Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
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 […]
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. ABOUT BAY AREA SKEPTICS Bay Area Skeptics was founded in June 1982 as the first “local interest group” inspired by the Center for Scientific Investigation of Claims of […]
FREE / Donations Accepted Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern returns to La Peña for an informal discussion concerning his just-completed trip to Israel and Palestine, the situation in Syria and other current foreign policy issues. Ray served as a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990--from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. […]
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. […]
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 meeting topic: From Standing Rock to the Bay Area: Next Steps for Sovereignty ABOUT FOOD FIRST: Food First envisions a world in which all people have access to healthy, ecologically produced, and […]