Chinese New Year Celebration
A parade, all-day festival and up to 20 phone booths where people can make worldwide calls for free will be featured at the San Gabriel Valley’s first official Chinese New Year parade and festival Saturday. Highlights will include a lion dance, fan dance, Cantonese and Mandarin opera, a singing performance by Hong Kong entertainer Sunny Wong and a karaoke sing-along.
The parade will begin at 10 a.m. and end about 11:30 a.m.
An arts festival on Valley Boulevard will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be music, a fashion show and dance performances on two stages, and international food, and arts and crafts booths between Garfield Avenue and 4th Street. Admission to the festival is free, but fees will be charged for some activities.
Parking will be free in Alhambra at Ramona Elementary School, 5th Street and Valley Boulevard, and at Moor Field, 7th Street and San Marino Avenue.
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