Día Del Niño
2025-04-26 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
11:00 am – 3:00 pm
NHCC | Domenici Education Building
Join us for a day of celebrating the youth in our community during this free event for families of all ages and sizes!
Enjoy Nanny’s Petting Zoo, performances from Voces de Coronado and Ballet Folklorico Fiesta Mexicana, student films, and our Youth Art Market. Learn about birds and bugs with the U.S. Forest Service. Make art, play, climb a rock wall and discover a variety of community resources from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, UNM Early Childhood Services Center, Explora, New Mexico PBS, Kids Cook, Bernalillo County Public Library and many more!
For more information, please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or elenad.baca@dca.nm.gov.
Free Community Event.

Things to see and do:
Enjoy performances from Voces de Coronado (11:30 am), Ballet Folklorico Fiesta Mexicana (12:30 pm), Public Academy for Performing Arts (1:30 pm), and National Institute of Flamenco (2:30 pm)
Climb the CABQ rock wall
Visit animals at Nanny’s Petting Zoon
Ongoing art activities
NMPBS
UNM Early Childhood
Explora
ABQ BernCo Public Library
Kids Cook
NM Museum of Natural History & Science
APS Fine Arts
US Forest Service
WoW Van
Story Riders
Working Classroom

NHCC Summer Film Series: Problemista
2025-06-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
6:00 pm cash bar with Pop Fizz
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Join us for a film screening by a Hispanic/Chicane/Latine filmmaker. We will be presenting films that preserve, promote and/or advance the vast cultural identity and experience of Hispanic/Chicane/Latine people.
Julio Torres’ Problemista is the story of Alejandro, an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream. From writer/director Julio Torres comes a surreal adventure through the equally treacherous worlds of New York City and the U.S. Immigration system.
Director: Julio Torres | Production year: 2024 | Rating: R | Studio: A24 | Runtime: 98 minutes | Cast: Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton, RZA, Catalina Saavedra, & James Scully
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by making a reservation below.

NHCC Summer Film Series: El Norte
2025-07-17 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
6:00 pm cash bar with Pop Fizz
NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium
The NHCC Summer Film Series features Hispanic filmmakers that preserve our stories, promote our experiences and advance the vast cultural identity of our gente.
After an unsuccessful attempt by a community of Mayan Indians to improve their living conditions, the Guatemalan army destroys their village. Brother and sister are able to escape and begin their challenging journey towards a new life in the USA.
Director(s): Gregory Nava | Production year: 1983 | Rating: R | Studio: Lions Gate Films, Inc. | Runtime: 139 minutes | Cast: David Villalpando, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia Del Lago, Eraclio Zepeda
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by making a reservation below.

NHCC Summer Film Series: Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
2025-08-14 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
6:00 pm cash bar with Pop Fizz
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
The NHCC Summer Film Series features Hispanic filmmakers that preserve our stories, promote our experiences and advance the vast cultural identity of our gente.
An undocumented Mexican maid searches for her autistic son in the NYC subway system as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the Eastern seaboard. Along the way, the desperate mom gets some unexpected help from members of her community.
Directors: Sam Fleischner | Production year: 2013 | Rating: NR | Studio: Oscilloscope Pictures | Runtime: 107 minutes | Cast: Andrea Suarez Paz, Jesus Sanchez-Velez, Azul Zorrilla, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Tenoch Huerta Mejía
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by making a reservation below.

NHCC Art Museum Opening Reception: What We Bring to the Table
2025-09-05 | Visual Art Museum, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
5:00 – 7:30 pm
NHCC Visual Art Museum
Join us for a free Public Reception celebrating the grand opening of the new Visual Art exhibition What We Bring to the Table! Meet the artists and explore the exhibition featuring artwork from the Center’s staff.

About the Exhibition: To celebrate the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s 25th birthday, we explore artworks created by the artists who spend their days (and nights) keeping the Center going.
Featured Artworks by: Adri De La Cruz, Visual Arts Set & Exhibition Designer. Anna Lee DeSaulniers, Film Coordinator. Amy Padilla, History & Literacy Arts Librarian. Christopher Acevedo, Visual & Performing Arts Set & Exhibition Designer. Elena Baca, Education Program Manager. Gabriella Vigil, Event Coordinator. hazel batrezchavez, Curator. Jacob Saavedra, Customer Service Representative. James R. Chávez, Business Operations Specialist. Joe Stephensen, Contractor. Josh Barreras, Campus Safety & Security. Katie Rooke, Graphic Designer. Kim Arthun, Contractor. Petra Brown, History & Literacy Arts Digitization Project Manager. Ralph Trujillo, Custodial. Rosemary Castro-Gallegos, Performing Arts Set & Exhibition Designer. Robin Sanchez, Interim History & Literary Arts Program Manager & Archivist. Samantha, Campus Safety & Security.
Exhibition on view: September 5, 2025- June 7, 2026

Noche de Familia: Noche de Curanderismo & Bless Me, Ultima
2025-09-06 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:00 pm Limpia Workshop
6:30 pm Film Screening: Bless Me, Ultima
New Mexico Gas Company presents Noche de Familia: Noche de Curanderismo, consisting of a limpia workshop and screening of Bless Me, Ultima.
Noche de Curanderismo will be dedicated to the immersion and celebration of the indigenous healing practices of Latin America and the Southwest. Curanderismo refers to these practices that rely on natural remedies. The community will have an opportunity to explore curanderismo through a limpia workshop. A limpia is a spiritual clearing practice. The workshop will be followed by a screening of Bless Me Ultima, a film that integrates these practices into a captivating narrative.
Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved and iconic Bless Me, Ultima returns to the NHCC with Carl Franklin’s screen adaptation in partnership with the English department of the University of New Mexico. Bless Me, Ultima is set in the 1940s in rural New Mexico and tells the story of a young boy and the mysterious healer who opens his eyes to the wonders of the spiritual realm. As the entire world is plunged into war and Antonio Marez grapples with the harsh realities all around him, his life is forever changed by the sudden arrival of Ultima, a curandera who inspires him to see the world from a new perspective.
2011; Carl Franklin; English; 102 minutes; Rated PG-13.
Workshop Runtime: 2 hours
Film Runtime: 1h 46m
Free community event, please register using the link below.

