Lunar New Year in the Inner West
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Inner West Council will celebrate the Year of the Earth Pig with a series of events culminating in the annual festival at Ashfield Civic Centre.
Council’s 2019 Lunar New Year festivities commence on Saturday, 9 February with lion dancing and Chinese painting and calligraphy demonstrations and talks and ends on Saturday, 23 February. Everyone’s invited to these free events:
• Lunar New Year Festival featuring lion dancing
Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School, 144 Victoria Street, Ashfield, Saturday, 9 February, 3:30pm
• Lunar New Year Festival featuring lion dancing
Alex Trevallion Plaza, Marrickville Road, Marrickville, Saturday, 16 February, 12 noon
• Lunar New Year Festival featuring lion dancing, God of Wealth, jugglers, Martial Arts, traditional music and dance
Ashfield Civic Centre, 260 Liverpool Road, Ashfield, Saturday, 23 February, 11:30am
• Speaker Series - The beauty of Chinese painting (In Mandarin and English)
Ashfield Civic Centre, Activity Rooms 3 and 4 (ground floor), Saturday, 9 February, 10am-12 noon.
A bi-lingual talk about the history, techniques, form and structure of Chinese painting by Chinese artist Su-bin Xu and her translator and student, Sarrah Huang from the Australian Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Art Institute. Book
• Make and Create - Calligraphy and painting demonstration
Ashfield Civic Centre, Activity Rooms 3 and 4 (ground floor), Saturday 9 February, 1-3pm
Established artists from the Australian Chinese Artists Society demonstrate this ancient practice. Calligraphers in attendance: Wen-lu Zhu and Herry He Wang. Artists in attendance: Su-bin Xu, Ding-xian Luo and Sarrah Huang. No bookings required.
• Make and Create - Making a fabric flower
Local History Room, Ashfield Library, Friday, 15 February, 10am-12 noon
Balmain Library, Monday, 18 February, 10am-12 noon
Marrickville Library, Wednesday, 20 February, 10am-12 noon
Join Nuong Thi Tran from the Vietnamese Women’s Association for fabric flower making craft. Book
at eventbrite.
• Make and Create - Make a happy pig
Marrickville Library Study Room, Tuesday, 12 February, 10am-12 noon
Leichhardt Library Meeting Room, Wednesday, 20 February, 2-4pm
Adult craft session working in felt. Book at eventbrite.
• Film Club - The Grandmaster
Marrickville Library, Tuesday, 5 February, 10:30am
2013 Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts drama film based on the life story of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man. Book at eventbrite.
• Film Club - A Simple Life
Leichhardt Library, Thursday, 14 February, 6pm
2011 Hong Kong drama. A film producer helps care for his family's lifelong servant after she suffers a stroke and must move into a nursing home. Book at eventbrite.
• Film Club - All in This Tea
Ashfield Library, Thursday, 28 February, 10:30am
2007 documentary follows the American tea connoisseur David Lee Hoffman as he travels to remote tea-growing areas of China. Book at eventbrite.
• Little Library Lovers - Lunar New Year Storytime
Emanuel Tsardoulias Community Library and St. Peters Library, Monday, 4 February, 10:30am
Stanmore Library, Tuesday, 5 February, 10:30am
Marrickville Library, Wednesday, 6 February, 10:30am
Haberfield Library and Leichhardt Library, Wednesday, 6 February, 11am
Ashfield Library and Balmain Library, Thursday, 7 February, 11am
Bookings required at Balmain and Leichhardt libraries.
The Lunar New Year Festival events are sponsored by the Australian Federation of Chinese Organisations and the Inner West Asian Business Association and supported by Inner West Council www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/LunarNewYear
For media enquiries, contact Elizabeth Heath | Media and Communications Coordinator
P: +61 2 9392 5334 | E: elizabeth.heath@innerwest.nsw.gov.au