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Vote Here For Your Favorite Tabasa Gardens Mural Design
Please click on the photo above and rate your top choices for the massive mosaic-tiled mural that will grace the Tabasa Gardens low-income housing development that is currently under construction on the corner of Freedom Blvd and Atkinson Lane in Watsonville.
Help us honor the Tabasa family and our historic Filipino presence in the Pajaro Valley. Join the Tobera Project, Eden Housing and Community Arts and Empowerment in making this initiative come to fruition. One vote per email address. Voting ends in March 31.
The completion of the 53-unit family housing complex in projected for December of 2023.
California Humanities
“Watsonville Is in the Heart” Sharing & Archiving the History of Migrant Filipino Labor
The Pajaronian
Film screening to commemorate 1930 Watsonville Race Riots
Group preserving local Filipino history gains momentum
City pens official apology to Filipino community for 1930 race riots
Watsonville’s Filipino community invited to share family history
‘Watsonville in the Heart’ continues to highlight Filipino history
It’s time to honor Fermin Tobera
‘Watsonville is in the Heart’ 2021 calendar released
UCSC article:
Preserving the legacy of Watsonville’s first Filipino immigrants
Local television coverage: KSBW channel 8
AAPI Heritage: Remembering the Watsonville Riots of 1930
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History podcast:
Asian Cultural Experience lecture series:
Learn about the Watsonville Riots and the Anti-Filipino Sentiment of the 1920/1930's.