PHOTO: Alisa Hayashida | South Pasadenan News | Local playwright Paul Kikuchi and his “Underachieving Asian” shirts and hoodies at the Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage celebration in South Pasadena.
The food was fantastic with everything from homemade spam musubi to Filipino lumpia and adobo, Vietnamese pandan coconut waffles, classics from China like bing fen and more familiar fair like orange chicken, Indian samosas, guava and lychee drinks and so much more. Thank you for uplifting Asian Pacific Islanders in this region and making sure we can celebrate the festivities that make our culture whole.” PHOTO: Alisa Hayashida | South Pasadenan News | Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage celebration in South Pasadena.Īssemblyman Fong also addressed the crowd and expressed his appreciation for the event and all the event’s organizers saying, “today we celebrate unity, and diversity, and strength in our community – it’s events like this that allows the community to come together and celebrate the contribution of Asian Americans to our city, our region and to our greater nation.” PHOTO: Alisa Hayashida | South Pasadenan News | Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage celebration in South Pasadena. And it’s also important for us to come together and celebrate the contributions of the AAPI community – to come together and be unified.
Chu went on to say, “I appreciate an event like this to reflect on where we are and where we need to go – coming off of three years of combating anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents, 11,500 that have occurred over this time period – it’s important for us to speak out against this. The Mayor then introduced Congresswoman Judy Chu who gave a special shout out to Cutcheon for spearheading the event and congratulated her once again on receiving Congressional Woman of the Year. PHOTO: Alisa Hayashida | South Pasadenan News | Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage celebration in South Pasadena. Yes, our Mayor is fluent in Mandarin and is a good singer to boot! SPCC President Yuki Cutcheon, who brought the idea of this event to the city last year and was recently awarded Judy Chu’s Congressional Woman of the Year Award for South Pasadena, thanked the crowd and introduced Mayor Jon Primuth who proceeded to welcome revelers with a Mother’s Day song sung in Mandarin. PHOTO: Alisa Hayashida | South Pasadenan News | Mayor Jon Primuth with Assemblyman Mike Fong and SPCC President Yuki Cutcheon at the Asian American Pacific Islander celebration 2023
The morning kicked off with Mistress of Ceremonies, SPCC Board of Directors member Katy Nielsen, introducing and thanking all of the attending dignitaries which included Mayor Jon Primuth, City Manager Armine Chaparyan, City Councilmembers Michael Cacciotti, Janet Braun, and Evelyn Zneimer, Former Mayor Robert Joe, Police Lieutenant Shannon Robledo and members of the SPPD, Fire Chief Paul Riddle, Division Chief Mark Dondanville and members of SPFD, along with Congresswoman Judy Chu, Assemblyman Mike Fong, Senator Portantino Representative Erica Nam and PCC Trustee Kristine Kwong. South Pasadenans and crowds from our neighboring cities enjoyed shopping and eating while watching the diverse and vibrant entertainment from traditional hula and Tahitian dance to Japanese Taiko drumming, to traditional Korean, Cambodian and Bollywood dancers, Vietnamese musicians and Chinese lion dancers! PHOTO: Ben Moreno | South Pasadenan News | PCC Trustee Kristine Kwong, Congresswoman Judy Chu, SPCC President Yuki Cutcheon, South Pasadena Mayor Jon Primuth at the Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage celebration. This second outing proved to be even more popular and well attended than last year’s event and only promises to grow. On one of the first truly warm, beautiful days of Spring, the City of South Pasadena and the South Pasadena Chinese-American Club held the second annual celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at Garfield Park on Saturday May 13. PHOTO: Alisa Hayashida | South Pasadenan News | Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Celebration in South Pasadena
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