Viva Indie: The future of New Mexico Film
2025-09-23 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm: Discussion
7:00 pm: Networking Mixer
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Presented by NHCC & New Mexico Film Office
Join us for a discussion on the future of filmmaking in New Mexico! We will hear from filmmakers who have carved out careers from our vibrant local industry. We will discuss challenges and triumphs of independent filmmaking as well as how to get started or enhance your participation as a local filmmaker or cinephile.
Moderators: Respect the Connect (Trad to Trav and Lenwords)
Film Panel:
Alejandro Montoya Marin
Matthew Page
Michelle Waterson Gomez
Shaandiin Tome
Free community event. Limited availability. Please register to attend.

NHCC Fall Film Series: I Dream in Another Language
2025-10-09 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
The NHCC Fall Film Series features Hispanic filmmakers that preserve our stories, promote our experiences and advance the vast cultural identity of our gente. This film series continues with I Dream in Another Language (2017) on Thursday, Oct. 9.
A millenary language agonizes: Its last two speakers, Evaristo and Isauro (70’s) had a quarrel 50 years ago and haven’t spoken to each other since. Martin, a linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the two old friends back together and convince them to talk again in order for him to be able to obtain a record of the language. Yet, hidden in the past, in the core of the jungle, lies a secret hidden in the language that makes it difficult to believe that the heart of Zikril will beat again. (IMDB).
“Poetic Mexican film raises philosophical questions about what is lost when a language and by extension, our elders’ memory is allowed to fade away unpreserved.” (Variety)
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Noche de Familia: Noche de Cempasúchil Film: Disney*Pixar’s Coco
2025-10-18 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:00 pm – 9:00 pm
4:00 pm: Event begins
5:00 pm: Disney*Pixar’s Coco at the Bank of America Theatre
The whole family is invited to a night to experience the traditions of Latin America ahead of the Día de Los Muertos holiday. Take the opportunity to experience some movie magic by being transported to the festivities though green screen techniques of filmmaking. We will also be watching the Disney*Pixar’s classic film “Coco!”
Despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, young Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead. After meeting a charming trickster named Héctor, the two new friends embark on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel’s family history.
Directed by Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3), co-directed by Adrian Molina (story artist Monsters University) and produced by Darla K. Anderson (Toy Story 3), Disney*Pixar’s Coco opened in U.S. theatres on November 22, 2017. English with Spanish Subtitles; 105 minutes; rated PG.
Free community event. Bring the whole family! Please register using the link below.

Cine Magnifico Opening Film// US Premiers: Una Quinta Portuguesa
2025-11-07 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Opening Film // US Premiers:
Una Quinta Portuguesa
by Avelina Prat

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
La desaparición de su esposa deja a Fernando, un discreto profesor de geografía, completamente desolado. Sin rumbo, se hace pasar por otro hombre como jardinero en una casa de campo portuguesa, donde entabla una inesperada amistad con el dueño.
Cast: Manolo Solo, Maria de Medeiros, Rita Cabaço, Branka Katić
2025 // 114 min. // Spain, Portugal // Drama // Spanish and Portuguese with English subtitles
View the Una Quinta Portuguesa official trailer here:

Free community event

NHCC Fall Film Series: Plaza Catedral
2025-11-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
The NHCC Fall Film Series features Hispanic filmmakers that preserve our stories, promote our experiences and advance the vast cultural identity of our gente. This film series continues with Plaza Catedral (2021) on Thursday, Nov. 13.
Alicia had a “perfect life” and lost it. Her six year old son died in an accident she feels she could have avoided. Her grief is plagued by guilt, which has made her disassociate from society, from married life, and from herself. She now lives in the old quarter of Panamá, a rich colonial enclave surrounded by Panamá’s poorest neighborhoods. There she meets Chief, a street-smart 13 year old who takes care of cars in front of her apartment and insists on getting paid for his job. Alicia keeps a safe distance from him, until one night Chief arrives at Alicia’s apartment bleeding from a gunshot wound, and begs her for help. Reluctantly, Alicia lets him in. What she could not imagine is that by opening the door to Chief, she would open the door to an unforeseen emotional bond. Caring for Chief makes her feel connected to life again, and it hurts.
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Noche de Familia: Cine Para Chiquitos featuring Disney*Pixar’s Elio
2026-02-21 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Saturday, February 21, 2026
4:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Noche de Familia: Cine Para Chiquitos. Join us for a film screening and green-screen movie magic! Cine Para Chiquitos is a film night for children and families where a culturally relevant film is screened and the magic of movie making is shared through activities. Cine Para Chiquitos will be featuring Disney*Pixar’s Elio.
Elio: the cosmic misadventure introduces Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession. So, when he’s beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide, Elio’s all in for the epic undertaking. Mistakenly identified as Earth’s leader, Elio must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions, and somehow discover who and where he is truly meant to be.
Rating: PG | Runtime: 1h 39min | Release Date: June 20, 2025 | Genre: Action-Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction | Directed By: Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina | Produced By: Mary Alice Drumm | Cast: Yonas Kibreab, Zoe Saldaña, Remy Edgerly, Brad Garrett, Jameela Jamil, Shirley Henderson
Free community event. Bring the whole family! Please let us know who will be attending below.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!
Sponsored in part by NM Gas.

