AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening: No Other Land
2025-04-15 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Screening of this year’s Oscar winner for Best Documentary, “No Other Land,” made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors. Over the course of five years, Basel Adra films his Palestinian community of Massager Yatta being destroyed and its populace incarcerated, all as he builds an alliance with an Israeli journalist. Panelists include Palestinian Muslim-American grassroots feminist and organizer Samia Assed, Nicole D. Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project, and Brandi Kellam, a Gracie and Emmy awarded Journalist. Moderated by Doaa Omran. Followed by a Q&A.
Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal.

About the Festival:

From April 12 – 19, enjoy music, literature, oral histories, theater, film, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions, and more.
Mark your calendars and join us for this bilingual, weeklong, arts & humanities series that explores the shared traditions, histories, struggles, activism and aspirations of Black and Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.
All the programs featured in the 2025 AfroMundo Festival supports NHCC’s mission to preserve, promote and advance Hispanic culture, arts and humanities by broadening understandings of Latinidad, and by introducing intersectional narratives of regions with shared histories, cultures, traditions and plights so as to promote a greater understanding of our shared humanity. AfroMundo is a grassroots, cultural ecosystem where the individual and collective narratives, traditions, and lived experiences of Afro diasporas are expressed through multiple mediums and from local, national, and international perspectives to allow for an exchange of knowledge, and for interrogation as well as critical thinking. AfroMundo further extends the conversation by ensuring that audiences can engage presenters in dialogue.
Ticket reservations are REQUIRED.

*The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: La hija indigna
2025-04-17 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu
This heartbreaking documentary, created by the young Argentine filmmaker Abril Dores based on real events, explores the relationship between a genocidal father and his daughter. It is an inquiry into family ties and the deep emotions that bind us to people we do not always consider worthy of our love. It is a brilliant cinematographic work that confronts us with our inner demons and taboos.
Synopsis: Analía Kalinec wakes up every day knowing that her father is responsible for the death and disappearance of thousands of people. This is the story of a father-daughter relationship destroyed by the cruelest acts that human beings can perform.
Screening: La hija indigna | Director/s: Abril Victoria Dores | Year: 2018 | Format: Digital | Running time: Cortometraje – 14 min | Genre: Documental | Country: Argentina | Original version: Spanish/Español | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués de Brasi, italiano y español | Rated/Calificacion: SC

In April, the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel will be filled with a selection of short films that focus on the concept of taboo from different perspectives, but always with a thoughtful and considered, rather than critical, look to place viewers in the realm of reflection.
Proceeding from the international film festival La Mirada Tabú, the eight short films in this online film series cover different styles and looks and address different hot topics in 21st-century society using different registers and genres: we will find dramas, comedies, parodies, animations… to learn to face our world from a critical conscience.
Program
April 3: Places (Spain, 2020), by Claudia Barral
April 7: Cuentas divinas (Spain, 2023), by Eulalia Ramón
April 10: Pequeño (Spain, 2024), by Alvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera
April 14: Work it class! (Spain, 2021), by Pol Diggler
April 17: La hija indigna (Argentina, 2018), by Abril Victoria Dores
April 21: Happy Friday (Spain, 2019), by José Antonio Campos
April 24: 3, 2 (lo que hacen las novias) (Spain, 2011), by Jota Linares
April 28: Democracia (Spain, 2013), by Borja Cobeaga

PAPA’s Senior Showcase 2025
2025-04-17 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
The Senior Class of 2025 at Public Academy for Performing Arts showcases what they do best in music, dance, theatre, and visual art. Don’t miss your opportunity to see these rising stars as this event is one night only!
Approximate length of event: 2 hours
$10, $20, & $30. No other discounts.

*The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

NHCC Summer Film Series: Problemista
2025-06-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
6:00 pm cash bar with Pop Fizz
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Join us for a film screening by a Hispanic/Chicane/Latine filmmaker. We will be presenting films that preserve, promote and/or advance the vast cultural identity and experience of Hispanic/Chicane/Latine people.
Julio Torres’ Problemista is the story of Alejandro, an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream. From writer/director Julio Torres comes a surreal adventure through the equally treacherous worlds of New York City and the U.S. Immigration system.
Director: Julio Torres | Production year: 2024 | Rating: R | Studio: A24 | Runtime: 98 minutes | Cast: Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton, RZA, Catalina Saavedra, & James Scully
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by making a reservation below.

