Lion Dancing today at Whole Foods for Chinese Lunar New Year's

From Whole Foods' Facebook page:

Join Whole Foods Market Cranbrook and the Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan to celebrate the Chinese New Year on Sunday, February 9, 2-3pm. Students from the Center will perform a lion's (sic) dance, traditional Chinese music, Chinese yo-yo and a ribbon dance. Customers will have an opportunity to try their hand at Chinese calligraphy, traditional paper cutting, and other learning materials.

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Photograph from 2013 performance.

Ann Arbor Chinese Lunar New Year's Celebration Today

MC'ing today at the Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan's annual Chinese New Year's Celebration! Performances start at 3:00 pm, Dinner starts at 6:00 pm. You don't want to miss our amazing Lion Dance at 3:00 sharp! From aaccom.org:

Chinese New Year Party 馬年新年晚會

02/08/14 AACCOM Chinese New Year Party 馬年新年晚會  Date 日期：February 8, 2014, Saturday / 2013年二月八日星期六 Location 地點： Morris Lawrence Building: Towsley Auditorium,  Washtenaw Community College 4800 E. Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor Dinner Ticket 晚餐門票： pre-sale ticket 預售：成人 Adult $10, 孩童 Child (age 5-14) $8 at-door 現場：成人 Adult $12, 孩童 Child (age 5-14) $10 Raffle Ticket 摸彩券： pre-sale ticket 預售：25 cents each at-door 現場：50 cents each Each student will get 4 free raffle tickets Program 流程： 12 pm – 1:30 pm Setup/Decoration 1 pm – 3 pm Rehearsal 預演 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm Games 遊戲 3 pm – 6 pm Performances 節目表演 6 pm – 9 pm Dinner 晚餐 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Games 遊戲

More at http://annarborobserver.com/search_results/923341391795785.html

2013 Photo courtesy of Photasa Photography.

Whole Foods Market Celebrates Chinese New Year with AACCOM

From Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan aaccom.org: On 2/16/2013, please join AACCOM and Whole Foods Market to celebrate the Lunar New Year! Students from the Center will perform a lion’s dance, traditional Chinese music, Chinese yo-yo, and a ribbon dance. Customers will have an opportunity to try their hand at Chinese calligraphy, traditional paper cutting, and other learning materials.  Please see the event calendar - http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/events?store=6519 Date：February 16, 2013, Saturday Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Location： Whole Foods Market - Cranbrook 990 W. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor,  Michigan 48103

Happy Chinese Lunar New Year's Day!

Happy Chinese Lunar New Year's Day! Did you survive the Nian? Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan’s Chinese New Year’s Celebration 2013

The Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan’s Chinese New Year’s Celebration will be held on Saturday, February 9, 2013, 1:00-9:00 pm, at Washtenaw Community College, Morris Lawrence Building, 4800 E. Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor.

There will be children’s games and crafts (1:00-3:00 pm), and children’s performances by students (3:00-6:00 pm) including a colorful lion dance; traditional Chinese instruments; dangerous kung fu (martial arts); graceful Taiwan ribbon dancers; spectacular Chinese Yo-Yo stunts; and Chinese New Year’s stories, songs, rhymes, skits, videos. Special guest performances by the Ann Arbor Traditional Chinese Music Ensemble and The Chinese Choir of Michigan. Raffle. A Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner will be served 6:00-9:00 pm, featuring New Year’s specialties from area restaurants. 

Tickets for performances and dinner will be available in advance and at the door: $12 Adult (14 and up), $10 Children ages 5-14, children under 5 free. Additional tokens (25 for $5) may be purchased and exchanged for games and snacks.

For more information check out www.aaccom.org or contact principal@aaccom.org.

Chinese New Year’s Day falls on February 10 of this year. It signifies the beginning of spring and is celebrated by ethnic Chinese in many countries around the world. It is also celebrated by ethnic Taiwanese, Koreans (Sol), Vietnamese (Tet), Tibetans (Losar), and others; and it has become woven into the fabric of American culture, after being celebrated in America for over 160 years. Every year is represented by one of twelve animal zodiac signs, and this will be the Year of the Snake.

The Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to provide an opportunity for any interested persons to learn about Chinese culture and language regardless of one’s race or cultural background, and to promote cultural diversity. Chinese classes are held once a week on Friday nights and are open to the public. For more information check out www.aaccom.org.

more at http://www.annarbor.com/community/community_wall/ann_arbor_chinese_center_of_michigans_chinese_new_years_celebration_2013/

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Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan Chinese New Year’s Celebration Saturday, January 28, 2012, 3-9pm - Community News

The Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan’s Chinese New Year’s Celebration will be held on Saturday, January 28, 2012, 3-9pm, at Washtenaw Community College, Morris Lawrence Building, 4800 E. Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor.

