Avoid the mall and support your community this holiday season! Come find the perfect handcrafted gifts for sale by local vendors as well as unique imports from Mexico and beyond!

Come hungry to enjoy yummy food from local vendors while you shop!

A tianguis is an open-air market or bazaar that is traditionally held on certain market days in a town or city neighborhood in Mexico and Central America. This bazaar tradition has its roots well into the pre-Hispanic period and continues in many cases essentially unchanged into the present day. The word tianguis comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec Empire.

WHEN: Saturday, December 9, 2016
TIME: 11AM-4PM
COST: FREE! (Bring cash for food, arts, and crafts vendors)
WHERE: La Peña Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA
(Located just TWO blocks from Ashby Bart Station)
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EN ESPAÑOL:
¡Evite el centro comercial y apoye su comunidad esta navidad! ¡Venga a encontrar los regalos artesanales perfectos que estaran a la venta por vendedores locales, así como también importaciones únicas de México y otros paises Latinoamericanos.

¡Venga con hambre a disfrutar de la deliciosa comida de los vendedores locales mientras compra!

Un tianguis es un mercado al aire libre o bazar, tradicionalmente se encuentran en las calles durante ciertos días en vecindarios y ciudades de México y Centroamérica.

Esta tradición tiene sus orígenes en la epoca prehispánica y en muchos casos ha permanecido intacta hasta hoy en día. La palabra tianguis viene del nahuatl, lengua del imperio Azteca.

FECHA: Sábado 9 de diciembre de 2016
HORA: 11:00 am a 4:00 pm
COSTO: GRATIS (trae dinero en efectivo contigo en caso de que quieras comprar comida, arte y artesanías de los vendedores locales)
LUGAR: La Peña Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705. El lugar se encuentra justo a dos cuadras de la estación Ashby del transporte BART.

$30 GA / $50 Premium

Featuring David Serva, Kina Mendez, Lakshmi “La Chimi”, Jose Cortés and Andres Vadin

ARTIST BIOS

David Serva is a Bay Area Native who has lived and worked in Spain as a professional flamenco guitarist for most of his life. Serva has created a singular style based on the artistic legacy of his maestro, Gypsy guitarist Diego del Gastor (1908-1973), one of the most important flamenco artists of the 20th century. David began playing clubs in Madrid and Marbella in the early 70s, while pursuing a career internationally as a soloist. He has accompanied such historical figures of flamenco as Juan Talega, Manolito de Maria, La Perla de Cadiz, Anzonini del Puerto, Fernanda de Utrera, Manuel Agujetas, Miguel Funi, Manolete, Mario Maya, and Blanca del Rey, as well as younger figures such as Soledad Barrios and Pepe Torres de Moron. He has played in Flamenco nightclubs and festivals all over Spain and has participated in the Bienal del Arte Flamenco de Sevilla with Gypsy flamenco artists from the towns of Moron and Lebrija. He has made several recordings with with the Agujetas family as well as with Antonio Vizarraga and Rafael Jimenez “El Falo”. David was also the stage guitarist for original production of the Broadway musical, Man of La Mancha and was lead guitarist for several years for the acclaimed company “Noche Flamenca.” In 2013, David was a featured artist at the Bay Area Flamenco Festival, honored for his over 50 years as a professional flamenco artist.

Singer Kina Mendez was born into the Mendez clan of Gypsy artists of Jerez de la Frontera. Her expressive stage presence and dynamic voice have made her a sought after performer in both Spain and the U.S. Steeped in the flamenco tradition, she began singing under the influence of her aunt, legendary singer La Paquera de Jerez. Her professional career began when she joined Manuel Morao’s company in her teens. She then went on to work with Mario Maya and tour internationally with Salvador Tavora’s productions Carmen and Carmina Burana. Performing in festivals such as ‘La Fiesta de la Buleria’ and ‘La Fiesta de la Vendimia’ in Jerez de la Frontera, she has shared the stage with many renown flamenco artists including Manuel Agujetas, El Grilo and La Macanita. Her debut recording “De Sevilla a Jerez” was released in 2009 and she was a featured artist at the prestigious XIV Festival de Jerez in 2010 in “Los Conciertos de Palacio.” Later that year she came to the U.S. for performances presented by Bay Area Flamenco and soon returned spend several years performing with the best U.S. based flamenco artists from coast to coast. During that period, Bay Area Flamenco presented Kina on numerous occasions including the 2011 Festival Flamenco Gitano performance by Diego del Morao and the Zambomba GItana de Jerez in 2013.

Lakshmi “La Chimi” has lived in, Spain since 2002 and has solidly established her career in Sevilla, an essential cradle place of flamenco. Studying with prominent Gypsy artists such as Los Farruco, Angelita Vargas, Juana Amaya, Yolanda Heredia and Concha Vargas, she was given the nickname “La Chimi” (her own name re-pronounced). In recent years she has had the opportunity to share the stage with such luminaries as Manuel Molina, Remedios Amaya, Jose Mendez, Antonio Moya, La Herminia, Carmen Ledesma, Antonio Rey and La Toná. In 2011 Lakshmi made history, being the first non-Spanish artist to win an award for flamenco dance at the prestigious Concurso de las Minas de La Unión. She was later granted another important award at the Concurso Nacional de Arte Flamenco de Córdoba.

José Cortés Fernández was born in the south of France into a Gypsy family from Almería, Spain. He was immersed in the world of flamenco with such foundational artists as Terremoto, Pansequito, Camarón de la Isla, Moraíto Chico and Tomatito. He has shared the stage with an array of premier flamenco artists including Antonio Carmona of Ketama, Belen López, Alfonso Losa, Sergio Arranda, Juan Ogalla, among others. In 2010 he moved to the U.S. and performs regularly nationwide, including with companies “Caminos Flamencos” and “Theatre Flamenco” of San Francisco, Fanny Ara, Manuel Gutierrez, Juan Siddi Flamenco of Santa Fe and many others

FREE! Donations Welcome! Donations of any size benefit the Haiti Action Committee & La Peña Cultural Center.

Doors open at 7pm, Screening starts at 7:30pm

As we see how 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 institutional racism today.

Join us at La Peña Cultural Center on Thursday, Sept. 14 as we screen Episode 1 in the Black in Latin America series “Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided”, followed by a community discussion with special guest Pierre Labossiere, founding member of the Haiti Action Committee.

In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of inter-marriage, and how the country’s troubled history with Haiti informs notions about racial classification.

In Haiti, Professor Gates tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic, and finds out how the slaves’s hard fought liberation over Napoleon Bonaparte’s French Empire became a double-edged sword.

ABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUEST: PIERRE LABOSSIERE & THE HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE
Mr. Labossiere was born in Haiti and has been active in the struggle for justice since his teen years. In addition to his work at the Haiti Action Committee, he is also a Board member of Global Exchange, the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund and Ecumenical Peace Institute.

The Haiti Action Committee, based in the Bay Area, is a network of activists who have supported the Haitian struggle for democracy since 1991. Members foster extensive contacts with the grassroots movement in Haiti and work to promote international solidarity.

ALL BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA SCREENINGS & DISCUSSIONS AT LA PEÑA:
Doors open at 7pm, Screenings starts 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