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October 2025

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OFF-CAMPUS: Oct 4, 2025 Moon Festival

Join us under the full moon for a joyful evening of culture, creativity, and community!

 

Date: Oct 4, 2025

Time: 3:00-9:00 pm

Location: Officer Jeremy Henwood Memorial Park, 3795 Fairmount Ave, 92105

 

Lion dance , Free paper lanterns, Mooncake-making workshop, Cultural performances, Bouncy houses, and a movie under the stars.

 

Let鈥檚 celebrate while caring for our neighborhood.Before the festivities begin, we invite you to join a community clean-up walk around the park 鈥 a simple way to give back, connect, and honor our shared space.

 

OFF-CAMPUS: Oct 22, 2025 Dumpling Fest San Diego

Join us and tantalize your taste buds at a selection of restaurants in San Diego to taste different kinds of dumplings and more!

 

Date: Oct 22, 2025

Time: 5:30-9:30 pm

Location: 92015

 

 

September 2025

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OFF-CAMPUS: Sep 7, 2025 The Aloha Run San Diego

SAN DIEGO 5K & 10K Run/Walk

 

Date: Sun, Sep 7, 2025

Location: Tecolote Shores Park, 1292 E. Mission Bay Dr., 92111

 

鈥 Collector鈥檚 Finisher Medal for all participants 

鈥 Aloha Run Beach towel

鈥 Chip timed results

鈥 Super scenic and flat course

鈥 Post-race Luau with live music, dancers and drummers

鈥 Winner awards for top 3 in five year age groups

 

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OFF-CAMPUS: Sep 8, 2025 Filipino Heritage Celebration with the Padres

The Filipino Heritage will be honored at this Padres Baseball game vs. the Cincinnati Reds. Celebrate with a limited-edition themed jersey! 

 

Date: Sep 8, 2025

Time: 6:40 pm

Location: Petco Park

 

This is a ticket purchased event.

 

OPPORTUNITY: The BRIDGE Lab Foundation's FRONTLINE

The Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District has been selected by the San Diego Foundation to serve as a host site for this free, year-long mental health mentorship and leadership program for San Diego youth ages 14鈥25, with a focus on AANHPI and BIPOC communities.

 

Through five powerful workshops, applied learning art projects, and community events, students will explore mental health from a decolonized and culturally rooted lens. They will:

  • build skills as peer healers
  • create original art or film projects to be entered in scholarship competitions
  • earn community service hours
  • be honored as Mental Health Leaders at a Community Wellness Celebration in May 2026

Students can expect to learn important skills like: Self-Awareness, Liberatory Emotional Intelligence, Non-Violent Communication, Decolonized Trauma-Informed Care Training, Relational Repair Skills, and Community Organizing and Leadership. 

 

We鈥檙e currently building our Grossmont + Cuyamaca Community Team and looking for 20鈥30 participants to join. 

 

Please email june.yang@gcccd.edu if you are interested in being nominated. 

 

VIRTUAL: Sep 22-28, 2025 AANAPISI Week

Celebrating Asian American & Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions. This year we aim to: 

  1. Raise awareness and #SpeakUp about how AANAPISIs drive AANHPI student success;
  2. Grow and strengthen our national network of supporters, advocates, and champions;
  3. Support federal policy leaders who are pushing for sustained investment in AANAPISIs and their students.

As we shine a spotlight on the transformative work of AANAPISI institutions, we invite our partners to learn, share, and amplify.

 

 

OFF-CAMPUS: Sep 23, 2025 Korean Heritage Celebration with the Padres

The Korean Heritage will be honored at this Padres Baseball game vs. the Brewers. Celebrate with a limited-edition hat! 

 

Date: Sep 23, 2025

Time: 6:40 pm

Location: Petco Park

 

This is a ticket purchased event.

 

 

OFF-CAMPUS: Sep 27, 2025 Southeast Asian Food Tour

We鈥檙e bringing the flavors of Southeast Asia to Clairemont 鈥 and all you need is an appetite. 馃ア Satay鈥煂讹笍 Tom Yum鈥煃 Hainan Chicken Rice鈥ㄢnd more!

