KKC’s 1-Year Anniversary: A FAHM Celebration of Community and Culture
On Saturday Oct. 25, Kapwa Kultural Center celebrated its one-year anniversary alongside Larry Itliong Day. While our café has been open for just a year, this milestone reflects years of planning, vision, and community effort coming to life.
What began as a dream has grown into a space where people gather, share stories, and reconnect with culture. To mark the occasion, we partnered with Remagination Farm and Dirty Kitchen for a celebration that honored Larry Itliong Day and the generations who made our work possible.
Dirty Kitchen centers storytelling through food and family. Their book follows a Lola and her grandchildren tending a garden, harvesting vegetables, and cooking Pinakbet together—a reflection of intergenerational learning, land connection, and the cultural knowledge carried through everyday meals. Their presence at our celebration highlighted how food, memory, and care continue to shape our communities.
Remagination Farm, a regenerative land-based project, focuses on reconnecting people of color to the earth through ecological justice and ancestral knowledge. Their approach to land stewardship—rooted in healing, education, and community care—aligns deeply with KKC’s mission of cultivating belonging and cultural connection. Together, KKC and Remagination Farm create complementary spaces: one rooted in land, the other in community gathering, both working toward futures built on care rather than extraction.
We also launched our new boba flavors!
We’re grateful to our team, volunteers, community, and sponsors for supporting this past year of growth. Salamat to our partners and sponsors, including Seafood City Supermarket, Remagination Farm, Dirty Kitchen, Tselogs, Tuna Kahuna,Paper Picture Mama, Raising Ancestors, Therapinxy, and Ruth Christine Dimagmaliw, LMFT, for making this celebration possible.
Here’s to one year of Kapwa Kultural Center and the many more to come.
