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 […]
CAJON for Kids: Saturdays, 10am-11am (2017) $10 ea with bundle of 5 / or $15 drop-in Instructor: Peta Robles, master percussionist All levels are welcome. Students must bring a cajon to class. If you need to purchase one or rent one for a day, contact one of the instructors: Gabriela.Shiroma@edd.ca.gov
CAJON for Adults: 11am-12pm $10 ea with bundle of 5 / or $15 drop-in Instructor: Peta Robles, master percussionist All levels are welcome. Students must bring a cajon to class. If you need to purchase one or rent one for a day, contact one of the instructors: Gabriela.Shiroma@edd.ca.gov
DANCE: 12pm-1pm |$10 ea with bundle of 5 or $15 drop-in Instructor: Gabriela Shiroma Learn to dance a varied repertoire of traditional dances from the coastal region of Peru such as festejos, landos, and zamacuecas. All levels are welcome. Students must bring a cajon to class. If you need to purchase one or rent one […]
FREE DANCE WORKSHOP! All skill levels welcome! Join Rosy Simas for a dance workshop diving into her creative process used to develop her latest works We Wait In The Darkness and Skin(s). A meditative and concentrated process – this workshop will bring us into the world of the senses. We will explore creating movement from […]
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 […]
