La Peña releases its programming for July & August, 2008

The favorite stop for pundits activists, imaginative artists, late-night poets, avid tourists, and South American gastronomy connoisseurs, released its programming for the months of July and August, 2008. The programs includes live music, theater and solo performances, poetry readings and films from around the world.

Founded in 1975, La Peña Cultural Center is a multicultural community arts center that presents cultural and educational programs that increase understanding of different cultures and support efforts to build a more just society. La Peña presents about 250 music, dance, theater, spoken word, film, visual art and multi-disciplinary events each year. The Center presents emerging as well as nationally and internationally renowned artists, commissions new work, and organizes special artist residencies. La Peña also offers free and low cost classes available to youth and adults.

The July and August, 2008 schedule also includes the continuation of its eye-opening California’s Música Mexicana Series which includes robust performances by Mariachi Monumental de Mexico de Juan Reyes, Ixim Tinamit, Conjunto Los Pochos and Conjunto Romero.

La Peña Cultural Center is located at 3105 Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley. For more information call Berkeley 510-849-2568, or visit its web site at http://www.lapena.org


La Peña Programs for July-August 2008
(All Categories)

Live Music
Sundays, July 6 and 20
Domingo de Rumba. Community participatory event. There are three basic types of rumba in Cuba: yambu is a slower, simpler style; the guaguanco, a moderate to fast style where the rhythm can be more complex and the columbia, the fastest style danced by solo males who perform to demonstrate their strength, agility, and sense of humor. 3:30-6pm.

Sunday, July 6
International music for human rights, to knock down walls & lift spirits with The Troublemakers Union. "Inter-Dependence 2008" is the theme; music of multi-cultural America is the sound; liberation and co-operation is the call, as we close the July 4th weekend. With experimental ingredients from Cuba, Mississippi, Peru, Trinidad, France, Puerto Rico, Native America and New York City...un-expect the expected. 7pm $10

Wednesday, July 9
The La Peña debut of Berkeley's own hometown heroes The Cataracs. Praised by XLR8R and The Fader for their electro-pop meets hip-hop style, these young innovators have created a sound that combines raw youthful energy with space-age melodies and Bay Area flavor. 8-11pm $10 gen. $7 students w/ID

Friday July 11
The Park Presents... Vol. 1. The Park, one of the Bay Area's most in-demand rhythm sections supplies the beats for Secluded Journalists, Nino Moschella, Melina Jones, Do Dat, Mia Zuniga, Gavin, & more in one continuous mix! With DJ's Haylow (Distortion2Static) & Phatrick. 9pm $10 general $7 students

Saturday, July 12
SF Bay Area’s Cuban son fusion, Pellejo Seco skillfully blends strands of various musical genres from blues, rock, jazz, flamenco to hip-hop, with the unmistakable sound of Cuban Son and the yearning melodies of the Cuban troubadour. Various critics have heralded Pellejo Seco as the next Buena Vista Social Club. 8:30-9:30pm: salsa dance lesson with Molly Vitorte. Show begins at
9:30pm $10 adv. $13 dr.

Sunday, July 13
Creative Voices, a chamber choir, presents iMaracaibera! From Venezuela comes the music of the Quinteto Contrapunto. Unpublished for nearly 40 years, the original arrangements for this group composed by Rafael Suarez, have been newly unearthed by Creative Voices music director Eduardo Mendelievich. Accompanied by Venezuelan cuatro player Maria Fernanda Acuña. 7pm $18 dr. $15 adv. (Tix in advance at: creativevoices.org.)

Thursday, July 17
Women Drummers International presents: Women Drum Masters: Born to Drum. As part of a global movement of Women Drummers, the Born To Drum women's drum camp will take place at Walker Creek Ranch in Petaluma, July 18, 19, 20th. This concert will present the international faculty gathered for the camp. These amazing drummers include: Edwina Lee Tyler, Linda Tillery, Jackie Rago, Mabiba Baegne, Nydia Mata, Carolyn Brandy, Adwoa Kudoto, Virginia Lopez, Afia Walking Tree, Susu Pampanin, Michaelle Goerlitz, Janet Koike, Suki, and Elizabeth Sayre. Join us for this herstoric concert. Purchase tickets early! 8pm $22 adv. $25 dr. For more info: http://www.borntodrum.org

