PHOTOS: Children’s Moonlight Festival @ Vietnamese Cultural Center

4:13 PM: Looking for something to do with the rest of your Sunday afternoon? The Children’s Moonlight Festival is happening until 6 pm at the Vietnamese Cultural Center. Above, lion dancers performed toward the start of the event; treats, entertainment, and a lantern parade are still to come.

This is a traditional lunar-calendar end-of-summer celebration; more photos to come. The Cultural Center is at 2234 SW Orchard, just north of Home Depot.

8:39 PM: As promised, more photos from the festival, which was so picture-perfect, an afternoon shower stopped just in time for the lion dance. Center director Lee Bui offered the lions a good-luck gift:

Joining the festivities at the center were Boy Scouts from Troop 286:

Two people dressed as characters from a Vietnamese legend offered backpacks to kids:

(This photo and next two by Lynda Bui)

There was rubber-duck fishing:

And a lantern parade:

A group photo to commemorate the event:

In addition to special events like this, the Vietnamese Cultural Center is open to visitors on Saturdays, noon-3 pm.

1 Reply to "PHOTOS: Children's Moonlight Festival @ Vietnamese Cultural Center"

  • LyndaB October 1, 2017 (9:39 pm)

    Thank you to our WS neighbors for joining us today.  I’m glad the weather cooperated in the end.  The umbrellas were a great colorful addition.  So glad we had a bunch of those on hand!

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