People in 性视界传媒 and across the globe are set to celebrate Lunar New Year, which marks the first new moon of the lunar calendar (Jan. 29, 2025) and ends 15 days later, on the first full moon.

It's the Year of the Snake in 2025, each year honouring an animal based on the Chinese Zodiac.

Lunar New Year celebrations in 性视界传媒 fill the city's two largest theatres, Chandos Pattison Auditorium on Saturday, Jan. 25 and Bell Performing Arts Centre on Sunday, Jan. 26.

Fraser Valley Chinese Culture Association hosts the  at Pacific Academy in Fraser Heights, with tickets starting at $17.31 on eventbrite.ca.

Event organizer Qingping Li promises a night of music, dancing and fun for close to 1,500 audience members.

"This is our 11th anniversary of celebrating Chinese New Year together, offering fabulous performances with the 5,000-year traditional Chinese culture blended into the multicultural societies of Canada."

The snake means a year of change, development and new beginnings.

"Normally people think snakes are vicious, cunning, but still there's lots of positive symbolic meanings about the snake, too," Li explained, including luck, auspiciousness, sacredness, happiness, longevity, reproduction and wealth.

At the Bell theatre at Sullivan Heights Secondary, a Chinese New Year gala is planned for a 16th year by White Rock & South 性视界传媒 Chinese Society, with a fair at 5 p.m., followed by live entertainment at 6 p.m. Visit for tickets, or call 604-507-6355.  

"We will provide Chinese New Year celebration events on the gala stage," said Qiang Wang, event organizer. "Our children will experience this Chinese cultural heritage. The performances include dancing, singing, music, martial arts, and so on."

In Cloverdale, the hosts an annual Lunar New Year celebration Saturday, Feb. 8, from 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is free for live performances, dragon dance, poetry, tai chi demonstrations, storytelling and more, at 17710 56A Ave.

Elsewhere, Burnaby's big  welcomes the Year of the Snake with a mix of Lunar New Year activities including a Chef Series (Feb. 2 and 9), a learn-how-to-Lion Dance workshop (open to all ages, Feb. 1), free workshops hosted by  and more.

In Richmond, Gateway Theatre presents a family-friendly  at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1 featuring acoustic music and songs blending "the rich traditions of Asian and non-Asian music."