Chinese New Year Celebrations

“Lanterns, Flowers and Love”

jointly organized by
the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto
and
the Royal Ontario Museum

Saturday 15^th and Sunday 16^th February 1997
The Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Park
(Museum subway station)

	Lion Dance Extravanganza		Rotunda, starting at 2:00 p.m.
			Featuring the Southern and Northern Lions performed by dancers from the Chinese Kung Fu Institute of Canada.
	Crafts of the Chinese New Year		Eaton Court, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
			The Eaton Court will be festooned with flowers to resemble a traditional Chinese New Year Flower Market.
			There will be lanterns galore hung with love poems (both Chinese and English) to celebrate Valentine's Day in both cultures.
			Making of lanterns, flowers, firecrackers and pin-wheels, as well as painting, writing of Spring couplets, paper-cutting and paper-folding.
	Tour of the T.T. Tsui Galleries		Tour conducted in English starts at 1:00 p.m.
			Tour conducted in Cantonese starts at 3:30 p.m.

	Cantonese Opera		ROM Theatre, 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
			performed by Members of the Lau Wing Chuen Performing Arts Association
			“Meeting in a Meadow of Flowers”
			"The Poem on the Maple Leaf"
	Traditional Chinese Music		ROM Theatre, 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
			Guo Mingqing, yangqin
			Jie Hong, guzheng
			Ting Hong, guzheng
			Shengmao Hong, percussion