New Mexico Entertainment Awards
2025-07-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:30 pm VIP Meet & Greet
6:00 pm Doors Open and Red Carpet
7:00 pm Awards Ceremony
The New Mexico Entertainment Magazine Awards is an annual event that honors individuals, businesses, and organizations contributing to the state’s vibrant entertainment scene. This formal gala recognizes excellence in categories like live events, film, radio, music, comedy, arts, books, and nightlife. Our goal is to spotlight the talented people and groups who consistently deliver quality entertainment across New Mexico. This year, 55 categories will be honored, including the Icon Award presentation to radio legend Bobby Box!
Approximate run time of event: 3 and a half hours
$29 General Admission

*The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.
*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261.

NHCC Summer Film Series: El Norte
2025-07-17 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
6:00 pm cash bar with Pop Fizz
NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium
The NHCC Summer Film Series features Hispanic filmmakers that preserve our stories, promote our experiences and advance the vast cultural identity of our gente.
After an unsuccessful attempt by a community of Mayan Indians to improve their living conditions, the Guatemalan army destroys their village. Brother and sister are able to escape and begin their challenging journey towards a new life in the USA.
Director(s): Gregory Nava | Production year: 1983 | Rating: R | Studio: Lions Gate Films, Inc. | Runtime: 139 minutes | Cast: David Villalpando, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia Del Lago, Eraclio Zepeda
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by making a reservation below.

NHCC Summer Film Series: Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
2025-08-14 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
6:00 pm cash bar with Pop Fizz
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
The NHCC Summer Film Series features Hispanic filmmakers that preserve our stories, promote our experiences and advance the vast cultural identity of our gente.
An undocumented Mexican maid searches for her autistic son in the NYC subway system as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the Eastern seaboard. Along the way, the desperate mom gets some unexpected help from members of her community.
Directors: Sam Fleischner | Production year: 2013 | Rating: NR | Studio: Oscilloscope Pictures | Runtime: 107 minutes | Cast: Andrea Suarez Paz, Jesus Sanchez-Velez, Azul Zorrilla, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Tenoch Huerta Mejía
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by making a reservation below.

Noche de Familia: Noche de Curanderismo & Bless Me, Ultima
2025-09-06 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:00 pm Limpia Workshop
6:30 pm Film Screening: Bless Me, Ultima
New Mexico Gas Company presents Noche de Familia: Noche de Curanderismo, consisting of a limpia workshop and screening of Bless Me, Ultima.
Noche de Curanderismo will be dedicated to the immersion and celebration of the indigenous healing practices of Latin America and the Southwest. Curanderismo refers to these practices that rely on natural remedies. The community will have an opportunity to explore curanderismo through a limpia workshop. A limpia is a spiritual clearing practice. The workshop will be followed by a screening of Bless Me Ultima, a film that integrates these practices into a captivating narrative.
Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved and iconic Bless Me, Ultima returns to the NHCC with Carl Franklin’s screen adaptation in partnership with the English department of the University of New Mexico. Bless Me, Ultima is set in the 1940s in rural New Mexico and tells the story of a young boy and the mysterious healer who opens his eyes to the wonders of the spiritual realm. As the entire world is plunged into war and Antonio Marez grapples with the harsh realities all around him, his life is forever changed by the sudden arrival of Ultima, a curandera who inspires him to see the world from a new perspective.
2011; Carl Franklin; English; 102 minutes; Rated PG-13.
Workshop Runtime: 2 hours
Film Runtime: 1h 46m
Free community event, please register using the link below.

NHCC Fall Film Series: Las Tres Sisters
2025-09-11 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
The NHCC Fall Film Series features Hispanic filmmakers that preserve our stories, promote our experiences and advance the vast cultural identity of our gente. This film series kicks off with Las Tres Sisters (2025) on Thursday, Sept. 11.
Following in the footsteps of their beloved grandmother, three Mexican-American sisters take an adventure through Mexico to complete a traditional pilgrimage and repair their relationship (IMDB).
Las Tres Sisters has received recognition for its story and impact, specifically within the Latino film community. It has been nominated for Best Picture at the Mexican Film and Television Awards and was awarded a LALIFF Works In Progress award from the Latino Film Institute.

