Manilatown Manang

Sat Jun 25 2022 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

International Hotel Manilatown Center | San Francisco

Manilatown Heritage Foundation
Publisher/HostManilatown Heritage Foundation
Manilatown Manang
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Please join Manilatown for a Special Community Preview of our documentary on I-Hotel Tenant Defender Jeanette Lazam!
About this Event

You are cordially invited to a Special Community Preview Screening of "Manilatown Manang" our latest documentary on the life and times of I-Hotel Tenant Defender Jeanette Lazam.

Jeanette Gandiongo Lazam was an original Tenant Defender of the International Hotel during the 1970s. She was one of a handful of young people who purposely moved into the I-Hotel so that they could be actively involved in the defense of the hotel as members of the International Hotel Tenants Association, the leadership of the movement.

She was born in New York and moved to San Francisco while still a teenager and found her way to Manilatown and the I-Hotel when she became involved in progressive Filipino-American politics as a member of the Katipunan ng mga Demokratikong Pilipino (Union of Democratic Filipinos). The "KDP" as it was commonly known, met in the basement of the I-Hotel and it was during this time that she came to be familiar with the I-Hotel anti-eviction protests and the Manilatown community. She became so passionate about the importance of the I-Hotel protests and its elderly tenants that she left the comforts of her middle-class life to live at the SRO as a true comrade in the struggle.

During the night of the Eviction, on August 4th 1977, Jeanette's job was to be at the side of elder leader Wahat Tampao and to make sure he was safe as the Sheriff's office broke into the hotel to forcibly evict the tenants. Jeanette and Wahat would be the very last of the tenants to step out of the I-Hotel, as is documented by Curtis Choy's iconic documentary, "The Fall of the I-Hotel". And on June 3rd 2021 she would be the last evicted tenant to step back in to claim residency at the new International Hotel Senior Residences.

Jeanette Lazam would go on to be a lifelong human rights activist working for several different human rights organizations within the Anti-Racist, Women's Rights and Gay & Lesbian Liberation movements and ending her employment career as an Aide to Congresswoman Barbara Lee. She continues to be an active artist, creating new drawings on an almost weekly basis and she continues to be an inspiration to multiple generations of Asian-Americans, as is evidenced by her inclusion on the youth-nominated "Asian Pacific Heroes" mural unveiled in San Francisco's Chinatown on April 27th 2022.

Please join Manilatown for our latest community-based story, "Manilatown Manang", a documentary of the life and times of Jeanette Lazam.

Please register on EventBrite at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/manilatown-manang-tickets-353206298547

IMPORTANT NOTE: Prior to entering the International Hotel Manilatown Center all attendees will have to show proof of full vaccination, have their temperature taken with our forehead scanning thermometer, apply hand sanitizer and put on their face mask.

Partial funding for "Manilatown Manang" has been provided by the San Francisco Arts Commission and partial support for this screening has been provided by the California Arts Council and the Fleishhacker Foundation.

For more information about "Manilatown Manang" or the Manilatown Heritage Foundation please contact us at [email protected]


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

International Hotel Manilatown Center, 868 Kearny Street, San Francisco, United States

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