Film Screening: Bound by Honor
2023-05-13 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm: Reception & Book Signing
6:00 pm: Pre-Film Talk with Jimmy Santiago Baca
7:00 pm: Film Screening
Our Summer Film Series kicks off with a 30th anniversary screening of Bound by Honor (Blood In, Blood Out) and special guest Jimmy Santiago Baca.
Bound by Honor, an American epic crime drama, directed by Taylor Hackford, has become a cult-classic film within the Mexican-American community. Based on the true-life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on Chicano step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their biracial cousin Miklo. Bound by Honor follows their intertwining lives from 1972 to 1984, when they start out as members of a street gang in East Los Angeles. As dramatic incidents occur, their lives and friendships are forever changed. Bound by Honor was filmed in 1991 throughout the Spanish-speaking areas of Los Angeles and inside California’s San Quentin State Prison.
Directed by Taylor Hackford | 1993 | 180 minutes | English | Rated R (strong violence, language, sex and drug content.)
Free Community Event, generously supported by Bank of America.

Hamilton Masterclass with Broadway Bound LIVE
2023-05-13 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
11:00 am
Enjoying Broadway Bound LIVE and looking to hone your own acting chops? You’re in luck: Broadway Bound is hosting a FREE acting masterclass, featuring members from the touring cast of Hamilton, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center!
Actors will be expected to come with prepared monologues, so please prepare accordingly.
This free community event will be limited to 40 attendees, so please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance. Please help serve the mission of the NHCC by letting us know who will be attending this workshop.

Broadway Bound LIVE is a televised musical theatre competition show that will award FOUR young Broadway hopefuls with scholarships to AMDA College of the Performing Arts in New York City! Come out to watch, to laugh – possibly cry – and to VOTE for YOUR favorite contestant!

Cervantes Film Series: 150 i una grossa
2023-05-19 | NM
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
The description of community life is not always easy for cinema, which tends to focus on characters. However, this film bets on making a collective story where the inhabitants of a village will have to make decisions that will radically change their lives. The choral portrait offered by this documentary is testimony to a common thread based on the commitment of a group of people from all generations to keep alive their population and their traditions.
Synopsis: Ametlla de Merola is one of the smallest towns in Catalonia, with just over 150 inhabitants. The theater is the central nucleus of the town, but they will have to close it due to lack of resources: it doesn’t even have seats. Everything changes when this textile colony wins the Christmas jackpot and its inhabitants decide to invest the money in renovating the theater and prevent it from disappearing.
Free community event

Rural life has undergone countless changes in the last two centuries, as has also occurred in the urban sphere. Migratory movements have been depopulating huge agricultural areas, where the youngest inhabitants have moved to cities to forge their future, often outside their own countries. In recent times, however, there has been a new vocation to recover the elements of wellbeing that the rural environment offers to the people and communities that make it up. Existence outside busy urban life has become an alternative model of sustainability and coexistence that proposes another way of repopulating rural spaces, but beyond the idyllic readings of this return, a sector of the population is trying to define and found this new rural life.
In order to illustrate these new movements, the Cervantes Institute presents an online film program with four documentaries that bring us closer to stories of life in the countryside in four very different parts of the Spanish geography. The four stories open a window on the lights and shadows of this way of life and offer a contemporary perspective on traditions, but also on the problems involved in maintaining these new challenges for the future.
Program:

May 5, 2023: Soñando un lugar (2018), de Alfonso Kint
May 12, 2023: Os fillos da vide (2017), de Ana Domínguez
May 19, 2023: 150 i una grossa (2020), de Aurora Sulli y Núria Deulofeu
May 26, 2023: Los saldos (2022), de Raúl Capdevila

Cervantes Film Series: Los saldos
2023-05-19 | NM
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
The transfer of knowledge between parents and their descendants was the only means by which rural families maintained their traditions, until the arrival of new technologies transformed their habits. Migrations also broke with this logic, although they never dispossessed the inhabitants of this ancestral knowledge. In Los saldos, a father and a son will have to face an evidence that work and coexistence are bringing to light: their lives are very different. The director Raúl Capdevila uses his training as a filmmaker to tell us his family story and works the magic of turning his way of life into an artistic reference that reveals how cinema allows us to observe the world with different eyes.
Synopsis: Raúl Capdevila tells us in the form of a western his return home, to a village in Huesca. His father, José Ramón, is the last of three generations of farmers and ranchers. The film director and his father will have to get along working together on the farm, but, in addition to their differences, they will have to face the implications of the construction of a large meat processing plant by a large meat company.
Free community event

