Lunar New Year celebration children’s performance with ‘Lion Dance’ at the Hill Street Family Resource Centre

(All photos by Paul Sherwood)

Irish Chinese children from the Hill Street Family Resource Centre celebrated the Lunar New Year with dance performances for their families last Saturday.

They were joined by the traditional Chinese ‘Lion Dance’ and Korean samul nori percussionists for the colourful performance which is a celebration of the growing Asian community here in Dublin.

Pictured: Young dancers Oscar Ming Hao Xue (7) Saoirse Zhang (7) and a young friend getting ready to perform in one of the dances

Pictured: Oscar Ming Hao Xue (7) from Dublin – in tiger costume with one of the lions from the lion dance

Pictured: Oscar Ming Hao Xue (7) Saoirse Zhang (7)

Pictured: the Lion Dance

Pictured: the lion dance enters the event space

Brought to you by the Hill Street Family Resource Centre and supported by the North East Inner City initiative, this free online family-friendly festival features a range of wonderful online activities and workshops, created and presented by the families of Hill Street FRC as 2022 welcomes the Year of the Tiger.

Programme information can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. For more information on activity dates and times visit: https://hillstreetfrc.ie/