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A dancing dragon on Market Street during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (Photo by Dan Hernandez\/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) <\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco\u2019s Chinese New Year Parade<\/a> will roll through the city Saturday, featuring marching bands, cultural performances and a stream of elaborate floats.<\/p>\n The 2026 celebration marks the Year of the Fire Horse.\u00a0<\/p>\n How to watch the Chinese New Year Parade <\/p>\n KTVU FOX 2 will be at Saturday’s parade and bring the festivities live on FOX LOCAL<\/a>, YouTube <\/a>and ktvu.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Check back here on Saturday around 5 p.m. when the parade begins.\u00a0<\/p>\n We’ll have a live look at the parade from 3rd and Market streets in San Francisco.<\/p>\n Local perspective:<\/p>\n Earlier this week, KTVU’s Jana Katsuyama got a look at the preparations<\/a>, and artists putting the finishing touches on their floats and sculptures.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m just the painter guy. I make things look beautiful. I do pretty blends and blend colors and make things look sparkly,” artist Derrick Shavers said, with a laugh on Tuesday.<\/p>\n It takes a stable of artists from The Parade Guys to create the floats, and the team was racing to meet the Friday deadline.<\/p>\n “Maybe hundreds of pounds of glitter that you\u2019re going to see on parade this weekend,” said Stephanie Mufson, owner of The Parade Guys. “We have 16 floats this year. We\u2019re in the final crunch moments for a lot of them.”<\/p>\n Artists share challenges <\/p>\n Mufson said the Year of the Horse theme has posed unique challenges, especially for lead sculptor Lacey Bryant, who creates the rearing horse statues.<\/p>\n “She expressed the difficulty of making all of these guys stand on their hind legs,” Mufson said. “It\u2019s kind of a feat of gravity and really playing with physics.”<\/p>\n Shop manager Christian Barraza said the team focused on even the smallest details, including differences in horse breeds.<\/p>\n “I carved 12 pairs of legs for the inside of the horse, and each one of them had a different consistency because they\u2019re different kinds of horses and each horse has different musculature,” Barraza said. “It was a little insane.”<\/p>\n That attention to detail, artists say, transforms the towering equine sculptures into sparkling symbols of good fortune and prosperity.<\/p>\n For Shavers, the Year of the Horse carries special meaning. Born in a previous Year of the Horse, he considers 2026 his lucky year.<\/p>\n “This is my year!” he said.<\/p>\n Mufson said the parade has rebounded to about 80% of its pre-pandemic scale.<\/p>\n While tariffs have increased the cost of materials this year, she said the team remains focused on delivering a memorable celebration.<\/p>\n “That\u2019s our job \u2014 to make magic out of what we have to work with,” Mufson said.<\/p>\n The artists hope to complete the floats by Friday night.<\/p>\n Chinese New Year<\/a>San Francisco<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A dancing dragon on Market Street during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,78427,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-208196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-chinese-new-year","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208196","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=208196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Artists](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9csyvkrzv4bxkolo.jpg\")
Year of the Fire Horse: Glitter and gravity-defying designs <\/p>\n![\"SF](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/xf9hxckbja8rw2d4.jpg\")
A lucky year for some <\/p>\n