6/26/10 Rita Cacas is featured at the Smithsonian FolkLife Festival TalkStory Stage

The 2010 Smithsonian Institution Folklife Festival featured Asian Pacific Americans in the Washington metropolitan area.  Rita Cacas spoke about early 20th century DC Filipinos covered in her book, "Images in America: Filipinos in Washington DC."

"Immigration in DC area" at the TalkStory Stage with Rita Cacas, Saturday, June 26, 2010 - Noon on the National Mall, Washington, DC.   Watch a clip of the talk in a YouTube video:

 http://www.youtube.com/user/corazonfoley#p/u/0/cNyDydvXrrM
For the complete videotaped by Corazon Sandoval Foley, contact her at the Fairfax County Asian American History Project (FCAAHP), corafoleyfanhsnova@hotmail.com

Filipinos in Washington DC at the Federal Jucidial Center, Washington, DC

Book Presentation at the Federal Judicial Center Auditorium, May 26, 2010, Noon-1:30pm hosted by the EEO Committee, Federal Judicial Center, Washington, DC

Asian Journal article: "FILIPINOS IN WASHINGTON DC: A revealing documentary of our history in America"

 

 

Saturday, 01 May 2010 06:48 Rene Villaroman | AJPress Los Angeles

 

 

  LOS ANGELES – Clemente Castro [sic, correction: Cacho] Cacas was born in Narvacan, Ilocos Sur in the Philippines in 1910 and came to the United States at age 19 in 1929 -- a few years before the Great Depression. 

 Cacas came to the United States on a whim. He belonged to a few, select group of Filipinos that were allowed to travel to the America during the American Occupation of the Philippines. That group included pensionados, United States Navy men, students, and adventurers like him.

He landed in San Francisco, then moved to Washington DC. There, he joined an already flourishing Filipino community who had established themselves since 1910. ... 

read the full article - click here

 

May 5, 2010 Presentation and Book Signing at U.S. Census Bureau

"Filipinos in Washington, DC" presentation and book signing in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at the beautiful new U.S. Census Bureau Library and campus in Suitland, MD. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meet the Authors at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

- Friday, April 23 (6-9pm) Author's Reception at Salakot Grill (Wilshire Blvd)

- Saturday, April 24, 2010
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (UCLA campus)
3-4pm - Book signing at Booth #427
Philippine Expressions Book Shop

For more info, contact:
Linda Nietes
(310) 514-9139 

Reception and Book Signing, "Filipinos in Washington, DC"

Easter Monday, April 5, 2010 Begining at Noon

- 12-1pm: Presentation by Rita Cacas
- 1-2pm - Lunch in the Cafeteria

Library of Congress Asian Division Reading Room
101 Independence Ave. SE
Thomas Jefferson Building
Washington, DC 20540-4810
(202) 707-3766, 5426
Attn: Ms. Reme Grefalda

Presentation and Book Signing, Univ of MD, College Park

Filipino American Studies Class
Time: 6:00-7:30pm
University of Maryland at College Park
Art-Sociology Building, Room 1213
College Park, MD 20745