Lunar New Year 2026 Festival + Market
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2026 from 11 am - 4 pm
at Lynn Museum
590 Washington Street, Lynn, MA 01901
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Event photos by Ebersole Photography
Lucky Knot Arts presents our 2026 Lunar New Year Festival + Market, created for us by us! Join us at Lynn Museum in Lynn, MA to celebrate the new year on Saturday, February 14 from 11 am - 4 pm. Support Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) artists and vendors, partake in family-friendly activities and cultural performances, and more! Free and open to the public.
11:00 am - 4:00 pm | AAPI Artists + Vendors Market
A Head Full of Stars
Banyan & Birch
Cass Paints
Catfish Cult
Honwacrafts
K and K Creates
Linx Lab Jewelry
Little Wolf Creations
Lucky Longan Co.
Melani’s Stache
Natural Presence
Taoro.Root
Towka
Universeways LLC
Yuko Okabe
12:00 pm | Performance
Wah May Lion Dance
12:30 - 2:30 pm | Drop-in art activities
Lunar New Year Postcards with Yuko Okabe
Peking Opera Face Masks with Zhonghe (Elena) Li
2:00 pm | Performance
Kapatid Kud
3:00 pm | Performance
Khmae Urban Ballet
This program has been funded in part by Lynn Cultural Council and a Creative Experiences grant from Mass Cultural Council.
Parking is available in the Museum parking lot accessible from Washington Street, immediately beyond the Museum Courtyard. The Museum entrance is located on the Courtyard side of the building. Street parking is also available. Please do not park in the Vamp Building parking lot (across Washington Street from the Museum) as it is resident-only parking.
For visitor information, please contact office@lynnmuseum.org or call 781-581-6200.
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VENUE
590 Washington St, Lynn, MA 01901
office@lynnmuseum.org
781-581-6200In the heart of Lynn's Arts & Cultural District, the Lynn Museum was founded in 1897 to collect, preserve and illuminate the city's remarkable history.
The Lynn Museum/LynnArts offers changing exhibitions and innovative youth and adult programs which engage and enrich Lynn's diverse community.
With history as our guide, we engage the region’s ever-changing community through exhibitions and programs that illuminate the past, celebrate the present, and inform the future.
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PERFORMER
Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) is the parent organization of Nam Pai (Kung Fu), Wah May (Lion Dance), and Qi Farm (Tai Chi and Healing). Originally founded in 1983, the school was a small hub for our Sifus to train together with their community in the various martial art forms we still offer today. Our goal as a non-profit organization and school is to grow the community, educate on tradition, and push boundaries through our arts.
Our Lion Dance team began as a way for students to integrate Kung Fu fundamentals into lion dance, but quickly became something more as we became involved in public performances and competitions. Our team was able to place 2nd at their first competition: the New England Regional Lion Dance Competition, and as a result, our Lion Dance team was born. Since then, we’ve expanded to compete in multiple national competitions and also perform at town parades, corporate functions, and weddings.
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PERFORMER
Kapatid Kud [kah-pah-TID kooD] is a global collective of music artists who create songs together as a way to tell stories that reflect the real conversations and actions around them and that connect and build up their communities. Their name is a combination of the Tagalog word "kapatid", which means "sibling", and "kud", which in Hindi means "play" and in Malayalam "nest" (or a family space). Grounded in their shared sense of kinship, they create with the energy of joy and play as intentional resistance and approach songwriting and performance as song medicine for themselves and for their communities.
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PERFORMER
Founded by Peter Veth and Chummeng Soun in Lowell, Massachusetts, Khmae Urban is a grassroots collective of Cambodian American artists. The company’s mission is to amplify diasporic voices in Cambodian dance. Khmae Urban believes deeply in providing knowledge and cultural transmission to future generations through workshops, trainings, and performances. Beyond performance, the company ignites critical conversations by pushing artistic boundaries with new neo-classical works that honor tradition while embracing innovation. Urban creates space for the next generation of artists to explore their creative processes and develop new works through a contemporary vernacular. The company has performed nationally and internationally, including at Victura Park (an extension of the Kennedy Center), and in Georgia, Florida, Minnesota, California and England.
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INSTRUCTOR
Yuko Okabe is an illustrator and cultural worker playing at the intersection of art and community engagement in her cross-disciplinary experiences in affordable housing, healthcare, community development, and food justice. Their subject matter often explores how art intersects with traditionally “non-art” fields to bridge complex topics to the general public in an intimate, emotional way. Their work invites co-creators and participants to imagine the flow between people, landscapes, systems, and ideas.
@ykook.art
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INSTRUCTOR
Zhonghe (Elena) Li (she/her), a multimedia artist based in Cambridge, MA, specializes in the traditional Chinese art of papercutting. Over the past decade, she has passionately embraced this ancient craft, using scissors as her primary tool. Li's work seeks to bridge the gap between traditional papercutting and contemporary art, addressing pertinent issues such as species extinction, climate change, and its impact on humanity's future.
Motivated by her love for nature's diversity, Li's art is deeply rooted in the Taoist philosophy of interconnectivity and balance among all beings, whether among humans or between humanity and nature. She has received recognition for her efforts, including a competitive grant from Mount Auburn's Artist-in-Residence program in 2021 and artist grants from the Cambridge Arts Council in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 for projects such as "The Last Rhino," "The Art of Living Together," and "The Art of Nature Around Us." Collaborating with local communities and Mass Audubon's Nature in the City Program at Cambridge, Li explores the intersection of papercutting, art, and environmental awareness. Her dedication to the craft is further acknowledged through a Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) Traditional Art Fellowship in 2022 and an MCC Traditional Arts Apprenticeship for 2023-24.