Light Up! 2019 Toronto-Qinhuai Lantern festival-Celebrating the Year of Pig

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Light Up! 2019 Toronto-Qinhuai Lantern festival-Celebrating the Year of Pig

By Ontario Jiangsu Friendship Association

Date and time

Mon, Feb 18, 2019 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST

Location

Toronto-Qinhuai Lantern Festival

1500 Birchmount Road Toronto, ON M1P 2G5 Canada

Description

All the tickets for the Event have been sold out

All the tickets for the Event have been sold out. The venue has reached its full capacity. For the safety of all the attendees, visitors without tickets will not be allowed to enter until after 7pm.

该活动门票已售罄。为了您和您的家人以及所有参与者的安全,无票者7点之前不得入场。

For more information, please emal to Fest.Ticket@gmail.com.



Event Supporter Information

YCT Summer Camp and Charming Jiangsu


Event Policy

Event Policy_EN


Event Policy_Chinese and Floor Plan



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Light Up to Celebrate The Year of Pig

To celebrate the Year of the Pig, the 7th Toronto-Qinhuai Lantern Festival invite you to LIGHT UP the Lantern Festival on Feb. 18th 2019.

* Traditional Chinese Lantern Show

  • 22 large handmade lanterns shaped in Pig, Dog, Rooster, Phoenix, Dragon, Lion, Elephant, Crane, etc

  • Hundreds of innately artistic lanterns

* Chinese traditional experience

  • Lion Dance

  • Riddles

  • Qinhuai style Chinese cuisine

  • Family Fun Games

  • Nanjing traditions and Photo Gallery of Jiangsu scenery

*Considerable amount of lucky prizes



Please have a look if you are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yZ1-IgTe80




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Lantern Festival is a Chinese traditional festival falling on the final day of the 15-day Chinese New Year celebrations. The annual Toronto-Qinhuai Lantern Festival, as one of the signature community culture events in GTA, attracts thousands of visitors each year. It features handmade lanterns of all sizes from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China and provides the visitors with an opportunity to experience Chinese culture through arts, lion dance, music, food, calligraphy, tea ceremony and other traditional Lantern Festival celebration activities.

中国古都南京的秦淮花灯是中国文化大省江苏的一张靓丽的名片,深受当地民众和中外游客的欢迎,在海内外享有盛誉。2013年,加拿大非牟利机构安大略-江苏友好协会首次将“秦淮花灯”引进加拿大多伦多,在农历元宵节期间举办“多伦多秦淮灯会”,旨在加拿大庆祝中国农历新春佳节和元宵节,推广和宣传秦淮花灯这一非物质文化遗产,在海外弘扬中华文化,团结父老乡亲,建设多元文化社区。

The Ontario–Jiangsu Friendship Association has successfully held SEVEN Qinhuai Lantern Festivals as part of the Lunar New Year celebrations in Canada since 2013. For OJFA, the chief aim of organizing the annual Toronto-Qinhuai Lantern Festival is to support members of the Chinese community to connect with their traditions and cultural heritage; and foster positive interaction and cultural understanding with other cultural and ethnic communities.

“多伦多秦淮灯会”已连续举办八届,已发展成为大多伦多地区广受欢迎的大型中华非物质文化遗产主题灯节。每届灯会都得到中国江苏侨办热情的大力支持和江苏省海协会的合力主办,并荣获加拿大联邦、中国驻多伦多总领馆、安省政府和多伦多市政府的贺信、支持和关注;灯会前夕及活动期间,加拿大、安大略、多伦多的旅游官方网站及当地主流社区媒体均予以广泛预告和报道;灯会活动同时得到当地社区各族民众的积极响应和热烈追捧,总计吸引了20,500多位民众亲临参加,其中,非华裔民众比例已超过50%。

From the 1st Toronto-Qinhuai Lantern Festival, the event has received the recognition and support from both Canadian and Chinese governments, capturing media attention and generating conversations among local multicultural communities and thousands of people attended this celebration event. About 20,500 people from 70 cities around GTA and further from other provinces within Canada and other countries outside Canada have attended the festival and enjoyed the show.

如今,每逢元宵节,各族民众都会亲临灯会观狮舞、赏花灯、猜灯谜、尝小吃、闹元宵……多伦多秦淮灯会不仅是当地华人华侨过春节的重要节目,也成为当地非华裔民众农历春节期间的亮彩节庆活动,被当地媒体和广大社区民众誉为“多伦多秦淮非遗花灯第一展”,其影响力延伸至大多伦多地区及周边70多个加美及其他国家和地区的城镇,辐射民众区域从会场所在的士嘉堡中区广泛延伸至方圆数百公里甚至数千公里之外的国家和地区。

Twinning of Ontario and Jiangsu Provinces | 安大略省江苏友好历史简介

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