Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
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 […]
Come together after work for a beer, a taco, and a visit with friends around music. On Thursday, May 4, we will hold our first "Thursdays with Diaspora Arts Connection" in the Lounge of La Pena Cultural Center, adjacent to Los Cilantros Restaurant. Our musical guests will be the up and coming band "The Journeys," […]
On Cinco de Mayo, 1862, a feebly armed, heavily outnumbered Mexican army, formed largely by determined indigenous forces carrying machetes and sticks, took it out on the invading forces of Napolean III and his French Empire, and won. In other words -- they RESISTED. Mexico, as a newly independent nation, was barely 41 years old […]
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 […]