Friday, July 18
Inspiring & energetic evening of Afro-Cuban Jazz. Direct from New York! Descarga with Yosvany Terry: Ye-dé-gbé & the Afro-Caribbean Legacy and special guest artists. Yosvany Terry (saxes and chekere) and the Afro-Caribbean Legacy which includes Pedro Martinez (lead vocal and percussion), Osmany Paredes (piano), Ramon "Sandy" Perez (percussion), Felix "Pupi" Insua (dance), Roman Diaz (percussion), Yunior Terry (Bass). They will be joined in this jam session by Bay Area guest artists: Jesus Diaz, John Santos and Michael Spiro. 8pm $12 adv. $15 dr. (See also July 22)

Saturday, July 19
Hip-hop. Ill Ones Present: The Function, the Bay Area's Foremost Soiree of Swagger Featuring: League 510, Bracy & ID, Do DAT. Doors: 8pm Show: 9pm $7 Student w/ID. $8 General before 9:30pm.

Tuesday, July 22
Lecture-Demonstration with Yosvany Terry: Ye-dé-gbé & the Afro-Caribbean Legacy. In this program, Yosvany and the group will demonstrate Afro-Cuban folkloric rhythms, in particular from the Arará tradition. The artists will also demonstrate and discuss how they approach melodic, harmonic and rhythm to integrate the folkloric rhythms to Jazz music. 7pm $10 adv. $12 dr.

Thursday, July 24
Speak the Music. Are you ready for Beat Boxing like you never knew existed? This show will move you and blow you away with it's ever changing variety of showcases, group performances, DJ mimic, live looping, scratch guitar, open mic, special guests, and slam poets. Speak the Music is the craziest and most awesome expressions of sound you will ever hear or see. Performers include but are not limited to: Butterscotch, Soulati and Infinite from Felonious, Syzygy, Eachbox, Monkstilo, Constant Change, Cornbread, D.C., Icebox, Tim Barsky, The Genie, Maximillion and more. You have to see it to believe it. 8pm $8 (all ages)

Friday, July 25
Celebrate Peruvian Independence Day! Come and dance with Rosa Los Santos performing music from Peru and Latin America. Special guests: Fernanda Bustamante, De Rompe y Raja, members of "Nostalgia", Augusto Sandoval, Nicolas Rabanal, and Carlos Britto. 8:30pm $15 adv. $18 dr.

Rosa’s parents are Chalacos (from Callao Port). She was raised in Maranga a neighborhood located in San Miguel district of Lima. Since she was a child, Rosa was interested in Art, and singing always has been her main inclination. After finishing high school, she followed her dreams and left her radio speaker training for a career in Music. Rosa was a former member of the musical group Fandango. Her life as a professional singer started in 1991.

Saturday, July 26
Celebrate the 26 of July, a day commemorated in Cuba as the beginning of the start of the Cuban Revolution that led to the overthrow of the dictatorship of Batista. With that historic date in mind, lets dance to the music of ¡Tito y su son de Cuba! playing authentic Cuban dance rhythms rumba, guaracha and son montuno. 9:30pm $12 gen. $10 (students W/ID and seniors)

"Tito" plays a Cuban instrument similar to the guitar, called the "Tres". He studied with Tres master Papi Oviedo of the Buena Vista Social Club and then with the greatest guitarist in Cuba, Octavio Sanchez Cotán. He has played with such famous Cuban groups as Conjunto Estrellas de Chocolate, Aribu Quartet and Chapotin y sus estrellas, all from Havana, Cuba. Before leaving Havana, "Tito" founded and played with the Nuevo Conjunto de Arsenio Rodriguez, a group carefully structured to represent the music of the famous Cuban tresero Arsenio Rodriguez. More info on Tito: http://www.titoysusondecuba.com/

Sunday July 27
Folk This! and Friends Presents a tribute to Utah Phillips. Join Folk This! and friends at a tribute concert honoring the late Utah Phillips, singer, songwriter, storyteller, anarchist, railroad tramp, and defender of the homeless and working people everywhere. "I thought I knew all the revolutionary songs there were, but these folks just taught me five new ones." Utah Phillips on Folk This! 7pm $10

Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday, May 23, 2008 of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson. http://www.utahphillips.org/

