Happy South and Southeast Asian New Year! | Significance & Community Events
A Brief Overview
Read & Watch
- Ugadi, Gudi Padwa | Importance & Significance
- Songkran | Thai New Year: From Ancient Origins to World’s Biggest Waterfight!
- Tamil New Year 2021: Puthandu date, history, importance & significance
- The Origins of the Thingyan Festival in Myanmar (Burma)
- Pohela Boishakh 2021: Bengali New Year date, history, importance & significance
- Traditions of Lao New Year
- Sri Lanka: Sinhala and Tamil New Year
- What is Khmer New Year? | Khmer New Year
‘New Year’ is called/pronounced
- ‘Pi Mai’ in Laotian
- ‘Songkran’ in Thai
- ‘Thingyan’ in Burmese
- ‘Chol Chman Thmey’ in Khmer
- ‘Pohela Boishakh’ in Bengali
- ‘Aluth Avurudda’ in Sinhala
- ‘Puthandu’ is observed by people in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka
- Other states in India: ’Vishu’ for people in Kerala, ’Bihu’ for people in Assam, ’Baishakhi’ in Punjab.
- Notably, states like Manipur, Tripura, Odisha, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, also celebrate on this day!)
- ‘Ugadi’ is observed by people in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka
- ‘Gudi Padwa’ is observed by people in Maharashtra and Goa
Community Events & Programming
- Join LTC Lowell, Enterprise Bank, and Cambodian American Literary Arts Association for their South & Southeast Asian New Year Celebration on April 14-16th at 6PM | Facebook Event Page
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Wednesday, April 14th – Celebration of food, music, and culture.
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Thursday, April 15th – Trivia Night | Zoom Registration
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Friday, April 16th – Storytelling Night | Zoom Registration
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- Join Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association for their programming for Khmer New Year. They’ve been sharing facts, storytelling, spotlighting Khmer restaurants and small businesses, updates in the community and have a handful of events to attend!
- Welcoming of the Khmer New Year Angel | April 13th @4:30PM EST
- Watch the Flag Rising held at Lowell City Hall | Wednesday, April 14th @10AM EST
- Khmer New Year Virtual Celebration Facebook Event Page | Saturday, April 17th @2PM EST
- Khmer New Year Car Parade Facebook Event Page | Friday, April 20th @5PM EST
- For programming, join the Telugu Association of Greater Boston for their Ugadi Celebration on Saturday, April 17th @5PM on their Facebook Page