Winter Lantern Competition lights up Queens County Farm Museum – QNS.com

The Queens County Farm Museum lit up like Occasions Sq. on Friday, Dec. 2, with native politicians flipping the swap to light up tons of of artisan-made lanterns for the second New York City Winter Lantern Festival.

Jennifer Weprin, government director of the Queens County Farm, welcomed Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and State Senator John Liu to the grand illumination of the lantern competition dropped at the farm by Kaleido Arts & Leisure Group.

Haokun Liu, who produces the competition as a associate at Kaleido Arts & Leisure Group, defined that preparation for the competition begins six months prematurely.

“All the pieces right here is hand-made,” mentioned Liu. “We’ve got over 100 artisans in China who make (the lanterns). Then we ship every thing right here from the Sichuan province and 23 artists journey from China to New York (to assemble the ultimate manufacturing).”

“We’ve got 4 totally different occasions within the New York space,” Liu added, “however Queens County Farm is certainly certainly one of our greatest occasions this 12 months.”

As households with younger youngsters and curious youngsters alike eagerly awaited the grand reveal, Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams praised the competition as a novel and rising custom for Queens.

“Guests from throughout town and past loved the artistic and revolutionary exhibit,” Adams mentioned of the competition’s first 12 months. “It’s really a memorable expertise for everybody that’s now again by common demand for its second 12 months. The competition serves as an academic automobile by way of which guests can study Chinese language artwork and tradition. By means of this occasion, folks of all backgrounds have a chance to understand its significance and sweetness, and that’s what our Queens is all about.”

“The Chinese language custom of lantern making has been handed down from technology to technology, relationship again so far as the Han Dynasty,” Richards mentioned. “Because the world’s borough, we proudly embrace our wealthy variety and share our cultures and customs with one another. This occasion is an thrilling new manner for the Queens County Farm Museum to supply studying alternatives and to maintain guests coming to this website all winter lengthy.”

“Bringing the Winter Lantern Competition to a 325 year-old farm and preserving it for a model new technology of younger folks is an instance of the nice partnerships that make Queens so particular,” mentioned Adams. “I encourage all New Yorkers to come back by and test it out.”

For extra details about the Winter Lantern Competition, go to queensfarm.org/illuminate-the-farm.