Viva Indie: The future of New Mexico Film
2025-09-23 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm: Discussion
7:00 pm: Networking Mixer
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Presented by NHCC & New Mexico Film Office
Join us for a discussion on the future of filmmaking in New Mexico! We will hear from filmmakers who have carved out careers from our vibrant local industry. We will discuss challenges and triumphs of independent filmmaking as well as how to get started or enhance your participation as a local filmmaker or cinephile.
Moderators: Respect the Connect (Trad to Trav and Lenwords)
Film Panel:
Alejandro Montoya Marin
Matthew Page
Michelle Waterson Gomez
Shaandiin Tome
Free community event. Limited availability. Please register to attend.

NHCC Fall Film Series: I Dream in Another Language
2025-10-09 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
The NHCC Fall Film Series features Hispanic filmmakers that preserve our stories, promote our experiences and advance the vast cultural identity of our gente. This film series continues with I Dream in Another Language (2017) on Thursday, Oct. 9.
A millenary language agonizes: Its last two speakers, Evaristo and Isauro (70’s) had a quarrel 50 years ago and haven’t spoken to each other since. Martin, a linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the two old friends back together and convince them to talk again in order for him to be able to obtain a record of the language. Yet, hidden in the past, in the core of the jungle, lies a secret hidden in the language that makes it difficult to believe that the heart of Zikril will beat again. (IMDB).
“Poetic Mexican film raises philosophical questions about what is lost when a language and by extension, our elders’ memory is allowed to fade away unpreserved.” (Variety)
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Noche de Familia: Noche de Cempasúchil Film: Disney*Pixar’s Coco
2025-10-18 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:00 pm – 9:00 pm
4:00 pm: Event begins
5:00 pm: Disney*Pixar’s Coco at the Bank of America Theatre
The whole family is invited to a night to experience the traditions of Latin America ahead of the Día de Los Muertos holiday. Take the opportunity to experience some movie magic by being transported to the festivities though green screen techniques of filmmaking. We will also be watching the Disney*Pixar’s classic film “Coco!”
Despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, young Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead. After meeting a charming trickster named Héctor, the two new friends embark on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel’s family history.
Directed by Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3), co-directed by Adrian Molina (story artist Monsters University) and produced by Darla K. Anderson (Toy Story 3), Disney*Pixar’s Coco opened in U.S. theatres on November 22, 2017. English with Spanish Subtitles; 105 minutes; rated PG.
Free community event. Bring the whole family! Please register using the link below.

Cine Magnifico Opening Film// US Premiers: Una Quinta Portuguesa
2025-11-07 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Opening Film // US Premiers:
Una Quinta Portuguesa
by Avelina Prat

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
La desaparición de su esposa deja a Fernando, un discreto profesor de geografía, completamente desolado. Sin rumbo, se hace pasar por otro hombre como jardinero en una casa de campo portuguesa, donde entabla una inesperada amistad con el dueño.
Cast: Manolo Solo, Maria de Medeiros, Rita Cabaço, Branka Katić
2025 // 114 min. // Spain, Portugal // Drama // Spanish and Portuguese with English subtitles
View the Una Quinta Portuguesa official trailer here:

Free community event

Cine Magnifico: Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras
2025-11-08 | NM
12:00 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras
by Camilo Becerra and Sofía Gómez

Inspired by real events: Ximena, a successful psychiatrist, receives the unexpected visit of her eldest daughter, Tamara, whom she hasn’t seen in a long time. While she takes refuge at her mother’s house, an investigation is launched: Tamara’s newborn son disappeared under strange circumstances within the sect. Both the justice system and Ximena will try to uncover the fate of the missing baby.
Inspirada en hechos reales: Ximena, una exitosa psiquiatra, recibe la inesperada visita de su hija mayor, Tamara, quien estuvo aislada en una secta por mucho tiempo. Mientras se refugia en casa de su madre, comienza una investigación policial, debido a que el hijo recién nacido de Tamara, desapareció en extrañas circunstancias al interior de la secta. Tanto la justicia como Ximena intentarán descubrir cuál es el destino del bebé desaparecido.
Cast: Aline Kuppenheim, Camila Roeschmann, Julia Lübbert
2024 // 95 min. // Chile, Argentina // Drama, thriller, cults // Spanish with English subtitles
View the Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras official trailer here:

Free community event

Cine Magnifico: Culpa Cero
2025-11-08 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:45 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Culpa Cero
by Valeria Bertuccelli and Mora Elizalde

