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Lunaria in Procession

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h4>>Lunaria has been a feature in several events since the Winter Solstice festival including the 2013 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Chinese New Year Dinner on January 27 and the 2013 Granville Island Lion Dance on February 10. Check out these pictures! If you've spotted our Lunaria at other events and snapped a picture of your own and would like to see it up here, just drop as an email at snake@cacv.ca …

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Lunar New Year Countdown

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h4>>It is now well into the month of February and the Lunar New Year of the snake fast approaches. As you may know, Alastair Heseltine, of Hornby Island, joined us to head a week-long series of workshops to create a beautiful woven willow snake. The snake is currently in wait at the interior Dr. SunYat-Sen garden. We are also pleased to announce that CBC On the Coast’s Michelle Eliot will be …

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Join us at Chinese New Year Parade with Snake, Drums, and 350 Water Drops!

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h4>>Bring your friends and join us; Chinese New Year Parade will be HUGE this year! Snake Lantern, DTES Harmony of Nations Drumming Group and 350 Water Drops (UberDrop) will be in our contingent for the Chinatown Parade on February 17. We will be celebrating the Chinese New Year (the Year of the Snake) / Lunar New Year / Spring Festival and sending a clear message about community, water, art and …

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Follow the Snake – Feb 8, 10, 17 and beyond…

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h4>>Snake in the News Province http://www.theprovince.com/news/foot+long+sculpture+marks+Year+Snake+Vancouver+garden/7896041/story.html Westender http://www.wevancouver.com/news/190029651.html Metro Vancouver cover photo February 8 on Breakfast TV with Dawn Chubai and on Shaw TV Lunaria snake and artist Jacquie Rolston were interviewed on CBC On the Coast February 8. Have you sighted …

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Lenore Rowntree writes a poem just for us.

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h4>>Lenore Rowntree's writing has appeared in several journals and anthologies, and she is a co-editor and contributor to the anthology Hidden Lives: coming out on mental illness (published by Brindle & Glass, 2012). If I Became a Money Plant If I became a money plant money plant would become snake snake, shining lantern and if I became a shining lantern lantern would …

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Are you a snake? We need you – and your friends

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h4>>Starting with the Eco-Arts Salon on December 11 at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden and ending with the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, we are getting ready for the Year of the Snake. Are you a snake? If you or someone you were born in the year of the snake, here's some information about what the Chinese Zodiac says about you: http://www.chinesezodiac.com/snake.php Here's some of the …

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