Thursday, July 31
Saul Kaye unveils his Jewish Blues Music on this night in July. Internationally touring Singer-songwriter Saul Kaye has taken a journey into his roots and dipped them into the African American Blues Tradition. Come out this night to hear what he discovered. 8-10pm $10 all ages
More info on Saul: http://www.saulkaye.com/

Friday, August 1
Direct from Venezuela Alfredo Naranjo y El Guajeo. Venezuela's virtuoso vibraphonist Alfredo Naranjo has added a glow to the music of Al Jarreau, Tito Puente, Ray Charles, Alex Acuña, Don Grusin, Abraham Laboriel and Dave Samuels, among others. Accompanied by the band El Guajeo he delivers a dynamic set of Latin music spanning the spectrum from mambo to rumba to salsa that showcases his mastery of the mallets. 9pm $16 adv. $18 dr.

Saturday, August 2
La Peña’s California's Música Mexicana Series presents Mariachi Monumental de México de Juan Reyes and the marimba ensemble Ixim Tinamit. 7:30pm: panel with artists hosted by Jose ‘Dr. Loco’ Cuellar. 8:30pm: show. $12 gen. ($10 before 7:30pm)

The Mariachi Monumental de México de Juan Reyes are a group of young, highly skilled musicians that work solely in the “tradition” of this musical form. Combining musicians from California and different parts of Mexico Mariachi Monumental exhibits an exciting energy that emerges from a commitment not only to preserve the tradition but also explore innovation to which mariachi music has always been open. This ensemble will cover many of the different traditional genres (sones, huapangos, rancheras, boleros, and polkas) and some contemporary show arrangements that appropriately represent the vast mariachi repertoire.

Ixim Tinamit . The marimba, an ideophone like the xylophone but with wooden bars struck with mallets, has its roots deeply planted in the southwestern Mexican-Guatemalan borderlands. Its African antecedents and its contemporary repertoire blending European and Mayan melodies and rhythms clearly appeals to audiences across geographic, ethnic and economic borders. Ixim Tinamit (Corn People) consisting of the following - marimbistas Lucas Ordoñez, Roberto Samayoa, Alfonso y Francisco Morales; bassist David Freeman; flautist Roberto D'Avila, and Julio Landoni on percussion and dance – The group brings the exciting brand of Mayan Mexican/Guatemalan marimba folkloric tradition to La Peña for a lively evening their pueblo's magical musica.

Sunday, August 3
Avotcja's Birthday Bash. A night of music, dance & spoken word with Avotcja & Modupue, Lady Bianca-Oakland Blues Diva & La Familia Govea. Poetry by Adam David Miller, Genny Lim, Charles & Topaz Dubois, Eric Aviles, Leslie Simon, Raymond Nat Turner & Ziggy Lowenberg, MamaCoatl, and Alejandra Mojica. Plus Carolyn Brandy, Manny Martinez, and Ian Dogle. 7pm $10-$20 Sliding Scale. Wheelchair accessible and all ages welcome

Poet, playwright, multi-percussionist, photographer and teacher, Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico and Europe. She is an award winning Poet & multi-instrumentalist. More info on Avoctja: http://www.avotcja.com/

Sundays August 3 & 17
Café Rumba. Community participatory event. The Afro-Cuban folkloric drums, dances, and songs of rumba. Rumba is the word used for a group of related, community-oriented, musical and dance styles in Cuba. Rumba developed in rural Cuba, with strong influences from African drumming and Spanish poetry and singing. 3:30-6pm.

Thursday, August 7
Noche de Maestros with Marcelo Ledesma in concert. From Buenos Aires, Argentina, praised singer Ledesma teams up with great Bay Area Latin American music maestros Guido “Ritmo” Moscoso, Quique Coria, and Roberto Hernandez for an exquisite night of Tango ciudadano and favorite folk rhythms such as zambas, chacareras, bagualas and cachaimantas. 8pm $12

Friday, August 8
CD release Concert & Celebration Jon Fromer in Concert. Jon Fromer has a new CD full of humanity and hope. Come hear the songs, get your own copy of Gonna Take Us All and celebrate this beautiful recording. 8pm. $12 CDs for sale.

