Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
$25 for dinner and Concert, $15 for concert only For Tickets Call 510-845-5161 or email ngendel@pacbell.net La Peña Chorus will host an Extravaganza of food and music from 5:30pm-9pm on Sunday, May 22, featuring authentic home-cooked Cuban dinner fare. Musical entertainment will be provided by Bay Area artists Lichi Fuentes and Hugo Wainzinger, with performances by […]
Preschool Creative Dance Tuesdays 9:30am-10:15am | $10 per class (one child), $15 per family (multiple children), OR $35 for whole month package Instructor: Miss Marigold Pre-register by e-mailing: marigoldbirch@gmail.com | Location: Community Room Join Miss Marigold every Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. for Preschool Creative Dance! Expression, movement, beginner’s Spanish vocabulary, and cognitive development will all come together […]
FREE Mindfulness Yoga Tuesdays 10:30-11:45am| FREE! Instructor: Pamela Perry For more information: pperry0855@gmail.com Students will be guided through asana (postures), breathing techniques, and meditation designed to rejuvenate mind, body, and spirit. Benefit from increased focus, reduced stress, increased strength, flexibility and balance, injury prevention, and pain reduction. Perfect for students of all levels interested in deepening mind-body awareness! […]
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 […]
Tuesdays 7pm-9pm & Saturdays 2pm-4pm Instructor: Sergio Bitencourt For more information: sergiobitencourt81@gmail.com 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 […]
