Filipino American National Historical Society - Greater Seattle Chapter

08/07/2026

07/30/2026

06/09/2026

With Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉Filipiniana Dance Company, recognized as one of the longest running Filipino dance company in the Pacific Northwest, made its debut with full force. Twenty-five dancers, representing the five generations of performing dancers, to honor their illustrious leader and Director, Roger Del Rosario. This is our opening number, from our Igorot Suite, Banga.

06/07/2026

TODAY 6/7 until 7PM: Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival at Seattle Center Armory.

04/22/2026

04/20/2026

https://youtu.be/gnrPStvMPXA
Cascade PBS:
The group Filipinotown Seattle hopes to make sure that the legacy of Filipino Americans in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District isn’t forgotten.

02/23/2026

01/31/2026

Filipina American Principal Dancer Angelica Generosa stars as Cinderella tonight (Sat 1/31) at 7:30 PM and Sunday Feb 8th at 7 PM at the Pacific Northwest Ballet McCaw Hall.

01/15/2026

International Examiner/Adrian Alarilla: “In 1906, after the Spanish–American War and U.S. colonization of the Philippines, American sugar plantation owners brought in the first Filipinos to work on their fields in the then-territory of Hawai‘i. From there, some Filipinos moved on to work the farmlands of the West Coast and canneries of Alaska, laying down the groundwork of Filipino migration to the U.S.
But rather than be welcomed for doing the hard farmwork that no one else wanted to do, Filipinos were met with suspicion and even hostility. Jonathan Okamura, Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, studied how Filipinos came to be stereotyped as criminals and dangerous foreign entities. This heightened tension peaked with a wave of anti-Filipino riots that spanned across the West Coast in the 1920s and 1930s. While the most famous were the Watsonville riots of 1930 in California, the first anti-Filipino riots in the U.S. actually occurred in Yakima Valley back in 1927. Back then, Filipinos were portrayed in mainstream discourse as uncivilized, criminal savages stealing jobs from hard-working Americans.
Much of that rhetoric continues today. In 2024, Trump and the Republican party ran on a platform of anti-immigration, with calls to “stop the migrant invasion,” “stop the migrant crime epidemic,” and “carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.”"

On December 21, Greggy Sorio, an ailing Filipino migrant and detainee at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, was finally allowed to visit a doctor from outside the detention center. This came after months of alleged medical neglect from the private, for-profit corporation GEO Group, whi...

11/10/2025

Veterans Day 2025 Remembrance
https://vimeo.com/477423607
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Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS)
Filipino American Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project Videos
Preview: https://vimeo.com/145367703
Documentary: https://vimeo.com/170335291
Veterans Day Panel 2020 https://vimeo.com/488816601
Veterans Day Panel 2021 https://vimeo.com/645585852

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