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More Than a Cultural District: SOMA Pilipinas is Community-in-Action and a Cultural Movement
More Than a Cultural District: SOMA Pilipinas is Community-in-Action and a Cultural Movement

SOMA Pilipinas celebrates five years as San Francisco’s Filipino Cultural Heritage District on Thursday, April 29, 2021, 4-6pm PST at new art and wellness pop-up Kapwa Gardens. The cultural heritage district honors the over 120-year Filipino history and living legacy of making home, celebrating culture, building community and fighting for economic and racial justice. Embodying the spirit of bayanihan, SOMA Pilipinas supports a community-in-action in the highly gentrified South of Market neighborhood — the technology capital of the world for the last decade.

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Filipino Artisan Marketplace and Incubator in San Francisco Acknowledged as ‘A World Changing Idea’ by FastCompany
Filipino Artisan Marketplace and Incubator in San Francisco Acknowledged as ‘A World Changing Idea’ by FastCompany

Republika — the first retail & event space in the nation dedicated to supporting Filipino business in San Francisco — received an honorable mention in FastCompany’s ‘World Changing Ideas Awards 2020’ in the Social Justice category. The developing project is the result of a collaboration bringing together non-profit Kultivate Labs’ mission to build economic development in SOMA Pilipinas — the city’s newest Filipino Cultural Heritage District — and the design expertise of award-winning Studio O+A.

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