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Glide : Filipino American History Month: SOMA Pilipinas Heritage District
Health and Fitness
October 21, 2022
From: GlideThursday, October 20, 2022, 6:00-7:30 pm
More than 300,000 Filipinos call San Francisco their home. But because of gentrification, redlining, and racism that can erase communities, a cultural heritage district was created to protect and preserve a Filipino community that has historically been marginalized.
The SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Heritage District is a celebration of love, pride and generations of Filipino people power in San Francisco.
Join us in this important conversation as we re-discover a history of resilience, courage and determination as the heritage district seeks to preserve its future.
Hosted By: Miguel Bustos, Senior Director, GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice
Our panelists include:
Erina C. Alejo – Artist
Erina C Alejo is an artist and cultural worker. Their timekeeping work, through their lens as a San Francisco third-generation renter, sustains long-term collaborative relationships with micro communities – including families, tenants, and service workers – to center and respond to care, community action, and cultural preservation. A History of Renting (clamshell press and Katalog Projects, 2020 and 2022) is their first book. Generous support for Alejo’s work comes from the Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco Arts Commission, API Cultural Center, This Will Take Time, Filipino American International Book Festival, and Balay Kreative, where Alejo was its inaugural grantee. Their work is acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Angelica Cabande – Organizer
Born in the Philippines and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of eight, Angelica Cabande has been an organizer for more than 22 years. She has supported the development of San Francisco immigrant residents to become engaged in issues of social justice, equity, and community planning and has educated, organized and mobilized residents on local and national issues. She started with South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN) in 2004 as a Community Organizer and became SOMCAN's Organizational Director in 2010.
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