 

Date: Sep 27, 2025

Time: 11:00 am-3:00 pm

Location: First Chinese Church, Clairemont

 

 

August 2025

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APPLE TV+: Beginning Aug 1, 2025: Chief of War TV mini series

Chief of War, TV mini series

 

In Chief of War, Kamehameha is portrayed as a man coming to terms with his kuleana and reluctantly accepting the burden of leadership. A thrilling, unprecedented telling of the unification of the Hawaiian Islands from an indigenous perspective. A Hawaiian war chief joins a bloody campaign to unite the warring islands in order to save them from the threat of colonization. Created by Jason Mamoa and Thomas Pa'a Sibbett.

 

OFF-CAMPUS: Aug 30-31, 2025 Holoholo San Diego Music Fesitval and Great Island Cook Out

Enjoy two days of ! Alongside will be the Great Island Cook Out food festival.

 

Date: Aug 30-31, 2025

Time:  TBD

Location: Gallagher Square at Petco Park

 

This is a ticket purchased event.

 

 

July 2025

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OFF-CAMPUS: Jul 10, 2025 23rd Annual Taste of the Pacific

Join the Pacific Island Festival Association in this scholarshiip fundraiser which inclues live entertainment, taste competitioin and a silent auction.

 

Date: July 10, 2025

Time: 5:00-8:00 pm

Location: Bali Hai Restaurant

 

 

OFF-CAMPUS: Jul 12 & 13, 2025 2025 Summer Kimono and Yukata Market

Sponsered by Kyoto Maruhisa USA. Get ready for summer festivals and Bon Odori!

 

Date: July 12-13, 2025

Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm

Location: Four Points by Sheraton, Montfield Room

 

This event is FREE.

 

OFF-CAMPUS: Jul 13, 2025 Pacific Islands Fesitval

Celebrate with Bowers Museum during our free family festivals held every first Sunday of the month in the Museum鈥檚 beautiful Key Courtyard. Enjoy live performances, art making, face painting and complimentary treats at every festival.

 

Date: July 13, 2025

Time: 11:00 am-3:00 pm

Location: Bowers Museum of Cultural Art

 

This event is FREE.

 

 

June 26, 2025

 

 

June 2025

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OFF-CAMPUS: Jun 11, 2025 Japanese Heritage Celebration with the Padres

The Japanese Heritage will be honored at this Padres Baseball game vs. the LA Dodgers.

 

Date: Jun 11, 2025

Time: 6:40 pm

Location: Petco Park

 

This is a ticket purchased event.

 

OFF-CAMPUS: Jun 24, 2025 Filipino Heritage Celebration with the Padres

The Filipino Heritage will be honored at this Padres Baseball game vs. the Nationals. Celebrate with a limited-edition bucket hat! 

 

Date: Jun 24, 2025

Time: 6:40 pm

Location: Petco Park

 

This is a ticket purchased event.

 

OFF-CAMPUS: Jun 28-29, 2025 San Diego Ho'olaule'a

Live Hawaiian music and hula dancing, vendors, ono grinds (food), cultural village, raffles and giveaways

 

Date: June 28-29, 2025

Time: 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Location: NTC Park Liberty Station, 2455 Cushing Rd, 92106

 

 

May 2025 - Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

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Month of May - Asian Americans in Entertainment Library Display

Did you know they were Asian?

 

Date: Month of May

Time:

Location: 小优传媒 Library, Building 70, Northside, South display case

 

 

Tue, May 6 - Anime Palooza

In collaboration with First Year Experience, join us in celebrating AANHPI month.

 

Date: Tue, May 6

Time: 12:30-1:30 pm

Location: Griffin Gate

 

 

Mon, May 12 - Dance Fitness

Dance Fitness

 

Date: Mon, May 12

Time: 3:00-3:30 pm

Location: Griffin Gate 60-180 and via

 

OFF-CAMPUS: Thu, May 15 - NEW WAVE movie screening

There is a free screening of NEW WAVE, the sold-out hit from SDAFF 2024 preseneted by Viet Voices.

 

Date: Thu, May 15

Time: 6:00 pm

Location: Ultrastar Cinemas Mission Valley

 

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Mon, May 19 - Tai Chi

Tai Chi

 

Date: Mon, May 19

Time: 3:00-3:20 pm

Location: via

 

Wed, May 21 - Fun With Photocards

In collaboration with First Year Experience, have fun decorating Photocards.

