PAL Assemblies

PAL Assemblies

Performance, Art & Learning Program

PAL Multicultural Assemblies – Spring 2024

Our live PAL spring assemblies are currently full. Please add your name to our PAL Email List to receive information about upcoming assemblies. (Be sure to add pal@rhythmix.org to your contacts so we don’t end up in your spam folder.)

PAL Livestream and PAL On Demand assemblies are still available!

PAL Livestream (Thurs, Feb 29th @ 9:30am and 10:30am)

Marcus Shelby TrioHarlem of the West: The Birth of Black Music in San Francisco Register Here

PAL On Demand (Available through May 31, 2024)

Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ: A Musical Journey through the Sounds of Vietnam. Purchase Here
CHELLE! & Friends: Celebrate Mardi Gras with the Music of New Orleans. Purchase Here

Live at the Rhythmix Theater (Registration closed for spring)

February 29: Marcus Shelby Trio – Harlem of the West: The Birth of Black Music in San Francisco
March 7: Ballet Afsaneh & Amir School of Music – Bahar o Maad (Spring Has Come): Persian Music, Dance and New Year Traditions
March 14: Rhonda Benin & Friends – Onward to Freedom: Celebrating Black Music and History
March 21: Gamelan Sekar Jaya – Balinese Music & Dance

Registration announcements are emailed in early August for fall assemblies and early January for spring assemblies. Please add your name to our PAL Email List to receive future PAL communications.


About PAL

Rhythmix Cultural Works believes that exposure to the arts can be a transformative experience and a catalyst for cultural celebration. In support of this vision, Rhythmix developed PAL as an assembly-based youth arts education program in collaboration with the Alameda Unified School District.

Through exposure to educational music and dance performances, PAL fosters awareness of world cultures and empowers underserved youth, stimulating a sense of pride in students’ cultural heritage and deepening connections to their communities. PAL assemblies serve as a catalyst for arts learning and a springboard for integrating arts education in the classroom.

Thanks to the belief in the power of arts education and generous support from our funders and sponsors, PAL has served over 100,000 students since it launched in 2012.

If you would like to help support arts education programming for Alameda County youth, please consider a donation today!


Past PAL Performances

2023 PAL Participating Artists (Fall):

Thursday, October 5: Manilatown Ancestral Ensemble [photos]
Thursday, October 19: Sewam American Indian Dance [photos]
2023 PAL Participating Artists (Spring):

Thursday, March 2: Urisawe [photos] [video]
Thursday, March 9: Dimensions Dance Theater [photos]
Thursday, March 16: Oakland Gay Men’s Chorus [photos] [video]
2022 PAL Participating Artists (Fall):

Thursday, October 6: La Mixta Criolla [photos] [video]
Thursday, October 13: Hip Hop for Change [photos] [video]
Thursday, October 20: Hālau Ka Ua Tuahine [photos] [video]
2021-22 Virtual PAL Performances:

November: Sewam [video]
January: Vân-Ánh Võ [video]
February: SoVoSó [video]
March: Christelle Durandy GWO-KAtet [video]
May: Anna Lin [video]
2020-21 Virtual PAL Performances:

2020 PAL Participating Artists (Spring):

Thursday, March 5: Kultura Kapwa [photos] [video]
Thursday, March 12: Dimensions Dance Theater [photos] [video]
Thursday, March 19 (postponed): Crosspulse Percussion Ensemble
Thursday, March 26 (postponed): Christelle Durandy
2019 PAL Participating Artists (Fall):

Thursday, October 3: San Jose Taiko [photos] [video]
Thursday, October 17: Caribbean Express [photos] [video]
2019 PAL Participating Artists (Spring):

Thursday, March 7: World A Capella with SoVoSó [photos] [video]
Thursday, March 14: Rhonda Benin: The Voice, The Hands, The Feet [photos] [video]
Thursday, March 21: Tandy Beal & Company: The Magic Carpet [photos] [video]
2018 PAL Participating Artists (Fall):

Thursday, October 4: Indian Dance and Music with Duniya Dance and Drum Company [photos] [video]
Thursday, October 18: Latin American and Caribbean Percussion with Rhythm Café [photos] [video]
Thursday, October 25: Music and Dance of Afghanistan with Ballet Afsaneh [photos] [video]
Thursday, November 1: Percussion from Latin America and Spain with Ka-Hon Latin Percussion Ensemble [photos] [video]
2018 PAL Participating Artists (Spring):

