While the season gets colder, celebrate Winter Solstice 冬至 Festival with the warmth of the community! This is the final Chinatown Together event for the year!
🗓️WHEN: Saturday, December 14 2024, 1:00PM to 4:00PM
📍WHERE: Chinatown Plaza Mall - 106 Keefer Street
Come join us for a day of arts, culture, food, workshops, thrift, and shopping!
🐲We will have @kirin.rising opening our event with a Hakka kirin performance and hosting a dance garden for you to learn some Chinese unicorn dance moves! Come out to watch, support, and learn from Hakka youth dedicated to preserving their culture and creating strong community bonds.
🀄We’ll be setting up our mahjong tables again with community friend and mahjong expert Chantal available to teach you how to play! Come play a round or two with your friends, our seniors, and the Chinatown community!
🪢@tajliyaj from @gogoustudio will be back again helping us run another pipecleaner knot-tying workshop! This workshop is great for all ages and for families to do together. Make a Chinese knot with pipecleaners to decorate your home for the Winter Solstice!
📀 Our community friend Harsh will be back with vinyl tunes playing throughout the whole event so you can enjoy an amazingly curated playlist while you enjoy checking out the festivities!
📚William’s Library - our community sharing initiative in honour of poet and activist William Lim, will be open at the event with newly updated items. Peruse through the unique items and find something special to take home. Optional monetary donations to William’s Library, will go to @yarrowsociety and their intergenerational work with the Chinatown senior community.
Shop with our friends from the community! Get your own personalized 🔮 tarot card readings from @ariiiel.z and look into some lucky and meaningful jade and gemstone jewelry from @stellar.moments.111! 📿 We recommend bringing some cash if you’d like to support our two community vendors.
🍞🍵At our snack table we’ll have our usual buns from @zhaomahbakery, hot tea, and some bonus snacks to celebrate the Dongzhi Festival/Winter Solstice! As always, we keep snacks and tea free for the community as no one should be turned away from community events due to lack of funds.