Convoy Rising Lunar New Year Kickoff 2027

The Doan Foundation, with Social Artistry and Up2You Cafe, is bringing Convoy Rising back for Sunday, January 24, 2027, from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Convoy and Vickers Street in Kearny Mesa. Admission is free. Foundation president Dennis Doan's October 2026 sponsorship post locks those hours and names the Convoy and Vickers Street footprint used for the first large-scale edition. Some City of San Diego and foundation pages still carry the February 8, 2026 first-edition card, so confirm January 24, 2027 on Doan Foundation updates before you lock a dinner reservation. The foundation's sponsor page is open for partners at sponsor@doan-foundation.org.

The first Convoy Rising drew more than 2,000 people, about 50 vendors, five lion dance teams, and cultural performers in a night-market style festival on the district's cultural corridor. Expect food, local makers, and lion dance exhibition energy as an early street kickoff toward Lunar New Year. Co-curation credit goes to Lauren Garces. Lunar New Year Day itself is February 6, 2027. This kickoff is nearly two weeks earlier, which is the point: open Convoy's street season before the bigger county festivals stack in February.

Convoy is San Diego's pan-Asian restaurant row: Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Taiwanese dinner traffic people already treat as a destination. The city designated the Convoy Pan-Asian Cultural and Business Innovation District in 2020, and the vertical gateway sign on Convoy, lit since 2024, marks that claim at street level. Rising puts a free festival block into the habit instead of making you drive to Balboa Park or Liberty Station first. Yokohama Festival already covered the November sister-city park day. San Diego Symphony's Lunar New Year family concert lands on Lunar New Year morning downtown. San Diego Tết at Liberty Station is February 12–14. Use Convoy Rising when you want Kearny Mesa first.

Who this is for: Convoy regulars, Kearny Mesa and Clairemont families, and anyone who wants a free early Lunar New Year street night without a ticket. Skip it if you only do one February outing and that outing has to be Tết at Liberty Station.

Arrive near 3:00 for shorter vendor lines. Convoy parking fills on weekend evenings even without a festival; give yourself a walk from side streets around 7770 Vickers Street. Bring cash and a layer for January after dark. If you are coming from Interstate 805, use the Convoy exits you already know for dinner nights rather than hunting a dedicated festival lot. Sponsorship questions go to sponsor@doan-foundation.org on the foundation page. For visitors, the product is the free 3:00 to 8:00 street block.

When: January 24, 2027, 3:00–8:00 p.m. (free; confirm on organizer updates)
Where: Convoy Street and Vickers Street (7770 Vickers St), San Diego, CA 92111
Last checked: November 10, 2026

2027 date lock via Dennis Doan's sponsorship post; partner questions at doan-foundation.org.