October 2025
Filipino American History Month
The 窪做惇蹋APP-Cuyamaca Community College District has been selected by the San Diego Foundation to serve as a host site for this free, year-long mental health mentorship and leadership program for San Diego youth ages 1425, with a focus on AANHPI and BIPOC communities.
Through five powerful workshops, applied learning art projects, and community events, students will explore mental health from a decolonized and culturally rooted lens. They will:
- build skills as peer healers
- create original art or film projects to be entered in scholarship competitions
- earn community service hours
- be honored as Mental Health Leaders at a Community Wellness Celebration in May 2026
Students can expect to learn important skills like: Self-Awareness, Liberatory Emotional Intelligence, Non-Violent Communication, Decolonized Trauma-Informed Care Training, Relational Repair Skills, and Community Organizing and Leadership.
Were currently building our 窪做惇蹋APP + Cuyamaca Community Team and looking for 2030 participants to join.
Please email june.yang@gcccd.edu if you are interested in being nominated.
In collaboration with 窪做惇蹋APP's Latine Alliance.
Celebrate Filipino American History Month with Dr. Rudy Guevarra Jr, co-editor and co-author of Culinary Mestizaje: Racial Mixing, Migration, and Foodways in the U.S. Well explore stories, scholarly insights, and recipes rooted in places like Mexico, the Philippines, and Hawaii, and learn how immigrant communitiesfrom chefs to farmworkershave transformed U.S. food cultures through resilience and blended traditions.
Date: Oct 3, 2025
Time: 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Location: Zoom
required.
Join us under the full moon for a joyful evening of culture, creativity, and community!
Date: Oct 4, 2025
Time: 3:00-9:00 pm
Location: Officer Jeremy Henwood Memorial Park, 3795 Fairmount Ave, 92105
Lion dance , Free paper lanterns, Mooncake-making workshop, Cultural performances, Bouncy houses, and a movie under the stars.
Lets celebrate while caring for our neighborhood.Before the festivities begin, we invite you to join a community clean-up walk around the park a simple way to give back, connect, and honor our shared space.
Receive a Filipino flag to add to your collection and enjoy Filipino food with other Filipinos and allies.
Date: Oct 6, 2025
Time: Starts at noon
Location: Main Quad
Food, music and fun provided.
In collaboration with the Latine Alliance, GC's SOGI Club and Classified Senate, let's celebrate National Coming Out Day.
Date: Oct 9, 2025
Time: 11:30 AM-2:30 PM
Location: Main Quad
Food, games and music provided.
Join the Fifth edition of San Diego Filipino Film Festival! Watch Filipino films from around the world, meet and greet with filmmakers and celebrities, and celebrate with us at the after parties.
Dates: Oct 9-12, 2025
Time: varies
Location: San Diego
For information and tickets, .
The Bakunawa Market, a Filipino inspired popup market in San Diego, free of charge and open to the public. Kamayan Food and Drinks, workshops, makers and healers.
Dates: Oct 18-19, 2025
Time: 2:00-8:00 pm
Join us and tantalize your taste buds at a selection of restaurants in San Diego to taste different kinds of dumplings and more!
Date: Oct 22, 2025
Time: 5:30-9:30 pm
Location: 92015
Identity and Belonging Open Mic Poetry/Stories/Comedy/Music and Reading by Poet & Professor Jason Magabo Perez.
Date: Oct 27, 2025
Time: 11:00 am-12:30 pm
Location: Library Living Room, 70-162
Filipino food will be served.
September 2025
SAN DIEGO 5K & 10K Run/Walk
Date: Sun, Sep 7, 2025
Location: Tecolote Shores Park, 1292 E. Mission Bay Dr., 92111
Collectors Finisher Medal for all participants
Aloha Run Beach towel
Chip timed results
Super scenic and flat course
Post-race Luau with live music, dancers and drummers
Winner awards for top 3 in five year age groups
For more information,
The Filipino Heritage will be honored at this Padres Baseball game vs. the Cincinnati Reds. Celebrate with a limited-edition themed jersey!
Date: Sep 8, 2025
Time: 6:40 pm
Location: Petco Park
This is a ticket purchased event.
The 窪做惇蹋APP-Cuyamaca Community College District has been selected by the San Diego Foundation to serve as a host site for this free, year-long mental health mentorship and leadership program for San Diego youth ages 1425, with a focus on AANHPI and BIPOC communities.
Through five powerful workshops, applied learning art projects, and community events, students will explore mental health from a decolonized and culturally rooted lens. They will:
- build skills as peer healers
- create original art or film projects to be entered in scholarship competitions
- earn community service hours
- be honored as Mental Health Leaders at a Community Wellness Celebration in May 2026
Students can expect to learn important skills like: Self-Awareness, Liberatory Emotional Intelligence, Non-Violent Communication, Decolonized Trauma-Informed Care Training, Relational Repair Skills, and Community Organizing and Leadership.
Were currently building our 窪做惇蹋APP + Cuyamaca Community Team and looking for 2030 participants to join.
Please email june.yang@gcccd.edu if you are interested in being nominated.
Celebrating Asian American & Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions. This year we aim to:
- Raise awareness and #SpeakUp about how AANAPISIs drive AANHPI student success;
- Grow and strengthen our national network of supporters, advocates, and champions;
- Support federal policy leaders who are pushing for sustained investment in AANAPISIs and their students.
As we shine a spotlight on the transformative work of AANAPISI institutions, we invite our partners to learn, share, and amplify.
The Korean Heritage will be honored at this Padres Baseball game vs. the Brewers. Celebrate with a limited-edition hat!