Jon Fromer is an award-winning singer/songwriter whose music has been at the heart of movements for peace and social change in the San Francisco Bay Area for decades. Jon is known for his rich, soulful voice and his rhythmic guitar style. His melodies go straight to the heart and his poetic lyrics capture the human condition in phrases and verses that are moving and insightful. His performances are inspirational. More on Jon: http://cdbaby.com/cd/fromer2

Saturday August 9
Join Cuba solidarity activists for an evening of live music, poetry and art Global Voices of Resistance. Benefit for the Jojo White Solidarity Project. Proceeds will benefit La Guinera Community Center in Cuba, as well as a mural revitalization project and cultural exchange between local artists and Cuban musicians. Featuring some of the best artists in the Bay. 8pm $10-$20 sliding scale

Wednesday, August 13
Direct from Spain. Enchanting traditional music of the northwest corner of Iberia with Galician folk musicians Alexandre Cadarso and Javier Blanco. Alexandre plays the gaita, the bagpipe of Galica, the flute & the accordion. Javier plays the diatonic accordion & mandolin. They have played for festivals across Galicia, and now bring their exciting & exhilarating music to the US. 7:30pm $10-$20

Alexandre Cadarso is a professor of Traditional Music in his home town of Bertamirans, near Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia. He has performed professionally across Europe with various Galician bagpipe bands, and the early music group, Resonet. Javier Blanco is a fine artist from Santiago de Compostela, who has been playing folk music for many years. He plays a wide variety of string instruments, but specializes in diatonic accordion and mandolin.

The music of Galicia is a heady mix of Latin, Arabic and Celtic influences. Bagpipes have been a main instrument in this culture for centuries, and the mountainous terrain and relative isolation have preserved old and vital traditions. This music will draw you in and captivate you

Friday, August 15
California’s Mexican Music Series continues with the best Bay Area Conjunto music Conjunto Los Pochos, Texas & Mexico conjunto styles with original and classic favorites. Conjunto Romero, a Tex-Mex/Norteño family band playing a danceable Mexicano-Tejano music. 7:30pm: panel with artists hosted by Jose Cuellar, Dr. Loco. 8:30pm: show $12 gen. - $10 before 7:30pm

Conjunto Los Pochos' core members, Otoño Luján (button-accordion) and Elliott Baribeault (bajo sexto) met in 1996 at the California Institute of the Arts. The two Southern California natives played traditional conjunto music as a duet at backyard barbeques and for anyone who wanted to enjoy Conjunto music. In the summer of 1997, the four-piece ensemble "Conjunto Los Pochos" was born. The band's name initially came about to address the perceived peculiarity of a bunch of [primarily] acculturated Mexicans (Pochos), barely speaking Spanish and playing "Norteño" music (border music from Northern Mexico). Ironically though, this music - having stemmed from the merging of European and Texas-Mexican cultures in the late 1800's - continues to reflect the process of Pochismo (or acculturation) through its lyrics and music.

Conjunto Romero is a Tex-Mex/Norteño family band from the San Francisco Bay Area. They play a very danceable blend of Mexican/Tejano music based around the Gabbanelli diatonic 3-row accordion and the Mexican 12-string bajo sexto. The type of music they play includes traditional South-Texas Conjunto styles with many Polkas, Schottises and Redovas. Their Norteño sound, which has ties to the Northern Mexican border area, is the driving force behind many of the Rancheras, Cumbias and Boleros they perform. They hope that the enjoyment and love their families and friends have for this music will also be felt by those who hear them.

Saturday, August 16
Considered by many critics to be one of the best Latin American bands in the Bay Area, the eight-piece Afro-Cuban Latin band Los Boleros is bringing their sound to La Peña! An evening of tropical Latin beats and traditional melodies that will not only provoke your passion for music but compels you to dance. Special guest Liz Sava. 9:30pm $10. More info. on Los boleros here.

