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ARTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE
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A monthly Sunday afternoon Mexican music jam in the café lounge. The Tardeadas are informal family-oriented gathering of musicians and Mexican music aficionados. Bring your Tejano/Norteño acordeon, guitar, bass, bajo, or percussion y aquí nos vemos!
A monthly Sunday afternoon Mexican music jam in the café lounge. The Tardeadas are informal family-oriented gathering of musicians and Mexican music aficionados. Bring your Tejano/Norteño acordeon, guitar, bass, bajo, or percussion y aquí nos vemos!
A monthly Sunday afternoon Mexican music jam in the café lounge. The Tardeadas are informal family-oriented gathering of musicians and Mexican music aficionados. Bring your Tejano/Norteño acordeon, guitar, bass, bajo, or percussion y aquí nos vemos!
Survival Groove and Nuevo Mundo bring you salsa, son and Latin Jazz for your listening and dancing pleasure.
Survival Groove brings you jazzy renditions of Cuban son, incorporates Latin rhythms into original jazz arrangements and creates original compositions with a unique Survival Groove sabor and swing. Survival Groove is: Gene Tucci (guitar), Norm Downing (congas, lead vocals), Dan Schulman (trombone), Roberto Medina (bongo, background vocals), Sylvia Sherman (bass).
Nuevo Mundo plays salsa to son to Latin standards and Latin jazz. Nuevo Mundo is: Ismael (“Izzy”) Rodriguez (lead singer), Eduardo Corzo – keyboard, Gerry Eiselman (Cuban tres & guitar), Nzingah Smith (woodwinds), Sue Matthews (congas), Roberto Medina (bongo), Sylvia Sherman (bass), guest artist Dan Schulman (trombone).
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A monthly Sunday afternoon Mexican music jam in the café lounge. The Tardeadas are informal family-oriented gathering of musicians and Mexican music aficionados. Bring your Tejano/Norteño acordeon, guitar, bass, bajo, or percussion y aquí nos vemos!
La Peña highlights the effort of The People’s Kitchen for bringing communities together as a free, monthly, community restaurant that couples political education & movement building with a high-end, local, organic meal that is lovingly prepared by community chefs. Also for using food as a tool for storytelling and reclaiming community knowledge. Lastly, for believing that sharing food as a community is key to decolonization.
For more information on The People’s Kitchen visit them on
Facebook or Twitter. Also join The People’s Kitchen mailing list and eat with us!
La Peña, True Bloo & Queendom Presents:
We Scratch: DJ Remixed Dance Party with the Bay Area’s premier DJs!
Hip Hop Beyond Gender 2013
Hip Hop begins with the DJ. The DJ sets the pace, style and rhythm to the flow. Since the birth of Hip-Hop in 1977, women have been present in the game transcending language barriers, cultural differences, and gender bias. In this male dominated industry, meet Bay Area’s finest women DJs that are right up there with the best- pushing the limits in Hip Hop: Deeandroid, Pam the Funkstress, and DJ Zita!
Hear them transcend music with their mixes, see the versatility of their techniques in the turntables and enjoy their groove that will sure get you sweating on the dance floor!
DJ Workshop
Also- join us for a workshop and dialogue with two of the Bay Area’s premier professional women DJs, Zita and Pam the Funkstress, as they lead the WE SCRATCH Workshop through a talk and DJ demonstration about women DJs in the hip hop music industry, DJ techniques and tips, and a Q&A session.
@Multicultural Community Center in UC Berkley at Hearst Field Annex D
Friday, April 26, 2013 • 5-7pm
Programs at La Peña
La Peña’s programs promote its mission of peace, social justice and cultural understanding through arts, education and social action. We are committed to the belief that culture can be used as a vehicle for social change. The Center presents local, national and international music, theater, dance, film and visual artists whose works examine contemporary social issues and are reflective of a wide variety of cultural traditions. Located in Berkeley, California, La Peña is inspired by the peñas (gathering places) of Latin America where contemporary social movements have been nurtured by collective action and the wisdom of cultural traditions. La Peña has has been a home, a hub and a catalyst for cultural and social action.