Rural life has undergone countless changes in the last two centuries, as has also occurred in the urban sphere. Migratory movements have been depopulating huge agricultural areas, where the youngest inhabitants have moved to cities to forge their future, often outside their own countries. In recent times, however, there has been a new vocation to recover the elements of wellbeing that the rural environment offers to the people and communities that make it up. Existence outside busy urban life has become an alternative model of sustainability and coexistence that proposes another way of repopulating rural spaces, but beyond the idyllic readings of this return, a sector of the population is trying to define and found this new rural life.
In order to illustrate these new movements, the Cervantes Institute presents an online film program with four documentaries that bring us closer to stories of life in the countryside in four very different parts of the Spanish geography. The four stories open a window on the lights and shadows of this way of life and offer a contemporary perspective on traditions, but also on the problems involved in maintaining these new challenges for the future.
Program:

May 5, 2023: Soñando un lugar (2018), de Alfonso Kint
May 12, 2023: Os fillos da vide (2017), de Ana Domínguez
May 19, 2023: 150 i una grossa (2020), de Aurora Sulli y Núria Deulofeu
May 26, 2023: Los saldos (2022), de Raúl Capdevila

Broadway Bound LIVE: Finals
2023-05-20 - 2023-05-21 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm Saturday, 2:00 pm Sunday
Broadway Bound LIVE presents You’re a Catch! Why are You Single?
A musical by Sarah Wynen
It’s Christmas time, and once again Becky needs to face the hoard of relatives questioning her love life (or lack thereof). As she explores the world of 21st-century dating, we meet an eclectic group of characters who tell their own story and showcase the highs and lows that go along with being alone. When Christmas time rolls around once more, will anything be different for Becky?
This musical about the woes of online dating is the grand finale for Broadway Bound LIVE Season 2!
Broadway Bound LIVE is a televised musical theatre competition show that will award FOUR young Broadway hopefuls with scholarships to AMDA College of the Performing Arts in New York City! Come out to watch, to laugh – possibly cry – and to VOTE for YOUR favorite contestant!
$22, $27 & 32 w/ a $2 discount for seniors and students 12 years old and younger
*Price of the ticket includes a $2 Facility Fee
Run time: Approximately 2 hours.

Film: Acequias: The Legacy Lives On
2023-05-25 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Food Trucks, Live Music & Cash Bar
7:00 – 8:15 pm: Acequias Screening
8:15 pm: Director Q&A following film screening
The University of New Mexico’s Center for Regional Studies and the NHCC present Acequias: The Legacy Lives On. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Aracely “Arcie” Chapa, Acequias: The Legacy Lives On is an hour-long, visually stunning documentary film about New Mexico’s enduring acequias as seen through the eyes of farmers, advocates, scholars, practitioners, lawmakers, journalists, and members of the community. Chapa produces and directs an emotional and reverential tribute to acequias’ past, present, and future.
Free Community Event. Please register here or or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

With funding from UNM’s Center for Regional Studies, the film unfolds through a series of storylines including the acequias’ current challenges, such as climate change and water rights transfers, their important role in the development of local food sheds, and the economic opportunity they provide for members of rural communities. Further, in an arid state where every drop of water is studied and tracked, it has been shown that acequias provide recharge to our groundwater systems as water seeps into the earth beneath the flow. For over 400 years, Acequias have been in continuous use and remain important to an understanding of New Mexico’s acequia heritage and the continuing relevance of these water democracies.
The trailer for the movie is available here.
Run time: 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Film Screening: Boy and the World
2023-05-27 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
3:00 pm
Brazilian artist Alê Abreu’s Academy Award-nominated masterpiece is a riotous explosion of music and color, a breathtakingly original and vibrant cinematic experience that depicts the wonders and struggles of the modern world as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
Cuca’s cozy rural life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family. The young boy’s journey unfolds like a tapestry, the animation taking on greater complexity as his small world expands. Entering civilization, industrial landscapes are inhabited by animal-machines, with barrios of decoupage streets and shop windows and flashing neon advertisements that illuminate the night. The story depicts a clash between village and city, hand crafted and mechanized, rich and poor – and throughout the tumult, the heart and soul of the people beats on as a song.
2013 | Animated Feature | Portuguese (spoken backwards) | 80 minutes | not rated | Directed by Alê Abreu
Generously supported by Bank of America.

