Skip to main content

Past Events

Assemblymember Kalra & Veggielution Host Veggie Fest 2022

The San Jose Veggie Fest is back! Please come out to this free, family-friendly festival that promotes healthy living and healthy eating. Check out our vendors and enjoy live music and entertainment! This year at Discovery Meadow Park in Downtown San Jose, you can enjoy:

- Shopping and Vendors

- Beer Garden

- Food Trucks

- Multicultural Performances

- Vegan Cooking Demo w/Chef Reina

- Kids Zone with FREE Face Painting

- AND MORE!

For more information, please contact us at (408) 277-1220.

 

Virtual San Jose Veggie Fest 2021

San Jose Veggie Fest is back --- virtually! Join us in celebrating healthy eating, healthy living,  and environmental sustainability. Co-hosted by Assemblymember Ash Kalra and Veggielution, this free virtual event will include multicultural performances, a plant-based cooking demo, yoga and Zumba, and a fabulous lineup of speakers, including Presidential Medal of Honor recipient, Dolores Huerta!

Sunday, August 22, 2021
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Livestream (please visit Facebook or YouTube to watch the event)

AD 27 Virtual AAPI Heritage Month Celebration

 

Join me Friday, June 4th for our annual AD 27 AAPI Heritage Month Celebration! I’m excited to have the privilege of honoring some great community leaders. Take a look:

Legacy Award: Rich Saito
Leader in Education: Le Tran
Leaders in Community Service: Free Meals on Wheels & Nguyen Pham
Leader in Public Service: Michelle Amores

This event will be held on Zoom, and livestreamed on Facebook. Please RSVP with Stacie Shih for the Zoom information by emailing stacie.shih@asm.ca.gov.

Thank you and we hope to see you there!

AD 27 Virtual AAPI Heritage Month Celebration

May is AAPI Heritage Month, and to honor our AAPI community, Assemblymember Ash Kalra will be hosting the 2021 AD 27 Virtual AAPI Heritage Month Celebration on:

Thursday, May 27, 2021
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Zoom
Please email Stacie.Shih@asm.ca.gov to RSVP for link

We will be recognizing five remarkable leaders in our community. This year, our honorees are:

Veggie Fest

Assemblymember Ash Kalra & Veggielution host the San Jose Veggie Fest 2020.

Saturday, August 8
10 am to 3 pm

Martial Cottle Park
5283 Snell Ave.

Enjoy:

  • Live multicultural performances
  • Plant based foods
  • State and local resources

FREE admission and FREE bicycle valet parking ($6 Vehicle parking)

Medicare for All Town Hall

Please join Assemblymember Ash Kalra and Congressman Ro Khanna at the Medicare for All Town Hall on Monday January 20th from 4 to 6pm at Local 270 Training Room 2195 Fortune Dr. San Jose, Ca. 95131.

Everyone should have access to what Franklin Roosevelt called one of the Four Freedoms. Health Care is a right! 

Latino Heritage Month Celebration

Please join Assemblymember Ash Kalra as he hosts the 3rd Annual Assembly District 27 Latino Heritage Month Celebration.

Saturday, September 28
11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Mezcal Restaurant
25 W. San Fernando Street
San Jose, CA 95113

Honorees:

Veggie Fest

Last year, Assemblymember Ash Kalra successfully co-hosted the first ever 2018 San José Veggie Fest. Over 2,000 participants from around the Bay Area attended the festival to learn about environmental sustainability and healthy eating. This year Veggie Fest is back and will be hosted at Martial Cottle Park, on Saturday, August 10, 2019, from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm.

Beautify Our Local School - Lowell Elementary

Assemblymember Kalra will be hosting the annual Assembly District 27 Beautify Our Local School event where he chooses an elementary school in his district to help with beautification projects that benefit the students. This year, he will be serving Lowell Elementary School. On Saturday, June 1st, 2019 his office will be joined by community members and students to help bring life and color to our downtown school.  Our plan is to repaint the playground blacktop and change Lowell’s colorless play yard to a bright and inviting space for kids to play and learn.