Performing Arts
Film Screening: Bless Me Ultima
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM5:00 – 7:00 pm: Noche de Familia (art activities inspired by Bless Me, Ultima for attending families and intergenerational visitors) 6:30 to 7:00 pm: Reception 7:00 – 7:30 pm: Introduction and Pre-film talk by Ricardo Lopez 7:30 pm: Film screening begins Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved and iconic Bless Me, Ultima returns to the NHCC with Carl Franklin’s screen adaptation. 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 (more...)
Instituto Cervantes: ¡Cine Magnífico! Latino Film Festival
3:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friday 11:00 am to 8:00 pm Saturday South Broadway Cultural Center (1025 Broadway Blvd SE) Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque is launching the twelfth edition of Cine Magnífico, Latino Film Festival of Albuquerque. This event has focused on the dissemination of culture and audio-visual creation in Spanish in its 11 previous editions, and has given visibility during these years in New Mexico to numerous films and short films made in Spain and various Spanish-speaking countries. The 2024 edition of the festival will have as (more...)
The Albuquerque Folk Festival
NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM• Gates open Sunday at 10:00 am. • The festival starts and 10:00 am and ends at 8:00 pm. • Evening dance(s) start at 5:30 pm. • Most workshops, kids’ tent, jams, storytelling, and musical instrument petting zoo start at 10:30 am and end between 4:30-5:30 pm Enjoy the Albuquerque Folk Festival this year! Kids under 12 & seniors 85+ enter for free at the gate day of festival. The Albuquerque Folk Festival offers over 100 events including 5 performance venues, 6 music and dance workshop venues, (more...)
New Mexico Philharmonic: Rhapsody in Blue
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM2:00 – 4:00 pm New Mexico Philharmonic presents Rhapsody in Blue Na’Zir McFadden, Conductor Sydney Tasker, cello Kate Shao, piano Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in a minor Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Just over 100 years ago, George Gershwin composed a concerto for jazz orchestra, and the result redefined American music. Take in his Rhapsody in Blue, performed by Kate Shao, first-place winner in the piano division of this year’s Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition. The youthful vigor continues with cellist (more...)
Festival Ballet Albuquerque: Sacred Journeys V
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm Friday & Saturday, 2:00 pm Sunday NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre Festival Ballet Albuquerque presents Sacred Journeys V featuring Robert Mirabal. Classical and contemporary dance combine with the eclectic music of two-time Grammy award-winning Taos Pueblo musician Robert Mirabal in this reflection of New Mexican cultures through dance, music, and spoken word. Mirabal collaborates with Festival Ballet Albuquerque’s artistic director Patricia Dickinson Wells and with internationally renowned New York City Ballet dancer Jock Soto, of Navajo and Puerto Rican descent. Soto, who is originally from (more...)
Opera Southwest: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NMOctober 27 & 30, | November 1 & 3 2:00 pm Sundays, 7:30 pm Wednesday & Friday Opera Southwest presents Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. For over a century, the tragic tale of a geisha’s love, steadfastness, and heartbreak has been enchanting audiences around the world. Today, Giacomo Puccini’s soaring music continues to enrapture- no matter how many times you may have heard it. Although Madama Butterfly is best known for its exquisite arias for sopranos, the long, wondrously varied love duet that ends Act I is considered his (more...)
Liberation Music of the Americas
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7:30 - 9:00 pm This event has been moved to the NHCC's Bank of America Theatre to accommodate a larger audience. Join us for a night of Música y Platíca con Lasotras, a musical collective from Albuquerque with roots all over the Americas, moderated by Enrique Cardiel. This event, sponsored by Radical Harmonies, a Mellon Foundation Grantee, is the third in a series of events, offers inspirational spaces for exploration, dialogue, and the convergence of thought and action. As an intellectual expression and creative output, music can (more...)
Voces de Latinidad: An Original Documentary Film
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM6:00 pm: Refreshments and Music 6:30 pm: Film Screening 7:00 pm: Panel Discussion NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre Voces de Latinidad: An Original Documentary Film. Celebrating the Richness of Hispanic Identity. Voces de Latinidad, has united members of our community and explored the diversity and complexity of the many cultural aspects that shape Hispanic, Mestizo, Latino/a/e, Chicano/a, Indígena/o identity and lived experiences in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, area. This is the documentary film that shows a community in the process of engaging with identity and history in (more...)
New Mexico Philharmonic: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM2:00 pm – 4:00 pm New Mexico Philharmonic presents Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons Cármelo de los Santos, conductor & soloist Mozart: Symphony No. 29 Vivaldi: The Four Seasons What finer time than the fall to revisit Antonio Vivaldi’s all-time most loved work, The Four Seasons. With the excitement of spring, the storms of summer, autumn’s harvests, and the chill of winter…Vivaldi encompassed an entire year’s worth of life into four miniature concertos. Also on the program is Mozart’s Symphony No. 29, written by the prodigious 18-year-old composer (more...)
National Institute of Flamenco: PLATA: 25 Years of Yjastros
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM8:00 pm Friday 4:00 pm Saturday National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present PLATA: 25 Years of Yjastros PLATA is a thrilling, full-length work by Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company. Celebrating 25 incredible years of this powerhouse company, PLATA features a return to the stunning flamenco repertory format that has delighted audiences for decades. The concert features choreographies by Artistic Director Joaquín Encinias, visiting guest artist and dancer Ricardo Moro, (Madrid), Yjastros’ own Carlos Menchaca, and past international collaborators, Carmen Coy (Murcia), Jesús Perona (Málaga), (more...)