Craving a new voice in Peninsula dining?
Sign up for the Peninsula Foodist newsletter.Sign up now
Follow Palo Alto Online and the Palo Alto Weekly on Twitter @paloaltoweekly, Facebook and on Instagram @paloaltoonline for breaking news, local events, photos, videos and more.
How you can ring in the Year of the Ox in Palo Alto
Nonprofit WizChinese organizes dumpling making, fortune telling, red envelope giveaway and more
Uploaded: Fri, Feb 5, 2021, 6:59 am
Chinese New Year celebrations in Palo Alto won t be slowed down by the coronavirus in 2021. They re just moving to a different platform.
The traditional time for gathering, feasting and gift giving is moving online with a ZoomFair on Feb. 13, members of WizChinese, the nonprofit organizing the event, said. The event is co-sponsored by the Palo Alto Weekly, city of Palo Alto, Palo Alto Council of PTAs and Palo Alto Community Fund.
She has been collecting many of their colorful fabric designs over the more recent years to bring beauty and cheer into our lives, as we have been healing from the grief of losing my dad to lung cancer in 2014, she said.
Chuang has chosen other fabric designs from local artists, designers, and small business owners, and through Etsy and eBay, which she feels is extra important to support during the pandemic and recession.
One of the floral fabrics was designed by her close friend, Tatiana Martinez, whose designs and story as a breast cancer survivor inspire Chuang. She also uses fabric from socially conscious sources such as Collina Strada, a New York-based company that she admires for its artistic vision and the social causes the brand stands for, including support for Black and transgender artists, she said.