Sunday, August 17
An inspiring evening of men's stories examining social ideas about masculinity. The Men's Story Project is a diverse group of men sharing their works on topics including sexuality, friendship, family, culture, rites of passage, HIV/AIDS, violence, immigration, & transformations. Pieces include music & dance, spoken word, and monologues. Followed by audience discussion. 7:30pm $12-20 sliding scale

Thursday, August 21
The most awesome expressions of sound you will ever hear or see Speak the Music This show will move you and blow you away with its ever changing variety of showcases. With Butterscotch, Soulati & Infinite from Felonious, Syzygy, Eachbox, Monkstilo, Constant Change, Cornbread, D.C., Icebox, Tim Barsky, The Genie, & Maximillion. 8pm $8 (all ages)

Sunday, August 24
Alex Pfeifer-Rosenblum in concert. Alex's soulful presence, emotive voice, fresh folk-rock style, and introspective lyrics - ranging from the personal to the political - make every performance unique and memorable. For more info, visit: http://www.myspace.com/greenchaircircle 8pm $10 adv. $12 dr. $10 students/seniors

Friday, August 29
Hip-hop. ILL ONES Present: The Function. The Bay Area's Foremost Soiree of Swagger. Come and Party with the ILL ONES. A party to include several bay area hip-hop and soul acts. $7 w/ Student w/ID. $8 General before 9:30 pm

Saturday, August 30
Mr Obama, Tear Down the Walls! La Peña Immigration Series presents Desde la Frontera, a dance and concert with Fuga! Latin, alternative, punk-borderland cumbia & conjunto with contemporary ska, punk: An irresistible dance groove and the ensemble Tocayo, combining a mix of spoken word, folk music, a sprinkling of reggae with a slightly indigenous spin. 9pm $7

Poetry / Literary Events

Wednesday, July 9
Café Poetry. Come to hear lesbian-identified women read their poetry. From 7-9pm. Open mike. Sign-ups begin at 7pm.

Sunday, August 10
Arte Poetica. The Dream Poetry Team. La Peña celebrates California's full-fledged voices of poetry, the ripened voices that have taught up & coming new generations and uphold resolutely the arte poética for the people. Francisco x Alarcón, Jack Hirschman, Jose Montoya, and Nina Serrano. MC by La Peña's Fernando A. Torres. 7pm $5

Francisco x Alarcón, Chicano poet and educator, was born in Wilmington, California, in 1954. As a child, he lived in Guadalajara, Mexico, and ever since he was 18 years old he has been living in California. He is the author of ten volumes of poetry, including No Golden Gate for Us (Tesuque, NM: Pennywhistle Press, 1993), Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992),

Jack Hirschman is San Francisco’s Laureate Poet and social activist who has written more than 60 volumes of poetry plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages, as well as editing anthologies and journals. Dismissed from teaching at UCLA for anti-war activities in 1966, he moved to San Francisco in 1973, and is the city's present poet laureate.

Jose Montoya was named poet laureate of the city of Sacramento in 2002. As a painter, poet, and activist, Montoya is recognized as a legendary figure in the Chicano movement and has played a leading role in the Chicano cultural movement. He founded the Royal Chicano Air Force, a California arts collective renowned for its political murals and community projects. His poetry is widely anthologized and has promoted new interest in Chicano literature. Among his most famous poems is "El Louie," about a man with whom Montoya grew up. The poem described Louie's military service in Korea but his later involvement with drugs, which led to his death. Many critics consider "El Louie" to be a classic depiction of a pachuco.

Nina Serrano is a poet, writer, storyteller, and independent media producer. Her poems are widely anthologized. Most recently, her poems appear in the literary anthology, Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Writers from California (Heyday Books) and three anthologies of peace poems (Estuary Press.) She has won international film awards and served as an Alameda County Arts Commissioner and is a former director of the San Francisco Poetry in the Schools program. Serrano is a co-founder of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino and produces regular radio programming on KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley.

Wednesday, August 13
Café Poetry. Come to hear lesbian-identified women read their poetry. From 7-9pm. Open mike. Sign-ups begin at 7pm.
Report Back / Talks / Benefits

Thursday, July 10
Merritt and Laney College students and Central American Refugee Committee Report back from El Salvador where they delivered school and medical supplies to impoverished villages devastated by the civil war. 7pm Free (Voluntary donations greatly appreciated)

Sunday, July 20
Project Cimarrona presents Cimarronaje-(Cee*ma*ron*ah*je refers to the acts of rebellion by the Cimarrones). Cimarrones are the Africans self-liberated from slavery in the Caribbean. The program tonight is a community dialog: Deconstructing Tradition, Modernity and Femininity in Afro Puerto Rican Bomba & bombazo. 6pm $5

