Streets of Colombia Party: Live Cumbia, Live Painting, Art Exhibit & more!

$16 Advance/$20 Door ($16 at the door for Students & Seniors with ID)

(Please note: there is a $2 credit card fee at the door per ticket. No fee with cash.)

La Peña Cultural Center proudly presents Calafia Armada and Fresco Exchange Muralists in STREETS OF COLOMBIA PARTY!

This party features LIVE PAINTING & ART EXHIBIT by Fresco Exchange’s visiting muralists from Cali, Colombia! LIVE CUMBIA MUSIC by the highly danceable CALAFIA ARMADA! Plus, delicious FOOD for sale by Miss Arepita and we’ll have a bar serving beer, wine and other drinks.

15% of the ticket sales benefit the visiting artists from Colombia! Also, their beautiful art will be available for purchase! These artists are some of the leading muralists of Cali, Colombia and their art will blow your mind!

This event is more than a party, it’s a cross-cultural exchange from Cali to Cali! Come support a great cause and have fun! Nos vemos!

ABOUT CALAFIA ARMADA

Calafia Armada is a diverse collective of performers telling the story of the first and only warrior queen of California through the rhythms and melodies of the Caribbean coast of Colombia and Mexico. Calafia Armada formed in large part with the purpose of studying the roots of Cumbia in Afro-Mexican and Afro-Colombian folk music, embedding the story of Queen Calafia in the rhythms and melodies that have been brought North to California in the last century.

FRESCO EXCHANGE ARTIST BIOS

GLeo // instagram.com/gleo_co

Gleo is a Colombian street artist, known for her vibrant, captivating wall pieces filled with bright colors and animal forms. Animals-inspired masks and fascinating details and are her trademarks. In her pieces she blended the legends and worldview of the original cultures of her country, using pictorial references of animals to create surreal images and female characters carrying ornamentals masks with big eyes and tattoos, symbolism of power and wisdom in many cultures around the globe. GLeo has participated in festivals and street art exhibitions in her native Colombia, as well as in other countries such as Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico.

Felipe Ortiz /// ​instagram.com/felipeortizart

Felipe Ortiz’s multicultural upbringing between his native Colombia and the United States has strongly impacted his artistic interests, from Colombia’s vibrant culture, colors, sounds and dense natural scenery, to the States’ vast landscape and fast-paced urban environments. Felipe has completed commissions in public and private settings, including the Cambridge Innovation Center, Boston’s DeCordova Museum, and Colombia’s “Muro al Barrio” project. In 2015, he founded Fresco Exchange for muralists in Latin America and the US, and you can learn more at FrescoExchange.com.

Ivan Salazar instagram.com/ivan_salazar_foto

Professional photographer and industrial designer Ivan Salazar is passionate about analog photography and dark room processes. He is the Founder and Director of Fundacion Culata Arte e Investigación, launched in 2105. This initiative is dedicated to working with communities using urban artwork as a tool for social transformation. Recently he has been exploring stencil techniques as a way to incorporate his photographs into public art. His proposed artistic idea is to present aesthetics while playing with geometric layers that form messages or make up words hidden in overlapping spaces. He fuses these elements with photographic portraits of common people with Afro-Colombian roots, or “invisible heroes” as he portraits them. According to him these characters are the ones who truly tell the history of life.