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Come together after work for a beer, a taco, and a visit with friends around music. On Thursday, May 4, we will hold our first “Thursdays with Diaspora Arts Connection” in the Lounge of La Pena Cultural Center, adjacent to Los Cilantros Restaurant. Our musical guests will be the up and coming band “The Journeys,” featuring Aryan Hajzavar-Modares,Amirhossein Tajbakhsh, Siavash Bakhtiari, Sasan Yousefian, and Emad Hashemi. Tell your friends!
Suggested donation: $10
Diaspora Arts Connection is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization that aims to foster deeper understanding and lasting connections among diverse cultural and ethnic groups within the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond through the organization of cultural and artistic events, as well as empowering artists whose circumstances make it difficult for them to express themselves and allowing them a platform for artistic expression. The organization further aims to help introduce new artists to local and international audiences; to help develop and improve audience appreciation of the arts in its constituent communities through conducting lectures, screenings, readings, and workshops; to produce events that foster deeper understanding of different diasporic cultures within our communities; and to help artists from different parts of the world and cultures to collaborate and produce valuable artistic presentations.