Saturday August 9
Join Cuba solidarity activists for an evening of live music, poetry and art Global Voices of Resistance. Benefit for the Jojo White Solidarity Project. Proceeds will benefit La Guinera Community Center in Cuba, as well as a mural revitalization project and cultural exchange between local artists and Cuban musicians. Featuring some of the best artists in the Bay. 8pm $10-$20 sliding scale

Sunday, August 17
An inspiring evening of men's stories examining social ideas about masculinity. The Men's Story Project is a diverse group of men sharing their works on topics including sexuality, friendship, family, culture, rites of passage, HIV/AIDS, violence, immigration, & transformations. Pieces include spoken word, monologues, music & dance, followed by audience discussion. 7:30pm $12-20 sliding scale
Films

Wednesday, July 16
Come and join us for a celebration of the Nicaraguan Revolution. We will be looking at the ignificant gains the Nicaraguan people achieved in their struggle for democracy through elections. Adrian Carrasco Zanini will screen three of his films on the first and second democratic elections after the fall of the Somoza dictatorship, plus a short documentary on the first homage paid by the people to Carlos Fonseca Amador, the founder of the FSLN. The films: Nicaragua for the First Time, Nicaragua: a Vote Under War, and Comandante. There will be a Q & A with the director. 7:30pm $6 gen. $5 (students/seniors)

Thursday, August 28
The International Latino Film Society's CINE365 presents Tres/ Three (dirs. Anna Christopher, Paula Christensen, Robert Weiermair, USA/Brazil, 26 min.) Three unique short stories share the same heart… an intense but fleeting moment of emotional connection between two people; based on the poetry of acclaimed Argentinean filmmaker, Carlos Hugo Christensen. Followed by: Lorca; así que pasen cien años (dirs. Javier Rioyo and Jose L. Lopez-Linares, 55 min, Spain) This beautifully crafted and rich documentary celebrates Lorca's life through a look at his friends, his music, and the cultural and political movements that influenced his work. 7pm $6 gen. $5 (ILFS members)
Theater

Friday & Saturday, August 22 & 23
Prisons by Shanique Scott is the story of a young girl holding on to her hopes & dreams of a better life. Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang & Rhodessa Jones, Prisons is a story about hopes and dreams of a better life in contrast to a young girl’s experience of chaos, despair and loss that surrounds her world. When she is finally successful in manifesting a different experience, she is faced with a decision of whether to let her past become a Prison or taking a risk for something new. Fri. 22 & Sat. 23. 8pm $15 adv. $18 door

Art Exhibits at La Peña for July-Aug. 2008

Theater: July 1 -July 27. Mexico en el Pensamiento. Mixed Media. A collection of paintings, silkscreens & photographs inspired by Mexico.
Artists include: Andres Cisneros, Maria Garcia, Maximillian Monroy-Miller and Laila Espinoza.

Theater: August 2-August 31. Laura & Laila. Original paintings. Laura Luzzi and Laila Espinoza are working artists living in the Bay Area. They connect through art and now exhibit their original work together for the first time. Bay Area artists Laila Espinoza's work evokes the states of mind, emotion, and spirit we experience in opur daily lives. Espinocza uses elements, colors and living things from life to reveal these internal landscapes. Berkeley Artist Laura Luzzi's themes and colors reflect the people and places she has encountered. The New Mexico landscape, sky, and wildlife, inspired her to paint in acrylic and use more color. "Personal, emotional, and potentially healing, art is an opening to a world of symbols and at its best, elicits a response." L. L. Laila Espinoza: http://www.lailaespinoza.com/ Laura Luzzi: http://www.tigerseyeonart.com/
The public is invited to the exhibit opening reception for Laila and Laura on Saturday, August 2nd, 3:30-5pm in the Theater.

Cafe & Lobby: July 1-July 17. Original paintings by Steven CHATISMO Amado. Straight out of Long Beach's East Village Arts District, Steven Amado is an up and coming painter and muralist whose work has been described as "Pop-Art, Dada, Surrealism, Tribal, non-objective designs, abstract expressionism, a little bit of everything - all done with a Latino twist & flare." http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=28554667

Cafe & Cafe Lobby: July 22-August 3. Original Paintings by the late Guatemalan poet, writer & visual artist, Maria Cristina Paz.


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