Take a break, Kapwa style! This September, we’re bringing you a special afternoon treat.

👉 20% off all drinks every Tuesday & Wednesday, 1–3pm.

📅 Available all month long in September only.

Whether you’re stopping in for a study break, catching up with friends, or just craving that perfect boba boost, this is your chance to enjoy it for less.

Celebrate the Ber months and keep the spirit of community flowing with us at Kapwa Kultural Center & Café. 💛

📍 Kapwa Kultural Center & Café – Daly City

🗓️ Tuesdays & Wednesdays in September

⏰ 1:00–3:00 PM

SKRATCHFIGHT

Turntable Community | Est. 2012

TURNTABLES FOR THE PEOPLE. OPEN DECKS. REAL VIBES. ALL LOVE.

SKRATCHFIGHT is a grassroots Bay Area Community rooted in turntablism, vinyl culture, and creative expression.

Founded at the historic Manila Heritage Building in San Francisco, and now thriving in places like Daly City’s War Memorial Community Center, SKRATCHFIGHT hosts open sessions where anyone- of any age or level- can touch the turntables and feel the vibe.

Whether you’re a first-timer or a seasoned DJ, just come through. No gear, no pressure- just music, connection and culture.

SKRATCHFIGHT will be at Kapwa Kultural Center 2nd and 4th Fridays from 1-5pm.

Come check them out Friday 9/26 featuring a set by @fonz_1896!

No need to register, just come through, grab a boba and jump in.

SCRATCH, LISTEN, CHILL. THIS IS FOR YOU. THIS IS FOR ALL OF US.

Follow @skratchfight

Kapwa Cultural Center invites you to a special Vendor Pop-Up!

Join us on Thursday, September 25 from 1–5PM as we welcome New Skool for an exclusive in-person pop-up at the café.

✨ Enjoy 20% off New Skool products during the event! ✨

This is the perfect chance to:

• Shop New Skool’s curated collection at a discount

• Support local makers and small businesses

• Connect with the community while enjoying our signature boba drinks

📅 Date: Thursday, September 25

⏰ Time: 1–5PM

📍 Location: Kapwa Cultural Center & Café – Daly City

Take a break, Kapwa style! This September, we’re bringing you a special afternoon treat.

👉 20% off all drinks every Tuesday & Wednesday, 1–3pm.

📅 Available all month long in September only.

Whether you’re stopping in for a study break, catching up with friends, or just craving that perfect boba boost, this is your chance to enjoy it for less.

Celebrate the Ber months and keep the spirit of community flowing with us at Kapwa Kultural Center & Café. 💛

📍 Kapwa Kultural Center & Café – Daly City

🗓️ Tuesdays & Wednesdays in September

⏰ 1:00–3:00 PM

Monthly Legal Aid

Office Hours

Provided by legal aid society of san mateo county

It is no secret that we are living in challenging times. The need for legal support and guidance within our trusted networks is becoming increasingly more important.

Kapwa Kultural Center is collaborating with Legal Aid Society of San Mateo to provide free office hours at the Café once a month from 3-5pm on Tuesdays 9/23, 10/28, 11/18 and 12/16.

What to Expect:

Our office hours are intended to provide a low stakes way to meet a legal aid attorney, and ask about our services and community outreach offerings. If you require full scope legal representation, we would be happy to chat with you on how to contact our office to preserve your confidentiality.

No appointment necessary; people are seen on a drop in, first come first served basis.

This is a safe and inclusive space. All are welcome.

Scope of Services:

We serve San Mateo County residents in the following legal areas:

Health care access, housing, public benefits, special education services, domestic violation, immigration, and elder abuses.

We are unable to assist with traffic tickets or criminal cases (including DUIs). If you need legal assistance in a criminal case or a case outside our practice, we can provide information on how to contact the San Mateo Bar Assocation Private Defender's Office and the San Mateo County lawyer referral services.

Meet the Attorney:

Camille Nguyen was a part of UC Irvine Law’s fifth graduating class, where she was a student leader in its Public Interest Law Fund, SSI clinic, and Asian Pacific American Law School Association. Prior to coming to Legal Aid, Camille worked at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, where she represented clients in locked psychiatric facilities, and clients who needed access to mental health services. Camille joined Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County in 2020, and expanded her practice to healthcare consumer law, where she is passionate about advocating for affordable and equitable access to healthcare for hard to reach communities.

Resources:

• Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County website

• The federal government’s final public charge rules are now in effect. Get the facts about public charge & immigration. Learn more how to Keep Your Benefits HERE.

• Watch our recent IG Live with Camille hosted by Steph and Adrienne for our Kapwa C.A.R.E. Series.

No need to register, just show up.

Can’t make it on Tuesday 9/23? Office Hours will be held 3-5pm on Tuesdays 10/28, 11/18 and 12/16.

