最近当你走过莱镇中心或散步在民兵自行车道，你是否留意到位于镇中心的老火车站（Lexington Depot）火树银花，彩灯高悬？这是我们镇首次庆祝中国新春的元宵佳节。

正月十五，闹元宵！在中国的传统节日中，最热闹的一定是元宵节。对于莱镇亚裔来说，今年的元宵节尤为特殊。由莱镇华协，莱星文化中心，莱镇历史协会联合举办莱镇政府加盟的莱镇新春庆典活动将于2月5日元宵佳节迎来又一高潮！

来吧，元宵佳节，莱镇不夜，一起欢庆，一起创造历史！

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金虎辞旧， 玉兔迎新。2023年 1月22日是中国农历新年兔年的大年初一，莱镇的居民们在莱镇华协CAAL与各协办方Artisan Dance Academy (ADA)、莱镇韩协 (KOLex)、莱镇历史协会、莱星文化中心、莱镇政府的共同组织下， 过了一个热热闹闹的中国年!

这是一台由200多位演员参演，200 多位义工协助，近40 个商家和个人赞助，几十名工作人员辛苦准备了一个多月的春节庆典，火红，隆重，热闹，有吃有玩有乐，年味浓，人情足！

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“Lexington Happenings” is a bilingual monthly blog by Chinese American Association of Lexington. Please click the link and scroll down to read the February issue in English and discover the highlights of events in Lexington this month.

Join us for a grand celebration at Depot Building. Lexington are being transformed for the first ever Lantern Festival on Feb 5. We are celebrating and making history together! Please find details on the event website.

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Dotting the eyes of the dragon on the new CAAL banner designed by Cristina Burwell, Executive Director of Munroe Center for the Arts and painted by tens of CAAL volunteers. The legend has that the eye dotting awakens the CAAL dragon that kicks off the Lunar New Year celebration!

Please join us for a wonderful concert by Lexington Symphony this Saturday, Feb. 4th. The concert is sponsored by Bin Wu and Family in Recognition of the Chinese American Association of Lexington (CAAL)

Thank you Bin and your family for the generous support to Lexington Symphony and the community!

So proud that CAAL Co-President Dr. Hua Wang, was recognized as one of Get Konnected’s 50 Most Influential AAPIs in Boston at a wonderful and inspiring night yesterday celebrating the Lunar New Year!

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(Reported by Christina Xiao))

On January 22, 2023, the New Year Day of the Year of Rabbit, CAAL organized a Spring Festival Gala in Lexington with Artisan Dance Academy (ADA), Lexington Korean American Organization (KOLex), New Legacy Cultural CenterLexington Historical Society and Town of Lexington, MA

The whole event kicked off in the form of traditional Asian temple fairs around 5pm. The fair was crowded with people and bustling with the sounds of cheering. The cross-cultural booth and the food street attracted many Asian and non-Asian residents. The temple fair was full of representative elements from various ethnic cultures, from Chinese food, hawthorn berry, traditional Korean New Year’s snacks, to cultural booths with art and crafts, as well as modern and historical costumes.

At around 6:30 p.m., the stage performance of the Festival Gala officially started. A group of lovely Kungfu girls and boys demonstrated Chinese martial arts, winning applause from the audience. Next, the Jade Rabbit appeared on the stage, and the dragon-dance practiced by town officials and leaders of each organizers came to the live stage.

The whole program was full of wonderful performances. The young dancers dance for love, for the new year, lighting up dreams, and warming the world. From the traditional Chinese lion dance, Peking Opera to the colonial dance of the 18th century in North America, all showing the heritage and charm of culture to the public. And that’s what the whole event is about.

It was great to have the community come together on Jan 22 to share the festivity and support a great cause. We are super grateful to the more than 200 performers and 200 volunteers at the Lunar New Year Gala.

The celebration continues and we look forward to having everyone on Feb. 5 at the Lantern Festival!

Please browse the gallery for more photos.

Here is the Gala recording and coverage by LexMedia

Here is the report of the Gala by the Boston Film Academy (BFA)

Depot Building and Lexington are being transformed for the first ever Lantern Festival on Feb 5. We are celebrating and making history together!

莱镇新春庆典三部曲开门红【横流 – 文化的交融】为期三周在LexArt 举办的中国书画展今天闭幕。1/8 日的开幕式人气爆棚，浏览活动回顾公众号也能感受到空前盛况。

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Congratulations to all of the 2022 Women’s Visibility Banner Honorees! So proud of Co-president Melanie Lin! Lex See Her continues celebrating all of these amazing women throughout the fall and winter as part of the LexSeeHer Speaker Series! These photos are from the LexSeeHer Honorees Reception on Aug 17.

Here is the YouTube Recording of the event