Look no further for inspiration in celebrating Lunar New Year 2023. On the 22nd January, many of the East and Southeast Asian community welcome in the new lunar year.
We’re always excited to see how people celebrating this time of year, through #ESEAEats, events, spending time with family and friends. As always, we want to highlight some ways in which you can support the UK East and Southeast Asian community and take part!
We proudly present the below guide of festivities which are being hosted and presented by UK based East and Southeast Asian people, businesses, and organisations.
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You can also check out our Instagram Guide for access to all the posts from the individual organisers. Happy festivities!
Lunar New Year Celebrations – Vietnamese Family partnership
Date: 15th January
Time: 12pm – 4pm
Location: Deptford Lounge, 9 Giffin Street, London SE8 4RJ. London, UK
Lunar New Year talk with Tilted Axis Press, eseapn
Date: 19th January 2023
Location: London, UK
Expect readings from Yan Ge (@ansi1933) and Pear Nuallack, music, drinks and more.
The Bitten Peach Shows and DJ sets
Date: 21st January 2023
Location: London UK
@thegloryldn! The bitten peach will be throwing it’s annual Lunar New Year party.
Mother Canteen Year of the Rabbit Celebration
Date: 21st January 2023
Location: London, UK
Celebrating the YEAR OF THE RABBIT with a market fair showcasing ESEA artists in our courtyard and some AWESOME Chinese Malaysian celebration food, all whilst banging out some of our FAVE East Asian tunes.
Green Lunar New Year Celebrations
Date: 28th January 2023
Location: London, UK
Museum of the Home x Green Lions present: Green Lunar New Year
On 28 January 2023 we’re marking the end of @museumofthehome‘s Winter Festival with #GreenLunarNewYear, a day of East & Southeast Asian celebrations and climate consciousness.
#ESEAMCR LNY Supper
Date: 5th February 2023
Location: Manchester, UK
Lunar New Year Supper meet-up hosted at @yeslahmcr by Elsa (@elsaeats.food) and Jess (@mcrfoodie)
Occasians networking party
Date: 27th January 2023
Location: London, UK
Chinese New Year Variety show
Date: 26th January 2023
Location: Lancaster UK
Join the second year of our festival, one of the cultural events in Lancaster.
There will be street food, carnival, traditional lion and dragon dances, parade and different performances throughout the city centre. We will try our best to make everyone enjoy and celebrate the Festival together.
Lunar New Year celebrations
Date: 22nd January 2023
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Join us for a special library session where there will be: Traditional paper cutting (剪纸) workshops ✂️, Anti-racist red banner (春联)workshops
Lino-print red packet (红包) and new year card workshops 🧧, Music and traditional Yunnan square dance (打歌) 🪩
Selling prints to fundraise (donations welcome, please bring cash!) 💵, Tasty snacks 🍭
Anti-racist zines and discussion space for community and movement building 🔥, Our own Anti-Racist Community Library 📖
Pineapple cookies by ong ong bun
You can preorder online from 1 January and buy in store from 7 January!
Preorder from www.ongongbuns.com
Order New Year Snacks by Mama Chen’s Kitchen
It all begins with the reunion dinner, which is basically a big family feast where everyone gathers to spend time together and share their wishes for health, happiness and prosperity in the year ahead. 𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗦𝗡𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦 𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗪𝗪.𝗠𝗔𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗡.𝗨𝗞
White Rabbit Cookies from Bunday
White rabbit with white chocolate chunk cookies! These will only be available for a short period of time, from 14th Jan – 12th Feb.
Yauatcha: Year of the Rabbit
Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with us at Yauatcha from 10th January until 7th February.
Make a reservation via link in bio
Araw: Lunar New Year Flavours
Hop into the new year with our Lunar New Year Flavours
🐇WHITE RABBIT – Milky base (inspired by the white rabbit candy) with a black sesame swirl!
🍍 PINEAPPLE TART – Pineapple Base with homemade pineapple jam and chunks of tart crust!
☕️ YUENYEUNG – Hong Kong milk tea with espresso caramel ribbons running throughout!
Self Portrait Lunar New Year collection
The Lunar New Year collection celebrates British ESEA talent by the amazing Han Chong. Available now.
Lucky money envelopes Yi crafts
Buy them online or we will have them on our Lunar New Year market at @mothercanteen on the 21st Jan 10 am – 3 pm.
Lucky red packets from SketchyKarr
handmade lai see aka red envelopes/packets for sell in my shop. Six glittery gold bunnies in one pack!
Year of the Rabbit Collection from Little Egg Crafts
Welcoming Bean the Bunny 🐇 and Gem the Gat Zi 桔子/mandarin orange 🍊 to our handmade shop this Lunar New Year! 🧧
However you celebrate, Asian Leadership Collective wish you a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2023. We look forward to celebrating and working with you all this coming year!
Don’t forget to get in touch via email if you want to take part in our annual #ESEAEats campaign celebrating the ESEA community. You can find out how we celebrated in 2022 and other amazing work we’ve been apart of here
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