What a beautiful concert of authentic Flamenco! Featuring Carlos de Jacoba (Motril, Granada), Natanael Borja Vicente and Paco de Mode. Friday, April 5th, 2024. Photos by Consuelo Tupper.
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Alf Lela: An Evening of Arabic Music
Come enjoy an evening of music and dance with Clarissa Bitar, Lara Aburamadan, Triagonal Disk and DJ Mohammaddin!
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Clarissa Bitar is an award winning Palestinian oud musician and composer born, raised, and based in Los Angeles, California. They graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Music and an emphasis in Ethnomusicology. To further their studies, Clarissa sought training from prominent Arab oudists including Simon Shaheen, Charbel Rouhana, and Bassam Saba. Clarissa has had the privilege of performing around the country and internationally. They have incorporated oud with a multitued of genres ranging from R&B to Pop to Hip Hop and Rap. Their latest album titled ‘Hassan Sabi’ is out now on all streaming platforms.
Lara Aburamadan is a Palestinian multidisciplinary artist, singer and Co-founder of Refugee Eye. Born and raised in Gaza City, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her work explores nostalgia and tends to embrace the human perspective through visual storytelling, and other forms of expression. Lara has been chosen by Time Magazine among 34 women photojournalists around the world that you should follow their work in 2017.
Triagonal Disk is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer from Cairo Egypt, and now residing in the Bay Area. Specifically, he plays the electric saxophone and percussion. Since adolescence, he has gathered much of his musical knowledge from his mother who was a music teacher in Cairo. His inspiration is community. Triagonal Disk has produced and released two albums which can be currently found on Spotify.
DJ Mohammaddin is multidisciplinary sound and visual artist. They center on dots, lines and color as a method of pursuing definition and positionality. Through the utility of body, images and contextualized objects, they formulate poetic statements of determination. They have exhibited work at SFAI (San Francisco), A.I.R. (New York), Times Square (New York), Jacobs Institute (Berkeley), Worth Ryder (Berkeley), The Cincinnati Art Museum and The Jewish Museum (New York). They hold a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California Berkeley and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.
Cubahía Festival
Huge thank you to Krudas Cubensi and DJ Leydis for organizing this wonderful day in community! We had an ambitious schedule and we did it. Featuring: Dr. Greg Landau, Dr. Eva Silot Bravo, Pablo “El Dinámico”, Obrayan Calderón, Einar Leliebre, Eyesha Botánica, Los Capiró, and of course DJ Leydis and Krudas Cubensi with the release of their new album “They/Them”. Saturday, March 23rd, 2024. Photos by Tom Ehrlich and Consuelo Tupper.
(re-)Unión de los Pueblos (de)Colonizados
Featuring works from: Juan R. Fuentes, Pepe Coronado, Sandra C. Fernández, Lisa Kokin, and Juana Alicia. Curated by Biel Delgado Trabal, a Jersey-born Boricua, Graduate Research Scholar at the Center for the Arts & Religion (CARe), Graduate Research Fellow at the Latinx Research Center, Archivist at La Peña Cultural Center and Research Associate at Native Bound Unbound. Photos by Muhammad Delgado and Consuelo Tupper.
¡Batey Boricua!
Join us for a jammin afternoon! Family friendly community Bomba jam! March 3rd, 2024, from 3pm to 6pm. Donations $5-$20.
ABOUT BAY AREA BOMBA Y PLENA WORKSHOP:
At the Bay Area Bomba y Plena Workshop at La Peña, youth and adults study and perform traditional forms of Puerto Rican music and dance. Bringing together folks from diverse cultural backgrounds united by their common love and passion for Puerto Rican music, in particular the traditions of Plena and Bomba.
Under the direction of Shefali Shah and Héctor Lugo, with the generous support of el maestro Román “Ito” Carrillo as well as numerous masters and practitioners from the Island, The Workshop has been in existence for 17 years promoting the study and appreciation of traditional Puerto Rican music, its history and evolution, and its place in the broader Afro-Caribbean musical culture. The group performs Bombas, Plenas, as well as pieces from the Jíbaro music tradition using a variety of typical instruments such as the barriles, the cuás, panderos, güícharo, maracas, cuatro and guitar.
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