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SF’s 2025 Lunar New Year Snake Statue “Parade” (Jan. 18 – Mar. 2)

Sunday, March 2, 2025 - All Day | Cost: FREE
Union Square Park | Geary and Powell, San Francisco, CA

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SF’s 2025 Lunar New Year Snake Statue “Parade” (Jan. 18 – Mar. 2)

January 29, 2025, marks the first day of the Year of the Snake. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco proudly presents this year’s Zodiac on Parade featuring the Snake. The public art project, which was introduced in 2021, will display two Snake Statues in San Francisco at Union Square and Thrive City from January 18, 2025 through March 2, 2025.

The Snake Statues spotlight artwork that reflects upon the culture, people, and traditions surrounding the Chinese New Year. Thank you to our sponsor Golden State Warriors for making this project come to life!

Find all our Snake Statues

Want to plan your route to find all the Snakes? View all of the locations at once in Google Maps here!

Snake Statue Artists

Stephanie Tsao

Artist Bio: Stephanie Tsao

Stephanie Tsao is an award-winning Chinese-Japanese-American artist who was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She designed the 2024 “Heavenly Race Dragon” featured at Thrive City, 2023 “Prosperity Rabbit” installed in front of the Asian Art Museum, the 2022 “Wealth and Health Tiger” displayed in Portsmouth Square, and the 2021 “Happy 牛 Year” ox statue featured at San Francisco International Airport. She was also commissioned by the City of Sunnyvale to create art around the city and has had a photograph featured by National Geographic. For more of Stephanie’s work follow her at www.instagram.com/viviandlivy/.

Artist Bio:  Deyi (Robin) Zhao

Deyi (Robin) Zhao was born in Jilin, China, and came to the US when she was 9 years old. Her grandmother, Yumei Hou, worked as the main carver for the SF Chinese New Year statues and her father worked building floats. Robin grew up helping paint and decorate the floats and loved seeing all the objects for the floats come together piece-by-piece. She continues to be excited to contribute to this public art project and have her piece displayed in the city.

Being surrounded by both traditional art forms and new digital media, Robin has developed a keen eye for art and design. In addition to her years of working on Parade Floats, at the young age of 21 she has also taught various arts and crafts classes to children and adults, interned at YouTube, and is now in her third year of college at the California College of the Arts. For more of Robin’s work follow her at instagram.com/robby_bobbin.

Robin Comcast

 

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Cost: FREE
Categories: **Annual Event**, *Top Pick*, Downtown San Francisco, Fairs & Festivals, In Person, Kids & Families, Lunar New Year, Outdoors
Address: Geary and Powell, San Francisco, CA

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