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      • Fortune Cookies for Everyone
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      • Lunar New Year Toggles, Tea Ceremony and Snack Tasting
      • Sydney’s auspicious Asian collections
      • Chinese Community Language Tours

Lunar New Year Festival

8-24 February

Join the Chau Chak Wing Museum for a series of events celebrating Lunar New Year.

Chinese Community Language Tours

16-20 February: Chinese Community Language Tour of ‘Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature’.

Sydney’s auspicious Asian collections

Thursday 22 February: To celebrate the Year of the Dragon a panel of experts will discuss major Asian collections in Sydney.
DJs playing in museum with people in background

Beats and Bars: Lunar New Year

Thursday 22 February, 5-7pm: Celebrate Lunar New Year with a musical celebration using traditional Chinese musical instruments.

Lunar New Year Toggles, Tea Ceremony and Snack Tasting

Saturday 24 February: Explore the world of Chinese Tea culture, philosophy and tradition in this Chinese tea ceremony and tasting.
a collection of toggles in different stone and bone materials

Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature

A microcosm that manifested in a lost Chinese sartorial tradition