You know it's not just
the start of a new month,
it's the start of a new year,
the year of the Tiger beginning
today and once a month,
access a free performing arts series.
Takes place at the Old
Globe's outdoor Copley Plaza.
Today's performances are all
about the year of the Tiger,
so joining us this morning,
the event Co.
Producer, Viet Gado,
along with Miss Tewdwr in the music director,
the Vietnamese.
Language school lakhon good
morning to both of you and happy
lunar good morning to both of you.
Good morning, Happy New Year.
Happy New year.
It's an exciting you happy New Year,
so we're glad to have you
on to talk all about it.
Let's start with UV etk tell
us about the new year,
how you celebrate.
Personally, my family is Vietnamese.
It's very closely tide to the Chinese
traditions as well, but eating,
I think eating is a really big part of any
culture and so I'm having a meal together.
I think for New Years in the United States,
a lot of people go to different
places and celebrate differently,
but we still have fireworks,
which is a big similarity.
And we do eat and we feast together.
So my mom and my and my
birthday are this month.
So we kind of did a combined thing this
past weekend because I have to work.
This week we did it early,
so that's a big deal.
We get red envelopes from the elders
and we call our family from around
the different parts of the world.
I have family still in Vietnam,
so we made sure to tell them
that we were thinking of them.
That's beautiful too.
I also want to ask you the same
question, how do you celebrate?
Yes, so my family we get together
and we have a meal together and then
for all the younger kids we give
them the red envelope so they're
always looking forward to that.
And then usually my mom would
spend a whole day in the in the
kitchen cooking all different kind
of Vietnamese food for us to eat.
So we love to go over there.
It sounds beautiful getting
together and just, you know,
sharing love with the people you care about.
I think that's beautiful and food.
Of course delicious food that you have.
So let's also talk about what's
happening at tonight at the old
Globes outdoor Copley Plaza.
You know this is open for everybody.
Right vodka?
It is and we actually timed it with
the Free Museum Tuesday 'cause we
just wanted to get more traction
with everything that happened since
pandemic and the xenophobia and
everything we wanted to bring.
A lot of Asian love to the Plaza
and this is the globe's first
time doing a lunar New Year event.
So today there's going to be a
lot of foot traffic and traffic
in general at the park,
so hopefully a lot of people
will be there just to share
in our cultural practices,
right? Yeah, the museum tickets
are half off for a lot of
people starting this February,
so you know, hopefully it brings
a lot of people out there.
Tell us what time.
The event will be taking place
in what people can expect.
So it goes from 5:30 till about 7:30.
There will be food there from
a vendor called House of Bao.
It'll be free samples until
we run out essentially.
Hopefully I mean if only we
can feed everybody, but we can.
And then we'll also have
performances for a lion and.
A dragon dance and then we'll have
a lock on school and I'll let
miss two talk about her school.
Yeah, but they'll be performing
and they'll educate the audience
about what the 12 animals mean.
They're seeing some traditional songs.
We do also have a CMC beyond me,
like she was my dentist when I was little.
I actually really care about her.
She's great, but she's become a dentist now,
but she still sings, and so she's a.
She's a local celebrity for sure,
and she'll be singing with us as well.
How wonderful.
So miss to hear the music director.
As Bianca just said.
The Vietnamese language school.
So tell us what you do there.
You know our kids really young
coming to you learning the language.
Uh, yes. So the Vietnamese school
like home is located in Mira Mesa and
we our goal is to teach Vietnamese
language and culture to Vietnamese
American youth so that they will have
confidence and pride in their heritage.
And then we encourage activism
and community service.
You know, for the community,
we're honored to be invited to the
Lunar New Year Access event tonight.
At the Old Globe Theatre and our
Vietnamese students typically is from
the ages of five up to 14 years old,
and today they're going to
be performing hip hop.
They're going to be performing
Vietnamese songs,
singing and dancing,
and they're going to do a play to tell
the history of the 12 animals are Zodiac,
and they will also work.
We put together a fashion show that include
students of different ages as well as
some of the parents will be participating,
so we're excited.
Well, Mr, this is a lot more than
learning the language, right.
There's so much culture that
you're teaching history.
Tell us why that's so important
to be able to share your
culture and your background.
Well, I feel that you know a lot of the
youth that is growing up in this environment.
They don't have the the heritage and
the understanding and a lot of them
as they grow older and have kids,
you know they want to have their kids
learn about the roots and our school.
What we believe is that you know,
we make it fun.
We make it interactive and the
students would actually enjoy
learning Vietnamese language.
You know, so we're very happy.
The students are very dedicated.
The parents you know.
They take them to language
school every Saturday, you know.
So they're also very dedicated and
they want their kids to learn about
their heritage and where they came
from and understand Vietnamese
right now. That's a beautiful thing.
I also hear you have a great voice,
so we want to give you a chance.
Thank you, sing us a little something today.
So miss to go ahead. Take it away,
all right so I'm gonna be
singing a song called Song Hub.
Mac is very popular new year
song alright I'm going to
be singing acapella song.
Man. Then
Sunday. In one we Hung Jam Song and Ming
Dong Sung sang Woo. Still yucky look.
Dogsong so and I have a sunburn.
Memang Chamnan Vang kept jumping on Sunday.
Samsung gang gang song.
So the song talks
about spring and the Lunar New Year.
It's coming and we all celebrate.
You know, with flowers,
and the birds are cheeping chirping.
Spring is coming.
Thank you, it was great to
have you on this morning
sharing your culture with us.
We appreciate it and acapella is not easy.
You did an amazing job.
Thank you. Thank you.