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La Peña Community History Project
Memories for the Future
La Peña Community
History Project
Do you have videos, old fliers, photos or any other memento of you at La Peña? Do you have a story to tell about your experience at our center? Do you know someone with a good La Peña story? Let us know or send them to: La Peña Community History Project 3105 Shattuck Ave.Berkeley. Ca. 94705 USA. Contact or call us at , 510-849-2568 ext. 16, leave a message and we will thank you with a free pass to a La Peña show.
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New 35th Anniversary Mural
La Peña kicks off its 35th Anniversary celebration series
RELEVO: 35th Anniversary New Mural Dedicated
“Relevo” is the Spanish word referring to relay games. It plays with the concept of "pull and transfer,” or passing on the baton on a relay race. Our interpretation of this is that we are continuing the struggle, the victory, and the history of our people. And we're running with it." TYS
The artists are Erin Yoshioka, Shaun Turner, Robert Trujillo, Cece Carpio, Miguel Perez, and Ben Rojas.
Celebrating La Peña's 35th Anniversry, the Trust Your Struggle artists collective painted a new mural inside the café lobby of La Peña Cultural Center. This fine art work represents the history and continued legacy of the center and launches the series of events planned to celebrate the anniversary, including an all-day street festival on Saturday, June 5, 2010.
Located in the lobby area between the theater and the restaurant Café Valparaiso, the mural depicts the colors and images of the prolific history and cultural work of La Peña for the past 35 years, and the promising future of the new generations of artists in the center. Trust Your Struggle produces work with the theme of immigration, self-determination, freedom, and community empowerment. "It is an honor to be working with La Peña, and its unbelievable that we are able to be part of its history," said TYS collective member Robert Trujillo.
"To create a brand new mural at La Peña is special because it involves a cultural landmark that we have all danced, organized, and participated in various capacities. We want to create something beautiful and powerful. We thank La Peña for placing their trust in us for such a great task," emphasized Trujillo. Since 2003, the collective has produced gallery installations, live paintings, murals and arts education workshops with youth and community organizations. As contemporary storytellers, the art of Trust Your Struggle continues the legacy of visual language influenced by graffiti art, comic books, political posters, religious spiritual icons, and their own indigenous traditions. ###
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La Peña Artists
See them! La Peña photo gallery of up and coming artists, musicians, writers, activists and cultural workers
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Performances at La Peña
This is a collection of pictures from performances at La Peña over the past years, and shows the variery of programming that is offered.
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En las paredes/La Peña Art Exhibits samples
These are samples of our past art exhibits.
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Canción de la Unidad, La Peña's 3D mural
Cancion de la Unidad/Song of Unity, the mural of La Peña, is one of the first acrylic, ceramic and paper mache collective murals in the Bay Area. It was painted in 1978 by O'Brien Thiele, Osha Neuman, Ray Patlan and Anna DeLeon, and then re-stored in 1986. The mural depicts the peoples of the Americas coming together in song and in struggle. North America is symbolized by an eagle, South America by a condor, and the centerpiece is a green Quetzal, the bird of Central America.
