Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music Professor Hao HuangFor the second annual Hungry Ghost Festival on September 7, 2025, over 600 attendees honored ancestors through community celebration, rituals, and performance. 听
Professor of Music Hao Huang co-produced the festival which included a lineup of dragon and lion and dragon dances, a Chinese Zodiac play by The East Wind Foundation for Youth, live music performances by Micah Yan-Jie Huang and Annie Zhou, dances by The Sunset Light Dance Team, martial arts demonstrations by the National Wushu Training Center and the Bruce Lee Martial Arts Studio, and qigong activities by Misako Tsuchiya. A community resource fair featuring local Chinatown organizations was also onsite.听
鈥淭his is the latest contribution I鈥檝e made to meaningful community engagement, which involved collaborating with Asian American and indigenous communities across Souther California,鈥� Huang says. 听
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