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 […]
Attention Salsa Dancers (beginners encouraged)! Every last Monday of the month, the Josh Jones Orchestra brings the raw power of salsa dura to La Peña’s stage. Every last Monday in 2016! The band will perform songs from your favorite salsa artists including Eddie Palmieri, Beny Moré, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, El Canario, Celia Cruz and […]
This critical thinking-focused organization meets Every Second Thursday of the month with a different topic and guest speaker for every conversational meeting. This month, Dr. Thomas Targett, Associate Professor of Astronomy & Physics, Sonoma State University. Much of what we think we know about space comes from film and television. However, Hollywood’s job is more often […]
Tickets: $15 Advance / $20 Door 8pm-10 pm (Doors open at 7:30pm) Come enjoy the rich culture, music and dance from the island-nation of Bali. Gamelan Sekar Jaya will showcase 3 of its ensembles. Tuned to a four-tone scale in slendro tuning, GSJ’s Gamelan Angklung ensemble presents a cheerful, open, and rhythmically intricate musical […]
$5 Suggested Donation Join us for our monthly ¡Batey Boricua! An evening of folkloric Puerto Rican dancing and song: Bomba and Plena music, dancing, community jam, delish food from Los Cilantros. This is a famly friendly event. Bring your faldas, barriles, panderos, maracas and come jam with us! Great vibes with beautiful people! OUR FEATURED […]
All of the Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA) member organizations that are based in the Bay Area will come together for a panel presentation to recognize the Annual International Food Workers Week, on Wednesday, November 16, hosted by Food First, at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, from 6:30-8:30pm. We will show the short video […]