Film Screening: Nan Marie Naaxh
2026-02-26 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Thursday, February 26, 2026
4:45 pm
The NHCC, Metamorfosis Documentation Project (MDP), and the Consulate of Mexico invite visitors to a screening of the documentary Nan Marie Naaxh, which describes the process of making ceremonial chocolate and its history in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca. The film was produced by MDP in collaboration with the Teotitlán del Valle Community Cultural Center.
Free Community Event. Please register HERE.
For further details, please contact:
Lorena Casanueva- Asuntos Culturales, Consulado de México, 505.903.3842
Metamorfosis Documentation Project, 505.984.3295

AfroMundo Festival: “Narratives of Power: Myth, History, and the Stories that Shape Us”
2026-04-12 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Sunday, April 12, 2026
7:00 pm
NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Literary Reading with Samoan storyteller Gabby Langkilde; Puerto Rican poet, Dr. Eleuterio Santiago-Diaz; and Virgin Islands’ author, Tiphanie Yanique. Followed by panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace, Director of UNM’s Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!
Panel discussion with:
Gabby Langkilde is a Samoan storyteller and the founder and executive editor of Pasefika Presence. Born and raised on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa, her love for storytelling was cultivated early in life —listening to ancient Samoan legends shared by her grandfather and later crafting her own tales for cousins, friends, and family to enjoy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Harvard College, where she wrote ‘Pasefika Presence,’ one of the first recurring columns in The Harvard Crimson to center Pacific Islander perspectives and issues. After graduating, she returned home to American Samoa and worked as an eighth-grade social studies teacher, and in 2023, she founded Pasefika Presence as an online, submission-based magazine uplifting Pacific Islander stories and art. Rooted in the same commitment to centering Pacific Islander perspectives as her original column, Pasefika Presence began as a way to engage her students in Pacific storytelling and has since grown into an international platform that has published two issues and received hundreds of submissions from creatives across the Pacific and its diasporas. Gabby went on to be awarded a Fulbright U.S. Graduate Award to pursue research in Auckland, New Zealand, and received an East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship to complete her master’s degree in Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Today, she continues to guide Pasefika Presence while using storytelling, education, and research to empower Pacific communities and expand space for Pasefika voices.
https://www.pasefikapresence.org
Dr. Eleuterio Santiago Diaz is a poet, professor, and literary critic. Upon graduation from the University of Puerto Rico, Santiago-Díaz worked as a teacher of Spanish, physical education and industrial arts, and as a librarian in Puerto Rican elementary schools. He earned a Master’s degree in Spanish from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. His teaching and research center on Afro-Caribbean and Caribbean literature examined in light of theories of race, writing and modernity; Latino-Caribbean literature in the United States; and Modern Latin American poetry. Before joining UNM, he taught language and literature in the departments of Spanish and Portuguese and African and Diaspora Studies at Tulane University, at Cambridge Community College and at St. Cloud State University. Santiago-Díaz is the author of the poetry books Árbol de plaza talado en su novena edad (Ciudad de México, Ediciones del Lirio, 2021) and Breaths (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), the scholarly book Escritura afropuertorriqueña y modernidad (Pittsburgh, PA: IILI/University of Pittsburgh, 2007), and articles published in academic journals and anthologies such as Revista Iberoamericana, Confluencia, Bilingual Review, Revista de Literatura, História e Memória, and Marvels of the African World: Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections, and Identities (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003). Pending publication, he has several creative projects: the poetry books Kernel and The Mollusk and the Thumb, and a collection of short stories titled El Circo.
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the novel, Monster in the Middle, which was published in 2021 and on numerous best of the year lists. Monster in the Middle was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and is a finalist for the Townsend Prize. Tiphanie is also the author of the poetry collection, Wife, which won the Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the United Kingdom’s Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection, the novel, Land of Love and Drowning, which won the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, the Phillis Wheatley Award for Pan-African Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. Land of Love and Drowning was also a finalist for the Orion Award in Environmental Literature and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. She is the author of a collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, which won her a listing as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5Under35 and the Bocas Prize in Fiction. Her writing has won the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, an Academy of American Poet’s Prize and two Fulbright Scholarships. Tiphanie is also an outspoken activist on behalf of the Caribbean, having appeared on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, and published an op-ed in The New York Times on the US response to hurricanes in the Caribbean. Tiphanie is from the Virgin Islands and is Professor at Emory University.
MODERATOR: Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace, Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Director of the Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program at the University of New Mexico. She teaches classes and conducts research on Global Black Speculative Fiction, with an emphasis on Afrofuturism and Caribbean speculative literature. Her essays have appeared in a number of journals, including Small Axe, Cultural Dynamix, and Radical Teacher and in several anthologies, including the forthcoming book, The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Visions, where she contributed a chapter that explores the intersections between Caribbean-speculative fiction and Latinx-futurism. Presently, she is editing a book on power, gender, and teaching speculative fiction in the college classroom. Belinda’s edited collection will be published in early 2027.
AfroMundo Festival: Literary Reading: “Narratives of Power: Myth, History, and the Stories that Shape Us” | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

AfroMundo Festival: “True Justice”
2026-04-12 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Sunday April 12, 2026
11:00 am
NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Documentary Screening of “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality.” Directed by George Kunhardt, Peter W. Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt. 2019. 1hr 42m. True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, follows 30 years of EJI’s work on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. The film won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary, and is the winner of the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications’ 26th annual Vision Award and a Peabody Award.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!