Film Screening: El Cantante
2023-06-02 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm: Cash Bar | Pop Fizz | Food Truck (T’s Tynie Kitchen)
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Live DJ Pancho Quinones & Pedro Turon | Salsa Dancing with Jessica Montoya
7:00 pm: Film Screening
Puerto Rican singer Héctor Lavoe (Marc Anthony) emigrates to the United States and becomes a pioneer of salsa music. In New York, he meets Puchi (Jennifer Lopez), who becomes Héctor’s loving but fiery wife. Signing with Jerry Masucci’s Fania record label, Lavoe teams up with trumpeter Willie Colón (John Ortiz) to perfect the new musical style. The duo rise to fame, but Lavoe’s struggle with drug addiction threatens his life as well as career.
Director Leon Ichaso | 2007 | 106 minutes | English | Rated R (profanity, drug use and some violent and sexual situations)
Generously supported by Bank of America.

AMP Concerts: Tab Benoit
2023-06-06 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:30 pm
AMP Concerts presents Tab Benoit. Mr. Benoit is a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and guitarist who has built a remarkable 30+ year career on the foundation of his gritty and soulful Delta swamp blues, acquiring a devoted legion of fans along the way, as well as 5 Blues Music Awards, including BB King Entertainer of the Year (twice) and an induction into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
Run Time: 2 hours including intermission.
Tickets go on sale to AMP Members: Wednesday, March 22nd at 10:00 am with special member promocode. Tickets will go on sale to the general public starting on Friday, March 24th at 10:00 am.

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 and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36: Daniel Doña Compañía de Danza: Entre Hilos Y Huesos
2023-06-09 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:30 pm
Sponsored by the Covington Family Fund
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Daniel Doña, winner of the 2019 Max Prize for best male dancer, and his awe-inspiring company of dancers and musicians to Festival Flamenco Alburquerque for the first time in the U.S. premiere of Entre Hilos y Huesos.
“What political passion or war tears apart, art can sew back together with its winged hands, with its subtle and invisible needle and thread.” – Gregorio Marañón
Entre Hilos y Huesos is the latest choreographic imagining of the company DDC Danza, directed by dancer and choreographer Daniel Doña. This work moves and shakes, it is poetic justice expressed from an avant-garde dance. It dares to move through tradition and contemporaneity, taking refuge in flamenco and the songs of yesteryear while overflowing and exploding in the current moment.
$50, $65, $80, $95
Run time: 120 min
A NOTE ON CONTENT: THIS PERFORMANCE CONTAINS A SCENE OF NUDITY, VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36: Patricia Guerrero y Compañía: Deliranza
2023-06-15 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
Sponsored by TourSpain
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Patricia Guerrero y Compañía in Deliranza. Winner of the 2021 Spanish National Dance Prize, the prodigious young dancer and her company immerse audiences into a performance of a thousand dreamlike adventures.
In Deliranza, Guerrero sets a work in a time conducive to creation and reverie: rehearsal time, where the creator, exhausted by the hours of work, rests and, like Alice, falls into a dream that makes her cross the limits of the everyday world. She breaks with logic enters into new, transformative worlds. As she descends into dreams, she encounters characters and obstacles, but above all the sounds of flamenco, the Soleá, the voice of a Granaína/Bulería or a Mariana… inviting the viewer to imagine and explore the sometimes lonely but gorgeous and dreamlike process of creation.
$50, $65, $80, $95
Run time: 90 min

