Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
La Peña Cultural Center presents: Skin(s): a dance work, a film, and a web media project. Skin(s) shares the beauty and diversity of how Native people identify and examines the contradictions, pride, joy, pain, and sorrow that arise out of our many dimensions of identity. "Skin(s) -- the dance -- explores what we hold, reveal […]
$15-$25 sliding scale. Space is limited! Secure your spot today! Come to this 2 hour, hands-on workshop to learn basic screenprinting skills, connect to solidarity movements of the past and present, and build community through art. Participants will create and take home 2-4 prints they make themselves. Facilitated by Lisa Maria Castellanos. Please note: […]
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 […]
$15 in advance, $20 at the door Doors open at 7pm Pictured: La Peña's Community Chorus in Cuba February 2017 during a musical and cultural exchange with local artists. The La Peña Community Chorus went to Cuba in February and met terrific people, heard fabulous music, and learned so much about Cuban society, where […]
FREE! Donations of any size are welcome throughout the night in support of the Berkeley World Music Festival and La Peña Cultural Center! The Berkeley World Music Festival opens Friday, June 9 with a FREE kick-off party at La Peña Cultural Center! The party features the cross-cultural exchange between Spain, Peru & Cuba. Afro-Peruvian master […]
$10 Advance / $15 Door / Students & Seniors $10 Door Pre-show: 7pm-8pm Concert: 8pm-9:30pm {SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH TRANSLATION} El 10 de junio, únase a los artistas residentes de La Peña - María de La Rosa y Caleb Duarte - en "Floreando Nuevas Fronteras", donde disfrutarán de un concierto de primera clase de música […]
