On Saturday, June 11th, La Peña Day will be celebrated in Berkeley with a 30th Anniversary Street Festival. The La Peña Cultural Center is a community space that includes a cafde, music and dance classes, and performances. The festival will be held from 12pm-6pm at the intersection of Prince & Shattuck streets. There will be free live music, food, drink, free kids' activities, including a kids' stage, and arts and community booths. With Pachasiku, Rafael Manriquez, La Peña Afro Cuban Youth Ensemble, La Peña Bomba Class, Jesus Diaz & QBA, La Familia, Youth Movement Records, and DJ José Ruiz. La Peña is creating a community history project- they ask that people visit La Peña's booth at the Street Festival and bring photos or memories from past events to enter into the community history journals.

Other Celebratory Programs:
Fri. & Sat. June 10th and 11th ¡Vivan los treinta de La Peña! with CANTINFLAS!, a celebrated bilingual play written and performed by Culture Clash's Herbert Sigüenza. This tribute to comedian & movie actor Mario Moreno captures the fusion of the comic's clever word play.
On Friday, June 17th, the La Peña Community Chorus celebrates La Peña's 30th Anniversary in a concert of retrospection and vision with some of its favorite songs from the last 25 years, as well as the most recent additions to its repertoire of music that celebrates justice, peace, unity and hope.
On Saturday, June 18th, Quetzal will be in concert. The leading Chicano band from LA returns to Berkeley with its high quality songs with upbeat rhythms and powerful lyrics in a mix of Mexican, Cuban, Latin American rhythms, jazz, and rock supercharged by its dynamic vocals. Read more