There will be Children’s Performances by students (3:00-5:30 pm) including a colorful lion dance; traditional Chinese instruments; dangerous kung fu (martial arts); graceful Chinese fan dancers; spectacular Chinese Yo-Yo stunts; and Chinese New Year’s stories, songs, rhymes, skits, videos. A Chinese New Year’s dinner will be served 6:00-9:00 pm. There will also be children’s games, crafts, tea, and fruit (7:00-9:00 pm). Raffle. Special guest performance by the Ann Arbor Traditional Chinese Music Ensemble.

Tickets for performances and dinner will be available in advance and at the door: $12 Adult, $10 Children ages 4-14, children under 4 free ($10 adult, $8 child, in advance at principal@aaccom.org). Additional tokens (25 for $5) may be purchased and exchanged for games and snacks.

For more information check out www.aaccom.org or contact principal@aaccom.org

Chinese New Year’s Day will be on January 23 of this year. It signifies the beginning of spring and is celebrated by ethnic Chinese in many countries around the world. It is also celebrated by ethnic Taiwanese, Koreans (Sol), Vietnamese (Tet), Tibetans (Losar), and others; and it has become woven into the fabric of American culture. Every year is represented by one of 12 animal zodiac signs, and this will be the Year of the Dragon.

The Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to provide an opportunity for any interested persons to learn about Chinese culture and language regardless of one’s race or cultural background, and to promote cultural diversity. Chinese classes are held once a week on Friday nights and are open to the public. For more information check out www.aaccom.org.

click on link for more: Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan Chinese New Year’s Celebration Saturday, January 28, 2012, 3-9pm - Community News

Chinese New Year at Cranbrook Whole Foods Market

Lion Dancing, Chinese Traditional Music Ensemble, Chinese fan dance, Chinese Yo Yo, crafts and activities and more! Sunday, January 22, 2012

Store Calendar | Cranbrook | WholeFoodsMarket.com

Chinese New Year | Ypsilanti District Library

Lion Dancing, Chinese Yo Yo, stories, traditions, crafts and activities and more! Saturday, January 21, 2012

Chinese New Year | Ypsilanti District Library

Rec and Ed class: Chinese New Year Celebration: Dumplings!

A hands-on Rec and Ed class to learn about the foods of Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year Celebration: Dumplings!
Thursday, January 26, 6-8pm
Whole Foods, 3135 Washtenaw Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Learn about the foods and traditions of Chinese New Year. Why can't you finish the fish? What does serving a whole chicken represent? Why do soy bean sprouts make your wishes come true? Have fun making chinese dumplings -- meat or vegetarian, boiled or fried -- and find out what they tell you about the coming Year of the Dragon. Scholarship recipients pay $20. Instructor: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang. 1 class. $39

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Oh! Oshogatsu! Missing Japanese New Year’s Day–Adventures in Multicultural Living | Articles | Discover Nikkei

Thanks to Discovernikkei.org for reprinting this Oshogatsu article!

The doorbell rings. The dog barks. I turn on the porch light, open the front door, and…

No one is there. Then I look down. A package!

Ooh, I was not expecting any more Christmas presents. I bend down to pick it up, and I hear the unmistakable sound of …

Rice.

A box of rice. A very big box of rice. Who would ship me a very big box of rice?

click on link for more: Oh! Oshogatsu! Missing Japanese New Year’s Day–Adventures in Multicultural Living | Articles | Discover Nikkei

CAECC Spring Festival - A Chinese Nutcracker | Arborweb.com

Chinese New Year performance in April? I was confused, but Auntie Ning explained that the Chinese American Educational and Cultural Center (CAECC) Spring Festival event was going to be like a "Chinese Nutcracker," a showcase of different performances--dance, music, martial arts, yo-yo--organized around a storyline to meld various Chinese New Year rites, beliefs, customs, and traditions. This was going to be much more than an ordinary variety show or dance recital. This was going to be a story.

One of Ann Arbor's oldest Chinese cultural associations, CAECC, directed now by Chen-Oi Chin, is back on the scene after several years of quiet. Founded in 1976, it offers educational outreach and Chinese cultural classes like dance and martial arts to the community.

click on link for more: CAECC Spring Festival - A Chinese Nutcracker

ADVENTURES IN MULTICULTURAL LIVING Working off different calendars. Is it Lunar New Year's or Valentine's?

My girlfriend Nina once complained when she had to have dinner with some university bigwig…on Valentine’s Day. She was indignant, incensed. It was Valentine’s Day, for goodness sake. I barely even registered her complaint, my mind completely overwhelmed by my overload of Chinese New Year’s events. I thought it might be nice to have dinner with that particular university bigwig, and I gave her a message to relay. I could not understand why she stomped off in a huff.

We were working off different calendars, I suppose.

