Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
This is an ensemble class for musicians and singers wanting to learn salsa music! Directed by Josh Jones.
Come learn a variety of salsa favorites. The class perform 3-4 showcases per year!
Email the instructor for audition times: joshjonesdrums@yahoo.com
Cost: $15 per class
This is an ensemble class for musicians and singers wanting to learn salsa music! Directed by Josh Jones.
Come learn a variety of salsa favorites. The class perform 3-4 showcases per year!
Email the instructor for audition times: joshjonesdrums@yahoo.com
Cost: $15 per class
THIS CLASS WILL NOT BE HELD ON OCTOBER 28.
This is an ensemble class for musicians and singers wanting to learn salsa music! Directed by Josh Jones.
Come learn a variety of salsa favorites. The class perform 3-4 showcases per year!
Email the instructor for audition times: joshjonesdrums@yahoo.com
Cost: $15 per class
Doors open at 8pm / Film starts at 8:30pm
$5-$20 Sliding Scale No one turned away for lack of funds!
(Please note, there is a $2 credit card fee at the door)
Fist Up Film Festival and La Peña Cultural Center proudly present: “Ser Grande” – a new documentary film from San Juan, Puerto Rico, as part of the 9th Annual Fist Up Film Festival!
The film documents the daily life of three Puerto Rican teenages, Juan, Rushian and Ivianyd, whose lives are challenged when they decide to participate in a series of workshops to discover their vocational aspirations and overcome personal limitations. The support of new mentors provokes awareness, but moving forward is not so simple. Obstacles pertaining social, emotional and sexual identity are part of this choral portrait on the margins of Caribbean society.
Director Karen Rossi is coming from San Juan, Puerto Rico to host the Q&A after the film!
Learn more about the film here: https://www.sergrandepr.com/
Community partners: Bay Area Boricuas & Sol Collective. Oakland screenings made possible with the help of the Akonadi Foundation.
ABOUT THE FIST UP FILM FESTIVAL:
The Fist Up Film Festival presents films that are intended to create impact, inspire discussion and foster understanding. By placing emphasis on the connected experiences between global and local communities, The Fist Up Film Festival creates visual parallels between people’s lived experiences and stories from around the world.
The 9th Annual Fist Up Film Festival (FUFF) takes place at multiple venues in the Bay Area October – November 2018. FUFF intends to serve underrepresented groups in the Bay Area including youth, women and communities of color and especially local Puerto Ricans with respect to anti-colonialism, liberation, self-determination, community empowerment, and social justice by having films about Puerto Rico, its diaspora and current climate of post-hurricane.
More information at http://www.fistup.tv/
ABOUT LA PEÑA CULTURAL CENTER:
Since 1975 La Peña Cultural Center has been at the forefront of people’s liberation movements, building strong communities, facilitating social change, and promoting intercultural understanding.
La Peña is a leading presenter of artists of color, with a focus on the musical and artistic traditions of the Latinx diaspora, which are frequently unsupported and underrepresented in the U.S.
With the community’s support, we present over 200 events per year, including: concerts, community gatherings, panel discussions, theatre performances, film screenings, art exhibits, fundraisers and more. In addition, La Peña commissions and produces special projects by local artists, and presents internationally renowned artists. La Peña also holds space for daily classes and workshops for children and adults, such as Mexican son jarocho; Afro Peruvian cajon and dance; Brazilian Capoeira Angola; Puerto Rican bomba & plena; Cuban salsa, timba and danzon; as well as community yoga.
Doors at 7:15pm / Event starts at 7:30pm
FREE / DONATIONS WELCOME A portion of the donations collected at the door benefit ACCE Action, a member of the Housing Now Coalition, and La Peña Cultural Center, a South Berkeley Institution since 1975.
Housing is a human right! Join members of the Housing Now coalition and documentary filmmaker Pam Uzzell at La Peña Cultural Center to discuss rising rents, displacement, and what we can do to stop it.
The event features a screening of the short documentary film Welcome to the Neighborhood by Pam Uzzell. The film traces the historical fight against BART in 1968, led by Berkeley resident Mabel Howard, which forced BART to construct Ashby BART line underground and prevent the racial segregation of South Berkeley residents. When Mabel daughter Mildred, an internationally renown artist, receives a 50% rent increase, Howard comes to terms with leaving the city that has always been her home. This narrative will open up a community discussion connecting historical and current issues of gentrification and displacement in the Bay.
Following the film will be a presentation by members of the Housing Now coalition on Proposition 10 – a statewide ballot initiative that would restore the right of local communities to protect families from skyrocketing rents. Learn how we can give power back to local communities to limit rent increases and implement thoughtful laws that address their unique housing situations.
DISCLAIMER: This event is presented by SURJ Bay Area (Showing Up for Racial Justice), a member of the HOUSING NOW COALITION.
La Peña Cultural Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to social justice through the arts, does not endorse any political candidates or parties.