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Chinese New Year

		The Jade River Dancers will perform at the 26th Annual Chinese New Year Celebration at Penn Museum. Photo: Jennifer Chiappardi.
		Music, dance and special performances bring the sights, sounds and spectacles of China to Museum galleries and auditoriums at Penn Museum's annual Chinese New Year Celebration. Pictured here: the Jade River Dancers. Photo: Jennifer Gibson.
		Chinese food--decorative and edible--is always a featured part of the festivities. Pictured here: Chef Joe Poon returns annually to the Museum to give his ever-popular vegetable carving demonstration, quickly and skillfully turning modest vegetables into flowers, birds, and fanciful scenes. Photo: Jennifer Gibson.
		No Chinese New Year Celebration is quite complete without the traditional lion dance to chase away evil and usher in a year of good luck. Lion dancers and drummers begin inside the Museum and wind their way outside to the courtyard for a firecracker finale. Photo: Paul Hu.