Pacific Islanders

Plate of Nations

Seattle,

Community Focus: Asian, Eastern African, Mexican, Pacific Islanders
Geographic Region: Seattle Area
Ethiopian, Vietnamese

Plate of Nations, the signature event of the MLK Business Association, was designed to collectively promote independently-owned restaurants in the MLK community. Immigrants from around the world have settled in the Rainier Valley and started businesses that provide cultural favorites for ethnic communities looking for a taste of home. Those restaurant owners are excited to welcome other customers to join in their traditions.

Polynesian Association of Thurston County & Lacey PolyFest

Lacey,

Community Focus: Pacific Islanders
Geographic Region: South Puget Sound

The Polynesian Association of Thurston County is an organization working to preserve and enhance our Polynesian heritage by uniting and strengthening our members and sharing our culture in our community through educational activities, service, supporting charitable organizations and helping shape a diverse environment.

Pride Asia

Seattle,

Community Focus: Asian, Gender, Pacific Islanders
Geographic Region: Seattle Area
LGBTQ2S+

Pride ASIA is a collaborative of individuals and organizations dedicated to celebrating, empowering & nurturing LGBTQA Asian-Pacific Islander Americans.

Radio Tonga

Seattle,

Community Focus: Pacific Islanders
Geographic Region: Seattle Area

This radio station was launched in May 2010. It connects all of Tonga and allows us to hear and communicate from all over the world, other than that. have the internet and you can visit the radio page. With this radio you can broadcast the songs of our native countries, Tonga and the political songs of our countries in the Pacific.

Roots and Beats Project

Portland,

Community Focus: BIPOC, For All, Indigenous American, Pacific Islanders
Geographic Region: Oregon
Hispanic

Roots and Beats Project fosters positive youth development through media arts education and cultural engagement. Our curriculum merges tradition and technology to weave culturally-rooted digital storytelling focusing on immigrant, refugee and ethnic diaspora experience. We work in partnership with local nonprofits and schools to provide music and multimedia workshops at no cost to underserved youth ages 12-21 years old. We strive to make our curriculum culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and bilingual, aspects crucial to meet our students where they are. Our work is informed by a belief that when young people feel safe expressing themselves creatively, embracing cultural diversity, and bonding with adult mentors, it unlocks great potential for the development of wide-ranging skills and competencies towards becoming future community leaders.

Samoa Pacific Development Corporation (SPDC)

Portland,

Community Focus: Pacific Islanders, Polynesian
Geographic Region: Oregon
Samoan

SPDC serves the Samoan community via education and economic resources and cultural empowerment.

Seattle International Dance Festival

Seattle,

Community Focus: BIPOC, Black American, Indigenous American, Pacific Islanders
Geographic Region: Seattle Area
Asian / Pacific Islander (API), German, Hispanic, Italian

The festival began in 2006 after Cyrus Khambatta, Executive Artistic Director for Khambatta Dance attended an Artistic Director Leadership training program with a grant from The Paul G. Allen Foundation and began to realize a long, stirring desire to connect audiences with dance through the festival environment. After a decade in which his own Khambatta Dance was invited to numerous international festivals, each with its own particular take on dance, he found the excitement and fervor with which audiences digested dance works to be a stimulating environment in which to create.

Seattle Live Aloha Hawaiian Cultural Festival

Seattle,

Community Focus: Pacific Islanders, Polynesian
Geographic Region: Seattle Area
Hawaiian / Kanaka Maoli

Spokane United We Stand

Spokane,

Community Focus: Micronesian, Pacific Islanders, Polynesian, Southern African
Geographic Region: Northeast Washington
Chamoru, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian / Kanaka Maoli, Hmong, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Lao, Malaysian, Marshallese, Palauan, Taiwanese, Thai, Tongan, Vietnamese

Spokane United We Stand is a community-based organization comprised of volunteers from the descendants of Chinese & Japanese families who arrived in Spokane starting the 1850’s, along with Spokane’s Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islanders residents, COFA, immigrants & refugees. Representing: China, Japan, Vietnam, Hmong, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Korea, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Micronesia, Guam, Marshallese, Palau, Tonga, Hawaii, and more. Our mission is to use the arts to share about our history, traditions, culture, and our experience in America.

Te Fare O Tamatoa

Renton,

Community Focus: Pacific Islanders, Polynesian
Geographic Region: Seattle Area
Tahitian

Te Fare O Tamatoa is a non-profit organization with the sole purpose of spreading knowledge of Tahitian culture through dance and music.

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