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  • Festival Oralidad

    Workshop, Matilde Machiavello—1 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium Presentation, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez—4 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium Concert, Perla Batalla—6:30 pm, Bank of America Theatre Workshop and presentation free to the public; concert tickets $17, $27, $37 w/ $2 discount for NHCC members, purchase Here Instituto Cervantes and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, with the collaboration of AMP Concerts and the support of the New Mexico Humanities Council, present the first Festival Oralidad on November 18, 20, and 22, 2021. The festival combines workshops, lectures, panel discussions, storytelling performances, and (more...)

  • Perla Batalla

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    6:30 pm Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Perla Batalla earns critical acclaim for her distinctive voice, emotional honesty, and culture-merging compositions. She was born in Los Angeles to a family immersed in music. Her dad, a Mexican mariachi and D.J., and her Argentine mom ran the family record shop, Discoteca Batalla, where Perla was exposed to an education of non-stop music that cut across genres and languages. $17, $27, $37 w/ $2 discount for NHCC members COVID PROTOCOLS:  After singing with and recording with numerous groups and artists, including Leonard (more...)

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  • Film: Nuevas Cinefilias, Estaciones singulares: La reina de los lagartos

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In La reina de los lagartos, Burnin’ Percebes (Fernando Martínez and Juan González) introduce us to Berta and Javi, a couple who are saying goodbye after a summer romance. However, the spaceship that was supposed to pick up Javi, the prince of an alien race of lizards, never comes to take him away. 2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 63 minutes; not recommended for children under 12. Free community event In November, Instituto Cervantes collaborates (more...)

  • Film: Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Amore d’inverno

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Isabel Herguera’s Amore d’inverno (Winter Love), a couple walks along the river while hunters hide behind a hill and friends in the forest remember the “Dancer of Clavesana,” a metaphor for free love who vanishes slowly into the winter landscape. The director was nominated for a Goya award in 2005 for La gallina ciega, and has received increasing national and international recognition for her short films. 2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 8 minutes; (more...)

  • Film: Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Jane, Tarzán nez zen horren gua

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Begoña Vicario’s Jane, Tarzán nez zen horren guay (Jane, Tarzan Wasn’t So Cool) was created by a collective of 20 young Basque artists, coordinated by the director. It reinterprets the famous scene from Cedric Gibbons’ 1934 film Tarzan and His Mate in which Tarzan and Jane swim together. 2016; no dialogue; 3 minutes; rated G. Free community event In collaboration with Mujeres y Cine (MYC), Instituto Cervantes presents six short animated films for adults, (more...)

  • Film: Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Lursaguak

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Basque artist Izibene Oñederra’s powerful, cutting-edge works have continued to delve deeply into uncomfortable themes. Her animated film Lursaguak (Scenes of Life) is a dark, grotesque commentary on the human condition, in which millions of voles of an unknown species are undermining the conceptual basis of a thousand-year-old culture. 2019; no dialogue; 12 minutes; not recommended for children under 16. Free community event In collaboration with Mujeres y Cine (In collaboration with Mujeres y (more...)

  • Film: Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Patchwork

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Patchwork, created as part of María Manero’s work toward a Master of Animation at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the director tells the story of her mother’s courage while facing a liver transplant, as well as the interconnection among human beings and our celebration of life while facing our common destiny. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 8 minutes; not rated. Free community event Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Film Schedule * (more...)

  • Film: Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Yo

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Yo, based on a story by Arthur Schnitzler, Begoña Arostegui confronts the perplexity we encounter when we realize how we encode the world through language. For the protagonist, all days seem monotonously alike, until a simple parking sign changes everything. 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 13 minutes; rated G. Free community event Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Film Schedule * November 30: Amore d’inverno (Isabel Herguera, 2015) * December 3: Jane, Tarzán nez zen (more...)

  • Film: Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: ¿Dónde estabas tú?

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here María Trénor’s ¿Dónde estabas tú? challenges the viewer to reflect on the universal reality of violence against women, whether subtle or brutal. The interviews resulting in the three stories that make up this film were conducted in Mozambique and the Philippines. 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not recommended for children under 12. Free community event Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Film Schedule * November 30: Amore d’inverno (Isabel Herguera, 2015) * December (more...)

  • Film: Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Esfinge urbana

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Esfinge urbana, the most experimental work in María Lorenzo’s extensive filmography, is a composition based on Valencian urban art, as documented in various neighborhoods between 2018 and 2019 and connected through animation like the frames of a film. 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 5 minutes; rated G. Free community event María Trénor’s ¿Dónde estabas tú? challenges the viewer to reflect on the universal reality of violence against women, whether subtle or brutal. The interviews (more...)