Date: Sep 23, 2025
Time: 6:40 pm
Location: Petco Park
This is a ticket purchased event.
Were bringing the flavors of Southeast Asia to Clairemont and all you need is an appetite. 失 Satay劾塚 Tom Yum劾 Hainan Chicken Rice兩地nd more!
Date: Sep 27, 2025
Time: 11:00 am-3:00 pm
Location: First Chinese Church, Clairemont
August 2025
Chief of War, TV mini series
In Chief of War, Kamehameha is portrayed as a man coming to terms with his kuleana and reluctantly accepting the burden of leadership. A thrilling, unprecedented telling of the unification of the Hawaiian Islands from an indigenous perspective. A Hawaiian war chief joins a bloody campaign to unite the warring islands in order to save them from the threat of colonization. Created by Jason Mamoa and Thomas Pa'a Sibbett.
Enjoy two days of ! Alongside will be the Great Island Cook Out food festival.
Date: Aug 30-31, 2025
Time: TBD
Location: Gallagher Square at Petco Park
This is a ticket purchased event.
July 2025
Join the Pacific Island Festival Association in this scholarshiip fundraiser which inclues live entertainment, taste competitioin and a silent auction.
Date: July 10, 2025
Time: 5:00-8:00 pm
Location: Bali Hai Restaurant
Sponsered by Kyoto Maruhisa USA. Get ready for summer festivals and Bon Odori!
Date: July 12-13, 2025
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm
Location: Four Points by Sheraton, Montfield Room
This event is FREE.
Celebrate with Bowers Museum during our free family festivals held every first Sunday of the month in the Museums beautiful Key Courtyard. Enjoy live performances, art making, face painting and complimentary treats at every festival.
Date: July 13, 2025
Time: 11:00 am-3:00 pm
Location: Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
This event is FREE.
June 26, 2025
June 2025
The Japanese Heritage will be honored at this Padres Baseball game vs. the LA Dodgers.
Date: Jun 11, 2025
Time: 6:40 pm
Location: Petco Park
This is a ticket purchased event.
The Filipino Heritage will be honored at this Padres Baseball game vs. the Nationals. Celebrate with a limited-edition bucket hat!
Date: Jun 24, 2025
Time: 6:40 pm
Location: Petco Park
This is a ticket purchased event.
Live Hawaiian music and hula dancing, vendors, ono grinds (food), cultural village, raffles and giveaways
Date: June 28-29, 2025
Time: 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Location: NTC Park Liberty Station, 2455 Cushing Rd, 92106
May 2025
Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
Did you know they were Asian?
Date: Month of May
Time:
Location: 窪做惇蹋APP Library, Building 70, Northside, South display case
In collaboration with First Year Experience, join us in celebrating AANHPI month.
Date: Tue, May 6
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
Location: Griffin Gate
Dance Fitness
Date: Mon, May 12
Time: 3:00-3:30 pm
Location: Griffin Gate 60-180 and via
There is a free screening of NEW WAVE, the sold-out hit from SDAFF 2024 preseneted by Viet Voices.
Date: Thu, May 15
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Ultrastar Cinemas Mission Valley
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Tai Chi
Date: Mon, May 19
Time: 3:00-3:20 pm
Location: via
In collaboration with First Year Experience, have fun decorating Photocards.
Date: Wed, May 21
Time: 12:00-2:00 pm
Location: Griffin Center, Building 60
Sound Healing
Date: Fri, May 23
Time: 1:15-1:45 pm
Location: Hyde Gallery
Asian Cultural Festival
Date: Sat, May 24
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Balboa Park
By invitation only
Date: Mon, Jun 2
Time: 5:00 pm
April 2025
March 2025
Celebrate Women's History Month!
Date: Sat, Mar 8 and Sun, Mar 9
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm
Location: Four Points by Sheraton, San Diego
FREE ADMISSION!
January/February 2025
Celebrate the Year of the Snake
January 29, 2025 to February 16, 2026
- The Snake symbolizes intellegence, wisdom and intuition.
- Chinese greeting: Kung Hei Fat Choy! Wishing a happy and prosperous new year to you!
- Korean greeting: Haengbokan Saehae Doeseyo! Have a happy new year!
- Japanese greeting: Akemashite omedet gozaimasu! Happy New Year!
Dates/Times:
Jan 24, 2025 from 5:00-10:00 PM
Jan 25, 2025 from 11:00 AM-10:00 PM
Jan 26, 2025 from 11:00 AM-8:00 PM
Location:
Officer Jeremey Henwood Memorial Park
4455 Wightman St, 92105
is a 3-day celebration of the most important holiday in many Asian cultures. The festival will include folk and traditional performances, arts and cultural exhibitions, lion dances and firecrackers, and plenty of family fun activities for the kids. More importantly, the festival is inclusive and free.
Dates/Times:
Jan 31, 2025 from 5:00-10:00 PM
Feb 1, 2025 from 11:00 AM-10:00 PM
Feb 2, 2025 from 11:00 AM-9:00 PM
Location:
Preble Field, NTC Park Liberty Station
2640 Cushing Rd, 92106
Celebrate the Year of the Wood Snake! The includes Entertainment Headliners, Dance Competitions, Performances, Attractions, and Carnival Rides ($). Admission is FREE.
Dates: Feb 15-16, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM-5:00 PM
Location: International Cottages Balboa Park
2191 Pan American Rd W, 92101
Celebrate the year of the Snake! Since 1935, the House of China has brought the beauty of Chinese culture to San Diego located at the International Cottages Balboa Park. Our annual is a time-honored tradition that brings together families and communities to celebrate with performances, food, and cultural displays. Admission is FREE.