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CHINESE NEW YEAR Our Homepage | CBD Homepage | Cultural Festivals Page The Melbourne Chinese New Year celebration has been Melbournes most celebrated festival for the last few years. The festival, which will be held on a weekend for 2010, starts on the eve of the Chinese New Year on the 13th February for a run of 8 full hours, and then continues on the 14th February for 10 hours. It is held at Melbournes Chinatown, on Little Bourke Street. Entry to the festival is free for all people and is for the whole family to attend.

The festival hosts a variety of different Chinese activities, stalls and foods, all of which, will be there to show off Chinese culture and show everyone how much of a celebrative culture they are. The features will include Chinese opera and singing, karaoke, arts stalls, delights, dances, crafts, dragon parades and a variety of different childrens competitions and events. All of this is then followed by a countdown, fireworks and traditional lion dances accompanied by the beating of drums, which are made to chase the bad spirits of the previous year away. It is said to be true that when one touches the dragon, one gets great future fortune and luck.

To get more information on Chinese culture, history and traditions, please refer to the following link : Little Bourke Street (Chinatown)