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The third annual Bayanihan Festival, held as a celebration of Filipino culture, will occur during the day on Sunday, Oct. 12 at Elk Grove’s District56 event venue.
The free festival is organized by nonprofit organization Bukang Liwayway Pilipino-Amerikano Pangarap Asosasyon, or Dawn Filipino-American Dream Association, founded in 2023 by CEO and president Edith Montemayor, who had previously been involved in other Filipino organizations for the past two decades.
“I noticed that there was a lack of something like that here in Elk Grove,” Montemayor says. “I wanted to combine all of [the] experiences here, mainly to promote and preserve the Filipino-American culture.”