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OA k L A n d M uSeu M O f CA LifO RniA: Lunar new Year Celebration and Other Asian Traditions

The Year of the DragonSunday, January 29, 2012, 12– 4:30 pm Free with Museum admission.

Make your own festive lantern! ➊ Cut off the bottom of the paper, below this red bar. ➋ Make a long, skinny piece of paper by folding the dragon in half. ➌ Cut from the fold along each line to the red bar. Don’t cut all the way to the edge of the page! ➍ Unfold. Rolling the paper in a tube, match ✦ to ✦ and « to «. Tape or staple the edges together at the top and bottom. String it up and celebrate!

Oakland Museum of California: Lunar New Year Celebration and Other Asian Traditions January 29, 2012

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The Year of the Dragon1916 • • 1928 • • 1940 • • 1952 • • 1964 • • 1976 • • 1988 • • 2000 • • 2012 • • 2024

People born in the Year of the Dragon are healthy, energetic, excitable, short-tempered, and stubborn. They are also honest, sensitive, brave, and inspire confidence and trust. Dragon people are the most eccentric in the eastern zodiac. They don’t make flowery speeches but they tend to be soft-hearted, which sometimes gives others an advantage over them. Dragons are compatible with Rats, Snakes, Monkeys, and Roosters.

OMCA Family is made possible by generous support from Chevron.

Join us for a fortune-filled family event to welcome the Year of the Dragon! Enjoy traditional Asian New Year family activities, performances, hands-on family art activities, demonstrations, storytelling, stilt walkers, Chinese Yo-Yo, magic, and so much more!

Highlights will feature lion and dragon dances, acrobats, mochi pounding and tasting, Tibetan prayer-flag demonstration, and a special presentation celebrating Fred Korematsu Day (January 30, 2012), with a film screening and talk.

Visit museumca.org/calendar for more details and a complete list of performers and events.