For questions or additional details, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda or the other FAAGC officers.

For questions or additional details, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda or the other FAAGC officers.

For performance times and more information about this weekend when you can “see, taste, and experience the world [as it] comes to Columbia," check the festival website.

This is a POTLUCK affair so please bring a 2-liter soda and a covered dish enough for your family and others. Planned activities include an Easter egg-hunt for children as well as games for children and adults. Parents with young children are requested to bring at least a dozen goodies-filled plastic Easter eggs for the egg-hunt -- (please NO chocolates in the eggs -- they easily melt).

FAAGC members, supporters and other interested parties in the area Fil-Am community are all invited to come and share the fun and food with family and friends. Those who wish to spend more time at the park can come earlier and all are encouraged to bring portable or folding chairs.

[Note: The park charges an entrance fee of $5 per adult, $3.25 per SC senior (age 65 & older), and $3 per child (aged 6 to 15); children aged 5 and under are free].

For more details and directions to the venue, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda or the other FAAGC officers.

The new FAAGC Membership Directory will be distributed during the picnic.

Click here or here for a map and specific directions from your address to the Sesqui park.

Time to cool off during the annual summertime Fil-Am get-together. We will be at the Saluda Shoals Park's Redbud Shelter right across from the splash pad.

[Note: The entrance/parking fees are waived if you tell them you are with the Fil-Am Association using the Redbud shelter; wristbands for the Saluda Splash pad are $3 each.]

This is a POTLUCK event so please bring a 2-liter bottle of soda or water and a covered dish to share. We will also have a brief program to acknowledge and appreciate the FAAGC volunteers.

For questions or additional details, e-mail us or contact FAAGC President Gina Castaneda or the other FAAGC officers.

Click to go Bing Maps or Google Maps or Mapquest or Yahoo Maps for a map and specific directions from your address to the hotel. Guests who would like to stay at the hotel may reserve rooms at reduced rates (mention the Columbia Filipino-American Association) by calling (803) 771-7000.

• The FAAGC will have its Autumn General Membership Meeting and Halloween Costume Contest Party on Saturday, October 26, 2018, at the Chestnut Hill Plantation clubhouse starting at 1:00 p.m.

This is a pot-luck get-together with FAAGC providing soda, water, ice, plates, utensils, etc. Please bring a covered dish to share and show off your and your family's spooktacular costumes.

Visit Bing Maps or Google Maps or Mapquest or Yahoo Maps for maps and specific directions from your address to the Halloween get-together venue.

• FAAGC Volunteers In Action • As part of its continuing charitable activities, FAAGC recently treated the families staying at the local Ronald McDonald House to a dinner buffet of Filipino delicacies including adobo, pansit, menudo, lumpia, and turon, among others. As part of RMHC Make-a-Meal program, Fil-Am volunteers prepared, cooked and served the meal at the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Columbia, SC, which serves families and children who travel to a Columbia medical facility. More photos of the FAAGC volunteers in action at the McDonald House on November 11, 2017 can be found at the FAAGC community Facebook page. Columbia Fil-Am community members, young and old, served at the Harvest Hope Food Bank in March and May 2018. The volunteers helped sort and prepare food packages for distribution to struggling families in the Midlands.