The Mid-Autumn Festival is about more than lanterns, music, and fireworks. It’s about coming together, sharing culture, creating memories, and feeling a sense of belonging.

For the Nanaimo Chinese Cultural Society, this festival is one of the ways we bring our mission to life—creating opportunities for our community to experience, learn, and celebrate Chinese culture together.

But putting on a festival of this size takes a tremendous amount of work and resources.

Your donation helps us continue bringing a celebration of this scale—the largest of its kind in Canada—to our very own city, while keeping it free and accessible to our community.

Your support helps make the thousands of lanterns, cultural performances, activities, and spectacular fireworks finale possible. It also allows us to support local artists and performers, showcase more cultural traditions and talents, and develop new programs that preserve and share Chinese culture—including our very own lion dance and dragon dance teams.

Every contribution, big or small, helps us keep culture alive and accessible—not just for those who already know and cherish these traditions, but for the next generation and for everyone in our community who wants to learn, participate, and celebrate alongside us.

Help us keep the lanterns glowing, the traditions alive, and our community connected.

Donate today and be part of keeping this celebration going.

Thank you for celebrating with us. ❤️