Over the past several years, La Peña has developed a model of next generation arts programming which is based on 5 areas:

• Developing strategic relationships with key artists and community organizations from targeted communities (which we call presenting partnerships);

• Creating ongoing programming series which feature artists from targeted communities which have been developed in consultation with people from those communities ­ these series feature emerging artists and, at times, pair emerging with established artists (i.e. Hecho en Califas, Collective Soul);

• Working collaboratively with targeted organizations from the same communities;

• Developing at least one high visibility annual event or Festival which brings in new audiences and heightens awareness of programming;

• Organizing residencies between emerging and established artists to support artistic development and networking (such as The Fruitvale Project).

- To read more about La Peña's next generation programming click here.
- To read more about Future Aesthetics Project, click on the following links:
Artist Dialogue September
Community Forum November

Special Thanks To:

La Peña thanks The James Irvine Foundation for its support of the NexGen Documentation Project. We thank all of our funders for their support of our work: Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Berkeley Civic Arts Program, California Arts Council, Clorox Company Foundation, The Creative Work Fund, East Bay Community Foundation, Ford Foundation, Walter and Elise Haas Fund, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network, San Francisco Foundation, Zellerbach Family Fund, and all of our generous individual donors and members.

"Grupo Paule". Photo by Francisco Villaflor