Join us in celebrating Lunar New Year at Please Touch Museum on Sunday, January 30!

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Featured Programming:
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers
Performances at 2:30 and 3 p.m.

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers provide programming focused on Chinese cultural traditions. Experience Chinese classical dance and folk dance, and learn about Chinese culture, movement, and language.

In addition to this special performance, we’ll be recognizing Lunar New Year in Museum programming on this day:

Creative Arts Studio

Come learn about how Lunar New Year is celebrated in Chinese culture and make a noisemaker to scare away Nian, the Chinese mythological sea creature.
CAS, Lower Level
Open Studio: 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Workshops: 1-1:30 p.m., 2-2:30 p.m., 3-3:30 p.m.

Storytime

Join us in reading This Next New Year, by Janet S. Wong. In this book, a Korean-Chinese-American boy looks forward to Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, the day of the first new moon. It is a time of hope, good luck, and a fresh start. He shares traditions with friends and family and dreams about what the next year will bring.
Center Core, Lower Level
11 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 2 p.m.

Strolling Science Lab: Hide and Seek Moon Cart

Learn about moon phases and what a “new moon” is, and about cultures who use or have used a lunisolar calendar!
Center Core, Lower Level
12:30 p.m.