We made 2000 rice balls for today's Winter Solstice celebration + Open mic!

Don't miss the last and largest event from Chinatown Together this year

2000 sweet rice balls made with love by the community yesterday at Kam Wai Dim Sum are waiting for you today at the Winter Solstice 冬至 celebration in Chinatown from 3:30pm to 5:30pm! (Recipe and recap of rice ball making coming soon)

Here’s what you can expect at the celebration today:

• Lantern-making for lantern procession and collective lantern artwork (free!) - 3:30 to 5:30pm

• Pipa (Chinese lute) musical performance - 3:30pm to 4pm

• Community open mic (Want to sing, play music, read poetry, share a story or joke, do magic? Our scheduled performer is ill, so we need your help to entertain community and end the year with a bang! Respond to this email if you can help!) - 4pm to 4:30pm

• Accordion performance - 4:30pm to 5pm

• Tea ceremony - 3:30pm onwards

• Sweet dumpling tasting from dumplings made the night before at Kam Wai (free!) - 4:15pm onwards (first come, first served)

• Finale - Chinese choir and community lantern singalong procession - 5pm to 5:30pm

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