OUR GUESTS:
The Manilatown Heritage Foundation produces a variety of affordable family-friendly programming at the International Hotel Manilatown Center. As a multipurpose gallery that honors the I-Hotel Eviction and Historic Manilatown legacies we stand as both a museum to these legacies and a community gathering space offering programming relevant to today’s community.
Club Mandalay
Manilatown Ancestral
club mandalay
Saturday, march 11th at 7pm

Please join Manilatown for our first “Club Mandalay” of 2023!
On Saturday, March 11th at 7pm BOTH of the I-Hotel’s house ensembles will be performing! We’ll start the evening with the Manilatown Ancestral Ensemble featuring Caroline Cabading, Manny Dragon, Jibril Alvarez, Raymond Bambao, Tony Daquipa, Daniel Giray and Patrick Tamayo. And then the Manilatown Jazz Ensemble, will be holding it down with Caroline Cabading on vocals, Raymond Bambao on Bass, Harold Ohashi on Drums and Vince Khoe on Keyboard..
We hope to see you there at this FREE family-friendly event!
Please Register via EventBrite
Partial funding for Club Mandalay has been provided by the City of San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workplace Development.
For more information about Club Mandalay, the Manilatown Ancestral Ensemble, the Manilatown Jazz Ensemble or the Manilatown Heritage Foundation please contact us at: mhf@manilatown.org
manilatown ancestral
saturday april 15th at 2pm
Please join us for our next Manilatown Ancestral workshop!
Manilatown Ancestral is the Manilatown Heritage Foundation’s pre-colonial Philippine music, movement and cultural education program taking place at San Francisco’s International Hotel Manilatown Center. Each of our family-friendly workshops focus on a new topic, are oftentimes hands-on, and are accessible to all ages and levels of ability.
This program emphasizes instruction on the pre-colonial Philippine gong music traditions of the Maguindanao, Maranao and Tausug communities of the southern Philippines and the Kalinga culture of the Philippine Cordilleras.
Students will experience these cultures’ interpretations of interlocking community percussion music. These music forms are centuries old aural traditions with established musical protocols and strong links to tribal culture. Out of respect for these protocols, the music forms will be taught in the traditional manner and within the cultural context embraced by the cultural groups they represent. Since dance is also integral to both art forms, basic dance movement may also be included in this program.
Please join us at the international Hotel Manilatown center on
Saturday, APRIL 15TH AT 2pm
by registering at
EventBrite
Manilatown Ancestral is Sponsored by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at http://www.arts.ca.gov and http://www.arts.gov.
Manilatown Ancestral has also been made possible in part by a grant from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, in partnership with the Walter & Elise Hass Fund, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Manilatown Ancestral has also been made possible in part by a grant from the City of San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development.
For more information about Manilatown Ancestral or the Manilatown Heritage Foundation please contact us at: mhf@manilatown.org