La Peña Cultural Center

La Peña Cultural Center is a Berkeley-based community center that promotes peace, social justice, and cultural understanding through arts, education, and social action. Each year, La Peña presents more than 100 events created by emerging and established performers, and produces new works by local, national, and international artists. It reaches approximately 10,000 people annually. The organization also houses a variety of in-school and out-of-school arts education programs, classes, and workshops rooted in Latin American cultural traditions and international social movements. This grant to La Peña Cultural Center advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.

La Peña Cultural Center is a vibrant community center with a global vision that promotes peace, social justice, and cultural understanding through the arts, education, and social action. Each year, La Peña puts on more than 200 events created by emerging and established performers and produces new works by local, national, and international artists. Through these activities, the organization annually reaches approximately 10,000 people. La Peña also houses a variety of in-school and out-of-school arts education programs, as well as community-based classes and workshops. With renewed support, La Peña plans to develop and implement a new business/program model that should increase community participation and improve its financial performance.