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  • Dragon Boat Festival Family Activity Station

    Dragon Boat Festival Family Activity Station
    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR, United States

    Celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with hands-on family-friendly activities at Lan Su Chinese Garden! Drop in between 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM, June 19–21, to create and take home a five-color silk bracelet, a dragon boat woodblock-stamped postcard, and a festival-inspired ornament. Rooted in centuries-old Dragon Boat Festival customs, these creative activities are believed to […]

    Free
  • Louis Lim plays at Lan Su

    Music in The Garden

    Weekly Cultural Experiences
    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR, United States

    Enjoy the gentle sounds of live Chinese music on traditional instruments such as erhu, ruan qin, and pipa. Noon – 3 PM | Fridays, April 24 – September 25, 2026 As you stroll the garden pathways, enjoy traditional Chinese music of erhu or guzheng by Lan Su musicians.  The erhu is a bowed, two-stringed Chinese […]

    Free

  • Garden Tea Tastings (1 PM)

    Garden Tea Tastings
    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR, United States

    Take a front-row seat to Chinese tea culture with our intimate Garden Tea Tasting series led by Tea Masters of Yun Shui Teahouse. Savor three seasonal teas from Yun Shui Teahouse, learn traditional brewing techniques, and take home a porcelain teacup.

    $37 – $56

  • Garden Tea Tastings (2:30 PM)

    Garden Tea Tastings
    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR, United States

    Take a front-row seat to Chinese tea culture with our intimate Garden Tea Tasting series led by Tea Masters of Yun Shui Teahouse. Savor three seasonal teas from Yun Shui Teahouse, learn traditional brewing techniques, and take home a porcelain teacup.

    $37 – $56
  • A koi leaps from Lake Zither at Lan Su next to water lilies

    Koi Tales & Feeding Time

    Koi Tales & Feeding Time
    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR, United States

    Gather by the Lake Zither with Lan Su gardeners for a brief koi feeding and Q&A experience. Learn about the garden’s colorful fish resident, their care, and the stories and symbolism they carry in Chinese garden culture.

    Free
  • A two-photo collage with a bowl of zongzi in one and instructor Tommy Ly smiling with a plate of food in the other.

    Wrap Your Own Zongzi: A Dragon Boat Festival Tradition

    Featured Wrap Your Own Zongzi: A Dragon Boat Festival Tradition
    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR, United States

    Celebrate culture and community through food with Tommy Ly, owner of Old Town’s GeekEasy and Stumptown Otaku, in this hands-on zongzi (粽子) workshop for the Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Jie, 端午節). Participants will learn to make Hong Kong-style pork belly zongzi, a savory sticky rice dumpling filled with pork belly, split mung beans, and traditional seasonings, then wrapped in fragrant bamboo leaves. Tommy will guide you through the folding, shaping, and tying techniques that give zongzi their iconic form and aroma.

    $20 – $38
  • A two-photo collage with a bowl of zongzi in one and instructor Tommy Ly smiling with a plate of food in the other.

    Wrap Your Own Zongzi: A Dragon Boat Festival Tradition

    Featured Wrap Your Own Zongzi: A Dragon Boat Festival Tradition
    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR, United States

    Celebrate culture and community through food with Tommy Ly, owner of Old Town’s GeekEasy and Stumptown Otaku, in this hands-on zongzi (粽子) workshop for the Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Jie, 端午節). Participants will learn to make Hong Kong-style pork belly zongzi, a savory sticky rice dumpling filled with pork belly, split mung beans, and traditional seasonings, then wrapped in fragrant bamboo leaves. Tommy will guide you through the folding, shaping, and tying techniques that give zongzi their iconic form and aroma.

    $20 – $38

  • Tai Chi Fundamentals

    Weekly Cultural Experiences
    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR, United States

    Get moving with a beginner Tai Chi class by Many Roads Martial Arts Center on Sundays. 10:30 – 11:30 AM | Sundays, May 3 – October 25, 2026 Many Roads […]

    Free

  • Weiqi/Go Teaching and Demonstrating

    Weekly Cultural Experiences
    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR, United States

    The Portland Go Club provides interactive teachings on the rules, strategies, and history of Weiqi. 11 AM – 1 PM | Every 3rd Sunday, April 19 – September 20, 2026 Weiqi, also known as Go, holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously played strategy game globally, with origins dating back at least 3,500 years. While […]

    Free

  • Dragon Boat Festival Family Activity Station

    Dragon Boat Festival Family Activity Station
    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR, United States

    Celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with hands-on family-friendly activities at Lan Su Chinese Garden! Drop in between 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM, June 19–21, to create and take home a five-color silk bracelet, a dragon boat woodblock-stamped postcard, and a festival-inspired ornament. Rooted in centuries-old Dragon Boat Festival customs, these creative activities are believed to […]

    Free

  • Garden Tea Tastings (1 PM)

    Garden Tea Tastings
    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR, United States

    Take a front-row seat to Chinese tea culture with our intimate Garden Tea Tasting series led by Tea Masters of Yun Shui Teahouse. Savor three seasonal teas from Yun Shui Teahouse, learn traditional brewing techniques, and take home a porcelain teacup.

    $37 – $56