Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival
June 13th, 2013 by Mr. C
Last weekend was another fun-filled celebration on Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where gleeful culture clashes of immigrant Chinese rubbed elbows with the Jewish Community. The Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival has been an annual event for 13 years – created to celebrate these two cultures living side by side in harmony. For a $5 combo of an egg roll and an egg cream, you can get right down to the core of Chinese American – Jewish American eats!
(Steve Weintraub – Yiddish Dance Master)
(Michael Winograd and the Klezmer Orchestra)
The center of this outdoor/indoor joyous event took place on Eldridge Street between Canal & Division Street with the Eldridge Street Synagogue as the focal point for the celebrations. Festivities included musical performances by Michael Winograd and the Klezmer Orchestra, the Chinatown Senior Center folk orchestra, East River Ensemble of Mencius Society for the Arts, & Cantor Eric Freeman. Steve Weintraub provided the fun dance routines to move along to the Klezmer music! Cultural and language exchanges took place in the form of Chinese & Yiddish lessons while Mah Jong lessons and play took place on the street. Folk Art demonstrations in Jewish papercutting, scribal arts, Tzit Tzit tying, Chinese brush painting & calligraphy, & Chinese knot tying took place in the Eldridge Street Synagogue. Events targeted for the kids included face painting, yarmulke making, designing a chinese paper fan, & creating your own lion mask. Challah making and a Tea Ceremony rounded out the food demonstrations. A Peking Opera performance with a Face Changing routine anchored the day’s event.
(Yarmulke making)
(Yiddish lessons by Mark Sommerstein)
(Chinese Lessons by Julia Guo)
(Chinese knot tying by Cindy Qian)
(Tzit Tzit Tying by Susan Eisman Levitin)
(Chinese Tea Ceremony demonstration by Angel Chan)
(Cantor Eric Freeman)
(Hebrew scribal arts by Rabbi Zelig Mandel)
(Mah Jong)
(Face painting)
(Making lion masks)
(Challah making)
(Chinese brush painting and calligraphy)
(Chinese ensemble)
(Gigi Lee and Councilwoman Margaret Chen)
(Face Changing by Cao Zhen Jian of the Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company)
(Peking Opera)
(Klezmer Orchestra)
(Steve Weintraub leading the dance to Klezmer music!)
(Making an Egg Cream
Tags: egg rolls egg creams festival, lower east side
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June 17th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
this looks so fun!!
June 18th, 2013 at 5:11 pm
It was fun! you have to check it out next year!