Welcome to ACE

The Asian Cultural Fair is coming! Click on the logo (designed by Mars Rocamora) below for more information:

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ACE is planning the 2024 Asian Festival. There will be vendor booths. See our Asian Festival page for the latest updates!

GOALS FOR REVITALIZATION:

2009 Renderings by a Cal Poly architectural students Ian Irving Lado and Margarida Yin. Help us plan and design the 2022 version!

ACE has three major goals for the next several years: 1) renovate the Republic Cafe & Lotus Inn properties to create the Salinas Chinatown Cultural Center & Museum, 2) begin revitalizing Chinatown, and 3) continue to improve and expand our historical & educational programs. These goals are closely intertwined–each requires the other in order to take place. Each requires working closely with partner organizations, support from the City of Salinas, and you! Join us! Questions? Fill out the contact form and we’ll respond. Learn more about the project at our Salinas Chinatown Cultural Center/Museum page.

DONATE

THANKS for supporting ACE in preserving and sharing Chinatown’s Asian American immigrant cultures and histories through exhibits, collections, events, and educational programming. Your donations also help transform and revitalize Salinas Chinatown and create the Asian Cultural Center and Museum.

Prefer to pay by check? Send your info and check to: ACE, P.O. Box 574, Salinas, CA 93902. ACE is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization. All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Our Fed. Tax ID: 30-076426002.

Thank you!

Asian Cultural Experience (ACE), Salinas, CA is a non-profit community-based organization whose goal is to preserve the history and culture of Salinas Chinatown, involving diverse ethnic groups that began in Chinatown. ACE documents  the oral, visual and artifact history of the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino residents of the Chinatown neighborhood for the future Asian Cultural Center and Museum on Soledad Street.