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Art Reception for Latin American Artists this Sat. April 14th
Jean & Norman Moore’s collection is exhibited for the first time in 40 years
Astounding East Bay Art Exhibit Gathers the Works of Noteworthy
Latin American Master Modern Artists
In the La Peña Cultural Center’s Theater, Lounge & Café.
April 3 through April 30, 2012 • Opening Reception: Sat., April 14. 3:30pm – 5:30pm.
3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley. 510-849-2568. lapena.org
The work is diverse in medium, subject and genre. It is colorful, powerful, and relevant to today’s aesthetics and politics. Traveling around the world for business and pleasure, they delighted in meeting and supporting emerging artists during the 1960’s and 1970’s.
The exhibits includes works of artists from eight countries including Nina & Romeo Tabuena and Leticia Tarrago from Mexico; Luis Arias Vera and Jose Milner Cajahuaringa from Peru; from Puerto Rico’s Angel Botello; Brazil’s Aldemir Martins and Juan Manuel Sanchez from Argentina.
“We are very thankful with the Moore family for sharing this precious collection with La Peña’s Latin American community and the general public. This is an incredible opportunity to enjoy a number of Latin American modern artists who marked a new and fresh period in the Latin American art movement of the 60s,” says Laura Ruiz La Peña art curator.
Spoken Word, Hip Hop, Art & Activism! Amazing talent this Tues. 3/20 & Thur. 3/22
This week is going to be full of ideas, poetic flow, hip hop, art, activism, and inspiration. Come join La Pena this Tues.3/20 for Climbing Poetree and THEN this Thur. 3/22 for Bocas Radioactivas.
Tues. 3/20
Climbing Poetree
Lila Rose, Raw-G, Steelo, Aima the Dreamer, Cleome Bova and Ariel Luckey
“Critical”, “Powerful”, “Heart-Wrenching”, “Magical”, “Raw”
These are some of the words audience members have used to describe Climbing Poetree’s performance.
This duo has sharpened their art as a tool for popular education community organizing and personal transformation.Their voices will take on the stage with other great local talent such as Lila Rose and Aima the Dreamer. A powerful force and energetic pulse not to be missed!
Doors @ 7, $12-15
Thur. 3/22
With Special Guest DJ AL KRAZE (Domincan Republic)
Bocas Radioactivas @ La Peña
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fvp6vd8KGg&w=640&h=360]
March 22, 2012 @ La Peña Cultural Center 7:30PM Tix $12-$20 sliding scale. ALL AGES! TODAS EDADES!
Adrian Arancibia is a poet, writer, and educator. He, along with Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and Miguel-Angel Soria, founded the seminal Chicano spoken-word collective the Taco Shop Poets in 1994. Adrian Arancibia was born in Iquique, Chile in 1971. Since 1980, he has resided in San Diego, California. Arancibia is the co-editor of the Taco Shop Poets Anthology: Chorizo Tonguefire, and currently writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune and for national magazines like The Green Magazine.
Bocas Radioactivas is an evening of Bilingual Spoken Word about Race, Latin America and Hip-Hop/La poesia y politica del Hip-Hop to benefit the first delegation of North American Spoken Word poets traveling to the Havana International Poetry Festival in Havana, Cuba.
Wobbly World @ La Peña Cultural Center March 17
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iXPkeRCgp0&w=560&h=315]
Wobbly World is a group of internationally recognized musicians in a
powerful and unique collaboration. Wobbly World’s music is an
ethno-layering of melodic, rhythmic and poetic ideas from several very different musical traditions that fit powerfully into a brilliant new sound.
The will be performing at La Peña Cultural Center on Saturday March 17, 2012. For more information and to buy tickets online click here.
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