2024 Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade
For the 2024 Grand Floral Parade, we performed a dance, Elephant King’s March, with a team of 40 dancers including our regular dance troupe and the Jade Dance Team members. The Elephant King’s March embodies Buddhist nobility, and the powerful sounds of the great dharma trumpet, represented by the music, symbolizes the King’s roar. The chosen instruments – the pipa with its crisp clarity, the evocative flute, the touching erhu, and the elegant zither – each contribute to a multi-layered musical tapestry that brings the performance to life.
The Northwest Chinese Alliance is very honored to be returning for our 12th entry at the Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade, and very much appreciate the recognition by the Portland Rose Festival. More..
Our Mission and Goals
The Chinese community has been part of the Portland area for over 150 years, and is an essential part of Portland and Pacific Northwest society today. The goals of the Northwest Chinese Alliance are to broaden public awareness and appreciation of traditional Chinese arts and culture; to provide training of our next generation of dancers and leaders; and to provide resources and networking opportunities to member organizations and individuals to participate in very large scale performances requiring large number of dancers such as the Grand Floral Parade. We also aim to engage the local Chinese community to outreach to the general community to increase the understanding of the culture and history of our heritages, and to build capacity for future leaders and performers in the local community. More..
Rose Festival Grand Floral Parades
One of our primary activities is to showcase Chinese culture in the Portland Rose Festival. Since 2011, we have been invited to participate in the Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parades every year. We usually organize a team of 30 to 40 colorfully dressed dancers performing in Chinese traditional visual and cultural dances. The audiences on the Portland streets usually all shouted “Beautiful, Beautiful..” Here are pictures from our 2022, 2018, 2015 and 2012 performances. For more information, please follow this link.
We were very pleased to present a dynamic and cultural rich entry in the 2018 Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade on Saturday, June 9th, 2018 in Portland.
To learn more about our 2018 Chinese Community Grand Floral Parade entry
And pictures from our previous performances:
You can find more about our past Grand Floral Parade performances and our other programs here.
Chinese Cultural Performances
The Northwest Chinese Alliance supports the efforts of community partners and groups to showcase Chinese culture and promote the understanding of Chinese American history on Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Over the past few years, we have supported the talks and presentations by the Chinese American Citizens Alliance on 1882, and the historic presentation by the Oregon Historical Society and the Portland Chinatown History Foundation on U.S., Oregon and Portland history. For additional information, please follow this link.
About the Northwest Chinese Alliance
The Northwest Chinese Alliance is a 501 (c) (3) U.S. non-profit organization. One of our primary focus is to showcase the best of Chinese traditional performing arts by participating in the City of Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parades each year. Since June 2011, we have been very honored to have performed in every City of Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade. Learn more.
Please Support Our Efforts
You can help our community efforts by making a cash donation or by becoming a sponsor or join as a member. The Northwest Chinese Alliance is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit charitable organization. All membership, sponsorship or cash donations are fully tax-deductible within the U.S. tax law regulations.