AfroMundo Festival: “Fight for Equality"
2026-04-12 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Sunday, April 12, 2026
3:00 pm
NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Panel Discussion with Darlene T. Gomez, attorney for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives; Abraham Paulos of BAJI (Black Alliance for Just Immigration); Dr. Estévan Rael-Gálvez, President and founder of Native Bound-Unbound; and Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal and Advocacy for Project South. Moderated by Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace, Director of UNM’s Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!
Panel discussion with:
Darlene T. Gomez is a lifelong native of Northern New Mexico, having been born and raised in Lumberton where her ancestors homesteaded before New Mexico was incorporated into the United States. She has been practicing law for over 19 years and specializes in Indian Law, Complex Family Law, and advocating on behalf of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives (MMIWR). Darlene attended the University of New Mexico School of Law where she first began her pro bono work fighting for clean water in her hometown of Lumberton. She was the inaugural recipient of the Carlos Vigil Scholarship, among numerous other awards while in school. Darlene is tirelessly passionate about giving a voice to the voiceless through her pro bono work. She has been a fierce advocate for primary and secondary victims of the MMIWR crisis since 2001 and spends much of her time organizing rallies, mentoring and advocating for secondary victims, preparing and distributing press releases, and serving as the attorney for 15 families of MMIWR victims. She is a founding member of the New Mexico MMIW Task Force and serves as the general counsel for the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Medicine Wheel Ride. She is widely considered a leading expert in MMIWR throughout the US and her persistent efforts on behalf of victims have led to an increase in domestic as well as international media attention for the MMIWR Public Health Crisis
https://dargomezlaw.com/mmiw/
Abraham Paulos is a nationally recognized communications strategist, writer, and advocate who has spent over two decades driving the movement for human rights and immigrant justice. His work centrally focuses on the complex intersection of immigration, race, and criminalization, with a specific emphasis on the unique challenges faced by Black migrants. Abraham currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI). His career features influential leadership roles, including serving as the Executive Director of Families for Freedom. He has also been a researcher for Human Rights First and a Program Director for Life of Hope, a community-based organization serving low-income immigrants. A powerful voice in public discourse, Abraham has highlighted systemic issues within the U.S. deportation system through his writing for outlets like Foreign Policy Association, Huffington Post, and City Limits. He has also been featured on major news platforms such as NY Daily News, Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, ABC News and NBC News. Abraham is a Stateless Eritrean refugee born in Sudan and raised in Chicago. He holds an associate’s degree from Harold Washington College, a bachelor’s degree from George Washington University and a master’s degree from The New School.
https://baji.org
Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the President and founder of Native Bond-Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery. He was born and raised in the sovereign landscape of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, where the memories and stories of the complex identities that formed these communities were part of his upbringing on the family ranch, including of “la India Panana,” the Pawnee woman whose story continues to be told by descendants. Trained as an anthropologist, historian, and ethnographer, he received his BA from UC Berkeley and his MA and PhD from the University of Michigan, where he completed an award-winning dissertation on Indigenous slavery in colonial New Mexico. He has served as New Mexico State Historian, Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and Senior Vice President at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. His work is rooted in lived experience—holding a woven Diné blanket passed down as inheritance and protection or discovering archival traces of several Indigenous people in his family tree, including Antonia, listed simply as “India” in the 1750 Santa Fe census, and Margarita, an Apache woman named in a lawsuit over her possession.
https://nativeboundunbound.org/home/
Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal and Advocacy Director with Project South, advances a practice of movement lawyering, focused on confronting state repression and dismantling systems of surveillance, incarceration, and deportation. Azadeh has organized for two decades to protect and defend migrants and Black and Muslim communities from systemic lslamophobia, xenophobia, and anti-Black racism. She also provides support to social justice movements in the Global South, from Brazil to Palestine.
Azadeh is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. She currently serves on the Advisory Council of the American Association of Jurists. She is the author or editor of several groundbreaking human rights reports as well as law review articles and book chapters focused on movement lawyering, immigrants’ rights, surveillance of Muslim-Americans, and using the international human rights framework as a tool for liberation. Her writings have appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, MSNBC, TIME Magazine, Boston Review, Slate, and Los Angeles Times, among others.

MODERATOR: Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace, Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Director of the Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program at the University of New Mexico. She teaches classes and conducts research on Global Black Speculative Fiction, with an emphasis on Afrofuturism and Caribbean speculative literature. Her essays have appeared in a number of journals, including Small Axe, Cultural Dynamix, and Radical Teacher and in several anthologies, including the forthcoming book, The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Visions, where she contributed a chapter that explores the intersections between Caribbean-speculative fiction and Latinx-futurism. Presently, she is editing a book on power, gender, and teaching speculative fiction in the college classroom. Belinda’s edited collection will be published in early 2027

