Korean American Heritage Celebration
Saturday, February 3, 2024 | 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. | Central Library, Courtyard and Neil Morgan Auditorium
Together with the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, San Diego Central Library is proud to present our Korean American Heritage Celebration for the third year running! Everyone is welcome to celebrate at this family-friendly event. The San Diego Korean Pungmul Institute will kick off the event with an energizing drum performance—kids loves drumming along and joining in on the fun. There will be themed crafts, photo-ops, crafts and games happening, too.

Event Schedule

• 12 p.m.: Pungmul Performance | Neil Morgan Auditorium, 1st floor
• 1 p.m.: Crafts, games, and Hanbok photos | Garden Courtyard, 1st floor

Lunar New Year Celebration
Saturday, February 3, 2024 | 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Rancho Bernardo Library
Participants can make a simple zodiac animal mask, play a traditional Korean game, and take pictures with photo props!

SD Lunar New Year Tết Festival at City Heights

• Friday, February 9, 2024 | 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.
• Saturday, February 10, 2024 | 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.
• Sunday, February 11, 2024 | 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

San Diego Lunar New Year Tết Festival is a 3-day inclusive and free celebration features dazzling lanterns, folk and traditional performances, arts and cultural exhibitions, lion dances and firecrackers, and plenty of family fun activities for the kids.

Lion dancing is a traditional dance in Chinese and other Asian cultures that is performed during Lunar New Year to welcome good luck and fortune. Join us at a performance at one of our many locations:

• Saturday, February 3, 2024 | 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | Serra Mesa-Kearny Mesa Library
• Saturday, February 3, 2024 | 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. | Balboa Library
• Saturday, February 3, 2024 | 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. | Carmel Valley Library
• Saturday, February 3, 2024 | 3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Mission Valley Library
• Sunday, February 4, 2024 | 2 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. | Mira Mesa Library
• Friday, February 9, 2024 | 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. | College-Rolando Library
• Friday, February 9, 2024 | 1 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. | Mission Hills Library
• Friday, February 9, 2024 | 4 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Linda Vista Library, Children's Patio
• Saturday, February 10, 2024 | 4 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | North Park Library

Special Preschool Storytime with the Los Peñasquitos Canyon Rangers - Dragons!
Thursday, January 25, 2024 | 10:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. | Rancho Peñasquitos Library

Author Helen H. Wu reads Long Goes to Dragon School
Saturday, January 27, 2024 | Virtual

Bilingual Mandarin Lunar New Year Storytime
Sunday, January 28, 2024 | 1 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | North University Community Library

Preschool Storytime: Lunar New Year Edition featuring a Park Ranger
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 | 10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Carmel Mountain Ranch Library

Mandarin Chinese Storytime 中文故事時間
Monday, February 5, 2024 | 3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Pacific Beach/Taylor Library 

Preschool Storytime & Craft with Ms. Dana: Celebrating Lunar New Year
Thursday, February 8, 2024 | 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Point Loma/Hervey Library
Take & Make craft kits will be available while supplies last.

Lunar New Year Dragon Storytime by Rancho Penasquitos Preserve
Friday, February 9, 2024 | 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Mira Mesa Library

Dance It Out! Bilingual Storytime: Celebrate Lunar New Year!
Monday, February 12, 2024 | 12 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. | Logan Heights Library

Mandarin Storytime
Thursday, February 15, 2024 | 10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Mountain View/Beckwourth Library

Bilingual English/Chinese Storytime - Lunar New Year Edition!
Saturday, February 17, 2024 | 10 a.m.  - 10:30 a.m. | Carmel Valley Library

Lunar New Year Stay & Play Storytime
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | College-Rolando Library

Two Dragons
Asian Story Theatre presents Two Dragons: a play featuring two stories: Naga and the Princess and the Dragon Pearl. Naga and the Princess uses traditional shadow puppets from Indonesia to tell the popular story of a headstrong young princess determined to have her way. Featuring clowns, Balinese music, and the magical naga creatures from that storytelling tradition, legendary snake-like dragons with the power to transform into human form. This story is paired with The Dragon Pearl, the lovely and lyrical Chinese origin story of a river dragon, and the industrious young girl who is remembered for her sacrifice that makes it possible. Join us for a magical showing celebrating dragon folktales.

Locations:

• Sunday, February 11, 2024 | 12 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. | City Heights Performance Annex
• Sunday, February 11, 2024 | 3 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. | Serra Mesa-Kearny Mesa Library
• Friday, March 22, 2024 | 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. | College-Rolando Library

SDCMH presents Traditions of the Chinese New Year + Chinese Zodiac Art
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 | 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. | San Ysidro Library
Registration required.

San Diego Chinese Historical Museum's Fan Making Workshop
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 | 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Balboa Library

Create-it Thursday: Lunar New Year Craft Chinese Lanterns
Thursday, February 1, 2024 | 4 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. | Skyline Hills Library
Registration encouraged.

Lunar New Year 2024 Dragon Puppet Craft
Saturday, February 3, 2024 | 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | University Heights Library
Registration required.

Lunar New Year Lantern Craft (Ages 5-11)
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 | 5 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Valencia Park/Malcolm X Library

Art Smarts Dragon Art - Celebrating Lunar New Year! (Ages 5-17)
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 | 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. | San Ysidro Library
Registration required.

Afternoon Crafting: Dragon Puppet
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. | Pacific Beach Library

Lunar New Year Kids Craft: Dragon Puppet (Ages 4-17)
Thursday, February 8, 2024 | 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. | Mission Hills Library
Registration required.

Chinese New Year Zodiac Craft (Up to Grade 6)
Sunday, February 10, 2024 | 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Allied Gardens/Benjamin Library

SDCHM presents Family Night Chinese Calligraphy!
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | 5 p.m. - 6  p.m. | San Ysidro Library
Limit 15 participants.

The Art of Chinese Calligraphy (Ages 12+)
Thursday, February 15, 2024| 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. | Carmel Valley Branch Library
Limit 15 participants.

Chinese Zodiac Craft
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 | 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. | Mira Mesa Library

Chinese Pioneers: Power and Politics in Exclusion Era Photographs
Friday, February 4, 2024 – Saturday, March 30, 2024 | Hours of Operation | Linda Vista Library
Chinese Pioneers: Power and Politics in Exclusion Era Photographs presents a visual history of the social, political, and judicial disenfranchisement of Chinese Californians — as well as moments of Chinese agency and resilience — in the decades before and after the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

OnView: Journeys by John Chang
Monday, January 8, 2024 - Monday, March 4, 2024 | Hours of Operation | Central Library, 2^nd Floor Display
John Chang dreams in many worlds. In his new works, people come and go; yet no one is seen. The migrators leave their shadows in the air and their marks on the sidewalks. Their words and echoes float through storms of sharp, black fragments flying in all directions. Chang's East/West identity enriches his memory and brings flashbacks from lives lived in many places. By invoking calligraphic forms, Chang comments on the distortion of language, yet also reclaiming the energy of the written word. Chang is especially interested in making and unmaking meaning with the combination of word and image — particularly in this age of digital communication.