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Los Rakas represent pan-American flows. Two cousins who grew up in Panama before spending their teens in Oakland, California, Raka Dun and Raka Rich put a distinctive “Panabay” twist on hip-hop and reggae, bridging the streetwise sounds of the places they’ve called home. Drawing on Panamanian plena’s faithful approach to reggae classics and the Bay Area’s independent and idiosyncratic hip-hop scene, Los Rakas merge familiar dancehall melodies with a lyricism all their own.

Thursday March 22, 2012 $12-$20 sliding scale – 7:30pm @ La Peña Cultural Center

Bocas Radioactivas is a special benefit event celebrating Afro-Latino culture, immigrant rights and Spanglish spoken word and hip-hop. Featuring: Los Rakas with HBO Def Poets: Paul S. Flores, Mark Gonzales, Emanuel Xavier and special guests Sandra Garcia-Rivera, Adrian Arancibia and DJ Leydis. A benefit for U.S. based Latino spoken word poets seeking support to travel to Cuba to participate in the Havana International Poetry Festival.

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We are bringing back The Oakland Lyricist Lounge!! An event that was created to celebrate music and art, bringing together an artist community supporting each other as ONE.

Climbing PoeTree will be presenting @La Peña on Tuesday March, 20 at 7:00 pm. For more information and to buy tickets online click here.

Special appearance by

LILA ROSE  (acoustic unplugged set)

Raw-G, Steelo, Aima The Dreamer,  Cleome Bova, Ariel Luckey

Hosted by Jada Simone

Live Painting by Desi Wome

Jewelry by Gracie Ginean

 

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March 22, 2012 @ La Peña Cultural Center  7:30PM Tix $12-$20 sliding scale. ALL AGES!  TODAS EDADES!

Adrian Arancibia is a poet, writer, and educator. He, along with Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and Miguel-Angel Soria, founded the seminal Chicano spoken-word collective the Taco Shop Poets in 1994. Adrian Arancibia was born in Iquique, Chile in 1971. Since 1980, he has resided in San Diego, California. Arancibia is the co-editor of the Taco Shop Poets Anthology: Chorizo Tonguefire, and currently writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune and for national magazines like The Green Magazine.

Bocas Radioactivas is an evening of Bilingual Spoken Word about Race, Latin America and Hip-Hop/La poesia y politica del Hip-Hop to benefit the first delegation of North American Spoken Word poets traveling to the Havana International Poetry Festival in Havana, Cuba.