Performing Arts
Summer Salsa for Seniors
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-241:30-3:30 pm Looking for a way to beat the heat? Join us at the Center every Wednesday in June for four weeks of salsa and tango lessons. This new series is part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program, which provides a free multidisciplinary arts program for seniors. Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP New Mexico. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
New Mexico Shakespeare Festival: Comedy of Errors
7:30 pm Bringing Shakespeare to Life in New Mexico! The New Mexico Shakespeare Festival believes that Shakespeare is for everyone - whether you've seen dozens of plays or none at all. You are invited to join them on the National Hispanic Cultural Center Plaza Mayor to enjoy a wonderful performance! Comedy of Errors | Directed by Paul Ford Free community event. Tickets will be available at the event one hour prior to the performance. Director's Note: It could be argued that Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors has no (more...)
Film Screening: The Motorcycle Diaries
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 pm to 7:00 pm: Food Trucks | Cash Bar | Pop Fizz | Motorcycle Show (ends 6:00 pm) 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Live Capoeira Performance 6:30 pm: Pre-Film Talk 7:00 pm: The Motorcycle Diaries Screening On a break before his last semester of medical school, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Gael García Bernal) travels with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) from Brazil to Peru by motorcycle. The two men soon witness the great disparities in South America, encountering poor peasants and observing the exploitation (more...)
On Point Dance Studio: PIXAR Paradise
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm On Point Dance Studio presents their 2023 Summer Recital! Students will perform routines they have learned during our spring semester, a combination of folklorico, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, tumbling and contemporary. National competitive teams’ routines will also be showcased as a special surprise. $25, $30 & $35 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 (more...)
Ozomatli with special guests Nosotros & Baracutanga
This event has reached capacity and is sold out. IMPORTANT: ALL RESERVATIONS WILL EXPIRE AT 6:30 pm AND WE WILL OPEN SPACE FOR PEOPLE WAITING IN LINE. If you have not checked in by 6:30 pm your reservation will be released, and it will be 1st come 1st serve after that until we reach capacity! Gates open at 4:30pm. Music starts at 5:30 Join us for a special performance on NHCC's Plaza Mayor, featuring Ozomatli with special guests Nosotros & Baracutanga! This free performance of powerhouse Latin (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Azaletik azalera
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation With this award-winning short film, Mel Arranz has managed to place himself within the interesting panorama of animation made in the Basque Country. His piece, colored in various shades of black and white, began to take shape during his artistic stay in Mexico and is a visual experiment: his short film manages to demonstrate a bodily intimacy through the detail shots of the touching of skins, hardly (more...)
New Mexico Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
7:30 pm Bringing Shakespeare to Life in New Mexico! The New Mexico Shakespeare Festival believes that Shakespeare is for everyone - whether you've seen dozens of plays or none at all. You are invited to join them on the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Plaza Mayor and enjoy a wonderful performance! A Midsummer Night's Dream | Directed by Julia Thudium Free community event. Tickets will be available at the event one hour prior to the performance. Director's Note: If Samhain or Halloween is the night, where the veils (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: La mesa
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation With a captivating work drawing on a black and white photographic image, director Adrian Garcia Gomez delves into memory to orient his imagination regarding identity and the past in the environment of the western and Mexican cinema of the 1940's and 50's. This short film follows its predecessor Mikveh (2016), and shares that film's sensitive attunement regarding its formality and concerns, which the Californian creator will continue (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Beti Bezperako Koplak
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation The animators included in Ageda Kopla Taldea – a group of twenty artists coordinated by Bego Vicarioapproach– weave a fascinating story that starts from the tradition of the bertsolaris, the Basque poets who recite their improvised verses, to bring us closer to the history of cultural and popular traditions at a time when their meanings and contents are being redefined. This work is part of the stream of (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Thara
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation Planned as a mixed media work, Thara combines a documentary style with a narrative built through animation to achieve greater expressive freedom, only achievable through this technique. The short film shows the story of those transsexual people who are forced to work at night and reveals how difficult the lives of these women can be in Latin American countries. Free Community Event The Cervantes Institute maintains its (more...)