Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
Berkeley High School Staff Event private rental. Did you know that La Peña offers private rentals for community, corporate and non-profit events? We have three spaces and offer non-profit rates! Click here to book your private event at La Peña!
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 […]
Doors open at 5:30pm / Workshop starts at 5:45pm *Any size donation is encouraged. No one turned away for lack of funds! The benefits of Mindfulness meditation are numerous and research suggests that it is associated with reduction in stress, improvement in overall health and well-being, decrease in depression and anxiety, improvement in sleep, etc. Students […]
FREE / DONATIONS ENCOURAGED La Peña Presents: The Origins of Cumbia Workshop! Thursday, April 6 at 7pm. (Doors open at 6:4pm.) Learn about the history of cumbia, how to play cumbia rhythms and how traditional instruments are made! The workshop is family-friendly and ANY size donation is encouraged to support the instructors' travel expenses. This […]
Bay Are Bomba y Plena Workshop presents: ¡BATEY BORICUA! Door Cover: $5- $10 (Sliding Scale) Proceeds go to support the Bomba y Plena Workshop and La Peña! Join us for another very special Batey Boricua with live Puerto Rican music and dance! This is a family friendly event where all are invited to participate and […]
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. TOPIC: An Invisible Plague: the Growing Threat of Tuberculosis SPEAKER: Dr. Lauren Popov, Postdoctoral Scholar, Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley DESCRIPTION: You might think of tuberculosis as […]
