Mid-Autumn Festival at the Museum
Date:
September 26 & 27, 2026 (Starting at 10 A.M.)
Location:
Chinese Canadian Museum
Cost:
Programs are complimentary, but museum admission is required.
*Snowy mooncake workshop is $40-$50/person + GST. Register here!
Schedule:
Saturday:
Mooncake sampling by Sungiven Foods – 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Chinese knot lantern tassel crafts – 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Playdough mooncake crafts – 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
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:
Mooncake sampling by Sungiven Foods – 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Chinese knot lantern tassel crafts – 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Playdough mooncake crafts – 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
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.
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with a weekend of family-friendly activities at the museum! 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!
These events will be conducted in English and Cantonese.
Celebration Partner:
Guest Speakers
Chef Christopher Leow
Christopher is a chef-educator, serial entrepreneur, and TV host with over a decade of experience in food and farming. He has worked in Chinese Fine Dining, Japanese Ramen, French and Italian kitchens. He uses food as a way to bring people together, sharing stories, memories, and lived experiences shaped by growing up in Southeast Asia as a Chinese Singaporean with Teochew heritage. His workshops centre on heritage dishes that carry meaning, sparking connection across cultures and generations.
Five Blessings
Five Blessings is a collective of five Chinese Canadian performance artists—Nancy Tam, Derek Chan, Robyn Jacob, Jasmine Chen, and Howard Dai—who create work across theatre, sound and music, movement, and performance. Made up of first- and second-generation settlers from Hong Kong and Taiwan, Five Blessings explores and celebrates the complexities of stories and traditions from the Chinese diaspora through song, audio plays, film, and stage works.
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