Performing Arts
NM Gay Men’s Chorus: You Are Enough
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:30 pm Saturday, 3 pm Sunday New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus presents “You Are Enough.” Mental health includes our emotional, physiological, and social wellbeing. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Too often, this subject seems off limits. In a first for NMGMC, we’re dedicating a concert to a topic so often ignored. We’ll be exploring music that looks to help shake that stigma and allow us to face some of our (more...)
Film: Cartas mojadas
12 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Through a mysterious voice from the bottom of the sea, Paula Palacios’ Cartas mojadas recounts a tragic epic of contemporary history. Following letters exchanged between mothers and children, the film accompanies the boat Open Arms on its mission to save 550 people from shipwreck, and then boards a Libyan coast guard ship for a look at corruption and human trafficking in one of the most dangerous places in the world, 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 81 (more...)
Magnify Dance Ensemble: How Love Wins
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM2 pm Magnify Dance Ensemble presents How Love Wins, a sequel to the company’s award-winning holiday production ofChristmas Joy. Inspired by the Gospel and expressed through dance, the story of How Love Wins is filled with meaningful and engaging choreography. Progressing from the birth of Jesus through His life, death and resurrection, this newest addition to Magnify Dance Ensemble’s repertoire carries on the professionalism and extraordinary level of performance our audiences have come to expect. How Love Wins came alive as a new opportunity for Magnify to share the (more...)
PAPA’s Senior Showcase 2022
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7 pm The Class of 2022 at Public Academy for Performing Arts showcases what they do best in music, dance, theatre, film, and visual arts. Don’t miss your opportunity to see these rising stars, as this event is one night only! $10, $20, $30 Approximate length of event: 2.5 hours This event is a rental event, not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images, and description for the event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not (more...)
Film: A media voz
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Patricia Pérez and Heidi Hassan, directors of A media voz, are childhood friends who face the challenges of uprooting as they try to rebuild their lives away from Cuba. This moving auto-ethnographic documentary about nostalgia, friendship, roots, and exile reflects the uneasiness of an entire generation. 2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 80 minutes; rated G. Free community event In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, Cinema in Spanish, screening four contemporary (more...)
Film: Sanmao, la novia del desierto
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In the 1970s, Chinese writer Sanmao and Spanish diver José María Quero traveled to the Spanish Sahara, where Sanmao captured their daily experiences in a best-selling book, Tales from the Sahara. In Sanmao, la novia del desierto, filmmakers Marta Arribas and Ana Pérez recount the story of two people from radically different worlds whose relationship, marked by love, adventure, and tragedy, ultimately served to unite these worlds. Sanmao’s public persona remains iconic to this day. 2020; (more...)
Sacred Journeys III
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm Friday & Saturday, 2:00 pm Sunday Festival Ballet Albuquerque and the NHCC present Sacred Journeys III. 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 Gallup, NM, and will also make (more...)
Film: Érase una vez en Venezuela, Congo Mirador
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’ “reflection of a divided country,” the floating village of Congo Mirador, a short distance from Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, is seen through the eyes of two women, espousing opposing ideologies, who are still trying to sustain life in a town that is dying from drought, pollution, corruption, and neglect. 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 99 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, (more...)
Yjastros: featuring the Orchestra of New Spain: Quem Quæritis? A Flamenco Drama
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM8:00 pm Friday, 2:00 pm Saturday Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company proudly brings the creative visions of world-renowned flamenco artists to the American public, while cultivating the living art of flamenco in the United States. Together with the Orchestra of New Spain, Yjastros presents Quem Quæritis? A Flamenco Drama. This performance draws from the tradition of the pastorela, told through imaginative, dynamic flamenco performance. Yjastros dramatizes human ingenuity and resilience through intricate choreographic masterpieces by Artistic Director Joaquín Encinias, Marco Flores, and other choreographers. This season (more...)
New Mexico Spanish Spelling Bee
8:00 am - 2:00 pm New Mexico Association for Bilingual Education presents the New Mexico Spanish Spelling Bee. Students in grades 4-8 from across New Mexico represent their school districts or charter schools in the Spanish Spelling Bee Competition. This contest is intended to continue promoting the Spanish language and culture among New Mexico students. This is a free ticketed event