Mid-Autumn Festival at the Chinese Canadian Museum
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with a weekend of family-friendly activities at the museum!
Date/Time: Sep 26 2026, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Vancouver, Chinese Canadian Museum51 E Pender Street,
Tickets
Cost: $18.00
Find tickets: here
This cherished Chinese holiday brings families together to share meals, enjoy mooncakes, light lanterns, and admire the full moon. Discover its traditions through storytelling, crafts, and food.
On Saturday, enjoy Mid-Autumn storytimes by Five Blessings Collective with performances in English and Cantonese of The Legend of the Whooshhh.
Join Chef Christopher Leow on Sunday for a family-friendly mooncake workshop and learn to make mango sticky rice and blueberry chocolate snowy mooncakes.
Drop in all weekend to sample mooncakes, craft a mooncake out of playdough clay, and make a Chinese knot to decorate your own Mid-Autumn Festival lantern at home!
Programs are complimentary, but museum admission is required.
*Snowy mooncake workshop is $40-$50/person + GST.
Schedule:
All day both days:
- Mooncake sampling by Sungiven Foods
- Chinese knot lantern tassel crafts
- Playdough mooncake crafts
Saturday:
- Mid-Autumn Storytime (English) with Five Blessings Collective – 11:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M.
- Mid-Autumn Storytime (Cantonese) with Five Blessings Collective – 1:30 P.M. to 2:30 P.M.
Sunday:
- Snowy mooncake workshop with Chef Christopher Leow (morning session) – 11:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M.
- Snowy mooncake workshop with Chef Christopher Leow (afternoon session) – 1:30 P.M. to 2:30 P.M.
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