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Date: Saturday, February 1, 2025

Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Ages: All Ages

Members & Member's Families: FREE

Non-Members: $10 (Individual) / $25 (Family)

All are welcome to celebrate the Year of the Snake at Five Points Arts Center! Activities for the whole family include building your own lanterns, scroll painting with Christine Mitchell, designing red envelopes, crafting fans, and story time in the library. All activities will run for the duration of the event so you can take part in all the festivities.

Red Envelope Making:

Gift-giving is a Chinese tradition during the Lunar New Year. Those gifts often come in the form of Red Envelopes, which symbolize good luck, each containing money or lovely notes inside. In our Red Envelope Making activity, design your own red envelopes with stamps, colored pencils, markers, and more!

Lantern Making:

Welcome the New Year and decorate your home with hand crafted lanterns designed with this year’s zodiac animal.

Painting Scrolls:

The art of Asian Brush Painting is a well-traveled technique that originated in China and crossed over to Japan. Instructor Christine Mitchell will introduce the art of Sumi-e brush painting on scrolls. Learn how to grind ink and use painting techniques with a bamboo brush on rice paper.

Folding Fans:

The folding fan has been valued in history for both its utilitarian and ritualistic purposes. In this activity you can choose from a variety of colored and patterned papers, to create your own folding fan.

Storytime and Coloring:

Cozy up with a nice book and some coloring sheets in the Hospitality Space! We will read the book, “The Dancing Dragon” written by Marcia K. Vaughan and illustrated by Stanley Wong Hoo Foon. Feel free to pull up a chair and color in some of the animals from the Chinese Zodiac!

Registration: Register ahead and save your spot! Walk-ins are welcome!

All workshops are held at the Five Points Arts Center, 855 University Drive