Chinese New Year

2012 - Celebrating the Year of the Dragon
People born in the Year of the Dragon are healthy, energetic, honest, sensitive, brave and they inspire confidence and trust.
Many Chinese deeply believe that Year of the Dragon is the idealist birth year. People born this year often are very successful in all walks of life, particularly in leadership and politics. People born in Year of the Dragon are most compatible with people born in the Years of Rats, Snakes, Monkeys, and Roosters.

Chinese New year Celebrations: Sunday 29 January at 11.30am
WestQuay Shopping Centre, Lower Level.
The Chinese Association of Southampton and Waterside Lion Dance Club presents superb traditional Chinese cultural performances including
Ceremony of ‘Dim Jing’ by the Lord Mayor of Southampton
● Dragon and Lion Dance performance by Waterside Lion Dance Club
● Chinese folk dance and musical instruments performance by the Phoenix Arts Group
● Martial art display by WuTan Martial Art Club
● Chinese folk song performance by Chinese Association Women Group
● Street Dance performance by Christian Union Group and students from University of Southampton
● Singing performance by Southampton Chinese Christian Church
● Other modern performance

The Chinese Market: 28 and 29 January
Above Bar Precinct, Southampton
Don’t miss our ever-popular Chinese New Year Market which will once again be situated in Above Bar Precinct in the heart of Southampton City Centre. It will feature an array of stalls with Chinese food and delicatessen, gifts, jewellery, art and crafts. There will also be demonstrations of traditional Chinese cooking,
crafts, calligraphy, paper cutting and much more.
If you are interested in having a stall at the Chinese Market, please contact Paul Lewis, SMTC Markets, Tel: 07971 646483 or Email : smtc@smtcmarkets.co.uk

For more information about the event contact the Southampton Chinese Association on email info@southamptonchinese.org.uk

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Other events and activities

Learn Chinese Mandarin at Southampton University >
12 week language course, 2 hours per week starting from 30 January

Chinese Dragons >
Family Workshop (5yrs+) at Tudor House on 13 February


If you would like to contact someone about this page please send an email to events@southampton.gov.uk