Celebration Guide
To celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please support Asian owned restaurants by dining in, ordering take out, or catering with them for your next event. There are many diverse neighborhoods across San Francisco serving delicious Asian cuisines.
The SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Heritage District is a celebration of the love, pride and people power of generations of Filipinos in San Francisco and beyond.
Enjoy home-style Chinese food, a variety of shops and weekend street performances in Chinatown.
Experience the taste of Vietnam and Thailand in one neighborhood. The Tenderloin is home to Little Saigon, where you can enjoy Vietnamese food from soups to sandwiches.
The Japantown Community Benefit District has regularly updating a list of restaurants open in San Francisco’s Japantown
Google Arts & Culture: Explore the history, arts, and culture of Asian American and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
From our establishment in 1997 as an initiative critical to the mission of the Smithsonian until today, the vision for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center has been to enrich the American Story with the voices of Asian Pacific Americans.
The groundbreaking exhibition We Are Bruce Lee: Under the Sky, One Family represents the long-awaited homecoming of San Francisco Chinatown’s native son, a legendary figure who was born in Chinatown’s own Chinese Hospital in 1940.
This multimedia collaboration between the Bruce Lee Foundation, top collectors of Bruce Lee memorabilia, and a team of artistic innovators showcases state-of-the-art engagement to magnify the vision and values of a Chinese American icon who grew into an international superstar, along the way transcending race, geography, and culture.
April 25, 2024 -May 24, 2024
“Where is Your Body” highlights the body and its needs as the lowest common denominator for solidarity. Thinking of the body – in its capacities and vulnerabilities – as a site of both violence and resistance, the exhibition gathers women/trans/queer artists of API diasporic experience engaged in practices of the body to explore questions.
Angel Island Immigration Station
Angel Island Mosaic uplifts the individual stories of immigrants who were detained on Angel Island.
Between 1910 and 1940, over 550,000 people arrived in the United States through the Port of San Francisco. The US government used discriminatory immigration laws to detain over 300,000 of these new arrivals at the Angel Island Immigration Station.
The Asian Art Museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes Asian and Asian-American art and cultures for local and global audiences. The museum provides a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen understanding and empathy among people of all backgrounds.
Since food is such an important part of our Asian and Pacific Islander culture, we invite you to enjoy Asian food and culture at an upcoming event. We have curated several diverse Asian food events, restaurant lists, and neighborhood guides to make it easier for you to try something new.
2024 Celebration Guide
This is the official celebration of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month for the City and County of San Francisco.
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