2018 Year of the Dog 'Students Day' to be Held at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center

New York City Lunar New Year 2018 Year of the Dog, a free, citywide, eight-day-long festival marking the Lunar New Year holiday, will hold its special "Students Day" on Friday, Feb. 16 from 10 am to 3 pm in the lobby of David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center in honor of the 1.1 million city public school students who get the Lunar New Year as an official school holiday.

Headlining "Students Day" is a 40-foot-long scroll of NYC's five boroughs inspired by China's most renowned painting and created by city schoolkids, who are being urged to create small artworks that will be inserted into the scroll by the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). The NYC Scroll will be on public display as an interactive art project at "Students Day."

Additional highlights include live performances and an interactive mass dance with audience participation by the National Dance Institute and China's Dancing into the Future program, a gallery exhibit of 150 award-winning children's artworks from a national contest in China conducted by CAFA, live performances by members of the New York Philharmonic and its Very Young Composers program, a message from Lang Lang and a live performance by Lang Lang International Music Foundation's Young Scholar Program, as well as a sugar painting demo, interactive arts and crafts, and so much more! Also, free tickets to the New York Philharmonic Lunar New Year Concert on Feb. 20 will be given to 100 lucky draw visitors.

For more info about "Students Day" and for the full schedule of events taking place across the city from Feb. 13-20 as part of New York City Lunar New Year 2018 Year of the Dog, please visit www.nyclunarnewyear.org.

New York City Lunar New Year 2018 Year of the Dog "Students Day"

Friday, Feb. 16

Session 1: 10 am to 12:15 pm

Session 2: 12:30 pm to 2:45 pm

Lobby of David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center (10 Lincoln Center Plaza)