{"id":6113,"date":"2026-01-12T15:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:46:50","slug":"afc-lunar-new-year-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/afc-lunar-new-year-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Lunar New Year 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script \n  src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAcLmfZNFdW1JD8wENRezznw1e0YHPOKIF5wZpVp5_9QTSo0heXV_YHTRUPxEC6zlHkvfUal7URTPJZ94&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;enable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=USD\">\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Asians and Friends Chicago&#8217;s annual Lunar New Year Dinner and Performance returns as the city&#8217;s only established LGBTQ gathering to celebrate the coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Date: Sat., March 7, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furama Restaurant, 4936 N. Broadway in Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cost: $60 at the door (online presale ended as of 3\/6, but we do have walk-in tickets available)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the Year of the Horse, so expect a few galloping numbers in the annual musical review. We&#8217;ll be returning to Furama in Uptown, with several courses of delicious Cantonese and Mandarin cuisine. Cash bar. Tickets are on sale below! Happy new year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AFC-Year-of-the-Horse-Digital-Web-Social-Media-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AFC-Year-of-the-Horse-Digital-Web-Social-Media-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AFC-Year-of-the-Horse-Digital-Web-Social-Media-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AFC-Year-of-the-Horse-Digital-Web-Social-Media-100x150.png 100w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AFC-Year-of-the-Horse-Digital-Web-Social-Media-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AFC-Year-of-the-Horse-Digital-Web-Social-Media-1024x1536.png 1024w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AFC-Year-of-the-Horse-Digital-Web-Social-Media-1365x2048.png 1365w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AFC-Year-of-the-Horse-Digital-Web-Social-Media-scaled.png 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"paypal-container-YEFQVC7M992YA\"><\/div>\n<script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"YEFQVC7M992YA\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-YEFQVC7M992YA\")\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asians and Friends Chicago&#8217;s annual Lunar New Year Dinner and Performance returns as the city&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6180,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions\/6180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}