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SEED Network announces grant for BIPOC businesses: Here’s how to apply
The nonprofit has given serious assists to San Francisco's entrepreneurs. Could your project use an extra four grand?
How Fil Ams in the West Coast are engaging with Ilocano weaving as resistance
As a first-generation Ilokana immigrant, now based in San Francisco, California, I remember my whole family being gifted inabel blankets with our names on them. Yet I didn’t fully appreciate their significance until I immigrated and began exploring weaving as part of my own process of decolonizing and reclaiming the pre-colonial indigenous nature of Ilokano culture.
Hundreds of Volunteers Turned a San Francisco Parking Lot Into a Healing Garden
Filipino-American artists and activists create a space to help their community recover.
TNT Traysikel, a Social Sculpture of Protest and Solidarity
It’s called “TNT Traysikel,” a customized motorcycle and sidecar that cruises the streets of San Francisco Bay Area, complete with blaring karaoke music and every inch painted with cultural icons of Filipino American history in California.
San Francisco’s Filipino Cultural District Keeping Hope Alive After a Tough Year
Businesses in San Francisco’s Filipino Cultural District were hit hard by the pandemic. But the cultural district is there to help the recovery start where it’s needed most.
SoMa’s Kapwa Gardens Provides a Lush Space for Community Growth
Hella calamansi trees, a revamped school bus painted with a giant bird’s head and flowing curls of colorful feathers, and turquoise-purple everything—that’s what you’ll find at 967 Mission Street in San Francisco, an old parking lot turned art and wellness pop-up.
‘TNT Traysikel’ symbolizes Pinoy art and diaspora in San Francisco
It’s not everyday you see the humble Philippine tricycle plying major thoroughfares in other countries.
The Art That Defined San Francisco in 2019
SOMA Pilipinas is also hoping to gain a foothold in San Francisco by helping Filipino-owned businesses thrive. Republika SF, which just hit its $40,000 fundraising goal this year, is going to play a big part in that.
Battle Hymn of the Republika
Republika SF, a forthcoming retail space and business incubator in Soma Pilipinas, demonstrates how intimately that cultural district’s success relates to Filipino cuisine.
SoMa’s Undiscovered Festival of Filipino Culture
Amid the piles of golden lumpia and rows of infused cocktails available to the mostly young and mostly tech crowd occupants, resident Desi Danganan was actually giving a heartfelt presentation about Filipino heritage. The occasion was the second installment of Undiscovered, the Filipino night market that brings artists, vendors, food stalls and performances to the neighborhood.
City re-invests in SoMa Pilipinas cultural heritage district, Undiscovered night market
In its second year and with its final month of the season about to wrap up, Undiscovered SF, a night market in SoMa's Pilipinas cultural heritage district, is making headway to become a permanent fixture in the neighborhood.
City re-invests in SoMa Pilipinas cultural heritage district, Undiscovered night market
Kultivate Labs plans to invest $35,000 in professional services for six area businesses in a program called SEED Accelerator.
How SOMA Pilipinas Will Keep Filipinos in SoMa.
The cultural district aims to stabilize and strengthen a neighborhood in flux. But Filipinos in S.F. have seen their community obliterated before.