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Street flag artworks at Sydney Lunar Festival. Our guide on the best things to do and places to eat to celebrate the Year of the Snake. Discover free tastings, festive finds, and lucky red packets! Sample a range of regional Chinese snacks while discovering Chinatown's secrets. With it, Sydney springs to life with colourful, traditional lion dances and street festivals scattered all over the city from this week until February 12. This year, Chinese New Year starts on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Chinese New Year typically lasts for 15 days each year, but most of the performances and celebrations around Sydney run up City of Sydney 29 January to 16 February Multiple locations The City of Sydney is hosting a range of exciting Lunar New Year events, including a street festival, lion dancing, cultural performances, dragon boats, exhibitions, and games. More information. Willoughby City Council 23 January to 16 February Multiple locations Kick off your Lunar New Year celebrations at Sydney Lunar Streets! Join us for an unforgettable street party to launch the Sydney Lunar Festival and welcome in the Year of the Snake. Wander through Haymarket and explore market stalls featuring food, gifts and more. Think street parades, lion dancing, huge lanterns, pop-up markets, art installations and plenty of delicious food. Celebrations in Chinatown and the CBD. Join us for an unforgettable street party to launch the Sydney Lunar Festival and welcome in the Year of the Snake. Wander through Haymarket and explore market stalls featuring food, gifts and more. Be captivated by a mix of traditional and contemporary performances across three sites. Think street parades, lion dancing, huge lanterns, pop-up markets, art installations and plenty of delicious food. Fun fact: 2025 is the Year of the Snake, the sixth character in the Chinese zodiac, which is a symbol of renewal, wisdom, abundance and prosperity in Chinese culture. Our Sydney Lunar Festival program is one of the biggest Lunar New Year celebrations outside of Asia. Street parties, live entertainment, delicious food, lion dances, dragon boats and art and light installations will dazzle crowds during the 19-day festival starting Wednesday 29 January. Sydney hosts a program spanning more than two weeks, which makes Sydney Lunar Festival one of the biggest Chinese New Year celebration outside Asia. The festival is mainly centered around the Haymarket (home to Sydney's vibrant Chinatown) and Darling Harbor with large lion dance parades and firecrackers, Chinese night food fairs, interactive Chinatown’s Lunar New Year celebrations are billed as the biggest outside of Asia, and no-one is more excited than Soul of Chinatown co-founder Kevin Cheng. Da Hung Lion Dancers performing at the Sydney Lunar Festival launch, Dixon Street Mall. Louise Kennerley. Ring in the Lunar New Year at Lilymu, a contemporary Pan-Asian restaurant in Parramatta Square with a lavish Lunar New Year Banquet priced at $110 per person, available from January 25 to February 2. Menu highlights include a curated selection of dishes including dumpling assiette with Layu and black vinegar, roast barramundi with ginger and Other signature events have in the past included Sydney's Iconic Chinese New Year Twilight Parade and of course the Fireworks over the Harbour. Sydney Chinese New Year Highlight Events 2023. For the Lunar New Year, Sydney typically "Paints The Town Red" when famous landmarks are lit in auspicious red. Better Chinatown’s annual firecracker ceremony and parade are approaching! The firecracker ceremony will be held on 1/29 at 11 am at Sara D Roosevelt Park. The parade will be held on 2/16 starting on Mott Street at 1 pm. Event Details. LUCKY New Year Group Exhibition: Meet & Greet February 1, 12-4 PM | 60 Mulberry St Chinese New Year’s Day Opening Ceremony January 29 Watch for 100 dancers from the Xiaopei Chinese Dance dance school in Dublin to perform synchronized dances for good luck: all ages from The Sydney Chinese New Year Twilight Parade is claimed by the council to be the biggest celebration of the New Year outside China. "The Twilight Parade is an excellent way we celebrate Sydney's Aussies are always up for a celebration, and with so many of our residents having Chinese, Mongolian, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese heritage, it’s no wonder Sydney offers such a rich variety of ways to bring in the New Year! This year Sydney’s Lunar New Year festival starts on Wednesday 29 January 2025. The Twilight Parade will weave a magical spell from Sydney Town Hall to Harbour Street on Sunday 22 February 2015. The official event website. Toggle navigation Sydney Chinese New Year Festival Toggle navigation Sydney Chinese New Year Festival. Home; Search. Search for: Search. 181-187 Hay Street, Haymarket, Sydney, NSW, 2000 Art Gallery of NSW Art It’s always a good time to visit Sydney, especially during Chinese New Year when you can experience one of the city’s biggest and brightest cultural events. As well as all the festival happenings in and around Chinatown, the area is a great shopping spot with Paddy’s Markets for knick-knacks, clothes and all sorts of weird and wonderful Chinese settlers arrived in Sydney from 1818 and their compatriots followed, especially after gold was discovered in New South Wales. Despite harrassment from governments and intimidation from other Sydneysiders, Chinese immigrants continued to come and to stay throughout the 19th century, until the relaxation of racist laws in the mid-20th century.
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