Lunar New Year Celebration-Sunday-February 02-2025-10:00AM-12:00PM

Lunar New Year a time to celebrate.

About this Event

You're Invited ! - We'd like to invite you and your family to attend our special Lunar New Year celebration at our center on Sunday February 02 2025 starting from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

Activities at this Event:

• New Year Prayer and Blessing.
• Asian Buddhist Spiritual and Cultural Activities.
• Exciting Performances: Lion Dance Dragon Dance and Flower Dance.
• Free Authentic Eastern Cuisine fireworks etc. !

Quick-Fun Facts about this Lunar New Year:

• It is also called the "Spring Festival."
• Lunar New Year starts a new animal’s zodiac year which festival date changes every year.
• This year belongs to the year of the snake and is said to be mysterious wise and good at keeping secrets. The Year of the Snake is said to be a time for introspection intuition and adaptability and for shedding outdated beliefs and renewing perspectives.
• 1/4 of the world’s people celebrate it.
• Family's reunion lunch and dinner are rituals during the first three days of the year.
• The Lunar New Year is annually the largest usage of fireworks on the planet.
• The celebration decorations during this occasion are mostly in red.
• Starting from the first to the 15th day of the first lunar month people are on the move and begin with a period of praying for well-beings feasting honoring family's values and remembering ancestors.

Event Summary:

Among East and Southeast Asian cultures Lunar New Year is one of the most essential celebrations of the year culturally spiritually and economically. As a result we would like to invite you and your family to join in this Special Lunar New Year to celebrate our differences and diversities by developing unconditional love and cherishing each other for exactly who we are so that we can come together to overcome intolerance discrimination and violence to make a strong beautiful and global community.

We look forward to seeing you and your family soon.

About our organization: It is a Buddhist monastic and laity community that emphasizes practicing Buddhist mindfulness loving-kindness and broad mindedness that are beneficial to family community and society.

To: Participants.

Thanks for your registration to the Lunar New Year Celebration event. Please print out and bring your tickets with you to this event. We look forward to seeing you and your family soon.

Host or Publisher Dr. Thich Hang Dat (Trung Huynh)