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DOOR COVER: $5 (Cash Only) Attention Salsa Dancers (beginners encouraged)! Orquesta La Peña brings the raw power of salsa to La Peña’s stage the last Monday of every month in 2017! This evening of LIVE SALSA MUSIC goes on from 9pm-11pm! The band will perform songs from your favorite salsa artists including Eddie Palmieri, […]
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 […]
March 3, 2017 @ 7pm / Film starts at 7:30pm Q&A with Director Teresa Camou Guerrero after the film! $8 Advance / $10 Door Students, Seniors and teachers: $8 online or at the door! Join director Teresa Camou for a special screening of her critically acclaimed documentary film about Sunú (corn) in Mexico at La […]
$5-$10 Suggested Donation (Donate in advance or donate at the door.) Celebrate Womxn of Color Talent! The 32nd Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference will be hosting a special 'Open Mic Night and Artist Showcase' which features and provides space for performances celebrating the voices of womxn of color. All proceeds will be donated to […]
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. […]
