FREE! Donations of any size welcome!
Doors open at 7pm, Screening starts at 7:30pm.
As white supremacy is increasingly coming out of the shadows in this country, it is important we confront racism in our native Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Black in Latin America is an award-winning documentary series where Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. travels to 6 different nations in Latin America and the Caribbean to explore how each nation’s history with colonialism and slavery directly impacts the ways black people in those countries experience discrimination and instituional racism today.
Join us at La Peña Cultural Center on Thursday, Sept.21 as we screen Episode 2 in the Black in Latin America series “Cuba: The Next Revolution in Cuba”, followed by a community discussion.
In Episode 2 “Cuba: The Next Revolution In Cuba” Professor Gates finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music of this island are inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce its enormously profitable 19th century sugar industry, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution in 1959.
ALL BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA SCREENINGS & DISCUSSIONS Doors open at 7pm, Films start at 7:30pm
Sept. 14 – Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided
Sept. 21 – Cuba: The Next Revolution in Cuba
Sept. 28 – Brazil: A Racial Paradise?
Oct. 5 – Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet
Get ready for a fun evening of Venezuelan music, dancing, food and drinks, plus donations to Venezuela via Venezuelans Without Borders (scroll down to see a list of supplies and medications they will be collecting).
Bululú, a dynamic latin music band led by 
DJ José Ruíz, aka MundoMuzik, is a DJ, radio host, promoter, and collector of world music, vinyl, art and all cultural and music ephemera. Jose’s taste in music is very eclectic, unafraid to mix traditional, experimental or folkloric elements in his sets. His confidence and impeccable taste in music is deeply rooted in the time and research he dedicates to learn about the genres he plays. His respect for the origin and tradition of music he loves can be heard in depth as a radio host and felt when he fills the dance floor. Jose has been able to stay connected with the pulse of his community, his contagious energy has earned him new followers, he sees music as a way to bring together our diverse backgrounds or as he puts it “to explore and celebrate the diversity of human expression in an increasingly inter-connected world or connecting the dots”.
Michaela Harrison, one of New Orleans’ most beloved vocalists, is having her final concert in the Bay Area before traveling to Bahia, Brazil.
As we see white supremacy increasingly coming out of the shadows in this country, it is important we confront racism in our native Latin American and Caribbean countries and how it affects our communities in the U.S. and abroad.