Berta Muller’s life, a successful self-help writer, is shaken when, at the peak of her career, she is exposed in the media for the significance of plagiarism. Far from assuming responsibility, she will deny the accusations and try to justify herself ridiculously, even if it means exposing all her darkness.
La vida de Berta Muller, una exitosa escritora de autoayuda, se ve sacudida cuando, en el pico máximo de su carrera, es expuesta mediáticamente por la trascendencia de un plagio. Lejos de asumir su responsabilidad, ella negará las acusaciones e intentará justificarse ridículamente, aunque esto implique sacar a la luz toda su oscuridad.
Cast: Valeria Bertuccelli, Justina Bustos, Cecilia Roth, Gaia Garibaldi
2024 // 110 min. // Argentina // Comedy // Spanish with English subtitles
View the Culpa Cero official trailer here:

Free community event

Cine Magnifico: El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja),
2025-11-08 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
El Diablo Fuma
(y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja),
by Ernesto Martínez Bucio

Five siblings abandoned by their parents mimic their fears with those of their schizophrenic grandmother and dissolve the barriers between the real and the imaginary to try to stay together.
Cinco hermanos abandonados por sus padres imitan sus miedos con los de su abuela esquizofrénica y disuelven las barreras entre lo real y lo imaginario para intentar permanecer juntos.
Cast: Mariapau Bravo Aviña, Rafael Nieto Martínez, Regina Alejandra, Laura Uribe Rojas, Donovan Said, Carmen Ramos, Micaela Gramajo and Bernardo Gamboa
2025 // 97 min. // Mexico // Dramatic comedy, supernatural // Spanish with English subtitles
View the El Diablo Fuma official trailer here:

Free community event

Cine Magnifico: Una Sombra Oscilante
2025-11-09 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:15 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Una Sombra Oscilante
by Celeste Rojas Múgica

He develops and imagines a world inside a darkroom. His daughter weaves a dialogue inside it: about latent, invented images. About the ways of resisting and navigating the darkness.
“Una sombra oscilante” (An Oscillating Shadow) explores how the intimate and political weight of images can open spaces to reflect upon them as acts of resistance, either because they are made despite the horror of their context or because they offer an imaginary vanishing point that might just set us free.
Él revela e imagina un mundo en el interior de un cuarto oscuro. Su hija hace de eso un juego: sobre imágenes latentes, posibles, inventadas. Sobre las formas de resistir y transitar la oscuridad.
“Una sombra oscilante” explora el peso íntimo y político de las imágenes para abrir un espacio donde pensarlas como acto de resistencia, ya sea porque se hacen pese al horror, o porque existen para ofrecer un punto de fuga imaginario que quizás nos libre de este.
2024 // 77 min. // Chile, Argentina, France // Documentary // Spanish with English subtitles
View the Una Sombra Oscilante official trailer here:

Free community event

Cine Magnifico: Matryoshka
2025-11-09 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Matryoshka
by Jorge Forero

Ana travels for a few days to her grandmother’s house in the country. Her mother is also present, but the relationship is visible awkward as she feels she was neglected.
Ana’s secret abortion due to an unplanned pregnancy moves her prospect of becoming a mother and makes her understand her own mother’s life, on this weekend to heal from burdens and secrets carried for generations.
Ana viaja unos días a casa de su abuela en el campo. Su madre también está presente, pero la relación se vuelve visiblemente incómoda, pues se siente abandonada.
El aborto secreto de Ana, debido a un embarazo no planeado, renueva su perspectiva de ser madre y la ayuda a comprender la vida de su propia madre. En este fin de semana, busca sanar de las cargas y los secretos que ha arrastrado durante generaciones.
Cast: Vicky Hernández, Ana María Sánchez, Alma Rodríguez
2024 // 87 min. // Colombia // Drama, motherhood // Spanish with English subtitles
View the Matryoshka official trailer here:

