Lunar New Year Festival 2022

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With a hybrid programme of community-organised activities and contemporary visual & performing arts, the weekend-long celebrations bringing in the Year of the Tiger welcomes everyone!

Saturday, 29 January — Venue: Deptford X - 9 Brookmill Rd, SE8 4HL

1:30-5 p.m.      |  LNY art workshops for children & young people to prepare for Sunday’s community festivities

6-10 p.m.      |  An evening of performance art, live music & DJs with Have you eaten yet? Collective, Ting-ning Wen & Jessie Jing, Jianbo, Cuong Pham & Chooc Ly Tan

The Saturday programme will be held at Deptford X, and is split into two parts: a daytime, and an evening section.

—  The daytime section from 1.30pm to 5pm caters to children and young people, with arts & craft workshops led by social practice artist Youngsook Choi from Have you eaten? Collective, and local artist & illustrator Chery Nguyen.  Activities will include calligraphy practice for the Lai See messages (red envelopes for lucky coins), conical hat making & community shrine decorations.

—  Later, the festival transforms into an evening of contemporary music and performance art from 6pm to 10pm, bringing together a fantastic lineup of East & Southeast Asian artists.  Interwoven in the evening, is each artist’s response to the Nian mythology — a legendary beast in Ancient Chinese folklore that established Lunar New Year traditions of using the colour red, loud firecrackers, bright lights & fire.  With performances by by Have you eaten yet? Collective, Ting-ning Wen & Jessie Jing, followed by music and dancing with South London rapper Jianbo’s new album, DJ set from activist & NTS-radio host Cường Phạm, and closing DJ set from artist Chooc Ly Tan.

Workshops booking link (free):  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/243297388037

Performances booking link (free):  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/243306364887

Sunday, 30 January — Venue: Deptford Lounge & Giffin Square - 9 Giffin St, SE8 4RJ

12-4 p.m.    |  Traditional Festival celebrations with food stalls, lion dancing, competitions, singing, performances & craft workshops

Sunday’s family-friendly, community programme will be hosted by Vietnamese Family Partnership (Gia Đình Việt), with contributions from Have you eaten yet?, 12-4pm at Deptford Lounge & Giffin Square, just off of Deptford High Street.  The day’s event will see the various arts & craft works produced by the children in the previous day’s workshops transferred into the venue amongst a multitude of food vendor stalls and community activities arranged by VFP.  Expect lively celebrations with a traditional lion dance in Giffin Square, competitions, singing with the children from Vietschool, performances & further craft workshops.

FREE, booking required:  https://www.thealbany.org.uk/book-online/301779/

To help us maintain COVID guidelines & keep our audiences safe, the festival is FREE but pre-booking required.  Event attendees will be required to wear a mask in indoor spaces unless exempt, and show proof of NHS COVID Pass or negative lateral flow test taken on the day of attending the event.

EXHIBITION

Throughout the month of February, an exhibition consisting of traces and objects from the weekend’s youth art workshops & activities will be installed in the windows of Deptford X Gallery, honouring the entire month of Lunar New Year.

Address: 9 Brookmill Road, London SE8 4HL

FESTIVAL ORGANISERS IG

Have you eaten yet? Collective @hyeycollective

Vietnamese Family Partnership @vietfp

*Supported by Lewisham’s Creative Enterprise Zone and SHAPESLewisham, with additional sponsorship from Deptford X, Deptford Lounge, Goldsmiths UoL & PPL PRS Ltd (TheMusicLicense).