Chinese New Year celebrations set to take place in Inverness
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Chinese New Year celebrations are set to take place in Inverness this week.
Scottish Highlands & Islands and Moray Chinese Association (SHIMCA) have planned an action-packed day on Tuesday 6, in order to bring in the year of the dragon.
It will also be made even more of an event as a film-crew from Edinburgh is coming to film the celebrations to be broadcast on Chinese television, to show how Chinese New Year is celebrated in Scotland.
Starting off at 9.30am the volunteers will visit Crown Primary school, Hilton and Kimmylies to perform the 'lion dance'. The team will then go through to Elgin and to Nairn to also perform the dance.
The main event will then start in Inverness at the bottom of Market Brae Steps at 5.30pm with the lion dance, followed by a parade down the High Street to the Town House.
Monica Lee-Macpherson, SHIMCA's chairwoman and trustee is looking forward to the celebrations. She said: "I am very excited about it all.
"The lion will stand and wake up and find food - the movement is mimicking looking for food and he will proceed along the High Street.
"The year of the dragon comes around every 12 years. It's a dragon roaring to bring the new good wishes and a roaring trade for the year ahead."
The event celebrations will culminate with a performance inside the Town House with a buffet also being put on. The depute Chinese consulate for Scotland will also be in attendance.
On Saturday 10, Yee's Hung Ga Kung Fu Academy, Inverness will be performing a traditional lion and dragon dance display and a shop blessing parade in Eastgate Shopping Centre from midday.
They will be raising money for Highland Action For Little Ones.