AfroMundo Festival: “The Future is Now”
2026-04-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Monday, April 13, 2026
7:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Screening of documentary “The Fight to Preserve & Revitalize the Chamorro Language.” Directed by Brian Muna. 2025. 13m. Followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include Ashby Combahee, Library and Archives Program Manager at the Highlander Research and Education Center; Darlene T. Gomez, attorney for Medicine Wheel Ride; Gabby Langkilde, founder of Pasefika Presence; and Akilah Martinez, award-winning Diné creative technologist and cultural bearer. Moderated by CHamoru filmmaker Brian Muna.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!
Panel discussion with:
Ashby Combahee is the Library and Archives Program Manager at the Highlander Research and Education Center. Their work focuses on the documentation and preservation of southern grassroots liberation movements in United States. They are a co-founder of Georgia Dusk: a southern liberation oral history. Ashby started the Southern Memory Workers Institute at the Highlander Center, which is a 5-day popular education workshop sharing skills in public history, archival preservation, documentary arts, and political strategy. They are also a research fellow with the Folk Education Association of America, focused on resourcing Black craftspeople and Black-led folk schools.
Darlene T. Gomez is a lifelong native of Northern New Mexico, having been born and raised in Lumberton where her ancestors homesteaded before New Mexico was incorporated into the United States. She has been practicing law for over 19 years and specializes in Indian Law, Complex Family Law, and advocating on behalf of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives (MMIWR). Darlene attended the University of New Mexico School of Law where she first began her pro bono work fighting for clean water in her hometown of Lumberton. She was the inaugural recipient of the Carlos Vigil Scholarship, among numerous other awards while in school. Darlene is tirelessly passionate about giving a voice to the voiceless through her pro bono work. She has been a fierce advocate for primary and secondary victims of the MMIWR crisis since 2001 and spends much of her time organizing rallies, mentoring and advocating for secondary victims, preparing and distributing press releases, and serving as the attorney for 15 families of MMIWR victims. She is a founding member of the New Mexico MMIW Task Force and serves as the general counsel for the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Medicine Wheel Ride. She is widely considered a leading expert in MMIWR throughout the US and her persistent efforts on behalf of victims have led to an increase in domestic as well as international media attention for the MMIWR Public Health Crisis
Gabby Langkilde is a Samoan storyteller and the founder and executive editor of Pasefika Presence. Born and raised on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa, her love for storytelling was cultivated early in life —listening to ancient Samoan legends shared by her grandfather and later crafting her own tales for cousins, friends, and family to enjoy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Harvard College, where she wrote “Pasefika Presence,” one of the first recurring columns in The Harvard Crimson to center Pacific Islander perspectives and issues. After graduating, she returned home to American Samoa and worked as an eighth-grade social studies teacher, and in 2023, she founded Pasefika Presence as an online, submission-based magazine uplifting Pacific Islander stories and art. Rooted in the same commitment to centering Pacific Islander perspectives as her original column, Pasefika Presence began as a way to engage her students in Pacific storytelling and has since grown into an international platform that has published two issues and received hundreds of submissions from creatives across the Pacific and its diasporas. Gabby went on to be awarded a Fulbright U.S. Graduate Award to pursue research in Auckland, New Zealand, and received an East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship to complete her master’s degree in Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Today, she continues to guide Pasefika Presence while using storytelling, education, and research to empower Pacific communities and expand space for Pasefika voices.
Akilah Martinez (Glittering World Girl) is an award-winning Diné creative technologist and cultural bearer from the Navajo Nation focusing on the creation of building an Indigenous-based circular economic ecosystem that cycles off of language & culture futurism through video art and XR technology. Akilah’s a 2024 New Mexico Women in Tech Emerging Leader Award, a guest speaker at the MIT Reality Hack in Cambridge, MA and Bridge Innovation Studio UCLA. Akilah’s team, Inkovator, won 1st place for the Snap track at Stanford XR Immerse The Bay 2024 and team, Yeigo, won two 1st place Gold Prizes at MIT Reality Hack 2025.
https://www.glitteringworldgirl.com
MODERATOR: Brian Muna is an established CHamoru filmmaker on the island of Guam with over 10 years of experience in the industry. His filmmaking credits also include commercial work for corporations on island and has also worked abroad for projects filmed in Japan, Taiwan, and had volunteered for a short-form documentary filmed in the Philippines (2017) aimed to support a non-profit organization to support funding for a children’s orphanage. Under his company, Brian Muna Films, he has directed, written, filmed and produced short films, music videos, and documentaries surrounding issues within the island and Pacific region. He has participated in numerous international film festivals, namely the Guam International Film Festival, where was awarded “Best Made in the Marianas” winner with one additional nomination for the films he directed: Luther (2015); Plastic Bag (2018); Madam (2015). In 2020, he was the recipient of the “Best Cinematography” award for the film Bittersweet (2020) at the Mumbai International Cult Film Festival. In 2024 Brian won “Best Short Film” at the 2024 Hawai’i International Film Festival for his documentary “CHamoru A Lost Language.”
AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion—“The Future is Now” | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

AfroMundo Festival: “Re-imaginings: Power & Transformation”
2026-04-14 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
7:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Screening of Puerto Rican documentary “The Bee—A Reflection on Women, Land, and Occupation.” Directed by Nelson Varas-Diaz. 2024. 30m. Followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include award-winning afro-diasporic siblings, mulowayi and mapenzi who together comprise Las Nietas de Nonó; Afro-Puerto Rican attorney and former member of the Puerto Rican Senate, Ana Irma Rivera Lassén; Robert Washington-Vaughns, founder of Black Men Flower Project; and Tyeshia ‘Ty’ Wilson, Certified Impact Philanthropy Advisor and award-winning Giving Circle expert. Moderated by Latinx, transfeminist sociologist, Amaury J. Rijo Sanchez.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org.
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Las Nietas de Nonó are the afro-diasporic siblings, mulowayi and mapenzi. In their creative process, they evoke ancestral memory through personal archives. Their practice incorporates performance, found objects, organic materials, ecology, fiction, video and installation. In 2022, their solo show, Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN was presented at Artists Space, New York a grouping of newly commissioned multimedia works that extend Las Nietas’s explorations of themes such as processes of expropriation and colonial violence against Black communities and the development of microhistories in relation to geopolitics. They created Ilustraciones de la Mecánica in 2016 – a multimedia installation that was later commissioned by the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018) and the 79th Whitney Biennial (2019). They have received the Latinx Artist Fellowship from the US Latinx Art Forum (2022), the Rome Prize in Visual Art from the American Academy in Rome (2022), the United States Artist Award (2018), The Art of Change from the Ford Foundation (2017), and the Global Arts Fund from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (2017 & 2020). Their art has been shown in Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, England, Germany, Italy, Norway, Scotland, and the United States. In 2019, they co-founded Parceleras Afrocaribeñas, an organization run by Black womxn, where spaces for environmental and racial justice are created in the face of industrial developments that threaten their barrio of San Antón, in Carolina, Puerto Rico. https://www.lasnietasdenono.com
Anna Irma Rivera Lassén, an Afro-Puerto Rican attorney and former member of the Puerto Rican Senate, was born on March 13, 1955, in Santurce, San Juan. Throughout her career, Lassén has been a steadfast champion for human rights, particularly focusing on issues of discrimination, gender violence, and socio-economic rights. Her commitment to justice was exemplified in her successful challenge against discriminatory courtroom attire rules in the 1980s, setting a precedent for gender equality. Her expertise and advocacy have garnered recognition from prestigious organizations, including the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Lassén’s leadership extends beyond legal circles. From 2012 to 2014, she was the head of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, making history as the first Afro-Puerto Rican and openly lesbian individual to hold the position. Her tenure was marked by significant advancements in promoting gender equality and access to justice. Additionally, she has contributed to the legislative process, actively participating in assessments of bills aimed at advancing human rights protections in Puerto Rico. Her impact and dedication have been acknowledged through numerous awards and honors, including the “Medalla Senatorial Capetillo-Roqué” from the Puerto Rican Senate and the “Martin Luther King/Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Prize.” Notably, Anna was recognized as one of USA Today’s Women of the Year in 2023, further underscoring her influential contributions to society.
Robert Washington-Vaughns: Founder of Black Men Fower Project
Tyeshia ‘Ty’ Wilson is a Certified Impact Philanthropy Advisor, an award-winning giving circle expert, and a catalyst for collective action, driven by the belief that everyone is a philanthropist capable of creating positive social change. As Senior Director of Community at Philanthropy Together, Ty leverages her lived experiences and expertise in community organizing and coalition building to architect the organization’s global partnership and engagement strategy, connecting diverse stakeholders to expand the collective giving movement. An energizing public speaker and bold advocate for collaborative, community-led philanthropy, Ty has spoken to thousands of people and trained hundreds through Philanthropy Together’s flagship Launchpad programs. She serves as immediate past Chair of HERitage Giving Fund, the first Black giving circle in Texas, and sits on multiple national boards including RegisterHER, Philanos and the Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy. Ty’s strategic, community leadership experience spans hospitality, fundraising, and government sectors. Notably, she previously served as Assistant to the City Manager and Chief of Staff at the City of Dallas. A proud Dallas native with deep Texas roots, Ty holds degrees from UT Arlington and UNT Dallas, and an Executive Certificate in Philanthropic Leadership from Georgetown University
MODERATOR—Amaury J. Rijo Sanchez: As a Latinx, transfeminist sociologist, Sanchez’ work explores the intersections of decoloniality, activist coalitions, and cultural and creative expressions, with focus on Latinx populations. Guided by a decolonial feminist lens, he investigates how feminist organizing and queer artivism resist colonial infrastructures and generate alternative modes of community-building and survival. Sanchez’ research draws from ethnographic methods and critical theory to highlight the significance of mobilization from the margins in shaping more just futures.
AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion—“Re-imaginings: Power & Transformation” | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

