Join us in celebrating the
Filipino Community of Seattle's
89TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
on Saturday, October 19, 2024
at the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington
For 89 years, the Filipino Community of Seattle (FCS) has been a galvanizing force and a cultural touchstone for thousands of Filipina/x/o and Filipino Americans throughout the Puget Sound region. We are building new programs in response to growing needs, and we are sustaining older programs to maintain our commitments to all of our members. Together, we can build a better, more welcoming, and thriving community.
Program
6:00 PM
Cocktail Hour & Silent Auction
7:00 PM
Dinner & Live Auction
"Fund a Need" Paddle Raise
9:00 PM
Music & Dancing
We are excited to bring this extraordinary evening to you anchored by our Guest Speaker, former Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin!
DOUG BALDWIN, GUEST SPEAKER
Chief Executive Officer of Vault89 and Founder of the Family First Community Center Foundation. Doug is a philanthropic activist with a passion for creating empathic solutions to complex challenges. As the recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Medal of Distinguished Service Award and the Paul G. Allen Humanitarian Award, the former Super Bowl Champion is the youngest ever appointee to the WA State Clemency and Pardons Board. But most importantly, Doug is a blessed husband and father.
ARNALDO INOCENTES, EVENT EMCEE
Founder of the Pacific Northwest Cabaret Association and Executive Producer of the Seattle Cabaret Festival. He started with Seattle Men's Chorus SMC) and performed with SMC in major concert halls around the world as a soloist. Arnaldo is also the Co-Executive Director of Pride ASIA, was past co-chair for Filipinos at Microsoft (FAM), and currently an advisory board FAM member. He is also a recipient of the New York Bistro Award (2008), GAWAD Musika Award for Most Innovative Concert Artist in Manila (2014), Filipino Community of Seattle (FCS) Lifetime Achievement Award for Arts & Culture (2016), GenPride Rainbow Community Pillar Award (2022) and recently, the International Examiner's Community Voice Award for Culture & the Arts (2024).
CHRISTINE DECASTRO, EVENT AUCTIONEER
Professional Benefit Auctioneer, is a vivacious go-getter committed to driving fundraising to an entirely new level for well deserving organizations. A graduate of the World Wide College of Auctioneering, a member of the National Auctioneers Association and a Benefit Auctioneer Specialist (less than 1% of Auctioneers throughout North America maintain this specialized designation and training in benefit auctions), Christine loves to have fun and ensures that donors do too! She holds a Political Science degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has nearly 20 years of sales and marketing experience. She is an avid volunteer who is passionate and ready to WOW your donors! Christine believes every benefit auction should leave you with a happy heart knowing that, together, you did your part to elevate your favorite organization to its highest potential.
THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE
We were born out of a time of great racial strife and segregation; when people of color were barred from owning property in many portions of Seattle; a time when communities of color turned to each other for social, cultural and civic support. Over the years, we have helped to shape and enrich the Greater Seattle community we know today, and to provide leadership on many issues of civil rights, social justice, and culturally appropriate and relevant response to basic needs. We are especially proud to be one of our community’s longest-standing, most impactful, people of color-led organizations, and one of the first Filipinx organizations in the nation.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
On behalf of the Filipino Community of Seattle, we respectfully acknowledge the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Duwamish, past and present, whose unceded land we are on. It is with humility that we express our gratitude to all members of the Duwamish Tribe for sharing with us the richness of their land. Maraming salamat po!
