Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
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 […]
Doors open at 5:30pm / Workshop starts at 5:45pm *Any size donation is encouraged. No one turned away for lack of funds! The benefits of Mindfulness meditation are numerous and research suggests that it is associated with reduction in stress, improvement in overall health and well-being, decrease in depression and anxiety, improvement in sleep, etc. Students […]
FREE / DONATIONS ENCOURAGED La Peña Presents: The Origins of Cumbia Workshop! Thursday, April 6 at 7pm. (Doors open at 6:4pm.) Learn about the history of cumbia, how to play cumbia rhythms and how traditional instruments are made! The workshop is family-friendly and ANY size donation is encouraged to support the instructors' travel expenses. This […]
Bay Are Bomba y Plena Workshop presents: ¡BATEY BORICUA! Door Cover: $5- $10 (Sliding Scale) Proceeds go to support the Bomba y Plena Workshop and La Peña! Join us for another very special Batey Boricua with live Puerto Rican music and dance! This is a family friendly event where all are invited to participate and […]
Free Event / Donations Encouraged This critical thinking-focused organization meets Every Second Thursday of the month with a different topic and guest speaker for every conversational meeting. TOPIC: An Invisible Plague: the Growing Threat of Tuberculosis SPEAKER: Dr. Lauren Popov, Postdoctoral Scholar, Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley DESCRIPTION: You might think of tuberculosis as […]
Early Bird Ticket: $10 before March 31 /$15 after March 31 Door: $20 at the Door ($15 Seniors & Students with ID) 8pm-12am / Doors open at 7:30pm Support Indigenous Water Protectors! This is a panel & benefit concert to restore our salmon runs, protect our waters, and our indigenous lifeways Esteemed Panelists include (8pm-9pm): Caleen Sisk […]
Everyone is welcome to attend Food First's monthly community meeting the third Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm in La Peña's lounge! Agroecology is our best option for creating an agrifood system capable of nurturing people, societies, and the planet. But it is still not widespread. Fertile Ground, edited by Groundswell International‘s Executive Director Steve […]
Youth ages 17 and younger can present their music, poetry, dance, theater, comedy, special talent in a safe and fun environment. Each night will feature a different Bay Area kid performer. Anyone can sign up for an open mic spot before and after the main performer. We hope to see you and bring your friends!
Kids, do you have talent? Come out to our open mic series every 3rd Thursday of the month designed especially for youth under 18! Youth ages 17 and younger can present their music, poetry, dance, theater, comedy, special talent in a safe and fun environment. Each night will feature a different Bay Area kid performer. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tickets: $25 advance, $30 door Friday, April 28, 2017 at 8pm (Doors open at 7:30pm) Diaspora Arts Connection proudly presents extraordinary musicians Qais Essar on Rabab and Neelamjit Dhillon on Tabla, performing live in Berkeley. We are very excited to once again present Qais Essar to his fans in the San Francisco Bay Area. […]
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! Bodywerk Dance presents: Oakland is Hip Hop Dance Showcase Youth show at 7pm sharp and adult show at 8pm sharp. PERFORMERS complete chaos heat dance line funk rock bodywerk dance BW perfromance workshop culture shock oakland mighty shock oakland ariel litzsey project AND MORE!!!!!! Questions? Email: bodywerkdancecrew@gmail.com
$10 Advance / $15 Door Proceeds benefit QUENEPAS - Youth Bomba Group 7pm-9pm (Doors Open at 6:30pm) La Peña Cultural Center presents: Bay Area artists pay homage to the literary and creative brilliance of our ancestors, including: James Baldwin, Yuri Kochiyama, Sandra Cisneros, Nina Simone, Pat Parker, Jose Montoya, King Curtis, Flaco Jimenez, Carol Lee Sanchez, Augusta Lee collings, Wanda Coleman, Barbara […]