AfroMundo Festival: “Food is Power: Cultivating Community”
2026-04-15 | Salón Ortega, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
7:00 pm
NHCC | Salón Ortega
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Panel discussion followed by a Q&A. Panelists include Samoan Chef Devynne Fuga Ah-Mai, and Puerto Rican Chef Pau Rocío. Moderated by Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace, Director of UNM’s Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org.
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Panel discussion with:
Chef Devynne Fuga Ah-Mai is a community-rooted chef, entrepreneur, and founder of Samoa Food Security, an initiative dedicated to preserving Samoan food traditions while addressing the urgent need for accessible, healthy, and locally grown food. Through her work, she bridges culinary arts with community well-being, hosting food demonstrations, cultural events, and educational programs that uplift local farmers and promote sustainable food systems in American Samoa. Her culinary storytelling highlights the connection between heritage, health, and the environment, making food not just nourishment but also a vehicle for cultural preservation and resilience. As a recipient of Creative West’s Pacific Jurisdiction Artist Fund award, Chef Fuga continues to champion the intersection of art, food, and culture to strengthen her community’s future.
Puerto Rican Chef Pau Rocío is a culinary artist known for conscious, sustainable, and Afro-Antillean cuisine, offering personalized dining experiences, often through her private chef services, focusing on flavorful, creative, and story-driven dishes, as seen on her Instagram @chefpaurocio and website chefpaurocio.com. She started her professional journey around 2019, working in various hotel roles, and now emphasizes food that tells a story.
MODERATOR: Belinda Wallace
AfroMundo Festival: Panel Discussion: “Food is Power”—Cultivating Resilience | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

AfroMundo Festival: “Manifesting the Envisioned”
2026-04-16 | Salón Ortega, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Thursday, April 16, 2026
7:00 pm
NHCC | Salón Ortega
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Artistic presentation by Puerto Rico’s award-winning Las Nietas de Nonó. Followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include Las Nietas de Nonó; liberation strategist and fabulist c.j Davison; multidisciplinary CHamoru artist Dakota Camacho; and Alabama playwright, performer and cultural worker David H. Parker. Moderated by artist AfroMundo Youth Council member, Lauryn Mills-Bohannon.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org.
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c.j Davison: c.j Davison (they/them) is a Black, Southern, and queer cultural organizer from Birmingham, Alabama. At the root of their work; cj practices art as liberation strategy to fabulate, investigate, and document the world around us through a Black-queer paradigm. As a cultural organizer and artistic facilitator, cj has raised over $2.5 million for artists and organizations led by and serving people living within the margins of the margins. Their work spans the stage and screen from producing and directing plays and musical across the country to creating short-form documentary and episodic projects that reimagine community, care, and liberation.
Dakota Camacho: Dakota Camacho comes from the Matao/CHamoru peoples of Låguas and comes from the villages of Tomhom, Mongmong, and Hagåtña, and descends from the Che’ and Eging clans, and they also have Ilokano lineage. Camacho was born in the lands of the Snohomish and raised in Snohomish, Swinomish, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, and Suquamish territories. They grew up in the Soufend of Seatle where they found their calling for poetry, dancing, and chanting. Amongst the Native peoples of that land, Black, Filipinx, and other Peoples working towards justice on earth, they learned of the transformative potential of culture. Camacho arrived in Guåhan, Låguas (the Mariånas) in the year 2011, to find Matao/CHamoru language and culture teachers. Camacho became friends with Jeremy Cepeda, a fino’ håya language teacher, and Jeremy guided Camacho on yo’ña (their) language learning journey. For many years, Camacho traveled around the world sharing their dance and musical creations, and cultivating relationships with Indigenous peoples in Aoteara, Turtle Island (so-called “North/South America”), Hawai’i, and momentarily so-called Australia and Africa. In 2019, Camacho and Cepeda started the Gi Matan Guma’ collective to give life to their ancestral language and traditions in an attempt to walk the path of ináfa’maolek (peace and equity for all living beings). Camacho started the MALI’E’ project to try and find ways to activate Theory/Memory/Imagining of (Making) Matao [Creativity] through multi-disciplinary art. Today, Dakota is very happy to be working with Gi Matan Guma’ in Låguas and throughout the diaspora.
Las Nietas de Nonó are the afro-diasporic siblings, mulowayi and mapenzi. In their creative process, they evoke ancestral memory through personal archives. Their practice incorporates performance, found objects, organic materials, ecology, fiction, video and installation. In 2022, their solo show, Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN was presented at Artists Space, New York a grouping of newly commissioned multimedia works that extend Las Nietas’s explorations of themes such as processes of expropriation and colonial violence against Black communities and the development of microhistories in relation to geopolitics. They created Ilustraciones de la Mecánica in 2016 – a multimedia installation that was later commissioned by the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018) and the 79th Whitney Biennial (2019). They have received the Latinx Artist Fellowship from the US Latinx Art Forum (2022), the Rome Prize in Visual Art from the American Academy in Rome (2022), the United States Artist Award (2018), The Art of Change from the Ford Foundation (2017), and the Global Arts Fund from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (2017 & 2020). Their art has been shown in Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, England, Germany, Italy, Norway, Scotland, and the United States. In 2019, they co-founded Parceleras Afrocaribeñas, an organization run by Black womxn, where spaces for environmental and racial justice are created in the face of industrial developments that threaten their barrio of San Antón, in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
David H. Parker (they/them) is a director, producer, screenwriter, playwright, performer, and cultural worker from Birmingham, AL. Intersectionality is at the core of their work, with directing practices rooted in consent and wellness. They have been with the Birmingham Black Repertory Theatre Collective for almost 7 years and now serve as one of its Co-Artistic Directors. They earned their Master of Fine Arts from UCLA and their BA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. David is grateful to claim multilocality, with roots and community in Texas, South Florida, Los Angeles, Baltimore, the Ozarks, and New York. David has directed or collaborated with Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning artists. David has also worked on and Off-Broadway; had their work reviewed in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times; trained at the Highlander Center in the footsteps of cultural organizers like Rosa Parks and Angela Davis; and recently published an interview with André De Shields in Southern Theatre magazine.
MODERATOR: Lauryn Mills Bohannon
AfroMundo Festival: Visual Artist Presentation & Conversation “Manifesting the Envisioned” | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

