• Pajama Men & Friends & Acquaintances

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    8 pm THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT Tricklock Company presents Pajama Men & Friends & Acquaintances—a too-good-to-be-true night of comedy from all over the world.  Featuring the Pajama Men, Glenn Wool, Gemma Whelan, Ronny Chieng, Dino Archie, and Amber Nash. $37 adults; $24 students, seniors & NHCC members

  • Rental – New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra Presents Protégé Series

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    2 pm Annunziata Tomaro, conductor Phoenix Avalon, violin Mendelssohn, Hebrides Overture Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto Schumann, Symphony No. 4 Schumann's wonderful and romantic "Clara" Symphony No. 4 and Mendelssohn's luminous Violin Concerto highlight this program, presenting one of today's finest young artists performing with your NMPhil. Award-winning conductor Annunziata Tomaro brings her brilliant style to the podium. To contact the NM Philharmonic directly, please call (505) 323-4343 or visit New Mexico Philharmonic Website $24, $35, $46, $68, group discounts available

    $24 – $68
  • Film: In an Ancient Village

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    7 pm John Bourne, then an anthropology student from California, filmed this narrative of daily life in Tepetlaoxtoc, a rural village in the Valley of Mexico, in 1956. Edited and completed that same year, the film was set aside when no distributor could be found. The original masters, presumed lost or discarded, were discovered in 2013, the present copyright date of the film, years after Bourne had given up searching for them. English; 45 minutes; not rated. Free ticketed event with tickets available one hour prior to (more...)

  • Jesús Muñoz Flamenco, Live!

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    8 pm, both evenings Jesús Muñoz Flamenco presents the company’s new production, Live!, showcasing the artistry of 12 internationally renowned dancers and musicians from Spain to Latin America. Participating performers have composed for platinum flamenco albums, prestigious dance companies, and popular artists such as José Merce, El Barrio, Marc Anthony, and Andrea Bocelli. Jesús Muñoz Flamenco takes a year-long hiatus from themed productions to dive into an exploration of ideas and the explosive dynamic of flamenco collaboration. Highlights of Live! combine exciting pieces from the past with (more...)

  • Film: Vuelve a la vida

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    7 pm Carlos Hagerman’s 2010 documentary tells the story of a famous Mexican diver, the New York supermodel who married him following a spontaneous vacation trip, and a legendary shark hunt in the Acapulco of the mid-seventies. Tales and memories of “El Perro Largo” unfold mainly through conversations with his widow and stepson, and explore themes including parenthood, nationality, migration, and collective memory. Presented in partnership with the Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque. Spanish with English subtitles; 70 minutes; not rated. Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour (more...)

  • Public Academy for Performing Arts Presents Language of Dance: Spring Dance Concert 2016

    7 pm both days Both performances, on March 3rd  and 4th, are SOLD OUT. The Public Academy for Performing Arts presents Language of Dance, its annual spring dance concert featuring beginning to pre-professional ballet, contemporary, flamenco, hip-hop, and jazz dance students from grades 6-12.  Approximate length of the event is two hours. $7, $12, $17, no discounts

  • Siembra, Latino Theatre Season: Real Women Have Curves

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    March 3-6, March 10-13, & March 17-20, 2016 7:30 pm—Thursday-Saturday 2 pm—Sunday Josefina López’ original drama about five immigrant women working in a tiny sewing factory in East Los Angeles in 1987 highlights issues of gender politics and the Latina immigrant experience, as the action follows the course of a summer at the factory and the women talk about their lives, loves, and deepest desires. The playwright also co-authored the screenplay for the award-winning film of the same title, which premiered in 2002. Presented in partnership with Teatro (more...)

  • Chispa: Latin Diva Series, Ceci Bastida

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    Due to personal reasons and circumstances beyond the NHCC’s, Avokado Artists’ and the artist's control, the Ceci Bastida show originally scheduled for March 5th at the National Hispanic Cultural Center has been rescheduled for Saturday, June 25, 2016. We are very excited to bring Ceci Bastida to the Center for the kick-off-the-summer event! Tickets for the June 25th event will be on sale soon. Call the NHCC Box Office for more information. 7:30 pm Born and raised in Tijuana and now living in Los Angeles, Ceci Bastida was one (more...)

  • Chispa: Orchestra of New Spain, Iphigenia en Tracia, A Zarzuela

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    3 pm Iphigenia en Tracia, based on Euripedes’ Iphigenia in Tauris, was written in 1747 by José de Nebra, known as the leading late-Baroque composer of Spanish opera and zarzuela, with libretto by Nicolás González Martínez. Nebra’s ultimate, highly dramatic zarzuela is a tragicomic version of the legendary story, set near the ancient city of Troy and presented with all the panoply, splendor, dance, and humor it would have enjoyed when it opened in Madrid's newly rebuilt Corral de la Cruz. With brilliant arias, Baroque Spanish dance, (more...)

  • Film: La piedra ausente

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    7 pm This documentary by Sandra Rozental and Jesse Lerner explores the present-day relevance of relics from the past. It relates the story of the journey of the colossal stone statue (23 feet high and 168 tons) of a pre-Hispanic rain deity, thought to be Tlaloc, from the village of San Miguel Coatlinchán, where it had lain for centuries in a dry riverbed, to its present location in front of Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia. The removal of the statue caused a rebellion in (more...)