MFAH Winter Festival: The Year of the Snake

The festival at Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza and the Cullen Sculpture Garden celebrates 2025, the Lunar Calendar Year of the Snake, associated with wisdom, intuition, and transformation.

The Winter Festival: Year of the Snake will begin with a welcome to the campus by MFAH and AAPI community members, and will feature dynamic music and dance performances by Taiko Drummers with Kaminari Taiko of Houston, K-pop dancers presented by Han Narea, and the North America Youth Chinese Orchestra. Delicious food from a variety of Asian cultures will be available for purchase from Dumpling Haus, Chi’lantro, Mama Marie’s Filipino Soul Food, Pudgy’s Fine Cookies, The Boba Cart, and Cafe Leonelli at MFAH. Sponsor H-E-B also provided complimentary mandarins and water to guests.

Families can also engage in fun art-making activites with Museum artists and community organizations like the Japan America Society of Houston. They can create an illustrated wooden plaque called an ema, design a snake-inspired bookmark to be used all year, and make a firecracker using sparkling and colorful celophane. Visitors can also explore the Museum’s galleries throughout the afternoon for free and follow the scavenger hunt, Objects of Renewal, to the Arts of Asia and Indonesian Gold galleries, where they will find art that celebrates the spirit of the snake and how it ushers in a new year.

This event and general admission to the MFAH are free all day. Guests will need to reserve free tickets here.