Take a break, Kapwa style! This September, we’re bringing you a special afternoon treat.

👉 20% off all drinks every Tuesday & Wednesday, 1–3pm.

📅 Available all month long in September only.

Whether you’re stopping in for a study break, catching up with friends, or just craving that perfect boba boost, this is your chance to enjoy it for less.

Celebrate the Ber months and keep the spirit of community flowing with us at Kapwa Kultural Center & Café. 💛

📍 Kapwa Kultural Center & Café – Daly City

🗓️ Tuesdays & Wednesdays in September

⏰ 1:00–3:00 PM

Looking for a cozy spot to create and connect? ✨

Kapwa Café invites you to Craft Meet, our new Filipino-forward crafting hangout. Whether you’re a knitter, crocheter, DIYer, or just curious, you’re welcome to join.

What’s included:

• 🧵 Paper, scissors, paints, markers, yarn and other free craft supplies (or bring your own project!)

• 🧋 Signature Boba drinks for sale.

• 🎉 A warm community space to meet new friends and share your creativity

📍 Kapwa Kultural Center & Café – Daly City GET DIRECTIONS

🗓 Thursday, 9/18 3-5pm

💻 Great for hanging out, studying, or crafting together

Come make something beautiful with us. 💛

Have craft supplies to donate? Contact us HERE or come during Craft Meet hours and drop them off.

Raising Ancestors’

Conscious Caregiving

2025 Workshop Series

Presents

Enough, Free

A Somatic Solo Performance by

Robyn DeGuzman

Followed by Courageous Conversation Facilitated by Raising Ancestors

Enough, Free was most recently featured at the 2024 Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA) Conference in Atlanta, GA and the 2025 AAPA - Division on Filipinx Americans Conference at UC Davis. This unique piece, performed by a professional Filipinx Broadway actor/singer/dancer, allows a somatic response and alchemization of generational trauma that cannot always be accessed through psychotherapy, and creates a healing space for reflection and dialogue by making Filipinx audience members in the diaspora feel seen and understood. By bringing these stories to the forefront, one realizes that their experiences and healing absolutely matters. In community, the healing birthed from a shared experience of witnessing powerful art is magnified.

Abstract:

Enough, Free unearths generational trauma, beginning with the colonization of the Philippines and perpetuated by two immense waves of migration as a source of English-speaking, skilled labor by the United States. It depicts traumatic, ancestral history, using dance, song, drama, and personal narrative, eliciting somatic responses in a collective container. The artist invites the audience into a space of radical imagination, liberation, and healing. The art forms will pose such questions as: 

• How might we unconsciously say no to the secret hopes and dreams that live in our hearts? 

• How might organized religions, such as Catholicism, play roles in oppression and/or liberation? How might we doubt or minimize our personal gifts and talents? 

• How might our world be more just, beautiful, and inclusive if we fully and joyfully embodied our gifts? 

The artist’s solo performance invokes millennial childhood experiences through Catholic hymns that are familiar to many Filipinxs, a precolonial ancestor who expresses concern that he hears Spanish colonizers causing harm to people who dare to question Christianity, a young character being berated by her immigrant mother for her bad grades and love of MTV, and a Philippine delegate to the 2013 United Nations Framework on Climate Change in Geneva who breaks down when describing the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan to the consortium. After the brief performance, a dialogue will be facilitated, offering a brave space to explore somatic and cognitive reactions. 

Rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American community, Enough, Free pays homage to nomadic Filipino farmworkers, low-income Chinese and Filipino seniors who were evicted from San Francisco’s International Hotel, and those displaced and affected by the polluted air of Highway 4’s construction during so-called urban redevelopment in the 1960s. The art piece serves those who are seeking healing, to examine deep-rooted feelings of not being enough or not being capable to meet the demands of surviving and thriving in the New World.

Robyn DeGuzman’s Bio:

Robyn (she/her) is a proud community college transfer student to UC Irvine, where she majored in Dance and subsequently began a professional musical theatre career in New York City. Robyn toured the country with the Broadway musicals Beauty and the Beast (Assistant Dance Captain), the First National Tour of Elf!, and Miss Saigon. Her New York credits include the musicals Hello, Dolly! and Oliver! with National Asian Artists Project, Taylor Mac's 24 Decade History of Popular Music at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, holding an adjunct professor position on the Fine and Performing Arts faculty at Marymount Manhattan College, and the development of Baayork Lee's after school musical theatre program at The Yung Wing School, a public elementary school in Manhattan's Chinatown.

After obtaining a Master of Public Health degree from California State University, Northridge, Robyn began a public health career in Stockton, CA, where she collaborated with Little Manila Rising on the implementation of air quality Assembly Bill 617 and offered a free, evidence-based tai chi series online during the pandemic as a constituent of the San Joaquin County public health department.

