Lan Su Chinese Garden

Catch a Koi! Plushie Shop
2025-08-30 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209
Saturdays, June 13 – August 31 | Noon – 2 PM

Grab a net and catch a new finned friend in this hands-on experience inspired by Jellycat and China’s current interactive shopping trend. Pick your perfect pal, weigh your catch, choose how to take it home, and enjoy your new plushie friend!

Catch and release: Free

Take your catch home: $20

Koi symbolize abundance, wealth, and determination in Chinese culture. Purchase your catch to bring home a playful reminder of their inspiring spirit.

*Activity available while supplies last

Blossom & Bounty: AANHPI Summer Market
2025-08-31 10:00 - 14:00 | Lan Su Annex, NW 3rd Avenue & NW Flanders Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209
This exciting new market highlights and celebrates the talents of local AANHPI artists, makers, creatives, chefs, cultural organizations, and more. Visit weekly for a fresh selection of plants, food, handmade goods, and other unique finds. Every Sunday also features live music and free activities like henna, face painting, and roller skating.

Come out and enjoy the only Sunday market in Old Town and the waterfront!

Floral Design Showcase
2025-11-07 10:00 - 16:30, 2025-11-08 10:00 - 16:30, 2025-11-09 10:00 - 16:30, 2025-11-10 10:00 - 16:30, 2025-11-11 10:00 - 16:30, 2025-11-12 10:00 - 16:30, 2025-11-13 10:00 - 16:30 | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209
November 7-13, 2025 | Free with admission or membership

The Chrysanthemum Floral Design Showcase returns to Lan Su this fall in partnership with PNW Florist Association. Don’t miss this crowd-favorite event with our biggest group of designers yet!

Discover stories of creativity and passion with stunning chrysanthemum displays crafted by more than 20 local floral designers. This year’s theme is inspired by Tao Yuanming’s timeless poem, Drinking Wine No. 5, evoking the beauty of quiet reflection amid autumn’s splendor. From interactive designs to larger-than-life installations, this is one bunch of flowers you have to see to believe!

Come see Lan Su bursting with florals this fall—free to enjoy with regular admission or membership.

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Presented in partnership with PNW Florist Association

Meet the 2025 Designers

Featured Designer: Annie Chen

Floral Sunshine“Chrysanthemum Chorus”

Annie discovered her passion for flowers in 2004 after designing a friend’s wedding blooms. With a music degree from the University of Oregon and a decade in HR and sales, she followed her entrepreneurial spirit to found Floral Sunshine in 2009 after training at the Floral Design Institute. When not arranging dahlias and peonies, Annie enjoys fishing for salmon, halibut, and crab.

Anna Arkhangelskaya IG: @Floralia.A“Portland‘s Noble Gentlemums”

Aroa CalvoCocobloom Designs“Blooming Bridges: A Floral Tributeto China and Oregon”

Ashley Ramona PreeceGlasshaus Gardens“Rhythm of Absent Love”

Callie Valente IG: @flowers.by.callie“Tidal”

Chelle DummerChelle Floral Design“Sacred Heart”

Chelsea WillisSweet Delilah Farm“Tea with Friends”

Ellen HansenMindful Flowers“Let Your Light Shine”

Emily BedientEmily Says Goodbye“Wuxing: Mù”

Emily JacquesThe Wild BluebellIG: @The_Wildbluebell“Hé Chéng 合成 Synthesis”

Emily ThompsonHazy Daisy Floral Company IG: @hazydaisyfloralco“Home”

I Li Hsiao“Cycle of Life”

Jayme Rabenberg Bloommonger“Smattering”

Jenny Shadley & Wade Hopkins“Gathering Chrysanthemums Under the Spruce”

Kim Foren Geranium Lake Flowers“Autumn’s Last Dance: A Chrysanthemum Symphony”

Kirstin GarberFloral Sunshine“Picking Chrysanthemums”

Lauren SayIG: @say_flwrks “Seasonal Suspense”

Linda GolaszewskiRooms in Bloom“Midnight for the Moonfisher”

Mailani SouzaMoss Agate Floral“Lún Huí 轮回 Circle of Renewal”

Michael MartinBlossom Bar“Autumn Reliquary”

Rynn Hildebrant Hildebrant Rynn Design“Ripples”

Thang NgoTango Florist“Deafening Silence”

Chrysanthemum Festival

From dazzling floral artistry to hands-on learning opportunities, Chrysanthemum Festival is one of Lan Su’s most anticipated annual celebrations—and an unforgettable way to experience the garden in fall.

