Artist, musician, storyteller, and novelist Mingmei Yip will lead a calligraphy demonstration as part of Lunar New Year Festival Family Day at MOCA on January 30
Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre St. between Howard & Grand Sts.
Thursday – Monday, $7 (free Thursdays 11:00 am – 9:00 pm)
Reservations required for most Lunar New Year events
212-619-4785
www.mocanyc.org
The celebration of the Year of the Rabbit, 4709, is under way, with special programs and events scheduled for the next few weeks throughout Chinatown, honoring affectionate, pleasant, cautious, sentimental, obliging, superficial people born in 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, and 2011. At the Museum of Chinese in America, the talk “Decoding the Chinese Almanac’s Predictions for 2011” is scheduled for today at 2:30 ($15), with New Year Walking Tours taking place January 30 and February 5 ($18, 1:00). Tomorrow is Lunar New Year Festival Family Day, with storyteller Kam Mak, a noodle-making workshop, a gallery talk of the exhibition “Chinese Puzzles: Games for the Hands and Minds,” arts and crafts, a lion dance, a calligraphy demonstration with Mingmei Yip, and more ($10, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm). And on February 4, the Chinese Cinema Club will present Liu Jiayin’s 2009 sequel OXHIDE II, followed by a discussion on dumplings and the New Year with chef and writer Kian Lam Kho ($10, 7:00).