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 […]
Free/Donations Welcome Taught by Miguel Ballumbrosio, master Zapateador and leader of the Atajo de Negritos de Amador Ballumbrosio del El Carmen, Chincha Peru, this class focuses on Zapateo, one of the last traditions that still exists in the Afro-Peruvian culture. Join us for this high energy class that features live music! Miguel Ballumbrosio has come […]
$15 Advance / $20 Door Doors open @ 8:30pm, Event starts @ 9pm Atajo de San Francisco is a zapateador group dedicated to preserving and spreading knowledge about La Danza De Negritos, a one-of-a-kind tradition from the district of El Carmen, Chincha, Peru. The group was created in 2009 to honor the memory of […]
$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, […]
