巴尔的摩大灯笼游行10月24日下午登场 亚裔社区三支文化游行队伍亮相
10月24日下午4时，巴尔的摩大灯笼游行与亡灵节庆典在帕特森公园登场，活动免费，陶森大学亚裔艺术文化中心参与主办了其中的亚裔社区游行环节，雨天顺延至10月25日。
游行队伍包括柬埔寨、印度和日本三支文化游行队伍，展现各自的传统服饰、音乐与舞蹈。下午4时至7时，亚裔艺术文化中心在现场设帐篷，邀请公众一起制作日本盂兰盆灯笼。
活动还包括儿童服装比赛、快闪表演和艺术手工艺市集，游行本身于晚7时开始。这场庆典由创意联盟与帕特森公园之友联合制作，亚裔艺术文化中心是合作伙伴之一。主办方表示，灯笼游行既是秋季社区聚会，也是不同族裔文化在同一条游行路线上相遇的舞台，巴尔的摩的亚裔社区每年都借此向全市展示自己的文化传统，现场市集与亲子活动也吸引了众多家庭参与。
来源：GSM·美国
Baltimore Great Lantern Parade Opens on the Afternoon of October 24, With Three Asian Community Cultural Parade Groups
At 4 p.m. on October 24, the Baltimore Great Lantern Parade and Día de los Muertos celebration opened at Patterson Park. The event was free, and Towson University’s Asian Arts & Culture Center helped present the Asian community parade portion, with a rain date of October 25.
The parade featured three cultural groups from Cambodia, India and Japan, showcasing their traditional dress, music and dance. From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., the Asian Arts & Culture Center hosted a tent on site, inviting the public to make Japanese Obon lanterns together.
The event also included a children’s costume contest, pop-up performances and an arts and crafts market, with the parade itself beginning at 7 p.m. The celebration was produced jointly by Creative Alliance and Friends of Patterson Park, with the Asian Arts & Culture Center as one of the partners. Organizers said the lantern parade was both a fall community gathering and a stage where cultures of different communities meet along the same parade route, and that Baltimore’s Asian community uses it each year to share its cultural traditions with the whole city, while the market and family activities also drew many families.
Source: GSM News
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图片来源：巴尔的摩帕特森公园宝塔，灯笼节巡游的举办地。图片经 Wikimedia Commons。The Patterson Park Pagoda in Baltimore, home of the lantern parade. Via Wikimedia Commons.