Free community event

NHCC Fall Film Series: Plaza Catedral
2025-11-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
The NHCC Fall Film Series features Hispanic filmmakers that preserve our stories, promote our experiences and advance the vast cultural identity of our gente. This film series continues with Plaza Catedral (2021) on Thursday, Nov. 13.
Alicia had a “perfect life” and lost it. Her six year old son died in an accident she feels she could have avoided. Her grief is plagued by guilt, which has made her disassociate from society, from married life, and from herself. She now lives in the old quarter of Panamá, a rich colonial enclave surrounded by Panamá’s poorest neighborhoods. There she meets Chief, a street-smart 13 year old who takes care of cars in front of her apartment and insists on getting paid for his job. Alicia keeps a safe distance from him, until one night Chief arrives at Alicia’s apartment bleeding from a gunshot wound, and begs her for help. Reluctantly, Alicia lets him in. What she could not imagine is that by opening the door to Chief, she would open the door to an unforeseen emotional bond. Caring for Chief makes her feel connected to life again, and it hurts.
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Film Screening: Nan Marie Naaxh
2026-02-26 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Thursday, February 26, 2026
4:45 pm
The NHCC, Metamorfosis Documentation Project (MDP), and the Consulate of Mexico invite visitors to a screening of the documentary Nan Marie Naaxh, which describes the process of making ceremonial chocolate and its history in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca. The film was produced by MDP in collaboration with the Teotitlán del Valle Community Cultural Center.
Free Community Event. Please register HERE.
For further details, please contact:
Lorena Casanueva- Asuntos Culturales, Consulado de México, 505.903.3842
Metamorfosis Documentation Project, 505.984.3295

AfroMundo Festival: “True Justice”
2026-04-12 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Sunday April 12, 2026
11:00 am
NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Documentary Screening of “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality.” Directed by George Kunhardt, Peter W. Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt. 2019. 1hr 42m. True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, follows 30 years of EJI’s work on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. The film won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary, and is the winner of the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications’ 26th annual Vision Award and a Peabody Award.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!

AfroMundo Festival: “Fight for Equality"
2026-04-12 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Sunday, April 12, 2026
3:00 pm
NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Panel Discussion with Darlene T. Gomez, attorney for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives; Abraham Paulos of BAJI (Black Alliance for Just Immigration); Dr. Estévan Rael-Gálvez, President and founder of Native Bound-Unbound; and Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal and Advocacy for Project South. Moderated by Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace, Director of UNM’s Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!
Panel discussion with:
Darlene T. Gomez is a lifelong native of Northern New Mexico, having been born and raised in Lumberton where her ancestors homesteaded before New Mexico was incorporated into the United States. She has been practicing law for over 19 years and specializes in Indian Law, Complex Family Law, and advocating on behalf of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives (MMIWR). Darlene attended the University of New Mexico School of Law where she first began her pro bono work fighting for clean water in her hometown of Lumberton. She was the inaugural recipient of the Carlos Vigil Scholarship, among numerous other awards while in school. Darlene is tirelessly passionate about giving a voice to the voiceless through her pro bono work. She has been a fierce advocate for primary and secondary victims of the MMIWR crisis since 2001 and spends much of her time organizing rallies, mentoring and advocating for secondary victims, preparing and distributing press releases, and serving as the attorney for 15 families of MMIWR victims. She is a founding member of the New Mexico MMIW Task Force and serves as the general counsel for the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Medicine Wheel Ride. She is widely considered a leading expert in MMIWR throughout the US and her persistent efforts on behalf of victims have led to an increase in domestic as well as international media attention for the MMIWR Public Health Crisis
https://dargomezlaw.com/mmiw/
Abraham Paulos is a nationally recognized communications strategist, writer, and advocate who has spent over two decades driving the movement for human rights and immigrant justice. His work centrally focuses on the complex intersection of immigration, race, and criminalization, with a specific emphasis on the unique challenges faced by Black migrants. Abraham currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI). His career features influential leadership roles, including serving as the Executive Director of Families for Freedom. He has also been a researcher for Human Rights First and a Program Director for Life of Hope, a community-based organization serving low-income immigrants. A powerful voice in public discourse, Abraham has highlighted systemic issues within the U.S. deportation system through his writing for outlets like Foreign Policy Association, Huffington Post, and City Limits. He has also been featured on major news platforms such as NY Daily News, Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, ABC News and NBC News. Abraham is a Stateless Eritrean refugee born in Sudan and raised in Chicago. He holds an associate’s degree from Harold Washington College, a bachelor’s degree from George Washington University and a master’s degree from The New School.
https://baji.org
Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the President and founder of Native Bond-Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery. He was born and raised in the sovereign landscape of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, where the memories and stories of the complex identities that formed these communities were part of his upbringing on the family ranch, including of “la India Panana,” the Pawnee woman whose story continues to be told by descendants. Trained as an anthropologist, historian, and ethnographer, he received his BA from UC Berkeley and his MA and PhD from the University of Michigan, where he completed an award-winning dissertation on Indigenous slavery in colonial New Mexico. He has served as New Mexico State Historian, Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and Senior Vice President at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. His work is rooted in lived experience—holding a woven Diné blanket passed down as inheritance and protection or discovering archival traces of several Indigenous people in his family tree, including Antonia, listed simply as “India” in the 1750 Santa Fe census, and Margarita, an Apache woman named in a lawsuit over her possession.
https://nativeboundunbound.org/home/
Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal and Advocacy Director with Project South, advances a practice of movement lawyering, focused on confronting state repression and dismantling systems of surveillance, incarceration, and deportation. Azadeh has organized for two decades to protect and defend migrants and Black and Muslim communities from systemic lslamophobia, xenophobia, and anti-Black racism. She also provides support to social justice movements in the Global South, from Brazil to Palestine.
Azadeh is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. She currently serves on the Advisory Council of the American Association of Jurists. She is the author or editor of several groundbreaking human rights reports as well as law review articles and book chapters focused on movement lawyering, immigrants’ rights, surveillance of Muslim-Americans, and using the international human rights framework as a tool for liberation. Her writings have appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, MSNBC, TIME Magazine, Boston Review, Slate, and Los Angeles Times, among others.

