Filipino Americans Hope to Revive Cultural Neighborhood in San Francisco
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently gave SOMA Pilipinas a $100,000 “Our Town” arts grant that will go toward the Filipino Cultural Heritage District.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently gave SOMA Pilipinas a $100,000 “Our Town” arts grant that will go toward the Filipino Cultural Heritage District.
The school has a long history of providing Filipino language and culture to San Francisco students.
San Francisco’s South of Market area is known for swank tech-company offices, gleaming luxury apartments, a baseball park with breathtaking views of the bay. Few know that it was also home to one of the country’s earliest Filipino communities.
CAAM is partnering with StoryCorps to collect oral history stories that highlight the voices of Filipino Americans in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco.
Legions of Bloom is back! Catch it Friday, May 13th at Bindlestiff Studios!