. Hill Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
Free
SAVE THE DATE!
Entertainment and activities schedule to be posted
Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles
977 North Broadway G/Fl, Suite E , Los Angeles , CA90012
Monterey Park’s Chinese New Year Festival January 28-29, 2012 9.30am-5pm Downtown Business District Garvey Avenue (Between Garfield and Nicholson)
This year's Festival will feature vendors offering unique gifts and specialty items, food booths with various types of delectable items, amusement rides, and lots of live entertainment. The traditional Chinese New Year lion and dragon dancers along with firecrackers will kick-off the Festival Saturday morning. Various types of entertainment will be featured on both days. A large carnival fun zone will be featured in parking lots at the corner of Garvey and Lincoln Avenues.
Celebrate the Chinese New Year! Saturday, January 14, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Pacific Asia Museum
We will welcome in the Year of the Dragon with
performances, crafts, hands-on activities and more. Fun for all ages!
Co-presented by the museum's Chinese Arts Council, sponsored by Wells
Fargo.
Chinese New Year Celebration at the Castro Valley Library
-no update yet
Pomona
30th Asian American Expo
″Celebrating the Lunar New Year festivities, building
dialogue between the booming Asian and U.S. markets, offering joy, fun
and happiness to all!″
January 14-15, 2012 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Show
Time: 10:00 am – 7:00 pm Show Location Pomona Fairplex
Halls # 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8
1101 W. McKinley Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
http://www.asianamericanexpo.com/
Riverside
Check out Eastside library for Chinese New Year related events.
Rosemead
Lunar New Year Family Festival
Date: 1/21/2012 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: Free
Location: 8001 Garvey Avenue (Former site of the Auto Auction) Rosemead, California
The City of Rosemead and EDI Media, Inc. are welcoming the New Year with a multi-cultural event featuring live entertainment, great food, a variety of merchandise booths, and family activities. Enjoy an international celebration in Today’s Small Town America! For more information, please call the Parks and Recreation Department at (626) 569-2160.
Ticket Pricing: $5 advance adult; $6 at door; $1 children 12 and underCelebrating Chinese New Year of the Dragon, event features cultural entertainment, martial arts, lion dance, children's games, vendor booths and community organization exhibits
San Diego
30th Annual San Diego Chinese New Year Food and Cultural Fair
January 28 to 29, 2012, 10:00 am
- 5:00 pm
San Diego Chinese Center 428 3rd Ave San Diego, CA 92101
Market and Second Street to Kearny and Jackson Location of bleachers: Kearny Street (between Sacramento & California and between Pine & Bush) 415 986-1370 or 415 982-3071
Saturday 10:00 am-4:30 pm Grant Ave. from California to Broadway,
Sunday 9:00 am-5:00 pm Pacific Ave. from Kearny to Stockton St.
Washington and Jackson Streets from Kearny to Stockton
Free event
Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Coronation Ball
February 4, 2012
Sunday, 7:30pm
Palace of Fine Arts Theater 3301 Lyon Street @ Bay, San Francisco
Francisco Middle School/Gym in Annex Building 2190 Powell Street San Francisco
San Francisco
Symphony Chinese New Year Celebration
Saturday,February 11, 2012
4pm
Davies Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA
Welcome the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Dragon in elegant style at the San Francisco Symphony’s annual Chinese New Year Concert and Celebration. This family event features a mix of music and instruments in a fusion of East and West. Arrive early at 3pm for a festival reception with Asian instruments, lion dancers, Chinese calligraphers, and more.
Imperial Dinner packages that include premium concert seating are available by calling the Volunteer Council at (415) 503-5500.
Ticket exchange and group discount not available.
YMCA Chinese New Year Run
5k/10k Run/Walk
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2012 Location:
Race day registration 7am
at Chinatown YMCA
The race begins 8am
at Sacramento and Grant streets
Registration Fee
$33 by January 30, 2012
$39 Late registration and on race day
Date:Saturday, February 11, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012 Time:11am - 4pm Locations:Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
San Rafael
-no info yet
San Marino
Welcoming the Dragon: Chinese Cultural Arts Celebration January 15, 2012, 10:30am–4:30pm
Explore the music, theater, and folk crafts of China in a day-long event that celebrates the beginning of the lunar new year season, ushering in the Year of the Dragon. The event is a prelude to The Huntington’s Chinese New Year Festival, which will be held on Feb. 4–5. Artists and performers from Jiangsu Province, China, will present traditional puppet opera and demonstrate crafts such as inner-painted glass, paper cutting, and sugar sculpture. Dragon dancers and musicians will add to the spirit of celebration. General admission. Sponsorship provided by East West Bank and ICN TV Network.
CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION- Aurora History Museum Saturday, January 21, 2012, 2pm 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. The Denver Chinese Cultural Center presents traditional folk dances, storytelling, crafts & customs in celebration of Chinese New Year. Stay as long as you'd like & enjoy an afternoon of fun with your family!
2012 Colorado Chinese New Year Celebration Saturday, January 21, 2012
11:30am to 3:30pm
Calvary Temple (near Cherry Creek Mall)
200 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80209
Cultural Fair & Children's Games
11:30am to 1pm
Taste of China Food Booths
11:30am to 1pm
Celebration Show
1:30pm to 3:30pm
(Acrobats, magic, Beijing Opera and folk songs, lion dance, Asian music, Gongfu, children's choir and door prizes)
