A4 Celebrates Lunar New Year 2024

Lo Hei Celebration

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Lo Hei Celebration

Join us in celebrating the Year of the Dragon! This year, our annual Lo Hei event will take place at House of Joy on Monday, February 12 from 6:30-9pm. The evening will include an interactive Lo Hei ritual, dinner, drinks, and a raffle.

Lo Hei (or Yusheng), also known as a Prosperity Toss, is a Cantonese-style raw fish salad popularized in Singapore and Malaysia. For this communal ritual, each Lo Hei ingredient is introduced with a saying symbolizing a wish for the new year, culminating in all participants shouting wishes and tossing the ingredients with chopsticks—the higher your toss, the higher your fortune’s growth.

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Limited-Edition LNY Apparel

A4 is proud to present the fourth limited-edition design in our annual Lunar New Year series. Created by Sarula Bao, this year’s image celebrates the Year of the Dragon, widely considered to be a powerful and lucky sign. Please consider purchasing to support A4 and our mission of ensuring greater representation, equity, and opportunities for AAPI artists.

Sarula Bao is an illustrator, zine maker, and community organizer. Bao explains her thinking behind the dragon:

For this design I was inspired by Chinese knots, in particular, the Pan Chang or Endless knot, which is very commonly seen and associated with good fortune. I also love to play with shapes, so it felt like the perfect opportunity to have fun with the long, twisting form of the dragon, as well as echo the familiar imagery of the knot.

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Artists

Mic Nguyen

Lo Hei Host

Mic Nguyen is a writer, podcaster, and stand-up comedian living in Brooklyn. His stand-up has been featured on Netflix, and he was the opening act in Ronny Chieng’s special, “Speakeasy.” Mic’s writing can be found in McSweeneys, Esquire, and NBC News, and he’s contributed to NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me”. He’s co-host of the popular podcast “Asian Not Asian” where he discusses Asian American funny stuff like the PSAT and gold. He performs all over the country.

Hong-Ling Wee

Lo Hei Host

Dr. Hong-Ling Wee is a scientist-turned-artist whose work focuses on looking homeward to find extraordinariness in the ordinary. With installations ranging from 200 to 2000 sq. feet, Hong-Ling has exhibited in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Korea, China and Singapore. Her work has been featured in numerous international publications and her ceramics are in the permanent public collections of the National Gallery (Singapore), the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan), the Fule International Ceramic Art Museum (China) and the Guangxi National Art Center (China). In addition to her own artwork, Hong-Ling has also organized and produced an 11-day Singapore Arts Festival in NYC to celebrate Singapore’s fifty years of independence in 2015. Among her accolades is an award of Outstanding Achievement and Contribution to Community Empowerment from the Society of Foreign Consuls in New York City. Check out www.ceramicus.com for more information.

Sarula Bao

T-Shirt Designer

Sarula Bao is an illustrator, zine maker, and community organizer. She directs a small press and initiative, Endless Editions, as well as the Brooklyn Art Book Fair (BKABF).

Bao’s primary goals and practice are community creation and building by removing as many barriers of entry for artists as possible, fostering connections and providing space, platforms, resources and labor. Bao’s own narrative work and zine practice are an extension of these values and explore the personal and interpersonal effects of systems of oppression. She also loves working with fun fashion, queer subject matter, and playing around with elements of Chinese art, aesthetics and storytelling.

Her work has been featured on the cover of The New Yorker, and she has worked with clients such as Google, Apple, Facebook, New York Magazine, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many more.