Today, Robyn continues her devotion to empowering and healing arts as a mother, dance and tai chi teacher, Pinay collaborator extraordinaire, and solo performance artist.

When: Wednesday 9/10 at 5:30-7:00

Who: All Generations

Cost: $10 suggested donation; no one turned away for lack of funds

Follow: @robyndeguzmanofficial

Light bites and child tending provided. Space is limited. Please register below.

Book Launch & Community Gathering

Time: 5 PM - 8 PM

Cost: Free and Open to All. Limited seating. Registration required. $10 suggested donation to Kapwa Kultural Center.

Event Summary: Conversation on Filipino boxing and liberation with historian Dr. Bernard James Remollino and community organizer Jean “JT” Teodoro. This kwentuhan will weave the story of the first Asian and Filipino boxing world champion, Francisco “Pancho Villa” Guilledo, with the current work being done by the Bayanihan Boxing program in the Bay Area.

The event will include a signing of Dr. Remollino’s new book with Bayani Art, Pancho Villa: World Champion, 1923, and a chance to learn more about JT’s upcoming works: Paper Trail of FREEDOM and Palestinian poet Sara Afana’s Unmuted Echoes of Peace.

Community organizers will be tabling their resources at the event. Food provided by Willie’s Catering and Restaurant. Boba drinks provided by Kapwa Kultural Center and Cafè.

Please register below to save your spot- limited seating.

Kapwa and Colonialism:

New Discussions on Filipino American Cultural Identity and Mental Health

In this talk, Edwin Carlos, PhD will discuss his research on Filipinx American identity and mental health. He will discuss current understandings of Filipinx American identity and mental health as it relates to colonial mentality. Then, he will share his findings from his dissertation research that expand on the relationship between colonial mentality and mental health.

Finally, he will provide space to discuss the application of these results to therapeutic practice, ethnic studies education, and community engaged work. 

Key Takeaways

• Current understandings of Filipinx American research take a deficit-oriented view of Filipino American mental health.

• Drawing on theories and research from the deep Black American racial identity field, Edwin will discuss new ways to understand the relationship between colonial mentality and mental health among Filipinx Americans.

Zoom meeting information will automatically be emailed to registrants. Please register below.

Curate Our Cafe: The Bread Basket Bakery

When: Friday 8/1 at 3:00-5:00pm.

Who: Open to the community; all ages

We're thrilled to announce we're expanding our offerings beyond our beloved signature drinks. Soon, you'll be able to pair your favorite drinks with delicious snacks (merienda). But first, we need your help!

Join us THIS FRIDAY for a special tasting event where you'll get to sample a variety of items from our partner bakery and Daly City’s own, The Bread Basket. Leave your feedback to let us know which items you’d like to see at Kapwa Café in the future.

How it works: $7 per tasting plate and 50% off one boba purchased that day

Bread Basket Tasting will include items like (while supplies last): grilled cheese, ube senorita bread, biko, bibinka, guava cheese rolls, brownies, pan de coco, French macaron

Please register below so we can prepare enough inventory.

When: Tuesday 7/22/25 at 5:00-6:30pm

Where:
Kapwa Kultural Center

11-B San Pedro Rd., Daly City

What: Join the Brokada Healing Collective as we discuss ways to support Filipinx men in our community, how to fight self-isolation, and how to build community with and protect the most vulnerable members of our community during these ties. We gladly invite any folks who may be interested in an in-person space to discuss identity, mental health, and community engagement. 

Cost: $10 suggested donation; no one turned away for lack of funds

About our space holders:

The Brokada Healing Collective invites the community to an intentional conversation concerning modes of masculinities that Filipinx male identifying individuals may embody as their ethnic/racial, gender, and sexuality overlap. This healing circle recognizes the continued need to dismantle cis-heteropatriarchy, toxic masculinity, & its potential for violence and harm towards our communities. We commit to create space & continue healing work together, while moving towards collective (un)learning & grounding ourselves in love & feminist liberated ways of being.

Follow @brokadacircle in collaboration and sponsorship with @fmhisf and @amadokhaya

RSVP for the event below!

Workshop Description:

When wellness is often reduced to routines and productivity, this workshop invites us back to ginhawa (comfort, ease). Through the lens of the five types of wellness we will explore culturally-grounded practices that support healing and resilience in the Filipinx community. We’ll look at what wellness can mean for us as a community, especially when we’re dealing with stress, pressure, and systems that weren’t built with us in mind. This workshop offers space for reflection, discussion, and cultural reconnection. This workshop offers space for reflection, discussion, and cultural reconnection. Whether you're navigating burnout, seeking deeper grounding, or simply curious about how culture can support your healing journey - this space is for you.

