Theatre
Broadway Bound LIVE: Round 7
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:00 pm to 9:00 pm The program is a televised musical theatre competition show for low-income young adults between the ages of 18-28. The program awards up to 18 contestants with private voice, group dance, and group acting lessons for 16 weeks as they compete for a $60,000 scholarship to AMDA College of the Performing Arts in New York City. Learn more at www.katharsismedia.org/bblsponsor. $22, $27 & 32 with a $2 discount for seniors and students 12 years old and younger *Price of the ticket includes a $2 (more...)
New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus: The Show Must Go On
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:30 pm Saturday | 3:00 pm Sunday New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus presents The Show Must Go On. We’re ready to rock you as NMGMC presents the music of Queen. This choral rock concert will feature some of Queen’s most popular hits presented in a fun, campy way that only NMGMC can do. Get ready to hear favorites like "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Somebody to Love," "We Are the Champions," and more. The chorus and the live band on stage will deliver what will truly be an epic evening (more...)
Feature Film: What We Leave Behind
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM1st Annual NHCC Film Symposium: The Power of Our Stories Feature: What We Leave Behind (2022) directed by Iliana Sosa 6:00 pm: Pre-film reception and cash bar 7:00 pm: Film Screening followed by Director’s Q&A What We Leave Behind is a 2022 documentary film. It's a portrait of director Iliana Sosa's grandfather, Julián Moreno, as he starts building a house in the Mexican state of Durango. As a younger man, Julián had spent decades living between the United States and Mexico, first working as a bracero and later traveling by bus (more...)
AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Afro-Indigeneity
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:00 pm Screening of film “Garifuna in Peril" (2012), 99 mins. Produced and Directed by Alí Allié y Ruben Reyes Latin America has traditionally treated Indigenous and Afro peoples as separate. Yet the fates and identities of both have been intertwined since the arrival of Africans to the Americas. The film Garifuna in Peril delves into the Indigenous and Afro roots of the Garinagu, also known as the Garifuna. Panelists include: Garifuna Scholar Pablo Jose Lopez Oro; San Ilefonso Tradition Bearer and Healer Tauz Tamu Povi; Afro-Latinidad (more...)
AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Folk Medicine: Healing & Spirituality
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:00 pm Screening of short film “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings” (2022), written and directed by Cara Lawson, 15 mins. Savannah’s moss-covered forests are alive to Bertie Bee Hooks, a gifted granddaughter of a midwife. With the wisdom of folk medicine, Bertie Bee depends on mystical connections to the spirit world as she becomes exposed to the tragedies of a wounded American past. Panelists include Film Writer & Director Cara Lawson; Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Birthing Project—Underground Railroad for New Life, Kathryn Hall Trujillo; Doulah & (more...)
AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Inclusive Narratives
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:00 pm Screening of short documentary film “Rising Voices” (2022), by Kwanza Gooden, 8 mins. This short documentary explores the importance of investing in and sharing stories created by Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers and storytellers. Panelists include: Mel Adún, Writer and Cofounder of Editora Ogums Publishing Collective; Ausettua AmorAmenkum, founder of New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center Resident Group; The Gradates—a performance group comprised of former members of the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women; and Josie Lopez, PhD, Head Curator at the Albuquerque Museum. (more...)
Festival Ballet Albuquerque: Sacred Journeys IV
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm Friday & Saturday, 2:00 pm Sunday Festival Ballet Albuquerque & 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 (more...)
Film Screening: Boy and the World
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-303:00 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 (more...)
Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, 50th Anniversary Concert
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM3:00 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 (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Soñando un lugar
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 (more...)