Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
Come to La Peña's lounge to extend your weekend. Enjoy live unscripted music featuring the Bay Area’s Best musicians every other Monday at La Peña in Berkeley! Bring your instrument, your mic, talent and free spirit to experience this exciting adventure and challenge yourself to express your unique talent in a comfortable and positive space. […]
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 […]
Dear LP Community, Our friend DJ Jose Ruiz will not be able to host his monthly SABOR dance party in February do to a recent diagnosis of throat cancer he will be spending time with his mother and sisters in Los Angeles before he starts treatment. The oncologists have given him a positive prognosis. But […]
FREE / DONATIONS ACCEPTED! Are Saturated Fats Bad for You? Separating Fat from Fiction Speaker: Kent McDonald Dr. McDonald received his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. He is currently at UCB as the Director of the Electron Microscope Laboratory. In the fall of 2014 he became interested in the […]
Come to La Peña's lounge to extend your weekend. Enjoy live unscripted music featuring the Bay Area’s Best musicians every other Monday at La Peña in Berkeley! Bring your instrument, your mic, talent and free spirit to experience this exciting adventure and challenge yourself to express your unique talent in a comfortable and positive space. […]
What does the Trump presidency mean for farmworkers? What does it mean for the food justice & food sovereignty movements? How can people support the struggles of farmworkers under these new conditions? 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! Join […]
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!
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 […]
Free / Donations Accepted All donations collected go to support La Peña to continue its mission of social justice and intercultural understanding through the arts! Do you ever wish you could watch one of your own ideas come magically to life on stage right before your eyes? Did you ever think you could be the […]