Cork Chinese New Year Festival 2025 is a multi-cultural event celebrating Cork City as a diverse, tolerant, artistic, cultural city that has a warm welcome for everybody.

NB You can book tickets for the individual sections or for the whole evening.. Please note to book for the whole evening you will need to book three separate tickets .

Saturday, 08-Feb @ Dance Cork Firkin Crane 

John Redmond Street,
Shandon,
Cork, T23 Y584

• 5:00pm - 6:00pm Dragon dance by UCC Confucius Institute and Joan Denise Moriarty School of Dance starting at Dance Cork Firkin Crane and moving on to Shandon Studios for 5:30pm - 6:00pm

Saturday, 08-Feb @ Shandon Studios

107 Shandon Street,

Cork, T23 H297

• 6:15pm - 7:45pm - Musical program with Mesopotami, Rasa Nua, Dara O'Brien and friends \ An-Tai-Sui (Good Luck wishes for 2025) \ Painting-Drawing workshop \ 1000 Lamps (traditional Chinese Buddhist ceremony)

• 7:45pm - 8:00pm - Interval

• 8:00pm - 9:30pm - 1000 Lamps (Traditional Chinese Buddhist ceremony)

• 9:30pm Buddha relic blessing

• Art exhibition by the Shandon Studio artists Opens 08-Feb and runs through 22-Feb (by appointment with Shandon Studio Artists)

Notice:  

• Dance Cork Firkin Crane is a wheelchair accessible building.  Shandon Studios is not wheelchair accessible.

• Photos will be taken at these events. If you wish not to be photographed, please make that known to a member of the staff.