Mid-autumn festival celebration at Manchester Museum
About this Event
Also known as the Moon Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese celebration held on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Rooted in legends like Chang’e, the moon goddess, the festival is a time for gratitude, reflection and togetherness across many East Asian cultures. Families gather to enjoy mooncakes and celebrate with lanterns.
You can experience activities like:
A. Drop in Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Making Workshop by Thomas Yuen: 11am-4pm
Create your own lanterns for celebration. Materials provided. Just drop in.
B. Pre-booked Tea ceremony by Feixia Yu: 12:00-12:30, 2-2:30, 2:45-3:15
You can enjoy a calm moment drinking Chinese tea. Booking is required.
C. Leaf whistle workshop by Larry Lai: 3-4pm
Leaf whistling is a part of human heritage. You can play music using only a sustainable, low-carbon musical instrument — leaves! It's cool, exciting, and something most people have never tried. It's live music with a live musical instrument! Larry started this hobby in 2013 and now tutor in leaf-whistling in the UK. Booking is required.
D. Bring the Moon Home: A Mid-Autumn Crafts & Poetry Gathering by Ariel Chan 2-3pm (Biligual, In both Chinese and English)
畫個月亮帶回家：新詩創作工作坊🌕
以「家」為題，透過文字創作及油粉彩想像心目中的家，趁着中秋節重溫節日故事，吃一口月餅，畫個月亮帶回家。
Ariel將帶領大家創作，以和諧粉彩繪製月亮、結合個人詩作製成掛飾，最後以品嚐月餅、互贈祝福收尾。
Using the theme of “Home,” participants will imagine and express their ideal home through creative writing and pastel Nagomi art. In celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival, they will revisit the festival’s traditional stories, enjoy a bite of mooncake, and paint a moon to take home.
E. Screening Our Shared Moon — Hong Kong Voices Across Mid-Autumn(12 minutes)
This video by Thomas Yuen explores memory, migration, and the meaning of reunion / togetherness through the lens of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Speaking with friends who have recently moved from Hong Kong to the UK, Yuen reflects on how traditions are carried, reshaped, or lost in diaspora. Alongside these voices, he weaves in his own story of family and the bond with his elder brother.
Through references to the legend of Chang’e (In Cantonese: Soeng Ngo) and the poetry of Su Shi (In Cantonese: Sou Sik), the work connects personal and collective longing across distance. It is less about a single festival than about how people carry “home” within them, and how the moon continues to remind us of belonging—even across oceans and silences.
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