2025 Tết Nguyên Đán (Vietnamese Lunar New Year)
2025 Tết Nguyên Đán (Vietnamese Lunar New Year)
The 2025 VHC Tết Nguyên Đán (Lunar New Year) Festival will be on Sunday, February 2.
VHC is proud to be hosting our annual Tết Nguyên Đán (Lunar New Year) Festival. This year we invite you to celebrate this special day with us on Sunday, February 2.
To accommodate high demand, we have moved to a large, professional event and festival space in Williamsburg this year. Please note: NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR. We will only admit guests with tickets purchased via our website.
We appreciate your support over the years and look forward to welcoming you to our 2025 Tết festival!
*DETAILED ITINERARY TO FOLLOW*
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⏰ DATE: Sunday, February 2 @ 12:30 to 3:30 PM
📍LOCATION: The Chocolate Factory
70 Scott Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237
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🔸 Adults: $22 (Early bird $20)
🔸 Students*: $17 (Early bird $15)
🔸 Children (age 3-13): $11 (Early bird $10)
🔸 Children (age 2 and under): FREE
🔸 Family Pass**: $50 (Early bird $45)
*Student identification must be presented for admission.
**Family pass includes 2 adults and 2 children (3-13 years old) at a discounted price. Worth up to $66.
All tickets include a meal and beverage. Additional food and drink items will be available at dedicated food stalls.
EARLY BIRD PRICING ENDS SUNDAY 1/12. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
Known as Tết Nguyên Đán in Vietnamese, the Lunar New Year celebrates the spring equinox and the beginning of a new lunar calendar year.
2020 VHC Lunar New Year Celebration, New-York Historical Society
Photography: Hiệp Vũ
ABOUT THE VIETNAMESE LUNAR NEW YEAR
The Lunar New Year (Tết Nguyên Đán, often shortened to Tết) is the biggest national holiday in Vietnam and celebrates the arrival of spring and the first day of the new lunar year. Vietnamese citizens take off work and school for 1-2 weeks and participate in a variety of special activities, such as preparing bánh chưng and bánh dày - two traditional dishes steeped in legend - and paying respects to ancestors, visiting neighbors with gifts and well-wishes, giving lucky money (lì xì), and beginning new endeavors. Peach and apricot trees are decorated with lucky trinkets and ornaments, homes are given a thorough spring cleaning, and outstanding debts are paid off. To ring in the new year, fireworks will go off at midnight, and there will often be parades, performances, and fun activities in the city center for community members to enjoy.