La Peña Events

 $15 Advance / $20 Door Doors open at 9pm / Event starts at 9:30pm Edgardo Cambon & La Peña present a Salsa & Candombe night in celebration of Uruguyan Independence Day! Come celebrate Uruguayan Independence Day with LIVE SALSA MUSIC by Candela and traditional CANDOMBE MUSIC by Edgardo Cambon y su grupo! Edgardo & Candela is a Salsa Band based in the San Francisco […]

$10 in Advance / $15 at the Door Doors open at 6:30pm /Show starts at 7pm   Berkeley Community Media (BCM) and La Peña Cultural Center present the 8th Annual BCM Summer Shorts Movie Jam: 48 Hour Filmmaker Challenge. What are you going to say you did for the Summer of 2018? Do you have some […]

$20 Advance / $25 Door Doors open at 6:30pm / Event starts at 7pm La Peña Cultural Center is proud to present the world premiere of 9-1-1 What's Your Emergency? Written and directed by Bay Area playwright Jovelyn Richards and starring a cast of local actors, the play is an artistic response to gentrification, stereotypes, […]

Join the Chilean Exile Community and friends in commemorating the 45th anniversary of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat, which ousted the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende and lead to the disappearance and murders of thousands of Chileans. This event includes an outdoor candlelight vigil and installation, songs of resistance by: -Members of the La […]

$20 in Advance / $25 at the Door Doors open at 8:30pm / Show starts at 9pm   Sexual Democracia is a legendary Chilean rock folk-pop band that formed in Valdivia, Chile in 1988 during the final years of the Pinochet regime. The band took its name to parody the Chilean national plebiscite of 1988. After […]