AfroMundo Festival: “Spirits Rising: Ceremonies & Offerings”
2026-04-17 | Salón Ortega, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Friday, April 17, 2026
7:00 pm
NHCC | Salón Ortega
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Multi-generational, cross-cultural offerings from throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam and Virgin Islands. Followed by a Q&A and communal sharing of narratives.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org.
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Featuring:
Sherry Aragon
Teresa Karolina
Dakota Camacho
c.j Davison and David H. Parker
Devine Fuga
Moko Jumbie Yisrael Allan Peterson & Troupe
AfroMundo Festival: Spirit Rising: Ceremonies & Offerings | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

AfroMundo Festival: “Together We Heal”
2026-04-18 | Salón Ortega, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Saturday, April 18, 2026
1:00 – 3:00 pm
NHCC | Salón Ortega
2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”
Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands
Communal Healing and Talk Circle. Reiki Healers and Curanderas will be on hand to offer free, healing services.
The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org.
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Sacred Spring Reiki Collective
Freedom to Heal Program
AfroMundo Festival: Spirit Rising: Healing & Talk Circle | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

Film Screening - Mi America: A Journey of Discovery
2026-04-19 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Sunday, April 19, 2026
2:00 pm – Special Guest, Isaac Aragon
3:00 pm – Film Screening
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
“Mi América: A Journey of Discovery is a documentary film that follows an uncle and nephew as they return to Northern New Mexico to reconnect with the land, culture, and community that shaped their family for more than 400 years.
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What begins as a personal journey becomes an exploration of history, identity, and discovery. Through interviews, landscapes, music, and lived experience, Mi América examines the region’s deep religious and cultural traditions, revealing how history has been preserved and passed down across generations.
The documentary also confronts difficult chapters of the past, including the assimilation of children in schools, where students were punished for speaking their native language. It addresses the long history of land grants that were stolen or stripped away, and the resistance movements that emerged in the 1960s as communities fought to protect their ancestral land rights.
At its core, Mi América is about belonging—how culture survives, how memory endures, and how the stories we inherit shape who we are”.
Please join us for a pre-screening performance with special guest, Isaac Aragon, who will open the event. Isaac Aragon is a native New Mexican deeply rooted in blues and soul. Isaacs politically charged musical message promotes love, peace, and social justice. Open your heart, free your mind… And let the healing begin.
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending below.
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Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque: Día del Libro
2026-04-25 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque: Día del Libro
Saturday, April 25, 2026
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
NHCC Campus
Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque celebrates International Book Day, Día del Libro, with an outdoor event open to the public, featuring a variety of activities. The centerpiece of the event will be a fair featuring booth from independent Albuquerque bookstores offering books in both Spanish and English. The Center will present the first 50 attendees with a complimentary book and a rose.
Free Community Event
Activities Include:
Día del Libro
Saturday, April 25, 2026
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
NHCC Campus
Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque celebrates International Book Day, Día del Libro, with a free outdoor event that is open to the public featuring a variety of activities. The centerpiece of the event will be a fair featuring booths from independent Albuquerque bookstores offering books in both Spanish and English. The Center will present the first 50 attendees with a complimentary book and a rose.
Free Community Event
Activities to include:
10:00 am: Opening ceremonies with Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, Guest of Honor; Patricia Pinzón, Cónsul General of México in Albuquerque; Zack Quintero, National Hispanic Cultural Center Executive Director; Carlos Madrid, Director of Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque; Master of Ceremonies and former Poet Laureate of the City of Albuquerque, Jessica Helen López.
11:00 am: Peruvian Dance and Music performance by Peru-Dance Abq, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Peru in Denver. Main Stage.
11:00 am: Docent-guided tour of the NHCC’s Torreón fresco, Mundos de Mestizaje. NHCC Welcome Center
11:30 am: Free demonstration Spanish class, honoring not only World Book Day but also Spanish Language Day—both celebrated on April 23. Instituto Cervantes, Rm. 128
12:00 pm: Poesía on the Plaza, a poetry session hosted by local group Chicharra Press, featuring local poets Marcial Delgado, Manuel González, Kristin Patton, Zach Kluckman, Jessica López, Marissa Prada, and students from Native American Community Academy. Main Stage.
1:00 pm: Film screening of the Spanish film, El jugador de ajedrez (2017), which will feature a Q&A with producer Juan Antonio Casado—an event organized by the Spanish Resource Center of the Embassy of Spain in Washington. Bank of America Theatre, Roy E. Disney Center for the Performing Arts.
1:30 pm: Tablao flamenco, sponsored by the National Institute of Flamenco. Main Stage.
2:00 pm: Lecture. Cancionero Huehuetenango, on sacred and secular music from the highlands of Guatemala, with Jonatan Alvarado and Ariel Abramovich. Instituto Cervantes, Rm. 128
2:30 pm: Reading with Mexico—an exciting literacy-promotion event with word games, puzzles, and a raffle of 10 bikes for children and teenagers, with music by Mariachi de San José High School, in collaboration with the Consulate General of México. Main Stage.
3:00 pm: Guided tour of the NHCC’s History and Literary Arts Library with Amy Padilla, NHCC Librarian. History & Literary Arts Bldg.
4:00 pm: ¡Viva México!, an unforgettable celebration of Hispanic culture and Mexican independence, spotlighting the huapangos that embody Veracruz’s African and Andalusian roots, with support from the Consulate General of México. Wells-Fargo Auditorium, Roy E. Disney Center for the Performing Arts.
4:00 pm: Music in Spanish. Main Stage.
Special thank you to our sponsors and partners!

