Lunar New Year

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!

Join us on February 17 for Firehorse & Shadow in Vancouver

How are community gatherings helping us to re-member, plant seeds of reconnection between generations, and return us to a renewed sense of place….to Chinatown itself?

As we prepare for Firehorse & Shadow In Community on February 17 at Left of Main in Vancouver’s Historic Chinatown, we are sweeping our arms behind us to bring forward this past beautiful year, and all the beautiful people and places who were part of it with us. Firehorse & Shadow In Community is an embodied celebration of one year of community gatherings, workshops and public art installations centered around Chinatown and the stories held there by people connected to Chinatown.

We are excited to culminate a wonderful year completed. We are also excited for the years to come after this one, and for the conversations that were started to continue to bloom. We are so grateful to all of those who have been on the ground gathering, listening, creating, advocating and actioning for revitalization in Chinatown for years – including our partners, plastic orchid factory, Chinatown Storytelling Centre and Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society.

It feels beautifully synchronous to be celebrating a year of Community Activations at the same time that we transition from the Year of the Yin Water Rabbit to the Year of the Yang Wood Dragon. Dragon is the only mythological animal in the Chinese zodiac. Here on the cusp of Lunar New Year, we feel inspired by Wood to keep us grounded and interconnected, and by Dragon to enter bravely and boldly into the unknown – to dream big, to open our imaginations, and to step into realms where anything is possible.

We wish each of you a happy Lunar New Year, and a beautiful year to come.