Performing Arts
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...)
Cervantes Film Series: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation As part of her thesis project, filmmaker Andrea Gudiño proposed this animated documentary that brings us closer to the issue of sexual binarism. The possibility of using the experiences and personal testimonies of real people who do not appear in the image but are generated from an original use of materials and cinematographic techniques, achieves an enormous visual and didactic impact, one of the most effective resources in (more...)
Afro Mundo: Gather
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow. Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political, and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. Free Community Event
Cervantes Film Series: Ezohikoak
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation Through a work with archival photographs, the animator Alejandra Bueno creates a reinterpretation of the presence of women in Basque culture, which combines the manipulation and intervention of these images with the oral enumeration of the functions traditionally attributed to women. The result is a provocative display of how to assume and reverse the elements of tradition and its representation to show its fissures and to open those (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Garelako
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation With a song by Eneko Sagardoy as a thematic and narrative pillar, the writer and animator Usue Egia proposes a journey through various characters and stories that illustrate a call for freedom to everyone to define themselves and feel as they wish. Garelako, by Eneko Sagardoy: "The gray sky will not suffocate us. We will flee to the sun. They want to put straw hearts on us. (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Makun (No llores)
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation Emilio Martí's creative trajectory demonstrates his commitment to social issues that highlight our problems with coexistence and solidarity in today's society. Since his short film Desanimado (2011), winner of countless awards, his work has not stopped betting on a lively and effective story-telling and emotional resonance, always using animation as an expressive key. With this short film, which also won several awards, he brings us closer to (more...)