Palo Alto's Gamble Garden hosts Lunar New Year Celebrations

On Feb. 10, the Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden hosted a Lunar New Year celebration as part of their Second Saturday series. The monthly events include different activities catered to families and children. Every February, they choose to spotlight the New Year festivities, sharing Chinese culture with the Palo Alto community.

This year’s event was free and open to the public, garnering a crowd of more than 500 attendees. Min Haeberle, an attendee, said the event was important as an introduction to Chinese culture and a celebration of diversity in the wider Bay Area.

“I really appreciate in [the] Bay Area, people really respect different type of culture[s]… Chinese culture has been really celebrated, even if they’re not Chinese,” said Haeberle.

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Rebecca-Ann Jattan

Rebecca double majored in Human Biology and Communication as an undergraduate at Stanford University. Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago, she sought to tell stories from the Caribbean and those of the diaspora in the United States. Over the past summer, she worked on the California Reporting Project's Community Law Enforcement Accountability Network. She hopes to broaden the scope of her journalism skills and subjects she covers during her time in the coterminal journalism master's program. Rebecca is excited to dive deeper into multimedia journalism. On campus, she is a part of Cardinal Calypso, a steelpan ensemble and the Caribbean Students Association.

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