La Peña Cultural Center - Approved

• La Peña is a vibrant non-profit community cultural center with a global vision that has promoted social justice, arts participation, and intercultural understanding since 1975. As an internationally recognized gathering place, we support a multitude of cultural traditions, support progressive movements, and keep alive peoples’ cultures through community events, performances and classes rooted in Latin American cultural traditions and beyond. A check of our calendar on any given day might reveal international or local performances, adult and children’s classes, community events, social justice organizing, and much more. Today our focus is on supporting our new 21st century cohorts of leaders in arts activism in one of the most racially and ethnically diverse metropolitan areas in the United States.
• • Owner
    Rachel Lee
  • Created On
    01-29-2019
  • Updated On
    01-03-2023
  • Update Reminder
    12-01-2023

• How To Contact

  • Name
    General Contact
  • Phone
    (510) 849-2568
  • Fax
    N/A
  • Email
    info@lapena.org
  • Address
    3105 Shattuck Avenue
  • City
    Berkeley
  • State
    CA

• More Information

  • Start Date
    12-13-2022
  • Expiration Date
    12-30-2023
  • Eligibility
    fee
  • Fee
    20.00
  • Organization
    La Pena Cultural Center
  • Zip Code
    94705

• Helpful Links

  • Main Program URL
    https://lapena.org/
  • Current Classes
    https://lapena.org/events/category/class-workshop/
  • Upcoming Events
    https://lapena.org/upcoming-events/

• Detailed Information

  • La Peña is a cultural homeplace where every week, toddlers, children, teens and adults study the musical and performance traditions that have nourished struggles of resistance, sustained cultures, and contributed to the well-being of communities. These roots performance traditions have managed to flourish despite long and complex histories linked to colonialism in the Americas that led to censorship and neglect. They have often been excluded from mainstream recognition by official histories, public radio, and school music curricula. Roots Arts classes encourage us to think beyond consumer approaches to performance in order to become producers and creators of our own culture. These inherited traditions have often thrived for centuries underground. They can also be revolutionary, thought-provoking, healing, and inspiring.

    Our class selection throughout the years reveals the extension of the communities we serve, including classes in: jazz, folk, nueva canción, blues, flamenco, tango, plena, rumba, son jarocho, West African dance, capoeira Angola, salsa, bomba, samba, forro, Afro-Peruvian cajon, and hip-hop classes and performance.

• Eligibility Information

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  • Counties
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  • School Districts
  • Age Groups
    • Toddler
    • Preschool
    • Elementary School
    • Middle School
    • Teen
    • Adult
    • High Schooler
  • Languages Served
    • English
    • Spanish
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