Lunar New Year
Gong Xi Fa Cai! Gong Hey Fat Choy!
Join us January 24-26, 2025, for our Lunar New Year Celebration.
Lunar New Year is one of the most anticipated and festive times of the year. We are over the moon to celebrate this explosive holiday and usher in a new era with our Fairyland family. 2025 is the Year of the Snake AND it brings Fairyland’s 75th Anniversary, making it a year that will go down in hiss-tory!
靈蛇出洞，好運亨通 “When the snake comes out of the hole, good luck follows”
Schedule of Events:
Friday, January 24, 2025
- 10:30 a.m. & 3:00 p.m.: Lunar New Year Snacks + Toddler Storytime
Saturday, January 25 & Sunday, January 26, 2025
- 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Sweet Treats Sampling: rice balls, fruit jelly, good luck candies
- 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Learn how to Lion Dance
- 11:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Arts and Crafts: Make your own Rattle Drum
- 1:30 p.m. & 2:30 p.m.: Cal VSA Lion Dance Performances
Sweet Treat Sampling
Saturday & Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Come to the Chapel Courtyard for a deliciously festive sampling of fruit jelly, good luck candies, and traditional rice balls with sweet soup. Good thing there are 10 acres of green space to burn off any viper-active energy!
Learn How to Lion Dance
Saturday & Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
From cubs to elders, everybody in your pride can claw their way through these simple steps: bow, explore, eat, toss luck, sleep.
Arts and Crafts
Saturday & Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Make your own Rattle Drum to scare the Nian monsters away and make sure your new year starts off with good vibes only.
Special Performances
Saturday & Sunday at 1:30 p.m. & 2:30 p.m.
Get ready for the mane event! Cal VSA Lion Dance is UC Berkeley’s one and only student-run lion dance team. Serving the Bay Area for the past 11 years, this collective is a tight-knit troupe of performers connected by culture, passion, and comradery. Lion Dance is a performance art that combines martial arts, acrobatics, and dance to celebrate cultural festivals and auspicious occasions.
*SENSORY WARNING: This activity includes loud noises.
Everyone goes home with a special gift! Be sure to wear red, and luck will follow you. We can’t wait to see you!
