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 […]
Admission: $20-$30 Sliding Scale All levels welcome! (Youth with Plena experience are welcome, too.) Please bring panderetas and güícharos if you can! There will be a limited number to share. The Plena is Puerto Rico's most popular form of music with a rich history of political activism and documentation of the everyday lives, concerns and humor […]
Featuring report-backs by Tito Matos & Defend Puerto Rico. This report-back and fundraiser, produced by John Santos, showcases the urgent work being done by several groups to uplift and rebuild Puerto Rico in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria that caused such widespread destruction in September of 2017. The dismal response by the trump […]
Youth Showcase: 5pm $10-$20 Advance / $25 Door Adult Showcase: 8pm $10-$20 Advance / $25 Door Bodywerk Dance presents its 2nd Annual Dance Showcase! BodyWerk is returning to the stage and bringing its dynamic aesthetic of hip-hop techniques that are guaranteed to leave you wanting more. In addition to our adult company, BodyWerk will be debuting our children's company […]
$10 Advance / $15 Day of Concert La Peña Cultural Center and Discos Resaca present: THE ORIGINS OF CUMBIA CONCERT Colombian musicians, Kiko Villamizar y su grupo out of Austin Texas, are touring California to share their ancestral knowledge of Colombian cumbia, and also fusing Afro-Colombian, Reggae, and other Latin world beats. Kiko Villamizar's group, which recently […]
Entrada Gratuita / Free Entry *English translation below El comité de TPS para la residencia permanente los invita a un Simposio de TPS el 29 de Abril del 2018 a las 5 pm en el Centro Cultural La Peña. En este Simposio tendremos varios recursos para personas con TPS, incluyendo información para conocer sus derechos […]
