Pick up your Golden Ticket at 1:00 - 1:50 pm in the Children’s Marketplace for a free book bundle. 40 tickets available.

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Waray Words with Fae the Waray Puppet and Raffle! Learn Waray with Tita Cyra Africa and Fae the Waray Puppet. We’ll also raffle off 30 copies of “Sandangaw: A Waray Tale” by Voltaire Oyzon for a classroom of the winner’s choice. All ages.

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.  Renee Rutledge reads “One Hundred Percent Me.” All ages. Book signing in Children’s Marketplace follows at 2:00 pm.

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Celebrating Bayani! With Maxie Villavicencio Pulliam’s “Fierce Filipina” and Bayani Books reading. All ages. Book signing in Children’s Marketplace follows at 2:30 pm

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Cookie Hiponia reads “We Belong.” Recommended ages 8+. Book signing in Children’s Marketplace follows at 3:00 pm.

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Candy Gourlay reads “Is it a Mermaid?” with Magic Hat Story-making Activity. All ages. Book signing in Children’s Marketplace follows at 3:30 pm

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Tito Ramon’s Pop-up Puppet Show. All ages.

The 6th Filipino American International Book Festival will be taking place on October 15-16, 2022 at the San Francisco Public Library. Come celebrate our Filipino/a/x authors.
Presented by PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists) in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library, this year’s theme is Hiraya/Emergence: Writing towards the Future.
Hiraya is a Tagalog word for imagination, for dreaming, the emergence of the flower and the fruit. What does Hiraya mean to you?