Jose Rizal Community Center

The annual Filipino Fiesta is held every first Sunday of June at the Jose Rizal Community Center (Florin Mall Drive) to celebrate Philippine Independence Day. It's definitely a showcase of Central Valley Filipino-ness, culture and talent! It's run by six Filipino American community organizations and promotes community and youth relations, educating on history, with cultural activities and other festival events.The highlights of the fiesta include a parade, live entertainment, eskrima & arnis tournaments, traditional Filipino food. All ages, free entry, purchases out of pocket. 2022 was the first in-person event since Covid! The Fiesta went from 10am-5pm. When I arrived around 11am, it was pretty packed and I had to parallel park on the side street rather than the main parking lots. Weather was that weird overcast sprinkly light wind which doesn't scream "June" summertime, but for being out on the grassy area it was ok for walking.They had a charity car show/contest (Team LoveHATE and Neu Era), many many vendor booths from sponsors such as SMUD, UC Davis Health, Vaccinate All 58, Kaiser Permanente, Cache Creek, East Lawn, Sac Asian Chamber of Commerce (shout-out to Nikki S.!) giving out free 10-pack N95 masks and up to 3 Covid tests and other fun stalls like QTEA Boba (taro, milk tea, thai tea), a candle shop, a sticker shop, Filipino wares/crafts like island dresses, fun shirts, bracelets, Filipino flags, etc. My fave was the MTPhotos Sac mini photobooth and raffle (shoutout Misty T.!). They had an outdoor stage for music, performers as well as an indoor stage with performances by Sinagtala, tinikling (bamboo traditional folk dance), kung fu demonstration, Zumba, an oldies band, Polynesian dancers.The food trucks were very popular. Official vendors were Hella Halo (halo-halo), Pinorrito, Daisy's Desserts, My Lumpia Lady, Duffy's Hot Dogs, Angry Asian Chef, and Sugarbar. They had some tables and chairs for people to sit and eat too. I saw people eating chicken adobo and rice, lumpia, bbq on a stick, pancit! I picked up a few sweet treats from Ube Galore Breads & More (Bay Area-based) -- ube eggpie and ube cassava to take home...delicious!

Filipino fiesta 2022 in full swing today with tons of activities, packed entertainment and FOOD trucks and booths! Once a year community event- something for everyone celebrating the Filipino culture!!

Good park and theres a filipino fest yearly and its fun and lots of food but the only downside is that you have to a lot for the food

Very spacious rec place. Came to watch the hubby play some VB.

Shout out to Stephanie!!! Very professional. The gym itself is very well kept. I played basketball every weekend for the last 3-4 years. Every time my friends from the bay area visits I make sure I reserve this gym to play hoops.

If I could I would give it zero bad customer service shut down our party just because their was people outside waiting to come in it's not the first time they do that to our family but hiley don't recommend it they try to be incharge of every thing and don't let you enjoy your party

We play in the Southgate Basketball League that calls the center home. Great floors, clean facility but could use another row or two of seating. All in all a great peaceful place to compete!

This is a very nice community center. I think that it gets a really bad reputation because of the neighborhood that it's in. But the staff is are very friendly and professional and they have contracts if you wish to rent out the Gym for weeks at a time. There is always people outside playing soccer and families constantly walking around. My friends and I rent out the gym once a week for 2 hours to play basketball. They just re-surfaced the gym floor and painted the interior walls. The place looks brand new inside. Whether you need a place to hold your daughters Debut/Quineanera or a place where you and your girlfriends want to have Zumba/Jazzercise, this community center is a perfect place. I say perfect because its clean and the price is pretty cheap. If you talk to a staff member, they can give a price range depending on what you want to do. Every night, there are basketball leagues going on and they are booked up on weekends months in advanced, so you better call way ahead of time.

Not nice people who work there they seem to cater to certain types of people. The staff are not nice and kind people. They haven't given anything to the community they are located in. I think they need to move to a location were the people they cater to live.

Nice place to rent spacious and huge we had a great party but......the place Is haunted got a lot of orbs in my camera and figures.....energy orbs appeared while people where dancing in the weding party .. very strange...could not explain it, but definitely we would rent it again the place is very good for a family party.