Lunar New Year Celebration To Be Held At Summit Library

SUMMIT, NJ — In celebration of the Lunar New Year, the Summit Library Chinese Club is hosting an event that will feature art, music, various Asian cuisine and much more.

The Lunar New Year Celebration will take place on Sunday, Jan. 22 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the library.

Attendees can look forward to a variety of Asian cuisine, traditional Chinese painting and other visual arts, traditional Chinese dances and music performed by local artists. '

The Lunar New Year, or Chinese New Year, is celebrated on the first new moon that appears between Jan. 21 and Feb. 20. This upcoming lunar year is the year of the Rabbit.

Visitors will also be able to view the Lunar New Year Art Show gallery, featuring original visual
art pieces by young artists in Summit and surrounding areas. Submissions for the Art Show are
currently open and will close on Feb. 11.

“When my children were young, they went to the library all the time,” said Ni Liu, member of
the Summit Free Public Library Foundation and organizer of the Summit Library Chinese Club.
“Mrs. Wheeless, a librarian and the best storyteller I have known, would tell many interesting
stories along with beautiful music accompanied to them on her story telling program.”

Wheeless asked Liu to create a Chinese New Year’s celebration at the Library, which ended up being a great success, and was continued in the subsequent years.

“From then on, more moms from the local community joined me to volunteer for the New Year Celebration,” said Liu, “The scale of the celebration has been growing bigger and bigger, and the event has become an epic in Summit.”

The Summit Library Chinese Club is a volunteer-led organization that works with the Summit
Library hand-in-hand to organize Chinese/Asian culture-related events in the community.

The club leads many other programs in partnership with the Summit Library, such as their Chinese Corner, a Chinese Immersion program held on the second and fourth Sundays of every month during the school year.

The Chinese Club is also continuously adding new programs, such as NeuLingo, a Mandarin language learning course for grades 1-5, held on Thursdays from Jan. 12 through Feb. 9.

The Lunar New Year Celebration is free and all are welcome.

To register for the Lunar New Year Celebration, visit the Summit Library website at www.summitlibrary.org.

To register for the Lunar New Year Art Show, visit the Summit Library Chinese Club website at
www.75chineseclub.com.