Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
Tuesdays: 10:30 am-12:00 pm & 7:30-9pm | April 12 - June 7 | $150 if paid on first day of course Instructor: Gigi Jensen | Location: Lounge For more information: spanish@tangoandmore.org, or call Gigi (510) 326-6415. Each class explores a theme. The class is great for beginners and beg/intermediate level students. Everyone learns at his or her own level. […]
$15 p/ class, or $10 with student ID or teacher ID Drop-ins welcome! Tuesdays at 7pm Join instructors Christopher and David Epperson for a beginners-intermediate Kizomba class! Kizomba is both a music genre and a partnered dance originating in Angola. Kizomba has also been described as the “African Tango.” The dance is known to be slow […]
Brazilian-Portuguese Lessons Wednesdays: 6:30pm – 8:00pm | $10-$20 sliding scale Instructor: Acacia Woods Chan | Location: Community Room #2 For more information: awoodsch@gmail.comAre you planning on taking a trip to Brazil in the near future? Then this is the class for you! You’ll do activities where you talk, read and write about things you do in your […]
Blues Dance with Sundance Blues Sliding scale $6-$16 for practice, drop-in, and social dance Instructors: Rotating Instructors | Location: Theater Space 7 – 8 - Intermediate class 8 – 9 - Drop in beginner class 9 – 11 - Social dance to blues music Director: Victor Lane For more information: http://www.sundownblues.com/contact.html Blues dancing is all about connection, […]
Capoeira Angola (In the Community Room) $10 Per Class 7pm-9pm Capoeira Angola, a martial art and ritual combat dance, is one of the major expressions of an African, specifically Kongo-Angolan, continuum in Brazil. It is believed that its origins may go as far back as the 16th century, when Africans from western Central Africa were […]
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 […]
