Chinese Moon Festival
This event was held at Bell Park on Sunday 10 September 2023.
The Chinese Heritage Association of Northern Ontario and the Local Immigration Partnership hosted Greater Sudbury’s first Chinese Moon Festival at Bell Park.
The weather was perfect and a huge crowd came to enjoy the entertainment.
The Chinese food venders did very well.
The entertainment started with a lion dance that was performed by the 7 Star Dumplings House troop.
In Chinese culture, the dragon brings good luck.
Chinese dancers and musicians made good use of the Grace Hartman Amphitheatre.
The Chinese Moon Festival is similar to our Thanksgiving. It celebrates the harvesting of the year’s crops.
The Moon festival is celebrated in several south-eastern Asian countries.
This dancer is performing a dance that is from the northwest Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China.
The erhu is an important Chinese instrument, with a history of over 4,000 years. Though it has only two strings, it can convey a wide range of emotions.
This dance and dresses are from the northeast Manchu part of China.
The diabolo is a juggling act. This object is spun using a string attached to two hand sticks. A large variety of tricks are possible with the diabolo.
This is the butterfly dance that is based on a Chinese love story.
The dancers were like two butterflies in a garden that were attracted to each other.
Tai Chi offers a self-healing mind/body practice. It improves balance and coordination through mindful movements.
This young lady performed a song from a Chinese opera.
There were different hands-on activities. At this table, people could learn how to make Chinese paper lanterns.
There are now 500 Chinese-Canadian families that live in Greater Sudbury up from just 100 families ten years ago.
Eighty-six volunteers worked long hours to make this event a success.