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents: Fiesta Flamenca
2023-06-16 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Fiesta Flamenca. Fiesta Flamenca on Friday, June 16th has a star-studded gala evening of music and dance, illustrating the range and dynamic styles presented in Festival Flamenco. Elegance, sophistication, and physical brilliance challenge the audience to experience flamenco in all its forms. This vibrant display of artistry exemplifies flamenco’s depth and distinct characteristics.
In spectacular performances of powerful flamenco, headlining artists of Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, along with Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, share the stage for an evening of unforgettable music and dance. Each evening of Fiesta Flamenca showcases a unique cast!
Friday’s cast features Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, Daniel Doña, Marco Flores, Olga Pericet, and Nazaret Reyes.
$60, $75, $90, $105
Run time: 120 min

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents: Fiesta Flamenca
2023-06-17 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Fiesta Flamenca. Fiesta Flamenca on Saturday, June 17th has a star-studded gala evening of music and dance, illustrating the range and dynamic styles presented in Festival Flamenco. Elegance, sophistication, and physical brilliance challenge the audience to experience flamenco in all its forms. This vibrant display of artistry exemplifies flamenco’s depth and distinct characteristics.
In spectacular performances of powerful flamenco, headlining artists of Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, along with Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, share the stage for an evening of unforgettable music and dance. Each evening of Fiesta Flamenca showcases a unique cast!
Saturday’s cast features Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, Raquel Heredia “La Repompilla,” Andrés Marín, Patricia Guerrero, and Israel Galván.
$60, $75, $90, $105
Run time: 120 min
*Please note: Sergio Aranda will be performing in the Saturday cast. This is a change from our previously scheduled cast as Israel Galván is not able to perform Saturday.

New Mexico Latino Music All-Stars
2023-06-24 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm: Doors Open with beer and wine service in the lobby7:00 pm: Performance begins
This fun and vibrant Latin-based music will feature New Mexico Latin artists showcasing Latin jazz, R&B, Cumbias, Boleros, Rancheras and Cha Cha. This large ensemble of New Mexico’s musical talent will bring on a fun and live energy performance. Come celebrate the summer season, Father’s Day or just a great night of entertainment with your favorite people in one of New Mexico’s premier venues.
This music charity event is hosted by the National Latino Behavioral Health Association in partnership with the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This will benefit the NLBHA JTR Scholarship program for Latino college students pursing a college degree in behavioral health.
Special Price of $29

New Mexico Shakespeare Festival: Comedy of Errors
2023-06-29 | NM
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 socially redeeming value. A very young William Shakespeare cobbled together his own take on several ancient Roman comedies – zapped it with a modern sensibility – wrote in better jokes – added more plot twists – and included a dash of his growing romantic brilliance – and voilà. It’s all that and it is more. It is filled with mad-dash playful action interrupted by stand-up routines – mistaken identities and their hilarious consequences – melodramatic longing and joyous reunions.
At its heart, is a play about the exuberance of youth. The Comedy of Errors does not shed new light on the human condition or plumb the depths of the human psyche. It throws a brilliant and playful spotlight on the simple follies of humble humans. It is a play about us. How nice of Shakespeare to send us this giggling love letter 400 years ago. He knew we would open it with glee.

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 and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Film Screening: The Motorcycle Diaries
2023-06-30 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 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 of labor by wealthy industrialists. When they reach a leper colony in Peru, Ernesto’s values have changed so much that he sides with the sufferers, forgetting his own comfort.
Director Walter Salles | 2004 | 126 minutes | Spanish with English subtitles | Rated R (social drinking, strong language, and discussions of a sexual nature)
Generously supported by Bank of America.

On Point Dance Studio: PIXAR Paradise
2023-06-30 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 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 and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Cervantes Film Series: Azaletik azalera
2023-07-04 | NM
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 representable in live-action cinema.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez y Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

New Mexico Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night's Dream
2023-07-06 | NM
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 between the living and the dead are thin, in many cultures, Midsummer is the night that the Faeries come out and play, the night when you dance around the bonfire in the forest, only to realize you are not dancing alone and when you open your eyes the next morning, you’re not sure if what you experienced was real or simply a vision.
This performance is set in the magical moment between waking and sleeping – the slow surfacing from the depths of your dreamscape – the liminal space on the threshold of beginning. In order to have a beginning you need to have a before-time. It’s here where we find our Midsummer. The Italians have a word for this before-time: Dormiveglia, the space that stretches between sleeping and waking. Not many people know this, but it is in this place that the Faeries rule. Everything is possible in the moments you dwell here; the sweet, the sad, the irreverent and the ridiculous. If you know me, you know I prefer the ridiculous over just about anything.
Last year when I took on As You Like It, I coined it the “Party Show” of the Festival. This year is something a little different. This year we are THE HEART show. I invite you to let yourself sink here in this moment in the no-time. Let yourself be enchanted and pause in the mystic doorway with us.

