Experience Chinese New Year in Prague

The annual Lunar New Year is coming up. How will those of us living in Czechia celebrate it?

□ Get together with a couple of friends over hot pot

□ Simply leave it be, as always

□ If someone invites us, we'll celebrate, and if not, we won't

□ Stay at home, lounge around and watch TV series

This year we'll try something different!!! On Saturday, 25 January, the first day of the new year, you have one more option: an evening for parents with children and people-to-people diplomacy, organized by the Czech Taiwanese Association together with the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce. To create a true New Year atmosphere, the restaurant Hoja Pot 喝呷霸 will be transformed by virtual reality into a bustling Lunar New Year scene. Four stations with four activities for parents and children on the theme of "driving away the monster Nian" await you. The event continues our work of passing on Chinese culture and the traditions of the Spring Festival, and at the same time lets Czech friends and families celebrate the Lunar New Year together. A self-service dinner suitable for both parents and children will be available on site.

Five young Taiwanese living in Czechia are behind the event, and they spent two months planning it. They will tell the stories, legends and the atmosphere of the New Year in two languages: Chinese with a Taiwanese accent, and English. Come and have fun with your children and older family members. In the courtyard you can play with traditional toys, such as the shuttlecock (毽子, jianzi) or the Chinese diabolo (扯鈴).

The event package includes:

• Soft drinks and a buffet dinner.
• The "Nian" game pack with four interactive stations. You will make three traditional tools for driving away the monster Nian and a handmade lantern, and the station keepers will explain the history and origins of the stories. Once you have collected stamps from all the stations, you can pick up a small gift from the head keeper.

Time: Saturday, 25 January, year 109 of the Republic (2020), 16:00–20:00 (games end at 18:00)

Venue: Hoja Pot 喝呷霸, Šrobárova 9, 120 00 Prague, Czech Republic

Fee: the budget has been approved

Price for members: free

Price for non-members: adults 300 CZK, children 150 CZK

Special notice: although our activities are non-profit, not all events are free of charge. We count on a reasonable fee so that the organization can keep running in the long term. Profit is not our goal; any surplus will be used to expand the organization or its other services, and we never distribute it.

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