Film Screening: El jugador de ajedrez/The Chess Player
2026-04-25 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Saturday, April 25, 2026
1:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Spanish Resource Center presenta screening of the Spanish film “El jugador de ajedrez” (The Chess Player), shown in its original Spanish version with English subtitles, followed by a Q&A session and discussion with producer Juan Antonio Casado. “The Chess Player” has won numerous awards—including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Original Score at WorldFest Houston, and Best Picture at the Golden Oniros Film Awards (Aosta, Italy). Year: 2017. Length: 98 minutes. Genre: Drama. Nationality: Spain. Based on the novel of the same title by Julio Castedo.
After Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Chess Championship he meets a beautiful French journalist called Marianne and they soon marry and have a daughter. But when the Spanish Civil War breaks out, they must move to France in order to keep alive. However, when the Nazis occupy Paris, Diego is once again facing danger and is finally sent to jail after falsely being accused of spying. In these circumstances Chess will be his only chance of survival.
Evento comunitario gratuito. Indícanos quién asistirá a continuación.
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending below.
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Film Documentary: First We Bombed New Mexico
2026-05-03 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Sunday, May 3, 2026
12:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
NHCC presents a series of documentaries about environmental hardships from the Southwest throughout Latin America. These matinee film screenings pair perfectly with a visit to the Visual Arts Museum before or after. Explore the subject matter of environmental justice through multiple mediums in one afternoon.
In First We Bombed New Mexico, Tina Cordova leads the fight for justice for majority Indigenous and Latino Nuevomexicano communities in New Mexico. Locals have suffered for decades as a result of radiation produced by the world’s first atomic test at Trinity.
Director: Lois Lipman | Writers: Lois Lipman, Joel Marcus | 2023 | 1h 35m | Stars: Kate Brown, Tina Cordova, & Myrriah Gómez
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Free Community Event

Noche de Familia: Cine Para Chiquitos featuring DreamWorks' Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2026-05-16 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Noche de Familia: Cine Para Chiquitos. Join us for a film screening and green-screen movie magic! Cine Para Chiquitos is a film night for children and families where a culturally relevant film is screened and the magic of movie making is shared through activities. The title of the film will be announced soon.
Free community event. Bring the whole family! Please let us know who will be attending below.
Sponsored in part by NM Gas.
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Film Documentary: Water for Life
2026-06-07 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Sunday, June 7, 2026
12:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
NHCC presents a series of documentaries about environmental hardships from the Southwest throughout Latin America. These matinee film screenings pair perfectly with a visit to the Visual Arts Museum before or after. Explore the subject matter of environmental justice through multiple mediums in one afternoon.
Water For Life follows three Latin American Indigenous community leaders as they face death threats and murder to save their precious water resources from mining, industrial agriculture, and hydroelectric projects.
Director: Will Parrinello | Writer: Sarah Kass | 2023 | 1h 31m | Stars: Diego Luna, Lila Downs, & Daniela Millaleo
Free Community Event
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Film Documentary: Green is the New Red (De la guerre froide à la guerre verte)
2026-08-02 | NM
Sunday, August 2, 2026
12:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
NHCC presents a series of documentaries about environmental hardships from the Southwest throughout Latin America. These matinee film screenings pair perfectly with a visit to the Visual Arts Museum before or after. Explore the subject matter of environmental justice through multiple mediums in one afternoon.
Through a critical recounting of Operation Condor, a coordinated campaign of political repression across Latin America during the 1970s, filmmaker Anna Recalde Miranda locates the roots of Paraguay’s current ecological disaster. As part of this campaign, the country’s right-wing dictatorship subjected political dissidents— leftists, intellectuals, union leaders, peasants, even children—to surveillance, torture, kidnappings, assassinations and land grabs. Evidence of these unlawful actions can be found within documents in the Archives of Terror but can also be witnessed across the nation’s vast fields of soy, which are sprayed with agrochemicals and grown in the interest of multinational food corporations. In possession of its own form of record keeping, the soil tells a story of decimated insect populations, worsening droughts, displaced Indigenous peoples and landless farmers. A documentary that unites land sovereignty with human rights in chilling, uncompromising fashion, DE LA GUERRE FROIDE À LA GUERRE VERTE reveals the historical conditions that have allowed the political and economic priorities of few to take place over sustaining forms of life for all. (Winnie Wang)
Director: Anna Recalde Miranda | 2024 | 1h 45m
Free Community Event
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