City comes alive with lions, dragons, funfair rides and street food goodies 

Thousands of visitors flocked to Southside and beyond for the city’s Chinese New Year Festival, a free family extravaganza co-produced by Birmingham Chinese Festival Committee and Birmingham Hippodrome. The city came alive with lion and dragon processions in partnership with Bullring & Grand Central, pop-up lion dances in the Arcadian and street food, funfair rides and a craft market in Southside. The festival was sponsored by Uber Eats and supported by Southside District, the Arcadian, Wing Yip and Brothers Foundation and Birmingham Chinese School. The Saturday programme was in partnership with Bullring & Grand Central.

Captions:

1 Wyxpi Dance Collection Studio

2 Pinyan Lin Chinese Instrument Ensemble

3 OCAS Overseas Chinese Association Schools

4 Kaleidoscope Performing Arts

5 Dans Dance, Face Changer

6 Visitors enjoyed face painting at the festival

7 Taking part in the Spring Roll Eating Competition sponsored by Uber Eats