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📅 It’s official—the 2027 date is set! 🥳

🇵🇷 Join us for the 47th Annual El “Día de San Juan” Salsa Festival 💃🎶

🗓️ Saturday, June 26, 2027

📍 Swiss Park | Newark, California

Get ready for a day filled with:

🌴 Live salsa music

🇵🇷 Puerto Rican culture

🍽️ Delicious food

🛍️ Local vendors

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Fun for the whole family

Mark your calendars and stay tuned for additional event details, entertainment and ticket information.

Hosted by the Western Region Puerto Rican Council (WRPRC)

💙 Thank You for making the 46th annual El “Día de San Juan” Salsa Festival so special! 🇵🇷🎶

On behalf of the Western Region Puerto Rican Council, thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s festival.

To our amazing community, sponsors, vendors, volunteers, musicians, performers, WRPRC Members—and everyone who helped make this event possible—thank you for making it such a joyful celebration of Puerto Rican culture and community.

A special thank you to Yaddeliz, Giovanni Crespo, and all of our talented performers for sharing their incredible gifts with us.

Most importantly, thank you to everyone who attended. Your support helps us continue our mission of providing scholarship opportunities for students of Puerto Rican heritage.

We hope you had as much fun as we did, and we look forward to celebrating with you again next year!

📅 Stay tuned—our 47th annual El “Día de San Juan” Salsa Festival Save the Date announcement is coming soon!

¡Gracias a todos! Until next year! 💙🇵🇷

More than a century ago, thousands of Boricuas crossed an entire ocean to a string of islands almost no one back home could find on a map. 🌺🇵🇷

After a devastating hurricane wrecked Puerto Rico's coffee economy in 1899, sugar planters in Hawaii recruited thousands of Puerto Rican workers to labor in the cane fields, beginning in 1900. The journey was brutal, by ship, by train, and by ship again, and many families never saw the island again. But they stayed, they endured, and they planted Boricua roots in the middle of the Pacific. 🌊

Today their descendants, known as Puerto Rican Hawaiians or Borinki, still keep pieces of the culture alive, from kanikapila gatherings to a dish of pasteles and gandules served thousands of miles from home. It is one of the oldest and most surprising chapters of our diaspora, proof that wherever Boricuas land, the island goes with them. 🇵🇷

Did you know there has been a Puerto Rican community in Hawaii for over a hundred years?