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Winter Solstice

Winterlude………..

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h4>>Well, the mid-winter festivals have been celebrated; today is the first day of a new year. 'The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older' - Pink Floyd. It is a good life when there is something to celebrate in the middle of winter, especially in these cold and dark climes where the daylight hours are so, so, so, short.  Feasting, partying (hopefully with some common sense), …

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Snake Lantern Debut

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h4>>The 21st December was the winter solstice 2012, the longest darkest night of the year, and the night Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese garden was transformed with hundreds of beautiful lanterns of all shapes and sizes hung in the trees, stationed in the ponds, and guarding hidden alcoves and rock features. The lanterns are traditionally created into a variety of shapes in the form of animals, …

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Snake poems and stories at Sun Yat-Sen Garden

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h4>>***This call is now closed. *** The Community Arts Council of Vancouver's Eco-Arts initiative is looking for poets/storytellers/performers to assist in our event on Tuesday, December 11 at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden where we'll be creating a snake lantern for the Winter Solstice and then the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown. To get us in the spirit, Susan Ma, Education Director …

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Winter Solstice Lantern Festival 2012

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h4>>Everyone is welcome to participate in this year's Winter Solstice lantern festival celebration at Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. We will once again have our giant community white-cube lantern at the event ready to be decorated by visitors. Please stop by and contribute to make it even more beautiful this year. This year we invite you to our Eco-Arts Salon at the Garden on Tuesday, …

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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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