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LIVE at La Peña: Edgardo Cambón “Si mi suerte cambiara”

Check out this beautiful song performed by Edgardo Cambón & Band during their LIVE concert at our BAILA Community Dance Party on April of 2022!

Musicians:

  • Chivirico Dávila (composer)
  • Edgardo Cambón (congas, voice)
  • Saúl Sierra-Alonso (bass)
  • Julio De La Cruz (keyboards)
  • Emilio Dávalos (timbal)
  • Charlie Gurke (sax)
  • Camilo Landau (guitar)
  • Director: Francisco Núñez Capriles
  • Cameras: Pablo Esquer, Jaime Pérez Bautista, Francisco Núñez Capriles
  • Editor: Carlos Pino
  • Producer: Corey Raynor

Presented by La Peña Cultural Center | www.lapena.org

April 22nd, 2022. Berkeley, CA

You want to come to one of our BAILA Parties? Go to bit.ly/bailaparty and come enjoy three rooms of Salsa, Bachata, and much more!!

CALL FOR VENDORS: Our Frida Kahlo Tianguis is back!

La Peña is pleased to be bringing back our most popular vendor fair: Frida Kahlo’s Birthday Tianguis Celebration! This year’s event will be held outdoors on Saturday, July 9th from 12am-6pm and will focus on celebrating strong women artists, artisans, and creators from the Bay Area.

While every vendor 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. Non-profits 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. This year, the Tianguis is OUTDOOR (3105 Shattuck Ave. 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 and safe. The price of each spot is $100. Vendors can share their spot with other vendors if they want to! 
  3. If you are applying as a FOOD VENDOR, please submit the form below and wait for our approval to make your payment (we are curating the food so that we avoid unnecessary competition).
  4. Vendors need to bring their own canopy or umbrellas to give shade to their stands if they want to (strongly recommended). 
  5. Vendors must bring their own tables. Chair(s) will be provided by La Peña. 
  6. Vendors will be selling 12pm-6pm. Vendor load-in starts at 10am (make sure you give yourself enough time to park and set up!) 
  7. 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. Please fill out the information EXACTLY as you would like it to appear; we will be copying and pasting the text you provide. 
  2. Make your payment ($100) on this link: https://lapena.org/space-rental-payments (in “Reason for Payment” put “Frida Kahlo Tianguis”). IMPORTANT: You will ONLY be reserved a spot once you have submitted your payment and received a confirmation email. If you submit your payment and don’t receive a confirmation, contact Ellen at ellen@lapena.org. 
  3. Once you have registered and made your payment, 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! Click here to see a video of a past event. Click here to see the Facebook event for a past event. If you have any further questions, please contact Ellen Salazar at ellen@lapena.org.

Frida Kahlo Tianguis, 2018

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Una Escuela Llamada América (2021)

Honoring the World Day for Cultural Diversity (May 21st), we offered this beautiful documentary to watch online for FREE from Thursday, May 19th through Thursday, May 26th, 2022. Filmed in Arica (north of Chile), this 36 minute-long movie immerses us in the complexities of migration through the point of view of immigrant children. The film is not available anymore online, but we encourage you to contact the directors with your inquiry if you are interested in watching it!

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Una Escuela llamada América (Arica, Chile — 2021) LEER EN ESPAÑOL

Synopsis: Joaquín, Deyna, Ricardo and Dilan are children that have something in common. Although they were born in different countries, they all live in the city of Arica and study in a public primary school with a large number of immigrant students. A choral narrative that covers their experiences around migrating and growing up in Chile, immerses us in the complexities of migration from a candid, transparent, direct and simple point of view, typical of childhood. They tell us about the challenges and obstacles they have faced, as well as about their hopes and the opportunities that have opened to them in a politically troubled Chile. While together with their families they walk us through their biographies, they reflect on their lives and the future they want to build.

ABOUT THE DIRECTORS:

Antonia Mardones Marshall is a Doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley’s Sociology Department, an external investigator at the Universidad de Tarapacá, in Chile, and a Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Fellow. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Anthropology from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, in Mexico, a Master’s degree in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Columbia University, and a Master’s degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley. Her research interests are around the intersection between international migration, racial and ethnic constructions, popular culture, and national identities, mostly focused in the Latin American context. 
Pablo Mardones Charlone is a researcher and professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and the Universidad de Tarapacá (UTA). He is a photographer and documentary maker (CFP-SICA), and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and a Master’s degree in International Migration politics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). He is the Director of Alpaca, a production company specialized in ethnographic photography and documentaries www.alpacaproducciones.com.
María Paz Espinosa Peña holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Anthropology, a Diploma in Analysis Methodologies in Social Sciences and a Diploma in Indigenous Rights  from the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano. She also holds a Diploma in Anthropological Expert Testimony from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), in Mexico.