February 11, 2012

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Free Family Fun during Chinese Cultural Week




Come on out and learn during the Free Chinese Cultural Week.  This is a great way to experience vibrant and colorful free events with your family featuring dance, music, visual arts, theater, street fairs and more.  From traditional cuisine at the Chinatown Summer Fair to tours of large-scale contemporary Chinese sculpture to children’s theater in Millennium Park, this is a celebration of the richness and depth of art and culture of China and Chicago’s Chinese-American community.

The free Family Fun Festival will celebrate Chinese Cultural Week in Chicago with its interactive China Spectacle on July 19 at 2:30 p.m. qi xi Free Family Fun during Chinese Cultural Week You will wind your way through Millennium Park in an interactive telling of the ancient Chinese love story of “Qi Xi-The Story of Niulang and Zhinu, the Cowherd and the Weaver Fairy”-complete with a lion dragon, opera singers, drummers, martial artists and a lantern parade. The China Spectacle is adapted by Nina Chen and the Chinese Fine Arts Society especially for Millennium Park.

Also, discover the playful side of Chinese culture with arts and crafts, board games and games of chance–all part of the Chinese Cultural Week in Chicago.  This event is part of Family Fun Festival, June 10–September 4. Sponsored by Target and presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Millennium Park, the Family Fun Activity Zone includes hands-on craft projects, garden and science activities with some of the region’s most popular museums and cultural organizations.

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Comments

  1. Albert says:

    I went to this last year and it was top notch — The storytelling in Millenium Park should be spectacular

  2. Sarah Bear says:

    Is there a complete schedule of events?

  3. John T. says:

    This is a great family outing — I highly recommend it.

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