Un poema de amor para la comunidad - Los Cenzontles in concert

Sat Apr 26 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-07:00

World Theater | Seaside

Palenke Arts
Publisher/HostPalenke Arts
Un poema de amor para la comunidad - Los Cenzontles in concert
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"Un poema de amor para la comunidad - A love poem for our community"
About this Event

CSUMB’s College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, Performing & Visual Arts Department, and Palenke Arts proudly present Un Poema de Amor para la Comunidad/A Love Poem for our Community a celebration of the immigrant spirit through music, dance and film. It will feature a performance by Grammy-nominated band Los Cenzontles, Ghostly Labor, a dance film by La Mezcla and ballet folklórico students from Palenke Arts. The event will also present the opportunity to obtain a signed copy of Eugene Rodriguez's brand-new book "Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging". There will be resource tables from community and campus organizations that provide support for our comunidad migrante.


Los Cenzontles has pioneered revivals of Mexican roots music in California cultivating traditional rhythms to connect generations. Interpreting traditional, classic, and original songs in their own voices, Los Cenzontles captures the depth, clarity, and living spirit of our heritage with dignity and care.

The band has performed across the United States, Mexico, Cuba, the UK, and the Dominican Republic, sharing the beauty of their Mexican roots all over the world through their media productions. The group’s members were trained at their Cultural Arts Academy and have worked with many Mexican folk musicians and diverse renowned artists as well.

Eugene Rodriguez

Executive Director, Music Instructor and Touring Group Director

Eugene Rodriguez, founder and director of Los Cenzontles anchors the group on guitar and voice. Fronting the group is the dynamic vocal duo of Fabiola Trujillo and Lucina Rodriguez, both of whom joined the group at the age of fifteen, as students from Los Cenzontles Academy.

Los Cenzontles’ core members also serve as the programming staff and teachers of their academy. They pass on musical traditions to new generations and invite their students to perform with them on stage and participate in production projects.


Ghostly Labor: A Dance Film explores the history of labor in the US–Mexico borderlands through Tap Dance, Mexican Zapateado, Son Jarocho, Afro Caribbean movement, and music. This work brings together polyrhythmic movement and an original score to look at the (ongoing) years of systemic exploitation of labor, while highlighting the power and joy of collective resistance.

Based on farmworker interviews in California, this excerpt honors the sacred hands that feed us, and was filmed on a farm with support from Ayudando Latinos a Soñar (ALAS), a non-profit advocacy organization for farmworkers in Half Moon Bay, CA. A full-length dance theater production of Ghostly Labor will premiere in 2023.


Palenke Arts is a multicultural arts organization whose mission is to educate, inspire and transform the community of Seaside through the arts. Our organization was founded in 2015 by a committed group of artists, educators and community members who recognized the urgent need for multicultural arts and music programs and events in the city of Seaside, especially for the youth, and envisioned the creation of a vibrant, safe and inclusive home for the arts in our town that would benefit all of Monterey County.


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World Theater, 5260 6th Avenue, Seaside, United States

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