The 2022 Fall Festival
On September 24th, 2022, Glow Cultural Center hosted the annual Fall Festival for the NYC community at Kissena Corridor Park, Flushing. The event was co-organized with New York City Council Member Sandra Ung, NYC Department of Parks, NYPD, FDNY, Glow Foundation, and CAAFC. Keeping the tradition of our previous Fall Festivals, the event was completely free and open to the public, with as much as five thousand people showing up throughout the afternoon to partake in the festivities.
Participants got to explore more than 60 booths set up by NYC organizations and businesses while enjoying 4.5 hours of diverse cultural performances in addition to free cotton candy, popcorn, and plenty of giveaways. The content of the performances were also extremely diverse. At the close of the festival, Glow Cultural Center awarded City Council-approved Volunteer Certificates to our youth volunteers.
The 2023 Lunar New Year Cultural Fair
On February 4th, 2023, Glow Cultural Center celebrated their 3rd Chinese Lunar New Year Cultural Fair & Live Performance. During the opening ceremony, a Lion Dance troupe livened up the streets of Flushing from Queens Public Library to our location on 41st Avenue, and Congresswoman Grace Meng, New York State Senator John Liu, and City Councilmember Sandra Ung paraded with them.
Hundreds of people from many parts of the NY metro area came to our Cultural Fair and celebrated the Lunar New Year traditions through our various cultural activities and unique giveaways, including sugar painting pieces, cute dough figurines, and tasty ‘Tanghulu’ treats. The live performance was also a great success, with over 70 kids from 6 different talent schools performing folk dance, Chinese recitals, Chinese Yo-yo, and Chinese traditional attire (Hanfu) runway show.