Find out more about La Peña’s programs here:
Bharatanatyam: Indian classical dance
Bharatanatyam is one of the classical dance forms from India. It has its origins in the temples and courts of Southern India. Now Bharatanatyam is performed and practiced all over the world. It has a strong component of footwork that helps in rhythm training and to develop musicality in movement. The other aspect of Bharatanatyam is Abhinaya– acting or lyrical technique. This will help all dancer/actors learn how to stylize and to emote and mime. The course will also focus on a few styles of Bharatanatyam to give a taste of variations of similar movements that are present in all dance forms including Ballet and modern.
Workshop Instructor will be Dr. Aparna Sindhoor who is also the Artistic Director of Navarasa Dance Theater.
Dr. Aparna Sindhoor is one of the world’s leading proponents of the Mysore Style Bharatanatyam.Sindhoor trained in the Mysore style of Bharatanatyam for more than fifteen years with legendary teacher, Dr. K. Venkatalakshamma (Mysore palace dancer). She has trained in yoga, martial arts, contemporary, aerial dance, music and theater for more than a decade. Her current work has synthesized these distinct art forms into a unified whole. She is a Gold Medalist in Dance from Mysore University and she has a PhD in Dance, Cultural and Women’s Studies from Boston University. She has performed all over India, USA, Canada and Germany. She was the artist in residency at the prestigious Bates Dance Festival, at Brandeis University and Boston Center for the Arts. She is currently teaching and choreographing for a Greek play at Brandeis University. Sindhoor is the Artistic Director of Navarasa Dance Theater. Critics have called her work: “A magical mix of tradition, styles. – Boston Globe. “Sindhoor is truly a wonder.” – Montreal Mirror www.navarasa.org
Sindhoor has trained in Bharatanatyam (one of the Indian classical dance forms) for over 20 years including 15 years with Dr. K. Venkatalakshamma, one of the foremost proponents of the Mysore style of Bharatanatyam where Abhinaya (facial expression) and graceful Jathis (pure dance compositions) are emphasized. Sindhoor has been giving accomplished professional performances since her arangetram (graduation solo recital) in 1989. Sindhoor holds a Vidwat (Masters) in dance, a Masters in English, and a Bachelors degree in Dance, literature and Dramatics. She was awarded the gold medal in 1990 for finishing first in dance at the University of Mysore. She received her doctorate in dance and theater from the Boston University in 2009.
Since 1996 Sindhoor has been working on dance theater forms with SM Raju (Rajendran M. Sivasankaran) that bring varied art forms and styles to tell contemporary stories. Using stories like, The Incident and After, The Hunt, Clothes, Draupadi, River Rites, written by contemporary writers, Sindhoor and Raju have created works that give a new dimension to the content and beauty of the dance performance. Using Indian classical dance, yoga, songs, martial arts, stories and folk dances they explore new ways of presenting with out compromising the beauty of the forms. This has made their work more interesting and accessible to diverse audiences. Sindhoor brings in a unique blend of depth in the content, novelty in the presentation and extraordinary artistry.
An accomplished choreographer and performer, Sindhoor’s is known for her creativity and power to push boundaries. She has conceived and choreographed over 20 full-length dance works. She was awarded grants from the Human Resource Development Agency, Government of India, for her dance works, Vachanadara and A Concise Portrait of Indian Woman. In these works she has expanded the boundaries of the traditional Bharatanatyam recital in terms of the subject, style and production. In A Concise Portrait of Indian Woman, she used regional folk dance as part of the choreography, along with the classical dance. She was sponsored byUrban Bush Women to attend the A New Dancer for a New Society workshop at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida in the summer of 1997. She has collaborated with artists and companies such as Robert Uno of New World Theater, Rangayana and Rahul Varma of Teesri Duniya. She is one of the choreographers for Santhosh Sivan’s film, Anandabadhram. She has received grants from Arts International, Somerville Arts Council, Massachusetts Arts council and UMass Arts Council. Sindhoor is the founding director ofNavarasa Natyalaya, a performance art school in Mysore.
Aparna Sindhoor is also an experienced actor. Nagamandala, in which she acted as the protagonist Rani, won the best play of the year award at the Karnataka Nataka (theater) Academy. She is one of the three women featured in a documentary film about artists, Take It From Me (2001 Nefertiti Productions). Her works have been showcased in the US, Canada, Germany and India including venues and festivals like the Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center, New Jersey Performance Arts Center, La Mama and New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas.
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