Nevada City Chinese Lunar New Year Parade and Festival

Start: Sunday, March 1, 2026 12:00PM
End: Sunday, March 1, 2026 5:00PM

The community parade begins at 12:00 noon from the bottom of the Chinese Quarter on Commercial Street (Robinson Plaza) in Nevada City, where revelers may line up. After the Lion Dancing outdoor performance on Spring Street, more entertainment, exhibits, and fun will take place inside the Miners Foundry beginning at 1:00 p.m. Free admission. We thank the Miners Foundry, the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, the City of Nevada City, and the Nevada City Arts Council for their collaboration. Our parade Grand Marshals are Susan Levitz and Pascale Fusshoeller, founders of YubaNet.com, who have been staunch supporters of CATS and a great asset and news source to the community. Parade units include the audience favorite -- Chinese ceremonial Lion Dancers and a 72’ Chinese Dragon from Eastern Ways Martial Arts of Sacramento -- second and third graders from Bell Hill Academy, “Mulan,” (aka Lily Emmolo), members of Grass Valley Aikikai martial arts, theatre groups, and other community entries. Food vendors at the Miners Foundry are Kaliko’s Hawaiian Kitchen and Gold Rush Cookies. There will be Asian-themed arts and crafts and gifts for sale, a kid’s table, mahjong, a new children’s Chinese New Year book launch and sale by Allison Chan, face painting with Chinese horoscope tattoos, Chinese tea ceremony demonstrations, Rose Murphy from the Nevada County Historical Society promoting free self-guided historic walking tours of the Grass Valley and Nevada City Chinatowns, Lisa Redfern and Rose Murphy showing their film, "Chinese Family Stories - From Exclusion to Pillars of the Community," community vendors and more. We are seeking parade entries, entertainers, vendors, exhibitors, sponsors, and lots of volunteers. Contact Jeannie Wood at info@catsweb.org