Thursday, March 1: North Indian Classical Music with Ali Akbar Khan College of Music [photos] [video]
Thursday, March 8: Eastern Europe Women’s Vocal Ensemble with Kitka [photos] [video]
Thursday, March 15: Indonesian Music and Dance with Gamelan Sekar Jaya [photos] [video]
2017 PAL Participating Artists (Fall):

Thursday, September 28: Mexican Music and Dance with Cascada de Flores [photos] [video]
Thursday, October 5: Native American Dance with Sewam Dance [photos] [video]
Thursday, October 19: Polynesian Dance with Mahealani Uchiyama [photos]
Thursday, November 9: Percussion Ensemble with Crosspulse [photos] [video]
2017 PAL Participating Artists (Spring):

Thursday, February 23: Music of New Orleans with CHELLE! And Friends [photos] [video]
Thursday, March 2: Filipino Folk Dances with Parangal Dance Company [photos] [video]
Thursday, March 9: Latin Wind Music with Quinteto Latino [photos] [video]
2016 PAL Participating Artists:

February 18th: Zydeco music with Andre Thierry [photos] [video]
February 25th: Persian classic music with Mahmoud Nejad [photos] [video]
March 3rd: Polynesian music and dance with Māhealani Uchiyama [photos]  [video]
March 24th: Percussion Ensemble with Crosspulse [photos] [video]
September 29th: Zimbabwean music and dance with Chinyakare Ensemble [photos] 
October 6th: Indonesian music and dance Gamelan Sekar Jaya [video]
October 20th: Aztec drum and dance with Tezkatlipoka [photos]
2015 PAL Participating Artists:

February 19th: Classical Indian Kathak dance with Chitresh Das Dance Company 
March 5th: Capoeira (Brazilian martial art) music and dance with Professor Sumido [photos]
March 12th: Spanish Flamenco music and dance with Caminos Flamencos [photos]
October 22nd: Afro-Venezuelan music and percussion with Venezuelan Music Project [photos] [video]
October 29th: Mexican music and dance with Cascada de Flores [photos] [video]
November 19th: Pan-Asian movement-based storytelling with Eth-Noh-Tec Ensemble
2014 PAL Participating Artists:

October 2nd: Classical Chinese dance with Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company [photos] [video]
October 16th: Indonesian music and dance with Gamelan Sekar Jaya [photos]
October 23rd: Congolese music and percussion from Fua Dia Congo [photos]
November 6th: Brazilian samba and choro with Grupo Falso Baiano [photos] [video]
November 13th: Traditional and contemporary Japanese taiko with On Ensemble [photos]

For images of all the assemblies: click for photos.

2013 PAL Participating Artists:

October 17th: African music and dance by Zimbabwean artist Julia Chigamba and artists from the Cheza Nami Foundation
October 24th:  Cuban, Latin American and South American folkloric music by LaTiDo
November 11th:  Indonesian music and dance with artists from Gamelan Sekar Jaya [photos]
November 24th:  Japanese Taiko Drumming presented by Maze Daiko [photos]

For images of all the assemblies, click for photos

2012 PAL Participating Artists:

October 15th: Brazilian Dance and Drum with Jorge Alabê [Photos]
October 18th: Cuban, Latin American and South American folkloric music by LaTiDo [Photos]
November 11th: Senegalese Dance and Drum with Bu Falle


AEF Art Videos

Through a partnership with the Alameda Education Foundation (AEF), PAL offers free visual art videos featuring profiles of local artists and hands-on art projects for all Alameda County youth!

AEF Art Videos


Thanks to our Current Funders and Partners

  • and Rhythmix supporters like you!

Rhythmix would also like to thank its past funders for their support in this program: Alameda County Arts Commission, Alameda Unified School District, Bridge Bank, East Bay Community Foundation, Gabriele Von Ingersleben & Russell Scott, Lauren and Joshua Cook, The Newman’s Own Foundation, the Perforce Foundation, Shuler-Heimburger Family Fund, the Thomas J. Long Foundation, Victor Jin & Dianne Richmond, the Walter and Elise Haas Foundation, the West End Arts & Entertainment District.


PAL Letters from Students

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