MODERATOR: Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace, Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Director of the Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program at the University of New Mexico. She teaches classes and conducts research on Global Black Speculative Fiction, with an emphasis on Afrofuturism and Caribbean speculative literature. Her essays have appeared in a number of journals, including Small Axe, Cultural Dynamix, and Radical Teacher and in several anthologies, including the forthcoming book, The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Visions, where she contributed a chapter that explores the intersections between Caribbean-speculative fiction and Latinx-futurism. Presently, she is editing a book on power, gender, and teaching speculative fiction in the college classroom. Belinda’s edited collection will be published in early 2027

AfroMundo Festival: “Re-imaginings: Power & Transformation”
2026-04-14 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
7:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Screening of Puerto Rican documentary “The Bee—A Reflection on Women, Land, and Occupation.” Directed by Nelson Varas-Diaz. 2024. 30m. Followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include award-winning afro-diasporic siblings, mulowayi and mapenzi who together comprise Las Nietas de Nonó; Afro-Puerto Rican attorney and former member of the Puerto Rican Senate, Ana Irma Rivera Lassén; Robert Washington-Vaughns, founder of Black Men Flower Project; and Tyeshia ‘Ty’ Wilson, Certified Impact Philanthropy Advisor and award-winning Giving Circle expert. Moderated by Latinx, transfeminist sociologist, Amaury J. Rijo Sanchez.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org.
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Las Nietas de Nonó are the afro-diasporic siblings, mulowayi and mapenzi. In their creative process, they evoke ancestral memory through personal archives. Their practice incorporates performance, found objects, organic materials, ecology, fiction, video and installation. In 2022, their solo show, Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN was presented at Artists Space, New York a grouping of newly commissioned multimedia works that extend Las Nietas’s explorations of themes such as processes of expropriation and colonial violence against Black communities and the development of microhistories in relation to geopolitics. They created Ilustraciones de la Mecánica in 2016 – a multimedia installation that was later commissioned by the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018) and the 79th Whitney Biennial (2019). They have received the Latinx Artist Fellowship from the US Latinx Art Forum (2022), the Rome Prize in Visual Art from the American Academy in Rome (2022), the United States Artist Award (2018), The Art of Change from the Ford Foundation (2017), and the Global Arts Fund from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (2017 & 2020). Their art has been shown in Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, England, Germany, Italy, Norway, Scotland, and the United States. In 2019, they co-founded Parceleras Afrocaribeñas, an organization run by Black womxn, where spaces for environmental and racial justice are created in the face of industrial developments that threaten their barrio of San Antón, in Carolina, Puerto Rico. https://www.lasnietasdenono.com
Anna Irma Rivera Lassén, an Afro-Puerto Rican attorney and former member of the Puerto Rican Senate, was born on March 13, 1955, in Santurce, San Juan. Throughout her career, Lassén has been a steadfast champion for human rights, particularly focusing on issues of discrimination, gender violence, and socio-economic rights. Her commitment to justice was exemplified in her successful challenge against discriminatory courtroom attire rules in the 1980s, setting a precedent for gender equality. Her expertise and advocacy have garnered recognition from prestigious organizations, including the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Lassén’s leadership extends beyond legal circles. From 2012 to 2014, she was the head of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, making history as the first Afro-Puerto Rican and openly lesbian individual to hold the position. Her tenure was marked by significant advancements in promoting gender equality and access to justice. Additionally, she has contributed to the legislative process, actively participating in assessments of bills aimed at advancing human rights protections in Puerto Rico. Her impact and dedication have been acknowledged through numerous awards and honors, including the “Medalla Senatorial Capetillo-Roqué” from the Puerto Rican Senate and the “Martin Luther King/Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Prize.” Notably, Anna was recognized as one of USA Today’s Women of the Year in 2023, further underscoring her influential contributions to society.
Robert Washington-Vaughns: Founder of Black Men Fower Project
Tyeshia ‘Ty’ Wilson is a Certified Impact Philanthropy Advisor, an award-winning giving circle expert, and a catalyst for collective action, driven by the belief that everyone is a philanthropist capable of creating positive social change. As Senior Director of Community at Philanthropy Together, Ty leverages her lived experiences and expertise in community organizing and coalition building to architect the organization’s global partnership and engagement strategy, connecting diverse stakeholders to expand the collective giving movement. An energizing public speaker and bold advocate for collaborative, community-led philanthropy, Ty has spoken to thousands of people and trained hundreds through Philanthropy Together’s flagship Launchpad programs. She serves as immediate past Chair of HERitage Giving Fund, the first Black giving circle in Texas, and sits on multiple national boards including RegisterHER, Philanos and the Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy. Ty’s strategic, community leadership experience spans hospitality, fundraising, and government sectors. Notably, she previously served as Assistant to the City Manager and Chief of Staff at the City of Dallas. A proud Dallas native with deep Texas roots, Ty holds degrees from UT Arlington and UNT Dallas, and an Executive Certificate in Philanthropic Leadership from Georgetown University
MODERATOR—Amaury J. Rijo Sanchez: As a Latinx, transfeminist sociologist, Sanchez’ work explores the intersections of decoloniality, activist coalitions, and cultural and creative expressions, with focus on Latinx populations. Guided by a decolonial feminist lens, he investigates how feminist organizing and queer artivism resist colonial infrastructures and generate alternative modes of community-building and survival. Sanchez’ research draws from ethnographic methods and critical theory to highlight the significance of mobilization from the margins in shaping more just futures.
AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion—“Re-imaginings: Power & Transformation” | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

