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During the Asian Students Alliance's Lunar New Year festival event on Feb. 7, a team crafted a lion head using a cardboard box and construction paper. SARAH CHEUNG/THE STATESMAN

ASA celebrates Lunar Festival event with Lunar New Year-inspired games

Sarah Cheung • February 25, 2024

The Asian Students Alliance (ASA) hosted a Lunar Festival for students at Stony Brook University to ring in the Lunar New Year. The event was held in the Stony Brook Union Ballroom on Feb. 7 from...

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The Mid Autumn Festival at the Jasmine food court in the Wang center.

SBU welcomes fall with Mid-Autumn Festival traditions

Sydney Riddle • September 18, 2022
The Mid-Autumn Festival, which took place on Sept. 10, was one of the first cultural events celebrated on campus. During this event mooncakes and harvest-based food were served at Jasmine, located at the Wang Center.
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My celebration of the Chinese New Year

My celebration of the Chinese New Year

Matthew Yan • February 19, 2018
Like western New Year’s celebrations, the Lunar New Year is both a time of reflection of the past year as well as a time of preparation for the future.
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A magician performed a face changing performance. The performers wear masks of different colors usually depicting well known characters from the Sichuan Opera. One of the faces the magician depicted included a fire-breathing skit. The technique used to change masks has been a guarded secret which has been passed down traditionally from generation to generation within theater families. MANJU SHIVACHARAN/ THE STATESMAN

Chinese New Year celebrated at Wang Center

Manju Shivacharan • February 10, 2016
To ring in the Chinese New Year, the Confucius Institute at Stony Brook hosted a New Years Celebration at the Charles B. Wang Center on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016.
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Many international students studying at Stony Brook do not travel home for Thanksgiving. (SARA SUPRIYATINO/THE STATESMAN)

For international students, Thanksgiving can be a difficult time

Lisa Setyon-Ortenzio • December 1, 2013
Thanksgiving is the time of year when Americans gather with their families and/or friends to spend time together and celebrate the things for which they are thankful. It is a celebration that is embraced nationally with no religious connotations.
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Diwali burns bright and fast at Jasmine

Diwali burns bright and fast at Jasmine

Chris Woods • November 5, 2013
With roughly two weeks' notice, Stony Brook University celebrated Diwali, India’s “Festival of Lights” Monday night at the Charles B. Wang Center.
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