Mid-Autumn Festival
Food for Thought: Mooncakes and the importance of reunion
Arts September 20, 2021By: Nancy La, News Editor While others anticipate fall as the time for pumpkin spice lattes, September brings me a whole different reason to be excited: the Mid-Autumn Festival. This year, it is on September 21. When I was growing up in Vietnam, the Mid-Autumn Festival was a big deal: kids running around on the streets with their own homemade lanterns (mine was Hello Kitty-shaped), pomelos being offered in shrines, and of course, a giant family dinner followed by the consumption of mooncakes. There are various explanations for the origins of the festival, and different southeastern countries have varying origin…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: Sept. 20–26
Arts September 19, 2021By: Sara Wong, Arts & Culture Editor So Damn Proud | Sept. 20, 22, 24 | $19 for students | Annex Theatre So Damn Proud is the opening production of Indigenous-led theatre company Holy Crow Arts. Written and directed by…
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