Chinese New Year Celebration Outgrows, Moves to
Meyerhoff

Face Changing in Sichuan
Opera
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By Amy Lunday Homewood
About 2,000 Chinese students and scholars from 20
universities and institutes in Maryland, Virginia,
Delaware, West Virginia and Washington, D.C., are expected
to welcome the Year of the Boar from 7 to 9 p.m. on
Saturday, Feb. 3, at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The
general public is also welcome to attend the event, which
is hosted by the
Chinese Student and Scholar Associations at The Johns
Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutions and co-sponsored by the participating
universities, many Chinese restaurants and several
businesses and banks in the greater Baltimore/Washington
area.
Campus celebrations have taken place before but not on
this scale, which organizers hope will attract many Chinese
students and their families while providing an opportunity
to introduce aspects of Chinese culture to others. There
are more than 2,000 Chinese students and scholars,
including U.S. permanent residents who are Chinese
citizens, working and studying at Johns Hopkins' Baltimore
campuses.
Last year's festival took place on the university's
Homewood campus and drew a crowd of more than 1,000
guests.
The program will include a mix of traditional and
modern music and dance, including Chinese kung fu; Peking
Opera; performances on ancient Chinese instruments,
including the erhu and gu zheng; and Face Changing in
Sichuan Opera, in which actors change more than 10 masks in
20 seconds.
On the Western calendar, Feb. 18 is the first day of
the Chinese New Year period, which lasts 15 days and ends
with the Lantern Festival. The celebration is being held
here a few days early so the event can be filmed and
broadcast in China.
Tickets are $10 and $3, $3 for all children under 12.
For ticket information, e-mail
dc_ticket_newyear@yahoo.com or call 410-258-5555.
Additional information is online at
www.jhmi-cssa.org.
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