Happy Chinese New Year is a worldwide activity for celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year, hosted by China's Ministry of Culture and other Chinese authorities since 2009. It seeks to provide a global platform that is joyful, harmonious and accessible to all, to encourage people across the world to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, experience the profound yet interesting Chinese culture and understand the huge achievements China has made. This year, over 2,100 cultural activities have been held in over 400 cities across more than 140 countries and regions worldwide.
A lively temple fair themed “Happy Chinese New Year, Beautiful Chinese Spring” was held at the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Center in Budapest on Feb 17.
On Feb 11, an evening gala themed “Focus in Africa, Happy Chinese New Year” was held at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
A huge Chinese Lunar New Year Festival kicked off at Michael Fowler Center in Wellington on Feb 17.
The British department store group House of Fraser (HOF) decorated seven of its stores across the country with window and interior displays themed after the Year of the Dog from Feb 12-22.
The New York Philharmonic held its annual Chinese Lunar New Year concert to welcome the Year of the Dog at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall in New York on Feb 20.
On Feb 12, a photo exhibition, The Chinese Story, opened at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library and Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library at the University of Toronto.
On Feb 19, an evening gala, Happy Chinese New Year: Impression of China, debuted successfully in Purmerend, the Netherlands. As a major event for the 2018 Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in the country, the gala was presented by the Shenzhen Arts Company from South China’s Guangdong province.
A group of Chinese teachers from the Confucius Institute headquarters (Hanban) in Mauritius stage a qipao show during the “2018 Happy Chinese New Year” celebration at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Mauritius, Feb 20, 2018.
On Feb 13, the Minnesota Timberwolves held a "Happy Chinese New Year" celebration in conjunction with their National Basketball Association league game against the Houston Rockets at Target Center.
The Confucius Class of the Wellington East Girls' School held a special activity Feb 16 to teach students dragon and lion dances.
An art troupe from China, Little Red Flower, gave a performance in Preston, Britain on Feb 20. Mayor of Preston Brian Rollo and his wife attended the event, along with 700 locals.
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