Asian Lunar Festival at Pembroke Pines

Today, we went to an Asian festival celebrating the Chinese new year at the River of Grass Arts Park in the Pembroke Pines Academic Village. It was the first time the group had organized this event. We were just in the regional library a few weeks ago when we saw this flyer so we decided to check it out. It was very low key and nothing much was happening until they started the show which is actually the only highlight of the event. There was a judo competition (not connected to the festival) in a nearby building so we watched that first until we decided to go back to the festival just before the show started. There were some vendors selling some knick-knacks and some food stuff but that's about it. Hopefully, by next year it will be more organized and truthfully more exciting.

The show is a mixture of different presentations from a few different Asian cultures, from sing and dance to martial arts. We left after the intermission since we were so hungry. The hot food vendor only got to the park some time after the show started but after leaving we just decided to go to Sweet Tomatoes for a late lunch/early dinner meal.

Some photos from the show.

Lion dance being done by young kids.

A group of 'lolas' doing a Filipino folk dance.

The Mayor of Pembroke Pines Mr. Frank Ortis with a 'Little Miss Something'

A Thai dance.

Japanese Taiko drummers.

Taekwando demo. A lot of kicking and breaking boards.

Looks like a Filipina girl to me and she was very good

This boy was incredible!

The grandmaster at 65 y.o. doing two nanchucks at the same time.