Location: Richland Library (Assembly Street)
Cost: Free to the public
About: Celebrate National Filipino-American History Month and the opening of the exhibition Belongings, on display September 11 through October 30, 2026.
Belongings is a humanistic exhibition that explores the immigrant life of Nelson Baldemor, a Filipino-American resident of Danville, Virginia, whose life was suddenly cut short in 2021. Having no next of kin, Nelson’s things were saved by a caring neighbor, Maria Lourdes Pérez Muñiz. Now a resident of Columbia, South Carolina, Muñiz passed these to Chiara Cox, a local Filipino American cultural advocate who transformed Baldemor’s treasured personal belongings into this exhibit of an immigrant’s memory.