{"id":173850,"date":"2026-02-11T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173850\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:31:07","slug":"an-east-bay-shopping-center-is-turning-into-party-central-for-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173850\/","title":{"rendered":"An East Bay Shopping Center Is Turning Into &#8216;Party Central&#8217; For Lunar New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMERYVILLE, CA \u2014 The Bay Street Emeryville shopping center is turning into the East Bay&#8217;s Lunar New Year Party Central next week. <\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s festivities will take place on Friday, Feb. 20, from 4 to 7 p.m. It&#8217;ll feature a variety of showcases and events, including dragon dancers, lion dancers and live calligraphy demonstrations. <\/p>\n<p>UC Berkeley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/calwushu.com\/\" class=\"first\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calwushu<\/a> club, which practices traditional Chinese martial arts with acrobatics, will also be in attendance to kick off &#8220;The Year Of the Horse.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/chinesenewyear.net\/zodiac\/horse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese astrology<\/a>, the horse is confident, responsible, yet free. It encourages taking risks, traveling and pursuing goals. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Symbolizing strength, freedom, and progress, this year is all about embracing new possibilities and bold momentum \u2014 and this celebration captures that spirit,&#8221; according to Bay Street&#8217;s Lunar New Year organizers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EMERYVILLE, CA \u2014 The Bay Street Emeryville shopping center is turning into the East Bay&#8217;s Lunar New Year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-173850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}