January 25, 2025
1 - 6 p.m.
Get excited as we host our second annual Santa Ana Tết (Lunar New Year) Festival, hosted in collaboration by the Santa Ana Parks, Recreation & Community Services Agency and the Santa Ana Public Library. Come together and celebrate the year of the snake with us during this free family-friendly event. Stay tuned for additional information. The Tết (Lunar New Year) Festival will commemorate our community’s Asian and Vietnamese cultures and become a new large-scale event on the City’s calendar. Save the date.
This event is rain or shine! Get ready to enjoy a day of cultural celebration featuring:
- Cultural performances and exhibits
- Live entertainment (lion dance and dragon dance)
- Dancing
- Food vendors
- Library lane and resources
- Kids zone
- And a fireworks show at 5:45 p.m.!
- *Weather permitting
Main stage event scheduele
| 1 – 1:15 p.m. | Shaolin Martial Arts |
| 1:20 – 1:35 p.m. | Yo-yo performance |
| 1:40 – 1:55 p.m. | Vietnamese Artists Friendship Development Center |
| 2:00 – 2:05 p.m. | Introduce the Magician Naathan Phan to do a strolling magic with the audience |
| 2:05 – 2:15 p.m. | Songs: Auld Lang Syne and Spring & Youth |
| 2:20 – 2:35 p.m. | Thien An Performing Arts with Drum performance |
| 2:40 – 2:55 p.m. | Dignitaries |
| 3:00 – 3:10 p.m. | Acrobat performance |
| 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Viet Cam Dance |
| 3:35 – 3:45 p.m. | TaiChi demonstration by TaiChi Yang 24 |
| 3:50 – 4:00 p.m. | VS Music |
| 4:05 – 4:20 p.m. | Chinese Orchestra by Galaxy Arts Performance |
| 4:25 – 5:10 p.m. | Variety show by DeMille Language Academy - Vietnamese Culture Club |
| 5:15 - 5:45 p.m. | Lion Dance and Dragon Dance by Qing Wei |
| 5:45 - 6:00 p.m. | Fireworks show (weather permitting) |
Library stage event scheduele
| 1:15 – 1:55 p.m. | Professor Tri C. Tran |
| 2 – 2:40 p.m. | Elizabeth Ai |
| 2:50 – 3:30 p.m. | Carolyn Huynh |
| 3:35 – 4:15 p.m. | Christine Vo |
| 4:20 – 5 p.m. | Trinity Nguyen |
*Times and performances are subject to change.
City of Santa Ana Anaheim Ducks night
Celebrate the Lunar New Year and the City of Santa Ana with the Anaheim Ducks on February 4, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.! All City of Santa Ana employees and residents can enjoy savings on game tickets by visitng AnaheimDucks.com/SantaAnaLunarNY. Be among the first 10,000 fans in attendance at the game to receive a FREE Year of the Snake t-shirt!
Can't make it to the Lunar New Year game? Don't worry a second City of Santa Ana Ducks night game will be taking place on March 7, 2025 at 7 p.m., get your discounted tickets here AnaheimDucks.com/SantaAna.
Please email Angel at ADelVal@AnaheimDucks.com to receive special rates for groups of 10 or more fans.
Parking
On-site event parking is available at no cost. Parking lot access points are located on the cross streets of Centennial Road and South Fairview Street & the cross streets of Edinger Avenue and South Mohawk Drive.
Applications
- Please note food vendor and exhibitor/vendor applicaitons will open on December 9, 2024 at 9 a.m. and close on January 8, 2025 at 5 p.m.
- Please note that filling out the inquiry form does not guarantee a spot in our events.
- For any additional questions after the application period, please contact our Special Events team at specialevents@santa-ana.org.
Thank you to our sponsors and partners for making the
2025 Tết (Lunar New Year) Festival possible!
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