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Portland, OR – Snow hasn’t stopped us from ushering in the Year of the Pig in Downtown Portland! The annual Lunar New Year Parade and Celebration hosted by the Oregon Historical Society and the Portland Chinatown Museum will take place as planned today, Saturday, February 9, with a shortened parade route limited to Chinatown sidewalks.
The Oregon Historical Society will be open limited hours today, 12pm – 3:30pm, for the Lunar New Year performances taking place starting at 1pm. Admission is free to the Oregon Historical Society!
Schedule of Events:
11:30pm: Parade begins at 315 NW Davis Street
Shortened parade route map can be download here and is limited to Chinatown sidewalks
1:00pm: Festivities begin at the Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Avenue
1:00pm – 1:15pm Opening Remarks, National Anthem by Kylie Kamikawa
1:30pm – 2:00pm International Lion Dance
2:00pm – 2:30pm Chinese Friendship Association of Portland Fitness Dance Team
2:30pm – 3:00pm Lee’s Family Association Lion Dance
3:00pm – 3:30pm Oregon Hope Chinese School
About the Oregon Historical Society
For more than a century, the Oregon Historical Society has served as the state’s collective memory, preserving a vast collection of artifacts, photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, films, and oral histories. Our research library, museum, digital platforms & website (www.ohs.org), educational programming, and historical journal make Oregon’s history open and accessible to all. We exist because history is powerful, and because a history as deep and rich as Oregon’s cannot be contained within a single story or point of view.