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Make Your Own Chrysanthemum Wind Chime
2025-11-09 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-11-16 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-11-23 11:00 - 15:00 | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209
Add a touch of creativity to your garden visit! Stop by this drop-in craft station to design your own chrysanthemum-inspired wind chime to take home. This quick, hands-on activity is a fun way for families to make something beautiful together while discovering the meaning of chrysanthemums in Chinese art and poetry. No registration needed—just drop in and create!

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Floral Crown Demo with Annie Chen
2025-11-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209
Join our drop-in floral workshop and learn how to create your own wearable blooms using small chrysanthemum varieties. Known for their exceptional longevity, chrysanthemums often last much longer than the average flower. We’ll guide you through designing a beautiful floral crown — perfect for festivals, events, or simply adding a touch of floral flair to your everyday look. No experience needed — just come ready to get creative!

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Meet Featured Designer Annie Chen

Annie discovered her passion for flowers in 2004 after designing a friend’s wedding blooms. With a music degree from the University of Oregon and a decade in HR and sales, she followed her entrepreneurial spirit to found Floral Sunshine in 2009 after training at the Floral Design Institute. When not arranging dahlias and peonies, Annie enjoys fishing for salmon, halibut, and crab.

Meet Asian Santa
2025-12-06 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-07 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-13 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-14 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-20 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-21 11:00 - 15:00 | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209
Saturdays & Sundays, Dec. 6-7, 13-14, & 20-21 | 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Join us for a unique cross-cultural holiday experience! Take photos with Asian Santa, enjoy the festive atmosphere, and receive a blessing that carries both the brightness of the holiday season and the serenity of ancient Chinese aesthetics.

Cost: $5 per group of 6 people, $10 for 7-12 people, $15 for 13-19, etc. Regular garden admission is also required for each person in the group.

Dongzhi: A Chinese Holiday Party
2025-12-12 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-13 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-19 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209
Celebrate Dongzhi (冬至, the Winter Solstice) with a dazzling lion dance, live music, and hands-on fun. Explore the activities below, then grab your tickets for a night of festive fun among the holiday lights!

Tickets | Dongzhi: A Chinese Holiday Party

Lan Su Member – $10.95

General – $22.95

General Child (ages 5 and younger) – FREE

EBT Cardholder – $10.95. Limited availability only at Lan Su Ticket Booth. Show your EBT Card to purchase. Up to 4 tickets per cardholder.

Dec. 12

Dec. 13

Dec. 19

Dec. 20

*Note: Each paid ticket includes a $0.95 service fee

Activities

Roar of Winter: Illuminated Lion Dance Performance

Fridays & Saturdays, Dec. 12-13 & 19-20 | 6:00-6:40 PM

On a calm winter night, a magical, powerful, and graceful lion comes to life at Lan Su, dancing among the shimmering holiday lights. Come experience the breathtaking illuminated lion dance—where radiance, strength, and beauty meet in celebration!

Melodies of Winter Cheer

Fridays & Saturdays, Dec. 12-13 & 19-20 | 5:00-6:00 PM

Relax in the joyful atmosphere of classic Christmas songs and festive melodies with a touch of Chinese elegance, performed by local duo Sharon and Dan.

Meet the Musicians

Daniel is a composer, a classical guitarist, and a bassist who enjoys playing world music. He plays with the Beaverton Symphony and with local groups like Arco PDX. He scores music for films and writes screenplays for educational videos. He enjoys building cross cultural understanding through music performances.

Sharon Gan is the founder of Heart Strings Mandarin, an early-childhood Mandarin music and movement program taught in local libraries and online to students worldwide. Her Mandarin songs are available on major music platforms. She also teaches piano from her home studio; composes and performs with other musicians.

Dongzhi Kitchen: Hands-on Tangyuan and Dumpling Making

Fridays & Saturdays, Dec. 12-13 & 19-20 | 5:00-7:00 PM

A debate unresolved for centuries: Dumplings or sweet rice balls—what should you eat for Dongzhi?

Join us for a hands-on experience making both tangyuan and dumplings, then sample each and decide your favorite!

Tickets | Dongzhi: A Chinese Holiday Party

Lan Su Member – $10.95

General – $22.95

General Child (ages 5 and younger) – FREE

EBT Cardholder – $10.95. Limited availability only at Lan Su Ticket Booth. Show your EBT Card to purchase. Up to 4 tickets per cardholder.

