Festival Ballet Albuquerque: Sacred Journeys IV
2023-04-21 - 2023-04-23 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm Friday & Saturday, 2:00 pm Sunday
Festival Ballet Albuquerque & The National Hispanic Cultural Center present Sacred Journeys IV. 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 will also make guest appearances onstage, is originally from Gallup and now lives in Eagle Nest.
$14, $20, $29, $39, $49 w/ a $2 discount for seniors, children under 12 and NHCC members
Run time: 90 mins

Additional choreographers for the production are native New Mexican Dominic Guerra, and internationally known Vladimir Conde-Reche, a native of São Paulo, Brazil. Additional guest artists include the Trujillo Family traditional Native American dancers and Alex Ossadnik originally from East Germany.
Robert Mirabal, dedicated to keeping alive the centuries-old customs of Taos Pueblo, is also a leading proponent of world music, and has merged his Indigenous American sound with the music of Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, tapping into a planetary pulse with a style that defies characterization. His 2002 breakthrough PBS special, Music from a Painted Cave, is unsurpassed in Native American theatrical expression.
A former principal dancer with the New York Ballet, Jock Soto was one of the last dancers to be personally selected by founder George Balanchine when he was barely 16. He danced featured roles in over 40 ballets, of which more than 35 were created for him. The author of Every Step You Take and the subject of the documentary Water Flowing Together (the name of his Navajo clan), Soto teaches partnering and technique classes at the School of American Ballet, where he has been a permanent member of the faculty since 1996.
Sacred Journeys IV brings together the rich and diverse culture of our state, while providing extraordinary role models for New Mexico’s youth.
SACRED JOURNEYS IV: The Live Performance Recording was honored to be screened in 2021 at the Red Nation International Film festival and the American Indian Film Festival.

Film Screening: Boy and the World
2023-04-22 | 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.
Arrive early to attend Día de Familia: Tierra Hermosa
2013 | Animated Feature | Portuguese (spoken backwards) | 80 minutes | not rated | Alê Abreu Director
Generously supported by Bank of America.

Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, 50th Anniversary Concert
2023-04-30 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
3:00 pm
The Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating their 50th Anniversary Grand Finale Concert! Music Director Byron Herrington conducts Toccata and Fugue in d by J.S Bach, and Latin American Symphonette by Morton Gould on the first half. Then we will have a 20-minute intermission, closing with Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73, by Johannes Brahms. Join us in celebrating our 50th Anniversary with cake and coffee after the concert! We would love to meet our patrons!
Free community event. Tickets available at the door day of performance

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: Soñando un lugar
2023-05-05 | NM
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
Alfonso Kint and Lucía Camón are two artists who embarked on the adventure of moving to a village in the province of Zaragoza to try a different life. Their project Pueblos en Arte was born from this bet, which managed to attract other people with a similar vital profile in an attempt to achieve a better way of life and to generate other creative synergies in a rural environment.
In this documentary film, the director tells us how he decides to leave, together with his wife and his newborn daughter, the busy life of the capital to start from scratch in a village in an empty Spain. With his work, he shows us the infinite possibilities offered by the rural world, despite the critical situation of the village to which he migrates, and proposes a new way of life for future generations.
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

NM Ballet Company: NMBC School Spring Recital
2023-05-05 - 2023-05-06 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm Friday, 2:00 pm Saturday
NMBC School presents its Spring 2023 Recital in celebration of the Company’s 50th anniversary. Featuring original choreography by NMBC faculty, the two performances will showcase the talent, dedication, and growth of our students.
Dancing with the community since 1972, NMBC is dedicated to creating and promoting professional and innovative dance productions for New Mexico audiences while providing the highest caliber of education and training for young artists in the community.
$17 Kids 12 & under, $22 13 years of age and older
Run time: 90 min

Tickets on sale beginning Wednesday, March 1, 2023 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.

New Mexico Ballet Company: RESILIENCE
2023-05-06 - 2023-05-07 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm Saturday & 2:00 pm Sunday
The New Mexico Ballet Company invites you to its 50-year anniversary performances celebrating the past, present, and future of the company.
RESILIENCE includes classic works by NMBC’s founder Suzanne M. Johnston, resident choreographer Vladimir Conde Reche, and new and original works by current Artistic Director Anna Bridge and artists of the New Mexico Ballet Company.
Dancing with the community since 1972, NMBC is dedicated to creating and promoting professional, innovative dance productions for New Mexico audiences while providing the highest caliber of education and training for young artists in the community.
$15, $25, $35 w/ discounts for kids 12 & under, students, seniors and groups of 10+
Run Time: 120 minutes

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: Os fillos da vide
2023-05-12 | NM
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
Wine culture has an atavistic tradition in Mediterranean culture. The economy derived from it comes along with rites that allude to the importance of the community in its communication with nature and in the celebration of life. The formal bet of the director Ana Domínguez highlights all the visual elements that compose an imaginary that flees from the rational to evoke another type of knowledge: the one offered by nature.
Synopsis: The director Ana Domínguez brings us closer to her origins through this film in which she shows the grape harvest process in a small Galician village. The wine culture becomes an ancestral journey that moves between the autobiographical and the mythical, from the natural cycles to the most visceral traditions, the village festivals, which, as a reflection of the ancient bacchanals, become an explosion of life.
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

Magnify Showcase 2023: Seasons
2023-05-12 - 2023-05-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:30 pm Friday, 2:00 pm Saturday
Head to the Center for Magnify Dance Center’s Spring Showcase, benefiting Ronald McDonald House and featuring our beautiful dancers in mixed choreography to inspire and entertain.
$16, $20 w/discounts available for students and seniors
Run time: 90 min

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: 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
