Qin Lin, left, and Mary Kelly sing and play "Xinnian hao" (Happy New Year) in Mandarin at the Chinese New Year celebration on Sunday in the legislative assembly building. Blair McBride/NNSL photos
Yellowknifers welcomed the Year of the Rat with music, dance, food and martial arts for its Chinese New Year celebration on Sunday in the legislative assembly building.
This was the fifth year in a row that a public Chinese New Year celebration was held, as Karen Johnson, one of the organizers with the planning committee told Yellowknifer.
Lincoln Huynh, left, and Vinh Bui do a little dragon dance.
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About 200 people gathered for the event, slightly down from the 265 people who attended last year, according to security officers in the building.
Saad Arshad, left, along with fellow karate students, Kai Shimada, Victor Lumacad, Vincent Lumacad and Matthew Bui from the Yellowknife Wado Karate Club stand with their staffs (known as SA国际影视传媒渂angSA国际影视传媒� in Mandarin and SA国际影视传媒渂oSA国际影视传媒� in Japanese) as their karate demonstration begins.Luke Bui, left, Victor Lumacad, Kai Shimada, Matthew Bui and TingBai Lui perform an exercise.Victor Lumacad, left, defends himself against Vincent Lumacad in a demonstration.TingBai Lui, left, holds a board along with Matthew Bui, as Victor Lumacad punches the board, while Head Instructor Patrick Clancy watches.Oyuka Bernabe performs a traditional Mongolian dance.Diana Mathisen, left, Teresa Watson, Pam Schlosser, Jane Romanowich, Kim Pon Weir, Constantina Tsetsos, Andrea Pellerin, Lois Little and Dawn Collins, all members of the Northwest Territories Yellowknife Branch of the Canadian Tai Chi Academy demonstrate the motions of the moving form of meditation, which originated in China. Photo courtesy of Kim Pon WeirMembers of the Filipino community perform the Tinikling Dance using bamboo poles. The dance is an artistic imitation of the tikling bird's movements as it walks through rice fields and dodges bamboo traps set by farmers.All performers at the event pose in the lobby of the legislative assembly.Lincoln Huynh, left, and Vinh Bui do a little dragon dance.Saad Arshad, left, along with fellow karate students, Kai Shimada, Victor Lumacad, Vincent Lumacad and Matthew Bui from the Yellowknife Wado Karate Club stand with their staffs (known as SA国际影视传媒渂angSA国际影视传媒� in Mandarin and SA国际影视传媒渂oSA国际影视传媒� in Japanese) as their karate demonstration begins.Luke Bui, left, Victor Lumacad, Kai Shimada, Matthew Bui and TingBai Lui perform an exercise.Victor Lumacad, left, defends himself against Vincent Lumacad in a demonstration.TingBai Lui, left, holds a board along with Matthew Bui, as Victor Lumacad punches the board, while Head Instructor Patrick Clancy watches.Pam Schlosser, left, Teresa Watson, Diana Mathisen, Kim Pon Weir, Dawn Collins, Jane Romanowich and Andrea Pellerin, all members of the Northwest Territories Yellowknife Branch of the Canadian Tai Chi Academy demonstrate the motions of the moving form of meditation, which originated in China.Members of the Filipino community perform the Tinikling Dance using bamboo poles. The dance is an artistic imitation of the tikling bird's movements as it walks through rice fields and dodges bamboo traps set by farmers.All performers at the event pose in the lobby of the legislative assembly.Qin Lin, left, and Mary Kelly sing and play "Xinnian hao" (Happy New Year) in Mandarin at the Chinese New Year celebration on Sunday in the legislative assembly building. Blair McBride/NNSL photosDiana Mathisen, left, Teresa Watson, Pam Schlosser, Jane Romanowich, Kim Pon Weir, Constantina Tsetsos, Andrea Pellerin, Lois Little and Dawn Collins, all members of the Northwest Territories Yellowknife Branch of the Canadian Tai Chi Academy demonstrate the motions of the moving form of meditation, which originated in China. Photo courtesy of Kim Pon Weir
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