Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
Tickets: Student/Senior (online only) $17.50 General Advance $20, or $25 at door Children under 2 years do not need admission ticket. Diaspora Arts Connection proudly presents: A Celebration of Spring with Songs of Pardis, featuring Hani Niroo, who will be performing beautiful Songs for Children along with Ava Nazar, Yahya Alkhansa Drums and Martin Shamoonpour. Pardis […]
Sunday, April 10 at 6pm $5 at the door (suggested donation for event costs) Lori Berenson's reflections on political imprisonment and the omitted voices of collective remembrance in post-conflict Peru. Lori Berenson was a political prisoner in Peru for 20 years on charges of collaborating with an insurgent organization, the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). She recently completed […]
Bay Area Skeptics Presents: Accepting the Absurd with Leonard Tramiel Our current understanding of the universe tells us things that are difficult to accept, some have called them absurd. The vast majority of the universe is so mysterious we call it "dark" and so poorly understood we just call it "matter" or "energy"? These extraordinary […]
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 […]
8-11 pm, $15 advance, $18 door Join us for an evening of music and dance within and beyond the boundaries of the Middle East. Mira Betz has been performing Traditional and Contemporary forms of Middle Eastern dance for 20 years. Her work has been instrumental in the emergence of a new style known all around […]
Join Food First every third Wednesday of each month for their community meeting. This meeting is open to everyone who wants to learn or help with food injustices on a local and global level. This month's topic is Dismantling Racism in the Food System. Food First is a nonprofit organization based in Oakland. Founded in 1975 by Frances […]
