Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville was founded in 2012 to promote the awareness and enjoyment of Chinese visual and performing arts through dance productions, educational workshops and exhibitions for adults and children. They will host the Chinese New Year Celebration at Centennial Park Musician’s Corner this Saturday. The free, family-friendly event welcomes the community to a discovery and celebration of Chinese culture.

“Nashville today is very different when we first moved in,” founder of Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville Jen-Jen Lin said. “We have a lot of newcomers bring all kinds of richness of their own arts and culture. I’m a trained dancer and choreographer, I want to use my discipline and my art to connect people and to promote Chinese-American arts and culture.”

“We feel that hands-on experience is how we like to promote the Chinese art culture for total understanding and appreciation, and the joy for the art of the Chinese American tradition. I feel the art and tradition that we present is universal. You don’t have to be Chinese to celebrate this. It’s all about good intention and it’s about connection. It’s not just about Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, it’s about the community get together. This year we focus on horse. Horse has a lot of energy, and charging forward and graceful at the same time. Last year was snake year, we are peeling scale of the snake and charging forward to success.”

Additional event opportunities:

Tonight (Feb 18) Runo Plum performs at Cannery Hall’s Row One Stage. Billy Strings performs on two nights at Bridgestone Arena Friday (Feb 20) and Saturday (Feb 21) and also on Saturday the For the People Improv show is at the Darkhorse Theater. Sunday night (Feb 22) Robert Glasper is at City Winery and on Monday night (Feb 23) Samm Henshaw is at Basement East. We wrap up this week’s listings Tuesday (Feb 24) with Jesse Wells at the Ryman.