Photo by Cristina EduardoThe Lunar New Year celebration, the most significant for our Vietnamese neighbors, is approaching.
“Tet In Boston” is an annual Vietnamese New Year Festival organized by the Vietnamese-American Community of Massachusetts and the Intercollegiate Vietnamese Student Association that every year attracts over 5,000 attendees and over 80 vendors, according to its organizers.
At the festival, attendees will enjoy traditional Vietnamese music, performances, a pageant show, photo booths, games, food, and more. This year marks the 31st annual Tết festival. It will take place at the Boston College High School (150 Morrissey Blvd, Dorchester, MA 02125) on Sunday, February 16th, from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM and is free to the public.
The Vietnamese-American Community of Massachusetts, located in Dorchester’s Fields Corner area, has the highest population density of Vietnamese people in the United States, the organization claims.
Tết, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. The word is a shortened form of Tết Nguyên Đán, which is Sino-Vietnamese for “Feast of the First Morning of the First Day.” Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese calendar, and this new year coming is the year of the rat.
For more information and to RSVP, the Dorchester Post invite you to visit the organizers’ official Facebook page here.