Last year, I attended a Chinese New Year’s event on the first Sunday in February. About halfway through the evening, Little Brother, then 6, and all the high school boys he had been following, disappeared. I found them all down the hall at the information desk, watching the Super Bowl together, Little Brother’s feet swinging back and forth. I laughed to myself at the realization that this big event was scheduled on the day of the Super Bowl because no one on the organization committee — likely all immigrants who did not grow up watching football — either knew or thought it was important (No wonder so many of the non-Asian dignitaries and special guests had to leave early for “previous engagements”).

Interesting how we learn about each other through the differences in our calendars.

click on link for more Working off different calendars. Is it Lunar New Year's or Valentine's? - AnnArbor.com

AML: A snow day for Lunar New Year's Eve: Auspicious dreams and Korematsu Day - AnnArbor.com

Posted: Feb 6, 2011 at 6:12 AM [Today]

Some people believe that whatever happens on the first day of the lunar new year portends what is to come in the new year, which is why some superstitious folks do not scold their children, let their children cry, or argue on the first day of the new year—or else they will be scolding, crying, or arguing all year.

My kids are hoping the snow day gets extended into the new year, “Snow Day! Snow Day! Snow Day!”

On the western new year’s day, January 1, many people make new year’s resolutions for what they are going to do better in the new year—lose ten pounds, exercise more, Facebook less, lose ten pounds.

Lunar new year’s does not have the same custom, but we do reflect on our hopes and dreams for the coming year while cooking and eating lunar new year’s eve dinner. The meanings are embedded in the names of the dishes, the wishes made manifest in the cooking and eating.

Losing weight is not one of them.

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Adventures in Multicultural Living: Balancing family and friends, public and private at Chinese New Year's - AnnArbor.com

Posted: Jan 30, 2011 at 6:12 AM [Today]

I woke up early on the first Sunday of the year and stumbled about my kitchen, dirty dishes from New Year’s Eve still piled up, thinking that I should call Mr. Aramaki in a thinly-veiled attempt to get invited to Oshougatsu (Japanese New Year’s) at his house or to get him to invite me to tag along with him to the Shimouras’ Oshougatsu. I think about this every year on New Year’s Day as I do not really know where else to go. I am not enmeshed in the Japanese American community here as I am in California. Japanese New Year’s is big, going from house to house, eating oneself into oblivion on ozoni, sushi, sashimi, tempura, gobo, namasu, mochi…

Then (sound effect of a record screeching to a halt), I realized that it was Jan. 2, and I had missed New Year’s Day completely.

Doh!

But that’s ok. I still have Chinese New Year’s on Feb. 3 this year.
Of course, that is what I always say about my Christmas letter that never gets out, “I’ll send it out at New Year’s.” Then Chinese New Year’s (February)…Tibetan New Year’s (March)…Nepali New Year’s (April)…

click on link for more Balancing family and friends, public and private at Chinese New Year's - AnnArbor.com

AML: CAECC Chinese Spring Festival Saturday at WCC - AnnArbor.com

This Saturday, April 17, 4 p.m., at Washtenaw Community College's Morris Lawrence Building, 4800 E. Huron River Drive, the Chinese American Educational and Cultural Center (CAECC) of Michigan will be presenting its Chinese Spring Festival performance to celebrate the Year of the Tiger. Tickets are tax-deductible donations and cost $10 for adults, $5 for students and $90 for a group of 10 tickets.

One of Ann Arbor’s oldest Chinese cultural associations, CAECC is back on the scene after several years of quiet. Founded in 1976, CAECC is a 501c3 nonprofit and offers educational outreach and Chinese cultural classes like dance and martial arts to the community. Dr. Chen-Oi Chin is Executive Director.

In the same way that the Nutcracker ballet tells a story while showcasing different styles of dance, this show will weave a story about Chinese New Year’s rites, beliefs, customs and traditions through performances of dance, music and martial arts. (click on link for more)

CAECC Chinese Spring Festival Saturday at WCC - AnnArbor.com

AML: Discovering the meaning in Chinese New Year's celebrations - NAM EthnoBlog

I never even heard of Chinese New Year until I was already 12 years old. We had recently moved from Los Angeles to San Jose, and I had just started attending Saturday morning Chinese School for the first time. One of our lessons was about Chinese New Year stories and customs. Of course, being only 12, I was most interested in the tradition of red envelopes, which contain gifts of money. I went home demanding to know why my brother and I had never before received red envelopes, and insisted on years of back pay. (click on link for more)

Discovering the meaning in Chinese New Year's celebrations - NAM EthnoBlog

Chinese Week Celebration gala at EMU kicks off The Year of The Tiger - AnnArbor.com

Photos from Eastern Michigan University's Chinese Week Celebration Gala by Melanie Maxwell at AnnArbor.com. Look at that handsome boy!(click on link for photos)

Chinese Week Celebration gala at EMU kicks off The Year of The Tiger - AnnArbor.com