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November 21, 2016

¡Que Bailen los Niños! Bomba y Plena Showcase

Bay Area Bomba y Plena Workshop Presents:
¡Que Bailen los Niños!

With Presentations by the Youth Bomba y Plena Workshop
AND the Adult Bomba y Plena Workshop AND a celebration Batey or Jam to end the evening!Come out and support our community students who give their heart and talent to help grow and spread the musical traditions of Bomba and Plena. They will be showcasing their learnings from the year!This event is a fundraiser for the Youth Bomba y Plena Workshop and the children’s upcoming educational trip to Puerto Rico in January to study Plena and Bomba with maestr@s from the island!

Workshop youth will be selling handmade crafts and goodies to raise funds for the Workshop!

Doors open @ 5pm

Admission: $10 Advance /

$15 at the Door

Children $5

(No one turned away for lack of funds)

November 7, 2016

Beginners-Intermediate Salsa Dancing Lessons

Beginners-Intermediate Salsa Class Monday at 8pm, now through October 30th with our talented and friendly instructor Juliana Mendonca! Classes are drop-in friendly and affordable! $5 for students, $7-$10 sliding scale for non-students per 1 hour class.

Juliana’s teaching style will make you feel the music and the rhythms before you get technical. This is a beginners-intermediate class, so come learn salsa or brush up on your salsa dancing skills every Monday at 8pm!

About the Instructor:

Juliana is a dance performer, choreographer and teacher from Venezuela. She graduated with a degree in dance from University Institute of Caracas, Venezuela (IUDANZA – UNEARTE) in 2005, she also served as an instructor at the Performing Arts Department of the University of the Andes in Mérida, Venezuela (U.L.A.) (2012-2015); and at the Traditional Dance Program of the National University for the Arts (UNEARTE) (2008); Juliana also served as an independent Yoga and Latin Rhythms dance teacher. In 2011 she received certification as a Yoga instructor by the Physiology of Exercise Program of the University of the Andes (U.L.A.), Mérida, Venezuela. In 2005, Juliana co-founded Raíz de Agua, a music and dance company, which is her principal artistic endeavor. Since then, she has performed mostly as a solo artist with the Company and through dance has found a way to connect her creativity to spirit and nature, compounded with a unique feminine and artistic self-awareness.

Juliana has worked in collaboration with other artists and companies such as Sarta de Cuentas, an Afro-Venezuelan contemporary dance company, Fundación Andróginos, a physical theater company and played the leading role in Xarop, a movie about Venezuelan Llanero music and dance. She has also worked in a wide variety of projects and events in conventional and non-conventional spaces such as plazas, galleries, museums, parks and national and international festivals such as: 21 Marató L’Espectacle (Barcelona, Spain. 2004), Festival Internacional Mujeres en La Danza (Quito, Ecuador. 2005, 2007), Festival Jóvenes Coreógrafos (Caracas, Venezuela. 2003, 2004, 2005), Festival del Movimiento, (Mérida, Venezuela. 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014), VI Festival Mundial de Solos y Duetos (Caracas, Venezuela. 2009), Festival Internacional de Teatro (Tovar, Venezuela. 2011, 2013, 2015) and V Encuentro Internacional Augusta Gran Fraternidad Universal, (Mérida, Venezuela. 2014). Juliana currently lives in Oakland, California with her husband and daughter, working as a dancer, choreographer and teacher.

Questions: email instructor juliana.mendonca.espinoza@gmail.com

November 7, 2016

Beginners Salsa Dancing Lessons – CANCELLED THIS WEEK

Due to popular demand La Peña is proud to announce a new weekly Beginners-Intermediate Salsa Class every Monday at 8pm with our talented and friendly “salsaholic” instructor Shu-Jon! Classes are weekly, drop-in friendly and affordable! $5 for students, $7-$10 sliding scale for non-students per 1.5 hour class.

Shu-Jon has been dancing salsa for 12 years, ever since he stumbled upon salsa dancing at a birthday party. After that life changing moment he has learned from instructors from all over, including SF, LA, SD, and NYC, performing with multiple dance groups at various dance festivals and events, competing, teaching, and traveling… all for the joy of salsa.

“I’d like to share my passion with others via a new weekly salsa lessons at the beautiful La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley Monday nights from 8 to 9:30pm. Thanks and welcome to the addiction.”

Questions? Contact the instructor. See you Monday!

November 7, 2016