The Lunar New Year begins on Monday, February 8. As Angela Garbes wrote in her food feature this week, “even though it doesn’t get the fanfare that New Year’s Eve meals get, for Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, Lunar New Year is a deeply significant holiday.” But in Seattle, there are several public events to mark the occasion starting this weekend, ranging from a free celebration at the Asian Art Museum to the Chinatown-International District’s giant festival to a Heineken party at Trinity. See them all below, or on our Lunar New Year calendar.
FEB 5
1. GASP: Lunar New Year
Delicious goth, industrial, EBM, synth pop, and all manners of -wave will be present at GASP’s sixth birthday/Lunar New Year celebration at Mercury.
FEB 6
2. Free First Saturday: Lunar New Year
In honor of the Lunar New Year, the Asian Art Museum will have live martial arts performances, music, costumes, and “family friendly sketching tours” throughout the galleries.
