Performing Arts
Chispa: New Latin Music Series, Palenke Soultribe
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM8 pm Palenke Soultribe (PST), a live electronic production collective based in Los Angeles, deconstructs Afro-Colombian rhythms and blends them with modern beats, catchy bass lines, and synthesized arpeggios. Always pushing the envelope visually and conceptually, the group represents a new generation of Colombian musicians ready to break all the rules. Watch them in action HERE. Opening for PST is Baracutanga, a seven-piece band – representing four different countries – that arranges traditional South American rhythms in interesting ways, such as huayño and cumbia with Middle-Eastern derbuka, (more...)
Chispa: Pimentel Concert Series, Pimentel Guitars 65th Anniversary
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NMThis event is sold out! 7 pm This concert, celebrating the 65th anniversary of Pimentel Guitars and presented in partnership with Pimentel Music, is a tribute to the late master guitar makers Lorenzo Pimentel and Agustin Pimentel. The ninth in the NHCC’s Pimentel Music Series, it will feature acclaimed guitarists in genres ranging from classical to popular to jazz to folk to flamenco, with a line-up including Mariachi Tenampa, Gustavo Pimentel, Dan Lambert and the Creatures of Habit, Ambrose Rivera with Trio Bravo, Harry Irizarry, John Truitt, (more...)
Siembra: Solving for X: The Education Project, School Day Event
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-MeetingBy the Working Classroom 10 am Working Classroom’s theatre ensemble collaborates with Scott Barrow from Tectonic Theater Project and guest director/playwright Milta Ortiz from Arizona’s Borderlands Theater to create an immersive bilingual performance based on community interviews and dedicated to bringing a face and voice to educational inequity. This is a free event with registration. Limited availability. For a PDF with all of the education opportunities please click HERE. If you would like to register please click HERE. For more information please contact Elena Baca at ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us or (more...)
Film: The Burning Season
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm The real-life story of Chico Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper, union leader, and environmental activist whose relentless campaigning against the exploitation and destruction of the rainforest led to his assassination in 1990 by ranchers opposed to his activism. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series. 1994; directed by John Frankenheimer; English; 123 minutes; rated R. Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show
Aliento: Carnaval 2017, School Day Event
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM10 am The NHCC’s annual celebration of Carnaval is a dazzling spectacle of vibrant dance, engaging music, and beautiful costumes, featuring the band PANdemonium and the Odara Dance Ensemble and showcasing the Carnaval celebrations of Cuba, Trinidad, Brazil and New Orleans. This is a free event with registration. Limited availability. For a PDF with all of the education opportunities please click HERE. If you would like to register please click HERE. For more information please contact Elena Baca at ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us or call her direct line at 505-383-4734
Aliento: Carnaval 2017
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:30 pm Come celebrate Carnaval as the NHCC and Frank Leto Musical Ventures turn the Albuquerque Journal Theatre into the set of a television dance show! As in years past, the Odara Dance Ensemble and the musical group PANdemonium will take you on a journey through the Carnaval traditions of Cuba, Trinidad, Brazil and New Orleans. But this year, the audience will be joining the celebration! As Fernando Fresquez hosts the dazzling spectacle of vibrant dance, engaging music, and beautiful costumes you have come to expect, there (more...)
Women’s History Month
NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NMEach year in March the National Hispanic Cultural Center celebrates women with programming that honors their contributions to dance, music, theatre, art, poetry, films, novels, and much more. Listed below are all the events that you can experience at the Center during Women’s History Month. Below are our offerings for 2017. Fantasía Fantástica: Imaginative Spaces and Other-Worldly Collage Programming: ¡HAH! Happy Arte Hour with Artist Rachel Muldez March 2, 2017 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Domenici Education Building Free public event On the first Thursday of each (more...)
Aliento: Jesús Muñoz Flamenco, Red Note, School Day Event
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM10 am Casa Flamenca and the NHCC present a school day event for Jesús Muñoz Flamenco in Red Note--original music and works by a cast of international dancers and musicians that explores dynamic, visionary movements in dance, music, and visual art inspired by cante flamenco. Red Note will take you on a journey through southern Spain--where soul meets dance--and through the evolution of flamenco's dance and music. This is a free event with registration. Limited availability. For a PDF with all of the education opportunities please click HERE. (more...)
Film: Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm Folk icon Joan Baez celebrated her 75th birthday in 2016, honoring her legendary 50-plus years in music with a career-spanning live performance at New York’s historic Beacon Theatre. Baez performed with fellow artists and friends including David Bromberg, David Crosby, Damien Rice, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples, Indigo Girls, Richard Thompson, Judy Collins, Nano Stern, and Paul Simon. The event was filmed as an episode of PBS’s Great Performances. Presented in partnership with New Mexico PBS as part of the Bank (more...)
Aliento: Jesús Muñoz Flamenco, Red Note
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM8 pm Casa Flamenca and the NHCC present Jesús Muñoz Flamenco in Red Note—borrowed from the tastefully symbolic "Blue Note Jazz Club" and exploring dynamic, visionary movements in dance, music, and visual art inspired by cante flamenco. Like jazz, flamenco has its roots in raw, intimate improvisation upon standard structures; it improvises through interpretations of the structures of cante jondo, or deep song. Red Note features original music and works composed and performed by a cast of international dancers and musicians. Jesús Muñoz is nationally and internationally (more...)