Dec. 12

Dec. 13

Dec. 19

Dec. 20

*Note: Each paid ticket includes a $0.95 service fee

Warm Hearts, Warm Ears: The Story of Dumplings
2025-12-13 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-14 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-20 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-21 11:00 - 15:00 | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209
You love dumplings—but do you know where they come from? At the Lan Su Chinese Garden Dongzhi celebration, uncover the tale of compassion and cleverness wrapped inside every dumpling.

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Intangible Cultural Heritage Artists at Lan Su
2026-02-14 10:00 - 16:00 | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209
“This dragon is made of sugar! This tiger is made of flour!”

As Lunar New Year approaches, experience an exceptionally rare cultural encounter at Lan Su Chinese Garden. For one day only, nationally recognized inheritors of China’s intangible cultural heritage will present living folk traditions seldom seen outside China.

Watch molten sugar transformed into shimmering dragons, intricate dough sculptures shaped into opera heroes and mythical beings, and exquisitely detailed Beijing bristle dolls painted entirely by hand. These master artists—whose works are collected by major museums and celebrated around the world—will create each piece live before your eyes. Enjoy tastings, demonstrations, and close-up conversations with the grand masters, all included with admission.

This special appearance is made possible through our partner, the China Center of International Cultural Exchange & Tourism Promotion.

Meet the Artists

Bai Lin – Beijing Bristle Doll (Zongren)

Bai Lin is a leading Beijing Bristle Doll inheritor and museum curator who has long dedicated himself to preserving and innovating China’s intangible cultural heritage. With extensive collaboration with national cultural agencies, international cultural exchange in over 30 countries, and active involvement in public-benefit programs, he promotes heritage education for youth and employment support for people with disabilities. His refined Bristle Doll craft is widely recognized, and his works are collected by major museums in China and abroad.

Su Xu – Traditional Dough Sculpture

Su Xu, Representative Inheritor of Linfen Dough Sculpture and First-Class Arts and Crafts Master, is a versatile artist known for his miniature works spanning traditional figures, opera characters, mythological themes, flora and fauna, and contemporary portraits. A member of national and provincial folk art associations and a “Sanjin Talents” young outstanding talent, he grew up immersed in family tradition and later became a professional dough sculptor. His piece Night Reading of Spring and Autumn won the Gold Award at the 2015 Beijing Guoan International Folk Art Expo, and he has promoted the craft through media appearances such as Beijing Television’s Seven Colors of Light. Since 2016, he has represented Chinese folk art in international cultural exchange programs across Russia, the Netherlands, the UAE, France, and other countries.

Qi Yingying – Beijing Kite

Qi Yingying, a Beijing Folk Craft Master, has devoted herself to preserving the traditional art of Beijing kites since 2014, studying under renowned master Luo Huanwen (“Kite Luo”). Through years of rigorous training and refinement of the essential skills of painting, framing, pasting, and flying, she has developed a distinctive artistic style and exceptional craftsmanship across hard-wing, soft-wing, flat, and umbrella-wing kites. Her lifelike creations have earned broad recognition, including the Excellence Award at the 2019 “Beijing Gifts” Competition, and her works are collected by public and private museums in France, Germany, Thailand, and beyond. She has also been highly received in cultural exchange programs in Hong Kong and Macau.

Liu Tao – Traditional Sugar Painting

Liu Tao, a new-generation sugar painting artist and officially recognized intangible cultural heritage inheritor, was born in 1988 in Fuyang and is now based in Suzhou. Deeply influenced by traditional arts from a young age, he began learning his family’s sugar-painting craft at 16 and later traveled nationwide to study carving, ultimately merging sugar painting and sugar blowing into his signature 3D sugar sculptures. He has twice appeared on CCTV with his mentors and has represented the “Old Beijing Sugar Painting” tradition in Thailand, Cuba, the UAE, France, and other countries. Recognized in 2019 as an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage and honored as a “Top Master” on Jilin TV’s Gao Shou Zai Min Jian, his work has been widely covered by major media.

Parking & Directions

Free Lan Su Parking

There is free first come, first served parking in our sister lot next to the garden at 424 NW Third Avenue. Additional metered parking and garages are available on surrounding streets.