REGISTER HERE: https://paloaltou.zoom.us/meeting/register/W_c9laTgSI2f-nKsv97cIw#/registration

Facilitator Bio:

Ruth Christine Dimagmaliw, LMFT is a Bay Area native, daughter of immigrants, and licensed therapist with over a decade of experience in the mental health field. Her clinical work spans intensive home services, school-based care, and outpatient settings, where she has supported system-involved youth, neurodivergent communities, and adult children of immigrants. Grounded in a systemic and social justice framework, Ruth centers equity and cultural humility in both her therapy practice and clinical supervision for associate-level clinicians. She currently owns a private practice, contracts with agencies to train staff on building meaningful relationships with system-involved youth, and serves as the Community Engagement Director for Therapinxy, an organization that integrates ancestral healing and mental health with a mission to build Filipino resiliency through collective care, kapwa. Her work invites practitioners and communities to reimagine wellness beyond Western frameworks, integrating cultural strategies that honor lineage, resistance, and collective liberation.

Update:

We are currently at capacity for this event. If you have not already RSVP’d you may not be granted entry.

Amulit is releasing his second solo project titled “Soul Work”, and is ready to rock the stage for y’all!

You’re invited to this community event featuring an open mic, cipher, and performances from Rezin8, a.k.aye, and Lax the Monk.

A night full of vibes and healing!

RSVP with early donation and receive a complementary CD of the album at the door!
Free admission for students and children. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Join us for Tuesday co-working hours at KKC!

Our address is 11b San Pedro Rd, Daly City, CA 94014

Join us for Tuesday co-working hours at KKC!

Our address is 11b San Pedro Rd, Daly City, CA 94014

This is Raising Ancestor’s 6th season collaborating with us! RSVP below!

KKC requests $10 participation and materials fee at the door. The participant fee is a donation towards sustaining KKC programming, which keeps all our offerings accessible such as this one!

No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

This event will also be an opportunity for us to raise money in support of our kababayans in Vancouver. 100% of the proceeds collected at KKC events this May will go to families and victims affected in Vancouver.

Come to one, come to some, come to all!
All generations and co- parents welcome.
We will provide free child-tending and snacks.
Share this post with a friend!
Follow @raisingancestors on Instagram!

RSVP Below!

Join us for Tuesday co-working hours at KKC!

Our address is 11b San Pedro Rd, Daly City, CA 94014

Join this collaboration between KKC and FMHI online. We will be holding space in response to the tragedy in Vancouver and the mounting sociopolitical stressors in our lives. This event is hosted by community members, Trina and Ate Marnelle.

This event will also be an opportunity for us to raise money in support of our kababayans in Vancouver. 100% of the proceeds collected at KKC events this May will go to families and victims affected in Vancouver.

Register for this event on Zoom here: bit.ly/kapwasoul

Join us at KKC to explore Filipinas/os/xs and Basketball through an Ethnic Studies Lens!
At this workshop, you can learn about the roots of basketball in the Philippines and how the game has transcended boundaries throughout the Filipina/o/x diaspora.

Engage in this shared space for a chance to win Valkyries tickets!

This event will also be an opportunity for us to raise money in support of our kababayans in Vancouver. 100% of the proceeds collected at KKC events this May will go to families and victims affected in Vancouver.

RSVP below!

RSVP Here:

Join us for Tuesday co-working hours at KKC!

Our address is 11b San Pedro Rd, Daly City, CA 94014

Join us for a poetry night focused on mental health! Led by, Max Espinola, Daly City’s Youth Poet Laureate!

If you’re interested in performing, please scan the QR Code on the photo to register or click here!

RSVP to Attend the Event Below:

Join us for a Baybayin workshop with the one and only UGAT Clothing! Check out these infographics, created by Michael Dalupo.

RSVP Below! There will be a participant fee of $25 for this event. All proceeds will go to KKC in support of future programming!

RSVP Form:

RSVP below!

This is Raising Ancestor’s 6th season collaborating with us!

Join us for an inner child healing workshop designed for the conscious parents, caregivers & cycle breakers. You will be gently guided to reflect on your childhood through playfulness, creativity and storytelling. We will explore ways to honor our inner child while raising up radically loving human children in an ever changing world. RSVP below!


Come to one, come to some, come to all!

All generations and co- parents welcome.

We will provide free child-tending and snacks.

Share this post with a friend!

Follow @raisingancestors on Instagram!

RSVP Below!

RSVP Below!

This is Raising Ancestor’s 6th season collaborating with us to bring y’all programming for parents and caregivers through a decolonial lens. RSVP below!

Now more than ever we need to strengthen our caregiving networks with folx who are (collectively) raising liberated kids.

This Spring and Winter we will be providing opportunities to connect IRL (Daly City, Ca) with other parents and caregivers who are decolonizing their parenting practices.

Come to one, come to some, come to all!

All generations and co- parents welcome.

We will provide free childcare and snacks.

Share this post with a friend!

Follow @raisingancestors on Instagram!

RSVP Below!