Asian Heritage Street Celebration

For the first time ever, the Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC) offered cash prizes totaling $1,000 and trophies to participants in the Faces of Asia Cultural Procession. The procession drew over 300 people and over 20 community groups. Judges included: KPIX 5 Reporter Linda Yee, Visa’s Senior Business Leader Ray Chan, Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce Board Member Dr. Liza Fong,  Program Manager of San [...]

Festival goers had the chance to experience Asian culture at the 9th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration with food, live entertainment, traditional ethnic attire, arts and crafts world market, and more on Saturday, May 18 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Civic Center to Little Saigon in San Francisco. Produced by the AsianWeek Foundation. [...]

Colorful Asian ethnic attire will be paraded through the 9th annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration set for Saturday, May 18, 2013 as part of the Faces of Asia cultural procession at 11 a.m. The procession begins at the Asian Art Museum and participants will walk down Larkin St. towards Ellis and return to end at the Cultural [...]

St. Mary’s School in San Francisco has been able to continue funding their volunteer-run arts program by purchasing school supplies with extra money raised from the AHSC Make Some Money For Your School raffle program. “Having extra funds from the raffle proceeds has enhanced our arts activities,” says St. Mary’s principal Nancy Fiebelkorn. “This year, all [...]

Testing for Hepatitis B and C is available all day at the Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC) this Saturday, May 18 at  San Francisco’s Civic Center as part of a nationally coordinated effort to increase community outreach for all Americans on the second annual National Hepatitis Testing Day, which AHSC helped to successfully launch last [...]