Canberra celebrates Lunar New Year with thousands flocking to Dickson for Year of the Snake festivities

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The Year of the Dragon has flown by, and now it’s time to welcome the Year of the Snake. In Canberra, thousands flocked to Dickson to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

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00:00It's about honouring tradition. The Lunar New Year traditions go back hundreds and hundreds,

00:12thousands of years and it's so important that we stay connected to our culture, connected

00:16to each other, but bringing it in a way where it's contemporary now.

00:20From performers dancing away evil spirits...

00:23I think it's really cool and sometimes I think I want to do it when I grow up.

00:29...to extinguishing frustrations from the year before. Thousands of Canberrans looking

00:34to share in good fortune.

00:36Everybody's celebrating, everybody's happy, particularly we want to share the Chinese

00:42culture with Australians.

00:44Australia being such a big multicultural community, I think it's one of the things where people

00:50learn about each other and be more knowledgeable. It's not an age of ignorance anymore.

00:552025 is the year of the wood snake. This zodiac is considered as the most tenacious

01:01of the 12 signs, promising to bring transformation, joy and change. Those lucky enough to be born

01:07in the year of the snake are said to be enigmatic and uncanny.

01:11The snake behind us is a commissioned piece that was created by Kotoya Studios. Hiroshi

01:16Hiyamaguchi made this and it is the most useful testament to the year of the snake. What they

01:23did is they actually took wood from trees that had been cut down from properties around

01:28Canberra and recycled it and created it into this amazing statue.

01:32Welcoming the next chapter.

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