{"id":118998,"date":"2019-03-08T19:52:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/lunar-new-year-festival-uses-the-power-of-storytelling-to-bring-people-together-vanderbilt-news\/"},"modified":"2019-03-08T19:52:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:52:43","slug":"lunar-new-year-festival-uses-the-power-of-storytelling-to-bring-people-together-vanderbilt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/lunar-new-year-festival-uses-the-power-of-storytelling-to-bring-people-together-vanderbilt-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year Festival uses the power of storytelling to bring people together | Vanderbilt News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Each year during the spring semester, Vanderbilt\u2019s Asian American Student Association presents the Lunar New Year Festival,<\/a> a cultural showcase of the celebration with numerous dances and performances. Held in Langford Auditorium on Feb. 24, the sold-out event reflected the diversity of Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander cultures.<\/p>\n

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Students in AASA, with the support of the Office of Inclusion Initiatives and Cultural Competence<\/a>, organized this annual showcase which included more than 350 student participants across 19 different acts. Dancers worked with choreographers over the past few months in preparation for the festival.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s acts included displays of martial arts, Chinese yo-yo, water sleeves dance, Soran Bushi, Malaysian Fusion, Vietnamese traditional dance, hip-hop, Buchaechum, Singkil and Tinikling, K-pop, haka, hula and more. Prior to the cultural showcase, AASA held a dinner celebrating the Lunar New Year where attendees could try numerous dishes and desserts.<\/p>\n

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The theme for each year\u2019s event is connected to the Chinese Zodiac. This year, the theme was fairytales, which was inspired by the fable The Three Little Pigs<\/em> and the current Chinese Zodiac year, the Year of the Pig. Sharing numerous folk tales and fables from a variety of Asian cultures, the showcase spoke to the power of storytelling to bring people together and the value of sharing one\u2019s experiences with another person.<\/p>\n

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To learn more about AASA, visit the group\u2019s Anchorlink page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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