After taking a pandemic breather in 2021 and going virtual in 2022 the parade returns to the streets of Vancouver\u0027s Chinatown. Read more.
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Frank Huang, one of the parade’s organizers, says that as many as 80 teams, more than in pre-COVID years, have registered. These include teams of lion and dragon dancers and bands.Article content Quon figures he has been participating in the parade since he was 12. These days, he volunteers as a dragon and lion dance director at the Hon Hsing Athletic Club on Pender St. The club will have both a lion and dragon team in this year’s parade.“It’s like a sort of big, big, big carnival atmosphere where everyone knows each other, basically,” Quon says. “And we just do our part for the community.”Article contentThe lion costume is papier maché, “so it doesn’t take well in rainy weather.
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