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 […]
$12 Advance or $16 at the Door/ $13 Students, Seniors The Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco invites you to their 90th Annual Concert: Mir Zaynen Do - We Are Here! Featuring progressive songs of love and work, strength and hope, sung in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, Russian and English. Translations and transliterations provided. History Exhibit, video […]
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 […]
Join Gail Dobson, vocals/percussion, and Luke Westbrook, guitar, plus special guest artists in La Peña’s lounge at 4:30pm. At 5: 30pm La Peña’s Vocals for Kids will debut the songs they have been practicing. This event will be a great time, with food, laughter, and music! Bring the Kids!
Join DJ Jose Ruiz in La Peña's Lounge for a night of Salsa, Cumbia, Cha Cha Cha every 1st Friday at 9pm! DJ José Ruíz aka MundoMuzik, is a DJ, radio host, promoter, and collector of world music, vinyl, art and all cultural and music ephemera. Jose’s taste in music is very eclectic, […]
Laura, a Mindful Facilitation intern with Stirfry Seminars and Consulting, WTC alum and faculty member, will use mindful facilitation for attendees to talk before and after viewing Diversity Trainer and Filmmaker Lee Mun Wah's film "If These Halls Could Talk" - an incredible film that showcases, through the dynamic conversations of real college students, how racism and oppression are still very present […]
