Date: Saturday, May 17, 2014
Time: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Location: Little Saigon in San Francisco on Larkin Street (from Grove to Ellis)
Free Admission
The 10th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC) is the nation’s largest Pan-Asian street fair. The Asian Heritage Street Celebration gathers all communities among Asian Pacific Islanders in the San Francisco Bay Area, and enables cross cultural interaction through sharing of cultures, promoting Asian inspired arts and crafts vendors, creation of innovative programs and entertaining activities for visitors and participants. The Celebration is sponsored by Hill Physicians Medical Group.
Performance Schedule:
CIVIC CENTER STAGE
10:30 a.m.
- Morning blessing prayer by Thai monks of Wat Buddhapradeep of San Bruno
11:00 a.m.
- Faces of Asia
- Mika G and Liezl Torres
11:30 a.m.
- Hep B Free Presentation
- Dante Basco
12:00 p.m.
- Tai Chi Exhibition
12:30 p.m.
- Guest speakers, School Raffle and special announcements
1:00 p.m.
- The Francis Wong Unit
1:45 p.m.
- Katherine Park
3:00 p.m.
- MC Jin
Activities:
Cinema Showcase: The Center for Asian American Media is thrilled to present the 4th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration Cinema Showcase on Saturday, May 17 from 2 – 4 p.m. inside the Asian Art Museum’s Samsung Hall. In the spirit of this year’s festival theme: TASTE OF ASIA, CAAM will be offering free screenings of fantastic foodie shorts and music videos. Come hungry and enjoy this family-friendly celebration of community, cinema and storytelling. Admission to the Asian Art Museum will be free all day courtesy of Target.
Culinary Chef Exhibition: This year at the AHSC, fair-goers will be treated to demos from top chefs from across the Bay Area. Here to showcase their talents are Sharon Nahm of E&O Asian Kitchen, Tim Archuleta of ICHI Sushi + NI Bar, Yong Dong “Tony” Wu of M.Y. China, Fred Tang and Wilfred Pacio from Spice Kit, and Thomas Weibull from the Clift Ho.
Arts and Crafts: The Asian Arts and Crafts World Market showcases the best and most creative Asian-themed arts and crafts items. Shoppers can expect the highest quality of hand-crafted goods from artists in a wide variety of mediums from these jury selected artisan vendors. From handcrafted jewelry, fabric handbags made with Asian inspired-prints to Asian-influenced apparel and creative home decorations.