Lunar New Year 2025
We’re excited to celebrate our 5th iteration of our annual mutual aid program From Chinatown, With Love for the year of the Wood Snake! Each year, we bring together Asian American artists and Chinatown small businesses to combat gentrification and economic challenges through art and community engagement.
Read more about all of our From Chinatown, With Love 2025 business and artist partners here.
FROM CHINATOWN, WITH LOVE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
This year, our project From Chinatown, With Love features 25 local businesses and collaborating with community partners Abrons Arts Center, lucky risograph and Midnight Project, as well as 6 NYC-based Asian American artists. Beginning on January 11, 2025 while supplies last, patrons who spend $35 or more at participating businesses will receive a pack of 5 red envelopes with accompanying stickers that highlight the creativity and resilience of these businesses.
Saturday 1/11: From Chinatown, With Love Launch Day
Saturday 1/11, 3pm (Mosco & Mott Streets): W.O.W. The Crowd LNY Street PerformanceOur annual community Lunar New Year street performance! We’ll be closing out the launch of our annual From Chinatown, With Love procession with an afternoon of multigenerational performances that celebrate community care and a shared commitment to growth in the Year of the Wood Snake. Chinatown’s first queer and women-led lion dance troupe will be making their debut performance, along with local elders & NYC Asian American performers.
Thursday, 1/16, 6pm-8pm (Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street): From Chinatown, With Love Exhibition Opening
Celebrate the opening of the From Chinatown, With Love art exhibition with a lion dance performance and light refreshments.
Saturday, 1/18, 11am-1pm (Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street): Family-friendly Art Afternoon with Lucky Risograph.
Join us at Abrons Arts Center for an afternoon of all-ages arts activities to celebrate the Year of the Wood Snake!
MORE LUNAR NEW YEAR PROGRAMMING
Thursday, 1/23 and Friday, 1/24, 6pm-8pm (26 Mott Street): Resistance Walk Lantern Making (Thursday & Friday)
Drop in to 26 Mott Street in the Wing on Wo storefront to decorate and build lanterns and signs for our February "Illuminating Our History" resistance walking tour!
Save the date for upcoming February events:Saturday, 2/8: RRR confetti collection, time TBAJoin our RRR cohort in the streets on Super Saturday to collect confetti to use in recycled papermaking workshops this spring!
Saturday, 2/15: Illuminating Our History: Resistance Walking Tour, time and location TBA
Carry a lantern with us on this evening walking tour of sites of historical and present political resistance in Chinatown.