The Kwan-Yin Festival Celebration will occur every year at the end of March; however, each Celebration will be organized differently to present different aspects of the Vietnamese culture to non-Vietnamese people throughout the United States.

New Year (Tết) – Comparable to the celebration of the Western New Year. Also to welcome the arrival of spring, the symbol of Joy and Happiness. This celebration officially begins on the eve of the New Lunar Year and extends to the observance of Lễ Thượng Nguyên – Prayer Service welcoming the New Lunar Year – with the chanting of The Beginning Anew Sutra at the end of the old Lunar Year and The Healing Bhaisajva Sutra at the beginning of the New Lunar Year.