Filipino American National Historical Society: Delano Chapter

08/03/2026

2026 Delano FANHS Summer Celebration: From Our Roots! Photo Album Part III
📸Additional snippets from our videographer and documentary co-director, Bryan Avelar

08/03/2026

2026 Delano FANHS Summer Celebration: From Our Roots! Photo Album Part II
📸 Photo Credits: Christopher Ines .pix on Instagram

An amazing group of dancers! We loved sharing Filipino history and culture with you all through dance and music, and we loved sharing the stage with you all at our summer celebration.

Special shoutout to our Materials Culture Team: Agnes Trzaska, Catherine Pablo, Terry Dela Cruz, and Auntie Pin! We couldn't have done this without you all and we appreciate all the mentorship, guidance, and work you've provided for our program.

08/03/2026

Thank you again to everyone who attended this very special event! Our 2026 Delano FANHS Summer Celebration was inspirational, enthusiastic, caring, and altogether a wonderful celebration of community.

From the bottom of our hearts, from both FANHS and our FAYE team, thank you for celebrating this summer with us!✨

📸From Our Roots! Photo Album Part I. Photo Credits to Christopher Ines .pix on Instagram

07/22/2026

Were you unable to purchase a program at our 2026 FANHS Summer Celebration: From Our Roots? This is your chance to potentially purchase one! The FAYE team is opening up a Program Booklet interest form, where you can indicate your interest in purchasing a physical program. **This is not the preorder form.** If enough people are interested in purchasing a program (or two. or three!), we will be able to open up preorders!

Programs will include:
- FAYE team member descriptions
- The order of performances
- Performance descriptions and pictures of the performers
- Our documentary's title and description
- And more!

This interest form will include sample photos of what is included in the program booklet.
**Each program will cost $10. **
This interest form closes on July 27th, and the preorder form will open on July 29th!

Let us know if you have any questions!

Interest form link is here: https://forms.gle/ymNKwupUo78DNNow9

Sincerely,

Mariel Muñoz
Filipino American Youth Engagement Committee (FAYE) with FANHS - Delano Chapter

Please fill out this form if you are interested in preordering a physical program from the 2026 FANHS Summer Celebration, which took place on July 18th, 2026. This is not a preorder form! This form is being used to gauge interest in a physical program before we collect preorders. We will send out a....

07/17/2026

Thank you to the Bakersfield Californian for covering the premiere of our first documentary "Rooted in Resilience: Stories of Migration, Discrimination, and Unity from Delano's Filipino Elders" and our 2026 Summer Celebration: "From Our Roots"!

We're ecstatic about our event coming up Saturday and look forward to sharing this event with you all.

✨2026 Delano FANHS Summer Celebration: From Our Roots is THIS SATURDAY, July 18th at 2:00PM at the CCHS Main Gymnasium✨

A new documentary telling the story of Delano's Filipino American community will premiere on Saturday during an event featuring local youth, musicians and cultural performers.

07/15/2026

THREE DAYS until our 2026 Delano FANHS Summer Celebration: ✨FROM OUR ROOTS✨

PREMIERING our first documentary: "Rooted in Resilience: Stories of Migration, Discrimination, and Unity From Delano's Filipino Elders"
FEATURING Roger Gadiano, Patty Serda, Pin Taruc and Domi Tomate

AND SHOWCASING Our Fil-Am Youth Dance teams
INCLUDING THREE K-12 Folk Dance Teams and our Young Adult Youth Engagement Team
AND FEATURING Auntie Pin's Fil-Am and Junior Fil-Am Dancers of Delano!

JOINING US are Delano High School Chamber choir singing the Star Spangled Banner and soloist Yasmin Marcelo singing the Philippines National Anthem.

TICKETS ARE ON SALE AT

Join us for our very first Delano FANHS Summer Celebration!Our theme this year is "From Our Roots," which is inspired by the many Filipino American leaders…

07/09/2026

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