Mid-Autumn Festival is September 30, 2012. Here is a great idea for the family to experience this major holiday in Los Angeles, California.
Tradition calls for eating moon cakes, a pastry that is made from red bean or lotus seed paste, and pay contained salted duck eggs. It is custom to present moon cakes to family and friends as presents.
74th Annual Chinatown Moon Festival is on September 29, 2012 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., free admission. The fun includes live music, roaming acts such as lion dancers and kung fu artists, hand-on cultural workshops, art gallery openings, food trucks, artisans, ghost story-telling, and ping pong tournaments. Chinatown's favorite bakeries provide moon cake samplings while its best chefs offer cooking demonstrations and food samples.
Event Schedule
Art Gallery/ARTmageddon participants
Automata Arts "Translucent Travelogues", Coagula Curatorial "LAURA LONDON & CURT LEMIEUX", L2kontemporary "Tuan Phan"
Cooking Demo in Central Plaza
6pm Empress Pavilion
7pm Hop Woo Seafood Restaurant
8pm Dessert Eating Contest
8:30pm Moon Festival Ceremony
9pm Mandarin Chateau
Artisan
5pm-9:30pm
Calligraphy by Guojing Cui, Candy Sculpture by Shinobu Ichiyanagi, Dough Sculpture by Chris Lee, "Face-likeness" Dough Sculpture by Keluo Xu
Storytelling at West Plaza (Moon Festival, Dragon & Ghost Stories)
Time: 8:45pm & 9:30pm
by Barbara Wong
Moon Viewing at West Plaza
7:30pm
Telescopes provided by Anthony Cook of Griffith Observatory and Lisa Anderson of Friends of the Observatory (The Moon will be visible by 7:20pm.)
Calligraphy Workshop at West Plaza
5pm-8:30pm
by Nori Shirasu
Food Trucks
Calbi BBQ, Crispy Waffle & Frites, Flat Iron, Flippin' Yolk, Flying Pig, Gourmet Genie, India Jones, Sweet E's Bake Shop Truck, Tabom Truck
Street Food Vendors
Empress Pavilion, Hoan Kiem, Hop Woo Seafood Restaurant, Kim Chuy Restaurant, Mandarin Chateau
9:30 - 9:45pm: Dragon Dance East Wind Foundation for the Youth: Beginning at West Plaza our Chinatown Dragon and Lion Dancers will be parading through both plazas to wish you great fortune and prosperity during this Year of the Dragon under our Harvest Moon!
Main Stage
5pm Traditional Southern Style Dragon and Lion Dance(Performed by: East Wind Foundation For Youth)
5:15pm Shaolin Martial Arts Performance (Performed by: Master Xiaojun Wang and Jin Wu Kung Fu School)
5:40 Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do (Performed by: Master Eric Carr and Eric Carr JKD)
5:45 Acrobatic Balancing (Performed by: Sha Sha Luo)
6pm South Pasadena Strings Program (Musical Director: Susan Pascale)
7pm Moon Cake Demo (Performed by: Chris Cheung of Wonder Bakery)
7:15pm The Moon Festival Ritual (Performed by: Shirley Zhang - 2011 Los Angeles Miss Chinatown)
7:30pm Shaolin Martial Arts Performance (Performed by: Master Xiaojun Wang and Jin Wu Kung Fu School)
7:40pm Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do (Performed by: Master Eric Carr and Eric Carr JKD)
7:45pm Acrobatic Balancing (Performed by: Sha Sha Luo)
8pm-11pm DJ Jeremy Sole (Afro Funke, Latin, Brazilian)
*The South Pasadena Strings Program's Los Angeles Children's Orchestra is scheduled to make their third trip to Carnegie Hall in Spring 2013. 20 young musicians will have their cases open during their performance to help raise money for a return trip to Carnegie Hall. All monies raised will go to the South Pasadena Music Foundation, a 501-c-3 charitable organization. Information about the Los Angeles Children�s Orchestra and South Pasadena Strings Program is at https://www.stringsprogram.com.
Live Music Stage
Curated by Kevin Bronson, Buzz Bands LA
6 pm Young Empress
7 pm Little Red Lung
8 pm Tic Tic Boom!
9 pm Max and the Moon
10 pm Father Tiger
Craft Beer Garden
5pm-11pm
Curated by Eagle Rock Brewery
Ping Pong Tournament
5:30pm-10:30pm
The Drawing Room - for Kids!
6pm-9pm
The Gallery: 945 Chung King Road
All children are welcome to draw as much as they want. There will be crayons, pastels, colored pencils and an endless supply of paper on hand. If they choose to participate, their artwork will be considered for a gallery exhibition. The best work - curated by Mat Gleason of Coagula Curatorial Gallery and Magazine with Gallery owner and artist Ed Freeman among others - will be included in a show that will open later in the year.
Proceeds for the sale will be divided among the artists, gallery and a non-profit organization supporting the arts in Chinatown.
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