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Doors & finger food for sale at 6:15pm / Program starts at 7pm

$15-$25 Sliding Scale General Admission / $5 Youth Under 18 / Lap Children Free

La Peña Cultural Center, Bay Area Boricuas, La Tertulia Boricua, Bay Area Alliance for a Sustainable Puerto Rico and the International Committee for Peace and Justice present:

WHAT THE WINDS LEFT BEHIND … COLONIALISM UNMASKED, A COMMEMORATION OF EL GRITO DE LARES (Lares Uprising or Cry of Lares)

This community-sponsored event features keynote speaker, Puerto Rican human rights activist Zulma Olivares Vega, direct from Puerto Rico, who will give an update of the present conditions and challenges facing the island one year after hurricane Maria. The event also features a selection of Puerto Rican music, poetry and a short film from Bay Area artists, activists and diasporicans committed to raising political awareness, celebrating Puerto Rican culture and advancing positive change and autonomy in Puerto Rico.

THIS VENUE IS WHEELCHAIR ACCESIBLE – PLEASE CALL US IN ADVANCE SO WE CAN SET UP SEATING FOR YOU

ABOUT GRITOS DE LARES:
People of Puerto Rico annually observe Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) to commemorate the events of the first large uprising against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico. The uprising began on September 23, 1868, the first major revolt for Puerto Rican Independence.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Zulma Oliveras Vega (San Germán, Puerto Rico 1970). Puerto Rican Activist of Human Rights, Former Director of M.A.S.A. (Lesbian Latinas: social and active). She has been published in the anthology “NOT IN OUR NAME: Contra la ayuda de Estados Unidos a la masacre en Gaza” (2016), and in the Anthology “¡Despierta Humanidad! en homenaje a Berta Cáceres” (2017). She currently works in a non-profit dedicated to educate about Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, as Program Coordinator for Social Empowerment at: www.pazparalamujer.org

MUSIC BY:
Taller Bombalele (directed by Denise Solis and Julia Cepeda)
Madelina y Los Carpinteros (Fernando Torres, Madeleine Zayas y Craig Thomas), with Pedro Pastrana
Art3mis Prime
Quenepas (Directed by Hector Lugo and Shefali Shah)

POETRY BY:
Aya de León, Raina León, Rico Pabón, Aurora Levins Morales and Susana Praver-Pérez

VIDEO BY:
Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Doors & finger food for sale at 6:15pm
Program starts at 7pm

$15-$25 Sliding Scale General Admission
$5 Youth Under 18
Lap Children Free

Proceeds from this event will benefit grassroot efforts in Puerto Rico.

La Peña Cultural Center: 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705

Doors open at 4pm / Event begins at 4:30pm

$10 in Advance / $15 at the Door / Children and Youth (under 18): Sliding Scale $5-$10

La Peña Cultural Center and the Bay Area Bomba y Plena Workshop present a very special
¡BATEY BORICUA! featuring REDOBLES de CULTURA from New York City!

The event will feature a community Bombazo jam with the participation Redobles de Cultura and will include a performance by our featured artists.

Plus, we’ll have delicious Puerto Rican food for sale: Authentic Boricua flavors by CaliRican Catering!

ABOUT REDOBLES DE CULTURA:
Redobles de Cultura (RDCNYC) is a collective of top New York City-based Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba practitioners: Julia Gutiérrez-Rivera, Nicky “Caja Dura” Laboy, Nelson Matthew González and Nina Rodriguez. They are proud members of today’s “new” and younger generation of Bomberos, cultural workers and educators. Collectively, the RDC ensemble has 50 years of teaching and performing experience, as part of several notable Bomba and Plena ensembles, including Los Pleneros de la 21, Alma Moyo, Legacy Women, Ilu Aye, Yerba Buena and more. Each member–weaned with the cultural and traditional practices of Puerto Rico and the Afro-Caribbean from a very early age–embodies the ancestral knowledge of their elders. Throughout the years, they have toured internationally to: Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Germany, Thailand, Singapore, France, Africa, the Dominican Republic and more.
Working alongside each other for more than 15 years with other groups and initiatives, the trio officially came together as RDCNYC in November 2016 to offer community engagement and presentations to audiences of all ages and backgrounds…this time through the eyes of first generation “DiaspoRicans”, who can pair the foundational knowledge of their elders with the aesthetics, styles and realities of urban and diaspora perspectives. RDC has since successfully produced a breakout tour (Fall 2017) which took them across 9 states, working in partnership with 24 host organizations, recorded 2 music tracks, and offering 26 events (workshops, classes and performances) to a direct audience of over 2,000 people.
RDC proudly continues the work of their parents and ancestors, as it is not only their honor but their duty to celebrate and transmit the richness of the Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Boricua expressions with communities worldwide.

$20 Advance / $25 Door

Doors open at 6:30pm / Event starts at 7pm

La Peña Cultural Center is proud to present the world premiere of 9-1-1 What’s Your Emergency?

Written and directed by Bay Area playwright Jovelyn Richards and starring a cast of local actors, the play is an artistic response to gentrification, stereotypes, systemic racism and the personal narratives of humanity.

9-1-1 What’s Your Emergency? is a groundbreaking and timely work that examines white fragility, as a result of the intersection of White Supremacy and personal psychological narratives, propelling the calls. The 9-1-1 call is rooted in micro-aggression, yet can have irreparable consequences to communities of color. Poetic justice will be served in this court drama based on real life 911 calls.

Stick around after the play for a community discussion with the actors and organizations fighting for racial justice, specially as it pertains to the 9-1-1 calls that have run rampantly throughout the country.

THIS EVENT CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT. Recommended ages 13+.

NO VIDEO RECORDING WILL BE PERMITTED AT THIS EVENT.