Tenderloin District
Larkin and Ellis St
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Festival: Performing Arts
The 12th Annual Vietnamese New Year’s Tet Festival of San Francisco: The Year of the Rat
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San Francisco Tet Festival 2007, Courtesy the Vietnamese Community Center of San Francisco
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Sunday Feb 3, 2008 (9:30am–6pm)
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January 1st may have passed, but the Tenderloin is still abuzz with New Year's cheer. The neighborhood's 12th annual Tet Festival — Vietnam's most celebrated holiday — honors the forthcoming cycle of the lunisolar calendar with a variety of cultural attractions. Pass out "lucky money," check out ceremonies and performances by local and international artists, or simply get a taste of traditional delicacies (there's more to it than Bánh mì, after all). Tet Nguyên Dán is an opportunity to look both forward and back, commemorating the roots of San Francisco's Vietnamese population as well as the generations to come.
