Celebrate the Lunar New Year at The Mills At Jersey Gardens

ELIZABETH, NJ — The Mills at Jersey Gardens, New Jersey’s will be hosting a 2017 Lunar New Year Celebration taking place at the mall on Saturday, Jan. 28.

As one of the most important and widely celebrated festivals in the Chinese culture, the Lunar New Year event at The Mills at Jersey Gardens will honor the time-honored tradition with competitions, traditional performances and raffles.

The event will kick-off with the Lion Dance, featuring ornately decorated lion heads dancing to the music of beating drums, clashing cymbals and resounding gongs to greet and bring good luck and fortune in the new year.

The free event will run from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. and is open to the public.

All events are held in the Center Court of the mall with two blocks of performances taking place:

• 12:30PM/1:40PM – Lion Dance
• 12:45PM – Lunar New Year Greeting
• 12:50PM/1:55PM – Chinese Instrument Performance I: Chinese Pippa
• 12:55PM/2:00PM – Chopsticks Competition
• 1:05PM/2:10PM – Raffle
• 1:10PM/2:15PM – Kong Fu Performance
• 1:15PM/2:20PM – Chinese Instrument Performance II: Chinese Flute
• 1:20PM/2:25PM – Classical Chinese Dance
• 1:25PM/2:30PM – Raffle

The Mills at Jersey Gardens (Center Court) is located at 651 Kapkowski Rd. in Elizabeth.

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