Film Screening - Mi America: A Journey of Discovery
2026-04-19 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Sunday, April 19, 2026
2:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
“Mi América: A Journey of Discovery is a documentary film that follows an uncle and nephew as they return to Northern New Mexico to reconnect with the land, culture, and community that shaped their family for more than 400 years.
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What begins as a personal journey becomes an exploration of history, identity, and discovery. Through interviews, landscapes, music, and lived experience, Mi América examines the region’s deep religious and cultural traditions, revealing how history has been preserved and passed down across generations.
The documentary also confronts difficult chapters of the past, including the assimilation of children in schools, where students were punished for speaking their native language. It addresses the long history of land grants that were stolen or stripped away, and the resistance movements that emerged in the 1960s as communities fought to protect their ancestral land rights.
At its core, Mi América is about belonging—how culture survives, how memory endures, and how the stories we inherit shape who we are”.
Please join us for a pre-screening performance with special guest, Isaac Aragon, who will open the event. Isaac Aragon is a native New Mexican deeply rooted in blues and soul. Isaacs politically charged musical message promotes love, peace, and social justice. Open your heart, free your mind… And let the healing begin.
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Film Screening: El jugador de ajedrez/The Chess Player
2026-04-25 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Saturday, April 25, 2026
1:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Spanish Resource Center presenta screening of the Spanish film “El jugador de ajedrez” (The Chess Player), shown in its original Spanish version with English subtitles, followed by a Q&A session and discussion with producer Juan Antonio Casado. “The Chess Player” has won numerous awards—including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Original Score at WorldFest Houston, and Best Picture at the Golden Oniros Film Awards (Aosta, Italy). Year: 2017. Length: 98 minutes. Genre: Drama. Nationality: Spain. Based on the novel of the same title by Julio Castedo.
After Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Chess Championship he meets a beautiful French journalist called Marianne and they soon marry and have a daughter. But when the Spanish Civil War breaks out, they must move to France in order to keep alive. However, when the Nazis occupy Paris, Diego is once again facing danger and is finally sent to jail after falsely being accused of spying. In these circumstances Chess will be his only chance of survival.
Evento comunitario gratuito. Indícanos quién asistirá a continuación.
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