La Peña is spring cleaning and we have many items that need a new home! Most items will be free or by donation!
Come find desks, chairs, kitchen items and much more at La Peña’s rummage sale!
Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
La Peña is spring cleaning and we have many items that need a new home! Most items will be free or by donation!
Come find desks, chairs, kitchen items and much more at La Peña’s rummage sale!
Donation based entry: $5 Suggest Donation
This series is presented by La Peña Cultural Center and the UC Berkeley Womxn of Color Initiative!
January 26th, February 9th and March 9th
This 3-part open mic series will provide a space for performances celebrating the voices of womxn of color, and will include one featured artist per month!
Come support local Bay Area talent or sign up to perform!
This event is open to all.
Performers, come dazzle the crowd with your talent and get in touch with the local artist community each month.
Sign-Ups for open-mic available on a first-come, first-serve basis: https://goo.gl/forms/K0l0tjQ5PdiA3wyQ2
FEATURED ARTIST FOR JANUARY 26: AURIELLE MARIE
Aurielle Marie is a Black, Atlanta-born, Queer hip-hop scholar and a cultural worker. Through her work as a poet and an activist, she explores the uses of intimacy and ritual in the practice of Black resistance. Aurielle is a 2017 Roddenberry Fellowship Finalist, a Voices of Our Nation Fellow-Alum, a 2016 Kopkind Fellow, and a current Queer Emerging Artist-In-Residence at Destiny Arts Center.
Both her activism and artistry ground themselves in the afro-indigenous legacy of storytelling in the Deep South. She was chosen by Safiya Sinclair as the 2017 Poetry Prize Winner for Blue Mesa Review. She was and has been featured as a social-political pundit on CNN. Her essays and poems have been published in Blue Mesa Review, Selfish Magazine, in Scalawag, on For Harriett, ESSENCE Mag, Allure, NBC Blk, and Huffington Post.
Her inaugural collection, Gumbo Ya Ya, is forthcoming from Write Bloody Publishing. Her work has been featured on a global host of stages, most importantly in her grandmother’s kitchen.
DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM / PERFORMANCES AT 8PM
Donation based entry: $5 Suggest Donation
This series is presented by La Peña Cultural Center and the UC Berkeley Womxn of Color Initiative!
January 26th, February 9th and March 9th
This 3-part open mic series will provide a space for performances celebrating the voices of womxn of color, and will include one featured artist per month!
Come support local Bay Area talent or sign up to perform!
This event is open to all.
Performers, come dazzle the crowd with your talent and get in touch with the local artist community each month.
This open mic series leads up to the 33rd Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference on Saturday, March 17th at UC Berkeley, presented by UC Berkeley Womxn of Color Initiative. Get your tickets to the conference here, before it sells out: http://bit.ly/2FhKTvk
Sign-ups to perform at the open mics are full! You may sign up to be put on a wait list for the fall: https://goo.gl/forms/K0l0tjQ5PdiA3wyQ2
Stay connected about future open mics by signing up for La Peña’s email list: https://lapena.org/email-list/
La Peña will be CLOSED January 1-7, 2018.
Most classes resume the second week of January. Click here to see January’s classes schedule!
If you have need to reach us within this time period, please contact us here.
La Peña is a nonprofit cultural center, so we depend on support from the community to continue our 200+ cultural events per year (many which are free or low cost) and offer hundreds of classes per year!
Friends of La Peña are community members like you that donate $10 a month or more to La Peña! When you become a Friend you get automatically entered into our monthly giveaway for gift cards, free tickets to La Peña events, and more! They also get an exclusive newsletter that gives them a behind-the-scenes look at La Peña, and are the first to know about upcoming events!
To sign up to be a Friend of La Peña, all you have to do is sign-up to donate $10 monthly (or more) at lapena.org/donate!
The best part is: your donation is 100% Tax Deductible!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!