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 and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Cervantes Film Series: La mesa
2023-07-07 | NM
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 in his subsequent work, using a much more complex visual composition.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), de Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) de Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), de varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), de Paco Ramírez y Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), de Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), de Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), de Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), de Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Beti Bezperako Koplak
2023-07-11 | NM
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 collective animation works that have been performed in recent years in the field of Fine Arts in the Basque Country, such as Areka (2016) or Miraila (2017).
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to accompanying the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates with us its twenty years of existence with the presentation on our Vimeo channel of an animated film series whose films address this theme. Throughout four weeks, we will be able to see short films that show us stories of all kinds of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators made in Basque.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), de Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) de Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), de varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), de Paco Ramírez y Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), de Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), de Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), de Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), de Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Thara
2023-07-14 | NM
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 program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo
2023-07-18 | NM
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 an animated documentary like this one. The short film is an interesting approach to different ways of conceiving identity, the relationship with one’s own body and love.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

Afro Mundo: Gather
2023-07-19 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
7:00 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
2023-07-21 | NM
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 meanings that are no longer viable or sustainable. In the process, we will witness new representations of gender and sexual orientations that further dynamite the critical discourse.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Garelako
2023-07-25 | NM
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. Let us feel what we prefer. If the bird’s wings are for walking, if the whale is denied the sea, we will see nothing but fiction. If above all words is the lie, we will go forward, whether you like it or not. If someone is free, it is because we are all free. We will truly live with you or without you. You will realize it sooner or later. We are not monsters; we do not eat anyone. The sun warms us, and the rain wets us. Now you have realized: we are flesh and blood, like you. Marichico or Marichica, they call us. Stop talking banally. Learn one thing well and keep it in your head, that the only Mari is the one of Anboto”.
Free community event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Makun (No llores)
2023-07-28 | NM
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 the harsh reality of the Internment Centers for Foreigners (CIE) and the personal experiences of immigrants.
Free Community Event.

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

Media/Climate Justice Internship Film Premiere & Celebration
2023-08-05 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
5:00 pm: Private Reception
6:00 pm: Graduation, Performances, & Screening
Note: This screening has been moved from the Bank of America Theatre to the Wells Fargo Auditorium. Due to the smaller venue, space will be limited. Please register below.
Come celebrate the culmination of El Puente, an 8-week youth summer program that aims to develop and nurture the talents of young individuals, providing them with the tools and skills necessary to become future media creators and advocates for environmental justice. Through hands-on experiences and mentorship, youth are empowered to explore their creativity, amplify their voices, and tell compelling stories that drive positive change in our community.
Free Community Event. Please register below.

Film: Agave is Life
2023-08-10 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm: Cash bar and food trucks
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: UNM Mariachi Ensemble
7:00 pm: Film screening
Note: This screening will now be held in the Bank of America Theatre.
Agave is Life is an exploration of the history of the agave plant in the cultures of Mexico and the American Southwest. Starting thousands of years ago when hunter-gatherers viewed the hardy desert succulent with its myriad uses as a gift from the gods, agave’s story is told through the lens of archaeological, ethnographic, and modern-day vignettes, closing with concerns about threats to the plant’s future.
Directed by Meredith L. Dreiss & Davi Brown | Documentary | 2014 | 70 minutes | English | TVPG
Free community event. Please let us know how many will be attending below.
Generously supported by Bank of America.

Afro Mundo: Sister Doula
2023-08-16 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow.
Black babies die at 5 times the rate of white babies. SISTER DOULA is the story of Hakima Payne, a nurse in Kansas City who tackles this crisis head-on, fighting to save Black babies by offering alternatives to the US healthcare system that surveils, criminalizes, and harms Black families. Mama Hakima is equal parts unapologetic truth-teller and wise-compassionate mentor. This is the story of the birth doulas she has mentored, who advocate for Black birthing people and work toward building a future.
Free Community Event
