Green Lunar New Year
Saturday 28 January 2023 | Free
Renew your energy and spirit for the year ahead with our Green Lunar New Year celebration, in collaboration with ESEA community group Green Lions.
Green Lunar New Year at Museum of the Home will take a spin on traditional East and Southeast Asian celebrations, focusing on issues around sustainability and climate change. We'll be ringing in the Chinese Year of the Rabbit and Vietnamese Year of the Cat with a day of fun, creativity and reflection, seeking more sustainable ways to live in response to the climate emergency.
You're invited to leap like a rabbit and prowl like a cat with renewed vigour and love for our fragile world.
Museum of the Home welcomes everyone at different points of their journey with sustainability and climate change. Come together to set sustainable intentions for the year ahead in a safe and welcoming space.
Free entry booking is recommended, walk-ins are welcome. Celebrations will be on throughout the day across Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA
What's on
Green Lunar New Year promises a day of creative workshops for all, supper clubs by ESEA chefs, mahjong club, thought-provoking speakers, film screenings and exhibitions, and a lively market stall selling unique products by ESEA artisans.
Celestial Peach x Museum of the Home Supper Club
Join Jenny Lau, founder of Celestial Peach, for a vegan brunch and community-led conversation. Guests will feast on dishes that play on core themes of Lunar New Year - such as health, prosperity and abundance - inviting them to reflect on the values that matter the most to them in 2023. The ingredients will incorporate those foraged from the Museum Of The Home garden as well as locally grown vegetables.
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Dinner from a Hidden Land by chef KG
Sit down for a multimedia supper club presenting sustainable cuisine by fusing Thai recipes, from Chef KG (Patarita Tassanarapan)’s background, with local plant-based ingredients that are available in the area to limit the carbon footprint as much as possible. Soundscapes and visual installations will accompany the dining experience to narrate landscape and food culture in Thailand.
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Screenings & curator talk with April Lin 林森
Explore and experience three speculative films by April Lin 林森 that deal with ecological crisis, more-than-human relations, interspecies and mythological ancestry. There will also be an opportunity to hear directly from April Lin 林森 in a curator talk.
Talk: Rachel Chak
How can we re-imagine technology informed by nature and indigenous values of care? How do we cultivate a more intentional relationship to technology and the role it plays in our lives? In this talk, Rachel Chak will do a deep dive into her research on regenerative projects in the Philippines, and we will explore how to re-imagine technology informed by nature and indigenous values of care.
Maker's market
Delve into our market stalls featuring a range of unique products created by local ESEA artisans to take home!
The Babirusa
Get a sneak peek of Henri Affandi’s performance piece ‘The Babirusa' (work in progress) around the Museum.
Talk: Climate Perspectives Through the Arts and Stories
Independent researcher, curator and artist specialising in climate change, Angela YT Chan will lead a discussion on how we can engage with climate change in our communities through the arts and storytelling towards justice. The talk will give examples of Angela YT Chan’s research and art projects to illustrate how climate change is being talked about and how we can turn around the power imbalances in these stories.
Art workshops
Decorate your home with beautiful flowers for the new year in Amy Leung’s colorful seed bombing workshop, or try your hand at vegetable printing in a workshop with Anh Tran of Kamipaper.
Activities
Enjoy some of the best board games inspired by East & Southeast Asia. Learn to play the traditional Chinese game of Mahjong with local experts, Four Winds Mahjong. All levels welcome!
Talk: Rituals of the Home
What rituals and memories do you associate with the word 'home'? How do we seek comfort and joy every day - in the city, in nature, alone or with friends? In this poetry reading and creative writing workshop, writer and published author Nina Powles will guide participants to explore themes of nature, migration, and belonging. Participants will reflect on the many landscapes and languages of home.
Home Grown
What significance does tending a home garden have for London's Vietnamese community? What can we learn about belonging, home and culture from London's Vietnamese gardens? Visit the chapel to watch Home Grown.
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Emma Yuan
Little Egg Crafts
Birdsong
YukFun
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Green Lunar New Year is part of Museum of the Home’s ESEA programme, generously supported by the Lien Viet fund, awarded by Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association.