Lunar New Year Opening Day
2026-02-17 09:00 - 16:30 | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209
Kick off Lunar New Year at Lan Su with a packed day of fun cultural traditions for the whole family! We’re starting the Year of the Horse in style, with mini horses, a lion dance, calligraphy and more to help you welcome a fresh year and prosperous energy.

Come celebrate Lunar New Year at Lan Su and help support a full year of cultural exploration for the whole community!

Opening Day Activities

Caishen Gifting Hongbao

9:00 – 9:45 AM

In Chinese tradition, the arrival of Caishen (財神) marks one of the most joyful moments of Lunar New Year — a time to invite abundance, good fortune, and prosperity into the year ahead. The first 500 visitors to Lan Su on opening day will receive free red envelopes directly from the God of Wealth — a symbolic wish for protection, happiness, and a bright start to the Year of the Horse.

Lion Dance Performance

9:45 AM

Enjoy an energetic lion dance performance by Portland Lee’s Association to welcome good fortune into your year! Use the link above to see more scheduled lion dances throughout the celebration.

Zodiac Animal Ceremony + Mini Horse Meet & Greet

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Get to know the zodiac symbols of the year in friendly, miniature form. Be sure to join us early at 11 AM for a special zodiac animals ceremony with one of last year’s incredible live snakes from Creature Teachers. We’ll say goodbye to the Year of the Snake and hello Year of the Horse!

Chinese Calligraphy

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Calligraphy is a revered art form that has existed for thousands of years and is considered a high art in Chinese culture. To welcome Year of the Horse, drop in anytime during the scheduled demonstrations to learn more about this art and watch calligraphers share techniques of this ancient art.

Family Craft Activities

11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Dive into the Suzhou Experience Kit, just arrived from our sister city! Explore the iconic culture of the very place that inspired Lan Su Chinese Garden’s design, while creating a stamped card or print to take home with you.

Admission Rates | Parking & Directions

Lunar New Year Admission Rates

Lan Su Members & Guests: FREE

Adult: $17.95

Senior (62+) or Student (18+ with ID): $15.95

Youth (6-18 yr): $13.95

Child (5 yr & under): FREE

Note: A $0.95 service fee is reflected in each paid admission.

Discounted Admission Offers

EBT/WIC Cardholders

Discounted admission of $5.00 per person is available for up to four individuals per EBT card. To claim this offer, please present your EBT/WIC card and a valid form of photo ID at the Ticket Booth.

Veterans & Military

We offer $2 off admission for active-duty military, veterans, and their immediate family members with valid ID. The discount must be redeemed in person at the Ticket Booth.

Parking & Directions

Free Lan Su Parking

There is free first come, first served parking in our sister lot next to the garden at 424 NW Third Avenue. Additional metered parking and garages are available on surrounding streets.

Mini Horse Meet & Greet
2026-02-17 11:00 - 13:00 | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209
Opening Day: Tuesday, February 17 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Fridays, February 20, 27, & March 6 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Meet the zodiac stars of the year up close and in person! Join Loki and friends at Lan Su Chinese Garden as we gallop into the Year of the Horse, welcoming good fortune, joy, and a little extra Lunar New Year magic.

Visitors can pet the miniature horses, snap photos, and create heart-melting memories to take home. These gentle, friendly animals are the perfect introduction to horses—especially for young children—offering a calm, non-intimidating way to connect with these beloved zodiac symbols.

Come neigh into the new year with us and boldly blaze into the Year of the Fire Horse!

Note: This is a very popular activity, so lines can be long. Please prepare your group accordingly. The line will close at 1:00 PM.

Admission Rates | Parking & Directions

Lunar New Year Admission Rates

Lan Su Members & Guests: FREE

Adult: $17.95

Senior (62+) or Student (18+ with ID): $15.95

Youth (6-18 yr): $13.95

Child (5 yr & under): FREE

Note: A $0.95 service fee is reflected in each paid admission.

Discounted Admission Offers

EBT/WIC Cardholders

Discounted admission of $5.00 per person is available for up to four individuals per EBT card. To claim this offer, please present your EBT/WIC card and a valid form of photo ID at the Ticket Booth.

Veterans & Military

We offer $2 off admission for active-duty military, veterans, and their immediate family members with valid ID. The discount must be redeemed in person at the Ticket Booth.

Parking & Directions

Free Lan Su Parking

There is free first come, first served parking in our sister lot next to the garden at 424 NW Third Avenue. Additional metered parking and garages are available on surrounding streets.
