Mother’s Day at SF Maritime Museum: “Filipino-American Connections”

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Let’s celebrate Mother’s Day with Manilatown @ Maritime!

A national park by Fisherman’s Wharf might not be the most obvious destination for people seeking connections to Filipino and Filipino American history. Yet San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is rich with resources that speak to the heritage of the second-largest Asian-American population in the Bay Area and California. Join Park Ranger Sabrina Oliveros for an overview of these resources. These include exhibits that reflect the age of Manila galleons and the industry of Manila rope; collections that tell of 20th-century American colonization and Philippine immigration; and historic ships that root people in the experiences of first-generation manongs from Carlos Bulosan to Larry Itliong.

Please join the Manilatown Heritage Foundation for an afternoon of family-friendly education. And then after the talk you’ll be in one of San Francisco’s liveliest neighborhoods for outdoor fun and fabulous food with Mom!

About Sabrina Oliveros

Filipina-American Sabrina Oliveros has worked in Exhibits and Interpretation at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park since 2017. A podcast she co-created, Better Lives, Bitter Lies, explores social histories of the San Francisco waterfront and won the National Park Service’s 2020 National Freeman Tilden Award for Excellence in Interpretation and Education. Sabrina is also the curator of the Manilatown Heritage Foundation’s current visual art exhibition, “Imagine Kearny Street.”

About the Flipping the Boat project: “Flipping the Boat’ is a community engagement project that speaks to the power and agency of Filipino and other Bay Area residents to navigate their boats, ships, communities and lives. This collaboration between the Manilatown Heritage Foundation and San Francisco’s Maritime Museum celebrates our sovereign ways of being and encourages us to take the helm of our community “ships” to direct our own destiny.

Presented by Manilatown Heritage Foundation

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