2024 Tết Nguyên Đán (Vietnamese Lunar New Year)
2024 Tết Nguyên Đán (Vietnamese Lunar New Year)
Save the date! The 2024 VHC Tết Nguyên Đán (Lunar New Year) celebration will be on Sunday, February 4, 2024.
VHC is proud to be hosting our annual Lunar New Year Festival this Tết Nguyên Đán 2024 at a Tribeca festival hall.
This year we invite you to celebrate this special day with us on February 4 with:
🔸 Lion dancing
🔸 Musical performances and fashion show featuring áo dài (Vietnamese traditional dress) collection
🔸 Lunar New Year games and activities including Vietnamese bingo (Lo To), animal dice game (bầu cua cá cọp), Lì xì making competition, dragon puppet making, new year greetings competition (Bé Chúc Tết), animal balloon art, face painting, etc.
🔸 Gifts for guests: red pockets and show bags for children, fortune gifts for adults
🔸 New Year Tree (Hái Lộc Đầu Xuân)
🔸 New Year photo booth and photo opportunities
🔸 Competitions with prizes and other surprises throughout the event
🔸 Traditional food and beverages. Meal and drink included with ticket purchase. Additional food items available at dedicated food stalls
🔸 Raffle
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⏰ Sunday, February 4 - 12:30 to 4:30 PM
📍52 Walker Street, New York, NY 10013
(Tribeca)
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Ticket Details:
🔸 Adults: $22 (Early bird $20)
🔸 Students (all students 14 years old and above): $16.50* (Early bird $15)
🔸 Children (3-13 years old): $11 (Early bird $10)
🔸 Children (2 years old and under): Free
🔸 Family pass: $49.50** (Early bird $45)
*Student identification must be presented for admission
**Family pass includes two adult tickets and two children/young adults (3-13 years old) at a discounted price. Worth up to $60.
All tickets purchased prior to the event come with a meal and beverage. Additional food and drink items will be available at dedicated food stalls.
For tickets purchased at the door, we cannot guarantee that a meal and beverage will be included - it will be on a first come, first served basis. Thank you for understanding.
Known as Tết Nguyên Đán in Vietnamese, the Lunar New Year celebrates the spring equinox and the beginning of a new lunar calendar year.
2020 VHC Lunar New Year Celebration, New-York Historical Society
Photography: Hiệp Vũ
ABOUT THE VIETNAMESE LUNAR NEW YEAR
The Lunar New Year (Tết Nguyên Đán, often shortened to Tết) is the biggest national holiday in Vietnam and celebrates the arrival of spring and the first day of the new lunar year. Vietnamese citizens take off work and school for 1-2 weeks and participate in a variety of special activities, such as preparing bánh chưng and bánh dày - two traditional dishes steeped in legend - and paying respects to ancestors, visiting neighbors with gifts and well-wishes, giving lucky money (lì xì), and beginning new endeavors. Peach and apricot trees are decorated with lucky trinkets and ornaments, homes are given a thorough spring cleaning, and outstanding debts are paid off. To ring in the new year, fireworks will go off at midnight, and there will often be parades, performances, and fun activities in the city center for community members to enjoy.