Nuestra Herencia: Genealogy Workshop for Seniors
Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM1:30 to 3:30 pm Explore your cultural heritage at the NHCC with free genealogy workshop as part of our Nuestra Herencia program! Nuestra Herencia will provide participating seniors with the opportunity to participate in interactive tours of the NHCC Art Museum and Torreón, paired with genealogy workshops and coffee socials. This event is part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program. Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP New Mexico. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance. Note: This event was rescheduled from its original date on Aug. 24.
Afro Mundo: Lead Me Home
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow. More than 500,000 people experience homelessness every night in America. Lead Me Home is a documentary short that tells a few of these real-life stories giving the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope, and diversity of what it means to be unsheltered today while calling into question uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies. Free Community Event Runtime: 40 minutes.
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States11:00 am (MST) The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity. Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. A (more...)
Noche de Familia: Harvest
NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM4:00 to 7:00 pm Welcome fall and harvest time with family-friendly artmaking including leaf printing, a StoryWalk, bat puppets, and carnival games! Decorate a candy bag and wear your costume, then stay for our family film, Nocturna at 7:00 pm. Free Community Event, generously sponsored by NM Gas. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
Fright Night and Espooky Mercado
NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM4:00 pm – 11:30 pm 7:00 pm Family Film 7:00 pm Food Trucks and Cash Bar 8:30 pm Horror Film Features Family fun, vendors, food trucks, frightful films, and more. If you are looking for something spooky, uncanny, macabre, a little dark, supernatural, or Halloween-inspired, this event is for you! For information about becoming a mercado vendor, please click Here. Free Community Event, please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance. NOTE: This event will be family friendly from 4pm to 8:30pm (more...)
Noche de Familia Film Screening: Nocturna
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm Visually stunning and wildly inventive, this film explores the mystery of the night in a sweeping nocturnal adventure full of Alice in Wonderland-like characters and moody, dream-inspired landscapes. Have you ever wondered why your hair looks funny in the morning or where the sounds outside your window come from at night? A young boy named Tim finds out after an unusual discovery on the rooftop of his orphanage plunges him into the secret world of Nocturna, inhabited by curious creatures who control the night. Free (more...)
Fright Night Film Screening: Dusk til Dawn
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM8:00 pm Criminal brothers kidnap a family in order to cross the border into Mexico where they are to meet a connection at a rowdy bar that turns out to be populated by vampires when the sun goes down. An amazing cast including Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, & Cheech Marin. A Miramax Film. Free Community Event Directors: Robert Rodriguez | Action Horror | 1996 (USA) | Run Time: 108 min. | Rating: R | Studio Miramax Films
Fright Night Film Screening: BirdBoy: The Forgotten World
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM9:00 pm There is light and beauty, even in the darkest of worlds. Stranded on an island in a post-apocalyptic world, teenager Dinky and her friends hatch a dangerous plan to escape in the hope of finding a better life. Meanwhile, her old friend Birdboy has shut himself off from the world, pursued by the police and haunted by demon tormentors. But unbeknownst to anyone, he contains a secret inside him that could change the world forever. Free Community Event, appropriate for ages 15+. Directors: Alberto Vázquez & (more...)
Fright Night Film Screening: Dracula
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM10:30 pm Renfield, a solicitor, makes a journey into Transylvania via stagecoach. He mentions his destination, Castle Dracula, to the locals who react with alarm. They tell him Drácula is a vampire and when he doesn't believe them, one insists he wear a cross. When he arrives at the Castle, the Count bids him welcome. After drinking drugged wine, Renfield collapses, still wearing the cross, and is bitten. Aboard ship, a now-enslaved Renfield laughs maniacally below as Drácula picks off the crew one by one. When the ship reaches England, he is the only (more...)
Fright Night Film Screening: Rec
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM10:45 pm Reporter Ángela Vidal and her cameraman Pablo are covering the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the television series While You're Sleeping. The firehouse receives a call about an old woman, Mrs. Izquierdo, who is trapped in her apartment. Ángela and Pablo accompany two of the firefighters, Álex and Manu, to the apartment building on Rambla de Catalunya. The old woman becomes aggressive and attacks one of the police officers, biting his neck. The crew find that the police and military have sealed off (more...)