 

Date: Wed, May 21

Time: 12:00-2:00 pm

Location: Griffin Center, Building 60

 

 

Fri, May 23 - Sound Healing

Sound Healing

 

Date: Fri, May 23

Time: 1:15-1:45 pm

Location: Hyde Gallery

 

OFF-CAMPUS: Sat, May 24 - Asian Cultural Festival

Asian Cultural Festival

 

Date: Sat, May 24

Time: 11:00 am

Location: Balboa Park

 

Mon, Jun 2 - AAPI Graduation Celebration

By invitation only

 

Date: Mon, Jun 2

Time: 5:00 pm

 

April 2025

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API Exhibition: Aloha Vaqueros
The San Diego History Center invites you to experience Aloha Vaqueros, a gathering to celebrate the stories, spirite, and aloth of the Hawaiian cowboy. Now open for the month of April.
 
Celebrate the rich, cross-cultural cowboy traditions rooted in the vaquero heritage that helped shape Hawai鈥榠鈥檚 paniolos and connected them to the vaqueros of Baja and Alta California. Come honor the history, heritage, and shared spirit of two cultures鈥攂rought to life through this powerful exhibition of storytelling, artifacts, and connection.
 
Closing reception is on May 1, 2025 from 6:00-9:00 pm. at the San Diego History Center at Balboa Park. General admission is $10. Space is limited. .
 

 

March 2025

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South Korean author Han Kang, Nobel Prize recipient for Literature

Celebrate Women's History Month!

We congratulate and honor South Korean author, Han Kang, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 
 
In her novel, We Do Not Part, "Han Kang confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life" and "has a unique awareness of the connection between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose."
 
Six prizes are awarded each year for "achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." 
 
Kimono Expo

Date: Sat, Mar 8 and Sun, Mar 9

Time:  10:00 am-4:00 pm

Location: Four Points by Sheraton, San Diego

 

The popular kimono exhibition, which attracts hundreds of visitors each time, will be held for the 7th year! Popular kimono shops will come from Kyoto, Japan. You can enjoy hundreds of products at each venue, including kimonos, yukata, haori, jinbei, samue, children's yukata and Japanese goods.
 

FREE ADMISSION!

 

 

January/February 2025

Celebrate the Year of the Snake

January 29, 2025 to February 16, 2026

  • The Snake symbolizes intellegence, wisdom and intuition.
  • Chinese greeting: Kung Hei Fat Choy! Wishing a happy and prosperous new year to you!
  • Korean greeting: Haengbokan Saehae Doeseyo! Have a happy new year!
  • Japanese greeting: Akemashite omedet艒 gozaimasu! Happy New Year!

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San Diego Lunar New Year Festival [Off-Campus]

Dates/Times:

Jan 24, 2025 from 5:00-10:00 PM

Jan 25, 2025 from 11:00 AM-10:00 PM

Jan 26, 2025 from 11:00 AM-8:00 PM

 

Location:

Officer Jeremey Henwood Memorial Park

4455 Wightman St, 92105

 

is a 3-day celebration of the most important holiday in many Asian cultures. The festival will include folk and traditional performances, arts and cultural exhibitions, lion dances and firecrackers, and plenty of family fun activities for the kids. More importantly, the festival is inclusive and free.

 

San Diego TET Festival [Off-Campus]

Dates/Times:

Jan 31, 2025 from 5:00-10:00 PM

Feb 1, 2025 from 11:00 AM-10:00 PM

Feb 2, 2025 from 11:00 AM-9:00 PM

 

Location:

Preble Field, NTC Park Liberty Station

2640 Cushing Rd, 92106

 

Celebrate the Year of the Wood Snake! The includes Entertainment Headliners, Dance Competitions, Performances, Attractions, and Carnival Rides ($). Admission is FREE.

 

Balboa Park Chinese New Year Fair [Off-Campus]

Dates: Feb 15-16, 2025

Time: 11:00 AM-5:00 PM

Location: International Cottages Balboa Park

                2191 Pan American Rd W, 92101

 

Celebrate the year of the Snake! Since 1935, the House of China has brought the beauty of Chinese culture to San Diego located at the International Cottages Balboa Park. Our annual is a time-honored tradition that brings together families and communities to celebrate with performances, food, and cultural displays. Admission is FREE.