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La Peña’s 50th Anniversary Festival!
Jun 07, 2025
From 11:30am to 5:30pm, all activities are FREE
510/849-2568
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50 years of Art, Culture, & Collective Action!
La Peña Cultural Center is celebrating its 50th Anniversary, and we want you to join us for a day-long festival that honors our history and looks toward the future of arts and culture in Berkeley and beyond. On June 7th, 2025, we invite you to a community celebration filled with music, storytelling, art, food, and much more.
¡Qué viva La Peña!
SF/Arts Curator Insight
La Peña Cultural Center takes pride in being the last existing “peña” in the U.S. – a convivial gathering space where people come together over music, food, and activism. Founded in 1975 as a home for Chilean political exiles, La Peña is now a thriving community hub hosting cross-cultural concerts, jam sessions, dinners, teach-ins, and more. Their 50th anniversary calls for a 12-hour intergenerational party, with everything that makes La Peña great. Join the revolutionaries on their mural out front — Victor Jara, Cesar Chavez — and let’s toast to the longevity of our beloved peña.
Juhi Gupta
Contributing Writer
In 1975 La Peña opened its doors and became the center of the anti-Pinochet dictatorship movement in the United States – a space for community meetings, art activism and multicultural solidarity. Since then La Peña has become the home, hub and catalyst for hundreds of diasporic communities promoting social justice and cultural understanding through the arts, education and community action.
In 1975 La Peña opened its doors and became the center of the anti-Pinochet dictatorship movement in the United States – a space for community meetings, art activism and multicultural solidarity. Since then La Peña has become the home, hub and catalyst for hundreds of diasporic communities promoting social justice and cultural understanding through the arts, education and community action.