Search Results for: 97

$15 Advance/ $20 Door

Doors open at 7:30pm / Show starts at 8pm

La Peña Cultural Center presents:

ARTIST BIO

Melissa Cruz is a Bay Area-based flamenco professional and has been a full-time flamenco artist and instructor for the past 14 years. After being exposed to flamenco while studying Spanish at UC Berkeley, she began dancing with Rosa Montoya and soon thereafter, joined Ms. Montoya’s professional company. Apart from frequently performing in theatrical presentations, she teaches a full weekly schedule of flamenco dance classes and presents consistently in the local flamenco cabaret circuit. Melissa is also the dancer and percussionist for the band, LoCura, with who she performs and tours. Recently, she served as Adjunct Dance Faculty at The University of San Francisco, as a guest instructor at the world dance youth program, Danceversity, and currently presents her own apprentice dance repertory group. Melissa has performed as a soloist in the San Francisco International Arts Festival in 2012 and 2016 and has presented in eight San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festivals; in 2010 and 2011, as a featured soloist. She was commissioned to present a solo representing the genre of flamenco in the 2013 San Francisco Isadora Duncan Awards Ceremony and was a featured artist in the 2014 Tucson Flamenco Festival. Currently, she is principal dancer and choreographer for the San Francisco Flamenco Dance Company which debuted the show, “Mares” in September 2016. As described by Rachel Howard of the SF Chronicle: “Any dancer could make pained faces. But Cruz is clearly possessed by the duende — the spirit that drives this deeply introspective art.”

Advance Ticket $15

This event is: 9pm-1:30am

Sigma Pi Alpha Sorority, a Chicana/Latina-based intercollegiate sorority at the University of California, Berkeley, would like to invite you to their fundraiser at La Peña on November 10th.

DJ Olea will be taking it back to apple bottom jeans and boots with the fur with amazing 2000s hits that will make you drop it like it’s hot! 10% of the proceeds will be going to East Bay Sanctuary, a local non profit that supports low income immigrant families, supports legal representation and has extended their resources to support DACA beneficiaries apply by the renewal deadline

FREE / Donations Encouraged!

The Wallmapu Support Committee‘s goal is to bring global attention to the human rights violations that are being committed against the Mapuche people in Chile and Argentina. The criminalization of mapuche demands, imprisonment of community leaders, police violence and discriminatory use of anti-terrorist laws has reached a culminating point. We stand together and denounce these atrocities. We demand peace and justice in Wallmapu.

Dr. Ruth Vargas will present her book “Pewmas/Sueños de justicia, Lonkos y dirigentes mapuches versus Chile en la Corte Interamericana” and talk about the traumatic consequences of state repression and imprisonment against Mapuche leaders and their communities. She will focus specifically on how the “Anti-terrorist Law” established the Chilean government is impacting indigenous people.

Also, we will present the photographic exhibition “Life and Resistance in Mapuche Territory”, by photographer Camilo Tapia. His work reflects the pride, strength and the pain of the mapuche people. Camilo has been part of the Mapuche communities for many years. This connection has provided a unique opportunity to capture the true reality of the Mapuche conflict through his photos.

Finally, we will close the event with MUSIC from Monreal Latin Jazz.

See you there!