Halo-Halo Holidays
A Filipino X-Mas crawl in SOMA Pilipinas
Saturday, 12/11/21 from 11am - 8pm
Online Ticket sales have ended. Tickets are available at the door for both venues. visit the check-in stand at Kapwa Gardens or Balay Kreative!
Across 5 Spaces in
The Filipino Cultural District
We’re coming home for the holidays with this unique, socially-distanced indoor / outdoor holiday cultural experience in the heart of SOMA Pilipinas. Join us this Christmas season as we enjoy family-friendly activities, food trucks, and some of your favorite local retailers, merchants, and artists.
Locations
Balay Kreative Studios
863 Mission St. | 11a - 4p
Kapwa Gardens
967 Mission St. | 11a - 4p
Executive Order
868 Mission St. | 12p - 4p
Yerba Buena Center For the Arts
701 Mission St. | 4p - 8p
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
814 Mission St. | 11a - 4p
Explore The Various Venues & Activations
Halo Halo Holidays Market @ Kapwa Gardens
Support local Filipinx-owned retail and food vendors this Holiday Season.
Situated in the urban oasis of Kapwa Gardens, you’ll be immersed in a wonderland of living walls, colorful murals, swaying bamboo trees, and a mini grove of Filipino Calamansi trees all while getting your holiday shopping done!
Online Ticket sales have ended. Tickets are available at the door for both venues. visit the check-in stand at Kapwa Gardens or Balay Kreative!
Support Local Businesses and Shop Local This Holiday Season
Retail Vendors
Food Vendors
Republika Pop-up @ Balay Kreative Studios
Republika SF is a Filipino Retail Incubator & Art Gallery slated to open in late 2022.
Shop and browse the Republika Window Shop Collection, a concept inspired by a Portland project where vacate storefronts will be activated with a curated display of retail items from the Filipinx maker world while simultaneously telling stores of Filipino culture.
863 Mission St., the future home of Republika, is currently being activated as Balay Kreative Studios as we wait for construction to begin. Meet the Resident Artists currently working out of Balay and catch a peek of their work.
Online Ticket sales have ended. Tickets are available at the door for both venues. visit the check-in stand at Kapwa Gardens or Balay Kreative!
A Sneak Peek at the republika Pop-up
This shoppable pop-up collection was inspired by the turn of the 19th century brought the first big migration of Filipinos to the U.S. The “Manongs” were predominately single men, working back breaking farm jobs. In their free time they dressed to the nines drawing the irie of their white counterparts . They also became labor leaders, building the foundations of the farmer workers movement.
To celebrate Filipino American Heritage Month, the San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center, Republika, and Arkipelago Books created a shopable selection of the finest literary work from our community. Each books stands on it’s on a slice of the dynamic Filipino-American culture in the Bay Area and beyond. Catch this exhibit at the San Francisco Filipino Community Center.
This window shop collection reflects how Filipinx culture is rooted in the ethos of social justice and inclusivity. Grounded in the social commentary found in hip-hop, while underscoring the need for genderless boundaries, and advocating for equity—Filipinx culture seeks to heal & fix the wounds of a fractured society.
balay kreative Resident Artists + Organizations
Catch a puppet show by the one-and-only Tito Ramon.
Purchase Pinayista swag and rep the sisterhood.
Browse and shop prints and art by the lovely Vivian Capulong.
Catch a mesmerizing installation with Kristian’s projection mapping.
Mirage Medicinal will be keeping this art installation as a fun photo op!
See what ChiChai has been up to lately by stopping by her art hub.
Cocktails & Candy Canes @ Executive Order
Tis the season! Happy Hour is back, but this time around with we're bringing out the ugly Christmas sweaters with our business cards.
SEED Network, YFPA (Your Filipino Professionals Association), SOMBA (South of Market Business Association), FBANC (Filipino Bar Association of Northern California), Black Wall Street and Kultivate Labs will be hosting a mixer for business owners at Executive Order Bar and Lounge on Mission Street.
SEED Network is also running a toy + book drive. Attendees are encouraged to bring a toy and/or book they would like donate to our charitable partner West Bay Pilipino Center to serve youth in the SOMA.
Exclusive Executive Order Holiday Menu
Still hungry? Right outside Executive Order, you’ll be able to find Barya Kitchen, a filipino food pop-up started by a group of friends who share the same passion for modern style filipino cuisine located in the Bay Area.
Parol Lantern Festival
Join us this holiday season for a fun-filled cultural festival of food, drinks, art, dance, musical performances, and shopping at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
The parol lantern is the quintessential Filipino symbol of hope, blessings, luck, and peace, during the holiday season, and can be found lighting up windows in Filipino homes throughout the world.
Celebrating its 19th year in SOMA, the festival features a gallery of specialty parols, alongside live music and a showcase of Filipino holiday treats. The festival will culminate with a ritual dance performance and a parol lighting ceremony.
Festival Schedule
Get into the holiday spirit with specialty parols made by Filipino artists and creators, free samples of traditional Filipino holiday treats, live music, and a parol lighting ceremony at YBCA.
4–8 pm: Live Music and Cultural Performances
Sing along with local Filipino musicians and artists:
TNT Traysikel (SideCaraoke)
Bayanihan Equity Center Senior Choir
Autonomous Region (jazz quintet)
Rondalla Ensemble (American Center for Philippines Arts)
Sama Sama Cooperative Youth Choir
4–6 pm: Taste of Christmas
Feel at home and bring back warm memories with traditional Filipino holiday treats. Free samples are available while they last.
6:30–7:30 pm: Parol Lighting Ceremony
Join us for a novel parol lighting ceremony featuring Kularts’ Lakbai Diwa, a ritual dance performance of a living dance prayer and meditation for the world with spirit boat offerings of food, flowers, herbs, and power objects, festooned with prayer flags.
San Francisco Filipino Community Center
Hosted by KITA-KEATS Events, join us for another holiday celebration at San Francisco Filipino Community Center. Expect an afternoon of X-mas tunes, delicious food, and Philippine Barako coffee.
Keeping Our Community Safe
Kapwa Gardens has undergone numerous design evolutions to adapt to the pandemic and ensure that social distancing can be maintained to create a sense of community in this health and wellness space. Our team has studied other Bay Area events and learned from our own experiences to continue to improve our safety standards for in-person events.
