Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
South Asian Sisters present: Yoni ki Baat: Mamta edition (The South Asian Vagina Monologues - Mother's Day edition). If your yoni could talk, what would it say? Would it complain about the treatment it's received? Would it sing a Bollywood song? Would it laugh, or weep, or shout with joy? Mamta most literally translates from Hindi […]
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! This month's topic is: Climate Change and Food Sovereignty in the U.S. To address the root causes of hunger, we must address climate change. That’s why we were on the ground at the […]
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!
La Peña Cultural Center presents: Skin(s): a dance work, a film, and a web media project. Skin(s) shares the beauty and diversity of how Native people identify and examines the contradictions, pride, joy, pain, and sorrow that arise out of our many dimensions of identity. "Skin(s) -- the dance -- explores what we hold, reveal […]
FREE DANCE WORKSHOP! All skill levels welcome! Join Rosy Simas for a dance workshop diving into her creative process used to develop her latest works We Wait In The Darkness and Skin(s). A meditative and concentrated process – this workshop will bring us into the world of the senses. We will explore creating movement from […]
La Peña Cultural Center presents: Skin(s): a dance work, a film, and a web media project. Skin(s) shares the beauty and diversity of how Native people identify and examines the contradictions, pride, joy, pain, and sorrow that arise out of our many dimensions of identity. "Skin(s) -- the dance -- explores what we hold, reveal […]
