(Washington, DC) The Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs (OAPIA) announces that the District’s Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Heritage Month celebration will be on May 29th, 2007 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library.

Every May, the Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs coordinates the Mayor’s Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebration. The celebration highlights the creativity and contributions of APIs from the past to the present. The event brings together both traditional and modern aspects of the API community through performances (e.g., traditional dances to spoken word) and food tasting.  It is also an opportunity to honor community and/or government members who have shown outstanding contributions to the API community through our community service awards. This celebration brings our API community together with the Mayor to celebrate our heritage and contributions.