For Chinese New Year, this is the year of the ox. New Year in China lasts for weeks, as the whole country celebrates. Chinese citizens are given a month off with pay, and many factory workers that live at the factories, hours from their rural homes, go back to their towns to spend time with their families. This is actually one of the only times that workers get to go home during the year, so it is a huge deal. For the end of the New Year celebration a Lantern Festival is held, where people parade with lanterns through the streets. Dallas got to have a mini Lantern Festival that was held at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in the downtown arts district. Dallas has the largest arts district in the U.S. and the Crow Collection is an organization that I have been working with for years. What is really interesting about the Crow Collection is that it started out with Trammell and Margaret Crow who were collectors of Asian Art. With their first trip to Southeast Asia, Trammell Crow was hooked, they collected so many artifacts over the years that they decided to share it with the public. There is no charge to view the museum, the Crow family only wants to be able to share their love of Asian art with the public, which I think is wonderful! At the festival, I got to meet the owners of the current exhibit, that had flown into Dallas only for the day. Also there were a ton of crafts for the kids, they were making everything from lanterns to kites, and sampling sticky rice balls. Later on in the day, there was a dragon dance outside and a traditional Chinese dance in the gallery. It was a great day for the young and the young at heart!
For Chinese New Year, this is the year of the ox. New Year in China lasts for weeks, as the whole country celebrates. Chinese citizens are given a month off with pay, and many factory workers that live at the factories, hours from their rural homes, go back to their towns to spend time with their families. This is actually one of the only times that workers get to go home during the year, so it is a huge deal. For the end of the New Year celebration a Lantern Festival is held, where people parade with lanterns through the streets. Dallas got to have a mini Lantern Festival that was held at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in the downtown arts district. Dallas has the largest arts district in the U.S. and the Crow Collection is an organization that I have been working with for years. What is really interesting about the Crow Collection is that it started out with Trammell and Margaret Crow who were collectors of Asian Art. With their first trip to Southeast Asia, Trammell Crow was hooked, they collected so many artifacts over the years that they decided to share it with the public. There is no charge to view the museum, the Crow family only wants to be able to share their love of Asian art with the public, which I think is wonderful! At the festival, I got to meet the owners of the current exhibit, that had flown into Dallas only for the day. Also there were a ton of crafts for the kids, they were making everything from lanterns to kites, and sampling sticky rice balls. Later on in the day, there was a dragon dance outside and a traditional Chinese dance in the gallery. It was a great day for the young and the young at heart!
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