Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
This critical thinking-focused organization meets Every Second Thursday of the month with a different topic and guest speaker for every conversational meeting. This month, Dr. Thomas Targett, Associate Professor of Astronomy & Physics, Sonoma State University. Much of what we think we know about space comes from film and television. However, Hollywood’s job is more often […]
Tickets: $15 Advance / $20 Door 8pm-10 pm (Doors open at 7:30pm) Come enjoy the rich culture, music and dance from the island-nation of Bali. Gamelan Sekar Jaya will showcase 3 of its ensembles. Tuned to a four-tone scale in slendro tuning, GSJ’s Gamelan Angklung ensemble presents a cheerful, open, and rhythmically intricate musical […]
$5 Suggested Donation Join us for our monthly ¡Batey Boricua! An evening of folkloric Puerto Rican dancing and song: Bomba and Plena music, dancing, community jam, delish food from Los Cilantros. This is a famly friendly event. Bring your faldas, barriles, panderos, maracas and come jam with us! Great vibes with beautiful people! OUR FEATURED […]
All of the Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA) member organizations that are based in the Bay Area will come together for a panel presentation to recognize the Annual International Food Workers Week, on Wednesday, November 16, hosted by Food First, at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, from 6:30-8:30pm. We will show the short video […]
FREE - Donations of any size are welcome and greatly appreciated! Enjoy a lively evening of son jarocho music, dancing, and zapateado– bring your dance shoes and instruments, or just come and enjoy the music and dance! There is no entrance fee, but any monetary donations are accepted in support of programming at La Peña. Son […]
$5 for kids, $10 for adults and $15 for families The Free Land Project presents: Thanks Taken - Rethinking Thanksgiving for Kids! A family-friendly interactive presentation for elementary-aged kids about Thanksgiving from a Native American perspective featuring Corrina Gould (Chochenyo/Ohlone), Hartman Deetz (Wampanoag), and Kanyon Sayer-Roods (Costanoan Ohlone/Chumash) and hosted by Ariel Luckey. Saturday, […]
$10-$25 Sliding Scale The Free Land Project presents… the 9th Annual Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving is an annual cultural arts event that brings artists, activists and communities together to explore the complex history of Thanksgiving and to acknowledge the legacy of U.S. colonialism and genocide against Native Americans. Produced […]
$22 Advance, $25 Door Join us for the annual fundraiser of the LGBT Sanctuary Project (OLAS)! OLAS was founded in 2014 as a response to the personal and collective needs of LGBT immigrants from Latin America who are seeking asylum in the United States due to experiences of violence and discrimination in their countries of […]
Suggested Donation: $5-10 Proceeds go to Bomba y Plena Workshop, La Peña and our guest artists. Join us for another very special Batey Boricua with live Puerto Rican music and dance and a very special guest artist! If you missed the last Batey Boricua, you don't want to miss this one! We will be jamming […]
Doors open at 6:30pm, show starts at 7pm. $8 Advance, $12 Door Kids, Seniors and Students: $8 at the Door In celebration of Indigenous People's Month and in solidarity with Standing Rock, American Indian Movement presents a blues concert featuring Dr. Loco and his Blue Jalapeños, Twice as Good, and the Bobby Young Project […]
All levels are welcome. Workshop is offered by donation of any size and all proceeds go to support La Peña. About the workshop: Stress and its physical manifestations (e.g. tight neck and shoulders, trouble sleeping, headaches, racing thoughts, low back pain, poor digestion, etc.) are pervasive in our fast-paced and demanding world. Additionally, many of […]
Door cover: $5 (Cash Only.) Attention Aspiring Salsa Dancers (beginners encouraged)! Come brush up on your salsa dancing skills at Orquesta La Peña's Monthly Salsa Party and Dance Class the last Monday of every month! (Beginners Encouraged! All levels welcome!) The evening starts off with a FREE beginners salsa dance class from 8pm-9pm! Followed by […]
Attention Salsa Dancers (beginners encouraged)! Every last Monday of the month, the Josh Jones Orchestra brings the raw power of salsa dura to La Peña’s stage. Every last Monday in 2016! The band will perform songs from your favorite salsa artists including Eddie Palmieri, Beny Moré, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, El Canario, Celia Cruz and […]
$10-$20 Sliding Scale Doors open at 7pm, Screening beginst at 7:30pm Join us for the premier screening of a new documentary about one of the world's most controversial dam projects, "Belo Monte: After the Flood." The event will include live music and a panel discussion with Amazon Watch and International Rivers. "Belo Monte: After the […]
Door cover: $3-$5 (Sliding Scale) Dance Class: 8pm-9pm DJ jose Ruiz: 9pm-12am 100% of the proceeds benefit La Peña's mission of promoting cross-cultural understanding, peace, and social justice through the arts! Get ready to dance to a variety of rhythms from Latin America and around the globe! DJ Jose Ruiz will be throwing down his eclectic international […]