At the annual Chinese New Year Festival, chairman Denise Ng described plans to develop New Zealand’s earliest and largest Chinese settlement into a "major destination"

Dunedinites are invited to make a weekend of it for Chinese New Year - taking in Dunedin’s celebrations at Lan Yuan Dunedin Chinese Garden on Saturday night, and then heading to Lawrence Chinese Camp on Sunday afternoon for a colourful festival to welcome the Year of the Dragon.

Update from Geoff Davidson, Chair of the Lawrence Tuapeka Community Board and LCCCT Trustee including a Tourism project that will feature the Lawrence Chinese Camp.  Read the full article here 

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This year is the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, and festivities were held to welcome the New Year in Lawrence on Sunday.

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We had a wonderful visit from the leadership team of Asia New Zealand. Their Hui included a visit to the Lawrence Chinese Camp and sites in Dunedin and Central Otago with Chinese history significance.  Click here to read on Asia NZ website

Chinese New Year 2020 - Year of the Rat was clebrated at the Lawrence Chinese Camp with Dancing, music, Lion dance performances and food. The fun day drew around 250 people for entertainment and children's activities. 

Lawrence's Chinese Camp is looking forward to a special celebration this weekend.
Chinese New Year occurs today, and tomrrow the 157-year-old former gold rush camp will celebrate the start of the Year of the Dragon by holding a combined cultural festival and country fair.

Nic Mcloy goes to Lawrence and gives a fantastic summary of the history of the Lawrence Chinese Camp.  Click here to listen

Trustees attended a ceremony for the reinterment of Chinese, who among the 34 settlers exhumed, had lived in the Tuapeka region during the gold rush period. A christian ceremony was followed by a Cantonese ceremony led by Les and Maisie Wong. The ODT ariticle can be read here

Chinese New Year 2023 was celebrated at the Lawrence Chinese Camp with performances and guests from New Zealand wide. The festival also launched the Chinese History Schools Curriculum led by Sun Gum Saan Ltd.   Click here to see the full articles and photos

Malcolm Wong talks about the Sun Gum Saan Ltd Chinese History Curriculum for New Zealand Schools to be launched at the Lawrence Chinese Camp, Chinese New Year Festival.  Click here to read the article

Denise Ng, the new chair of the Lawrence Chinese Camp Charitable Trust was interviewed by the Otago Daily Times about the Trust's plans for the Camp and her vision for its future.  Click here to go to the full ODT article.