Albert Park turns ‘China Town’ on Chinese Lantern Festival
It was 6 in the evening and the show had already begun at Albert Park with performers on stage showing Kung Fu actions, crowd jostling with cheers, happy faces enjoying the hand-made dragons on the garden perimeters, cloth castles, puppets and goats.
26th February marked the start of Auckland's 16th annual Lantern Festival and it concluded with a bang of band performance on Sunday 1st March. The New Year is the year of Goat or also called as the year of the Sheep.
Cultural performances, beautiful lanterns hung from the barks of the tree like a fruit, people dressed in traditional Chinese costumes, a vast kids’ playing section, Chinese artefacts of sale, and not to forget lip smacking Chinese delicacies.
Visitors at the show were all thrilled to the see the Chinese way of celebrating New Year, and they indeed were dazzled and left amazed at the end of the show. The venue seemed like one big city of multicultural people outing and enjoying together.
“I couldn’t have imagined a better way of celebrating the Yew Year, and this whole arrangement of lanterns, puppets, lightings, other handicrafts, nerve shattering performances makes me feel I am in mini China right now. My kids are delighted and this is one of the best Lantern Festivals I have ever been” exclaimed Wang Yong who had come with his family to see the show.
Martial Art performers from Shanghai dressed in red satin outfit stunned the crowd with their breath taking stunts, and it seemed evident that kids at the show definitely want to learn some of those moves.
Beautiful puppets from Guangzhou portraying the love story between a dragon and a bird stole the show with its romantic yet powerful soul music. The string and drum stunt made people give a standing ovation for the display of their gravity defying moves.
With the skies turning dark, and around 800 handmade lanterns hung from trees glistening in the dark, Albert Park, Queen Street and adjoining areas had turned into little China for the evening.
The whole show was a smoke and alcohol free event, yet the sound engineer was seen smoking in his little console a couple of times. The sound and light engineers did a really commendable task of making the show astoundingly beautiful with their almost magical skills on the keyboard.
Independent band performers graced the show making the crowd lose their senses and flow in the river of rock music. With a countdown for 10 seconds at exactly 10.30 pm the skies brightened behind and from the Sky Tower with fireworks and again the crowd hooting Happy New Year!
Click here for the photo gallery.
It was 6 in the evening and the show had already begun at Albert Park with performers on stage showing Kung Fu actions, crowd jostling with cheers, happy faces enjoying the hand-made dragons on the garden perimeters, cloth castles, puppets and goats.
26th February marked the start of Auckland's...
It was 6 in the evening and the show had already begun at Albert Park with performers on stage showing Kung Fu actions, crowd jostling with cheers, happy faces enjoying the hand-made dragons on the garden perimeters, cloth castles, puppets and goats.
26th February marked the start of Auckland's 16th annual Lantern Festival and it concluded with a bang of band performance on Sunday 1st March. The New Year is the year of Goat or also called as the year of the Sheep.
Cultural performances, beautiful lanterns hung from the barks of the tree like a fruit, people dressed in traditional Chinese costumes, a vast kids’ playing section, Chinese artefacts of sale, and not to forget lip smacking Chinese delicacies.
Visitors at the show were all thrilled to the see the Chinese way of celebrating New Year, and they indeed were dazzled and left amazed at the end of the show. The venue seemed like one big city of multicultural people outing and enjoying together.
“I couldn’t have imagined a better way of celebrating the Yew Year, and this whole arrangement of lanterns, puppets, lightings, other handicrafts, nerve shattering performances makes me feel I am in mini China right now. My kids are delighted and this is one of the best Lantern Festivals I have ever been” exclaimed Wang Yong who had come with his family to see the show.
Martial Art performers from Shanghai dressed in red satin outfit stunned the crowd with their breath taking stunts, and it seemed evident that kids at the show definitely want to learn some of those moves.
Beautiful puppets from Guangzhou portraying the love story between a dragon and a bird stole the show with its romantic yet powerful soul music. The string and drum stunt made people give a standing ovation for the display of their gravity defying moves.
With the skies turning dark, and around 800 handmade lanterns hung from trees glistening in the dark, Albert Park, Queen Street and adjoining areas had turned into little China for the evening.
The whole show was a smoke and alcohol free event, yet the sound engineer was seen smoking in his little console a couple of times. The sound and light engineers did a really commendable task of making the show astoundingly beautiful with their almost magical skills on the keyboard.
Independent band performers graced the show making the crowd lose their senses and flow in the river of rock music. With a countdown for 10 seconds at exactly 10.30 pm the skies brightened behind and from the Sky Tower with fireworks and again the crowd hooting Happy New Year!
Click here for the photo gallery.
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