La Peña is pleased to invite you to participate at our most popular vendor fair of the year: our Frida Kahlo’s Birthday Tianguis! This year’s event will be held outdoors on Saturday, June 14th, 2025 from 12pm-6pm and will focus on celebrating artists & vendors from the Bay Area. 

While everyone is welcome to sign up, we are giving priority to local artists and artisans who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), LGBTQIA+, multiracial, and migrants. Nonprofits are also welcome to participate. Thank you for helping us to fulfill our mission!

If you’d like to participate as a VENDOR, PLEASE READ the information below:

1. Our Tianguis is outdoors (on 3105 Shattuck Ave. and Prince St. Berkeley, CA 94705). 
2. We are offering 10 feet x 10 feet spots that can hold a canopy to give shade and allow enough space for vendors to be comfortable. The price of each spot is $125. Vendors can share their spot with other vendors if they want to!
3. Vendors need to bring their own canopy or umbrellas to give shade to their stands (strongly recommended). 
4. Vendors must bring their own tables. Chair(s) will be provided by La Peña. 
5. Vendors will be selling 12pm-6pm. Vendor load-in starts at 9:30am.
6. Although we do extensive publicity, vendors are also expected to publicize the event. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Newsletter to share our promotional materials!

Instructions to sign up as a VENDOR:

1. Fill and submit the form below.
2. Make your payment ($125) on this link (in “Reason for Payment” put “Tianguis 2025”). IMPORTANT: We don’t offer refunds.
3. If you are applying as a FOOD VENDOR, please submit the form below and WAIT for us to reply BEFORE submitting a payment (due to City of Berkeley regulations, there are steps to complete beforehand in order to sell food at this event).
4. Send your payment receipt to Ellen at ellen@lapena.org. IMPORTANT: You will ONLY be reserved a spot once you have submitted your payment receipt and received a confirmation email. If you submit your payment and don’t receive a confirmation, contact Ellen at ellen@lapena.org. 
5. Once you have registered, made your payment, and sent your receipt, expect an email from ellen@lapena.org with further set up information. 

We look forward to having you at this fun and popular community event! If you have any further questions, please contact Ellen Salazar at ellen@lapena.org.

This year marks an incredible milestone – La Peña Cultural Center is celebrating 50 years since opening its doors in 1975! Since its founding and to this day, La Peña has promoted intercultural understanding and advanced social justice movements through art and music, both within and beyond the Bay Area. We can’t take this achievement for granted; reaching five decades of continuous work has only been possible due to the relentless effort, commitment, talent, creativity, and support from community members like you.

Today, spaces like La Peña are as crucial as they were 50 years ago —in the midst of new violent waves of oppression and persecution of our communities, grassroots institutions are the places that not only hold us together, but allow us to organize and actively create the world that we believe in, building our sense of belonging and renewing our hope.

This is why we need to make sure that La Peña can continue to be a center of transformative gathering for generations to come. As we look forward towards the next 50 years, we invite you to help us sustain a future of radical creativity and renewed solidarity by investing in:

• More FREE SPACES for community organizing
• More CELEBRATIONS fostering joy & intercultural understanding
• More COALITION-BUILDING with social justice movements 
• More RESOURCES for artists & culture-bearers 
• More CLASSES & JAMS nurturing diasporic cultures and traditions

Your support directly underwrites these efforts. No gift is too small! Click below to make your donation.

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This is one of the BEST ways to ensure La Peña has reliable funding to carry out its operations. Just select “monthly” on the donation widget. AND: in honor of LP’s 50th anniversary, we’re offering special thank you gifts for monthly donors!

*Once monthly donations are initiated, recurring transactions will happen on the date of the month that payments began. If you need to adjust or cancel recurring payments, please email donations@lapena.org

Thank you for helping us carry out our mission!

In the face of the incoming Trump administration, on January 21st, 2025 the Berkeley City Council will vote to adopt a Resolution Reaffirming Berkeley as a Sanctuary City. The resolution was drafted by Council Member Brent Blackaby in collaboration with East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Council Member Cecilia Lunaparra, Mayor Adena Ishii, Council Member Terry Taplin, members of the Peace and Justice Commission, and representatives from faith communities and other community-based organizations. 

The proposed resolution outlines Berkeley’s legacy as a Sanctuary City and highlights updates to its policies in response to evolving challenges, including ICE raids, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and federal deportation threats. The resolution:

1. Prohibits the use of city resources for immigration enforcement activities, such as sharing immigration status or collaborating with federal agents, and directs all city directors to inform their staff of these policies. 
2. Refers to the City Attorney to explore the possibility of pledging the City’s legal support to help “sensitive sites” such as schools, hospitals, community organizations, public transportation, and places of worship to protect their community members and defend themselves against civil litigation. 
3. Calls on the Mayor to create a taskforce of Council Members and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to continually assess threats to Berkeley’s immigrant communities and seek to codify Berkeley’s Sanctuary protections through a city ordinance.
4. Calls for the passage of SB 48 to Keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement Off of School Campuses, Protecting School Attendance and Funding Amid Deportation Threats.
5. Urges regional collaboration to ensure sanctuary protections and calls on other cities to reaffirm similar commitments.

We encourage all Berkeley residents, especially immigrant communities and those directly impacted by the Trump administration’s threats, to please call your Berkeley city council member to give personal testimony about the importance of protecting Berkeley residents by reaffirming the City’s commitment to Sanctuary. 

We also invite you to show your support for this resolution by attending the Berkeley City Council meeting on January 21st at 1231 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94702. We are planning a press conference and celebration at 5:30 pm and the City Council meeting will start at 6 pm.

Finally, we are seeking immigrant community members who would like to share their testimony of support at the City Council meeting and/or press conference. Please email organizing@eastbaysanctuary.org or call Marisa at 916-412-3027 to confirm your participation. 

Please feel free to share this letter with other Berkeley-based organizations who may be interested in participating in affirming Berkeley’s commitment to Sanctuary. 

Thank you for your support! 

Lisa Hoffman on behalf of East Bay Sanctuary Covenant

Supported by La Peña Cultural Center