Celebration of the Peninsula’s Diversity: Immigrants Day Festival - Discover the traditions immigrant groups have brought to the area during a Celebration of the Peninsula’s Diversity: Immigrant Day Festival. The festival features food, craft activities for families and music and dance performances by Chinese, Filipino, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mexican and Portuguese groups. The event highlights the History Museum’s exhibit, Land of Opportunity: The Immigrant Experience in San Mateo County. (more…)

Woven through actual letters, diary entries and haiku poetry, “From A Silk Cocoon” is an award winning documentary about the true story of a young couple whose shattered dreams and forsaken loyalties lead them to renounce their American citizenship while held in separate prison camps during World War 2. They struggle to prove their innocence and fight deportation during a time of wartime hysteria and racial profiling. Followed by Q&A with filmmaker and psychotherapist Satsuke Ina.

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. But we are more than just an art museum—we are your ticket to Asia. Here, travel through 6,000 years of history, trek across seven major regions, and sample the cultures of numerous countries. Target First Free Sundays”—free admission to all on the first Sunday of every month and the family programs offered on that day—is made possible by Target.

Come to the California Genealogical Society Library for a free Genealogy for Beginners Class every first Saturday of every month at 11:00 a.m. Trace and compile your family history at Northern California’s premier genealogy society library. Volunteer members are available to help you use our extensive library and online databases. Bring information about an ancestor’s family and we will help you find them in the 1920 or 1930 census. (more…)