Featured Event Lunar New Year – Sat 1 and Sun 2 Feb 2025
Experience Lunar New Year in the heart of the Valley and enjoy the unique flavours and vibrant culture that the precinct has to offer.
Plates of food including pork and rice, spring rolls and noodles

Make a night of it and book a table at one of the Valley’s top Asian restaurants to enjoy all the Lunar New Year festivities while indulging in some of the best Asian cuisine.

 

Gather with friends and family to welcome in the Year of the Snake.

Expect traditional Lion and Dragon dances, firecrackers, live music and captivating roving acts throughout Chinatown Mall and the Fortitude Valley precinct, alongside cultural markets to celebrate.

Activities are both fun and free. 

Dragon dance
Lion high pole performance

*Saturday 1 February, 2-9pm 

Chinatown Mall 

  • 2 – 9pm Food, drink and market stall pop ups 
  • 3 – 8pm Traditional hand-drum workshops 
  • 3pm Traditional Chinese violin ‘Ehru’ performance 
  • 4pm – 8pm Roving characters 
  • 5pm Opening and welcome, followed by lion eye dotting ceremony 
  • 5.45pm Firecrackers 
  • 6pm High Jong Poles performance 
  • 6.30pm Chinese Grandma comedy performance 
  • 7pm Traditional Korean dance performances 
  • 7.30pm ‘The Legend of the White Snake’ theatrical performance 
  • 8.15pm Japanese drumming performance 
  • 8.45pm LED Dragon dance 
  • 9pm Firecrackers 

Around the Fortitude Valley precinct 

  • 5pm Roving Lion dance in Wickham Street to Brunswick Street Mall
  • 6pm  Roving Chinese Grandma in Bakery Lane
  • 6.30pm Roving Lion along Brunswick Street  and Ann Street
  • 7pm  Roving ' The Legend of the White Snake' characters in Bakery Lane

*Sunday 2 February, 10am-3pm

Chinatown  

  • 10am – 3pm Market stalls, traditional coaster art workshops and Asian pop DJ
  • 10am High Jong Poles performance 
  • 11am Japanese drumming performance 
  • 12pm Roving Lion  
  • 1pm Roving Lion 
  • 2pm Chinese Pipa performance 

Around the Fortitude Valley precinct 

  • 12.30pm Roving Lion in Wickham Street to Brunswick Street Mall  
  • 1.15pm Roving Lion along Brunswick Street  

*Program subject to change

Roving performers
Traditional Korean dance performance
Traditional Korean dance performance
Roving performers
Roving performers
Captivating LED Dragon dance
Captivating LED Dragon dance
High pole performance
High pole performance

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