• 2024 AfroMundo Festival: Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Creativity

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    NOTE: A limited number of tickets are available for this event. 7:00 pm 2024 AfroMundo Festival Maroons, Rebels, Dreamers & Visionaries Featuring Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica & USA April 12 - 20, 2024 Music, literature, oral histories theater, films, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more.   Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Creativity: For Afro diasporas, food remains one of the most effective means of resistance, of cultural retention, and innovation. Come join in this culinary discussion with Angelica Mena: Afro-Columbian Chef and Founder of San Francisco’s Sukulentas; (more...)

  • 2024 AfroMundo Festival: World Premier: Sterling’s Silver

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    NOTE: A limited number of tickets are available for this event. 7:00 pm 2024 AfroMundo Festival Maroons, Rebels, Dreamers & Visionaries Featuring Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica & USA April 12 - 20, 2024 Music, literature, oral histories theater, films, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more. An enhanced Reader’s Production of a play by Karen Jones Meadows. “In the 1800s a 150-year plan fueled by war, vision, passion, naïveté, rage, secrets, entrepreneurship, and African-American sweat, fashion a clandestine community determined to leave a living legacy of sovereignty (more...)

  • Film: The Human Zoo (Calafate, zoológicos humanos)

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    5:00 pm Reception & Cash Bar 6:00 pm Doors 6:30 pm Director’s talk 7:00 pm Screening Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Toward the end of the 19th century, 25 people from four different Chilean indigenous groups were kidnapped from Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by a German businessman and taken to Europe to be exhibited as attractions in cities throughout the continent. THE HUMAN ZOO uncovers the history of this colonial spectacle, and follows the fallout into the present. (more...)

  • Día de Familia: Día del Niño

    Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    11:00 am - 3:00 pm NHCC | 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 the National Institute of Flamenco, student films, and our inaugural Youth Art Market. Learn about birds and bugs with the US Forest Service. Make art, play, go on a StoryWalk and discover a variety of community resources from UNM Early Childhood Services Center, Explora, The (more...)

  • An Evening with Jimmy Santiago Baca

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    30th Anniversary of Blood In, Blood Out Featuring Special Guest Melina Martinez 6:30 pm: Reception and Book Signing 7:30 pm: Readings Join us for an evening with Jimmy Santiago Baca in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Blood In, Blood Out on Saturday, April 27 at 6:30 pm. Located in the Bank of America Theatre, this event will feature a reception and book signing for the Blood In, Blood Out Coffee Table Book from 6:30 – 7:30 pm as well as readings featuring Melina Martinez and Jimmy (more...)

  • Free Summer Series Film Screening: To The End (2022)

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    5:00 pm: Food trucks & cash bar 6:00 pm: La Nina: Nina Otero-Warren Presented by Deborah Blanche 7:00 pm: Film Screening NHCC | Bank of America Theatre The world is in crisis as it misses target after target to stop climate change. The Green New Deal has captured the imagination of millions with its visionary promise for systemic economic and environmental change that will build a better and more just world. In this moment of political upheaval with clashes in the streets and the halls of Congress, (more...)

  • Afro Mundo: Film Screening: All the World is Sleeping

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    6:00 pm: Screening 8:00 pm: Panel Discussion, immediately after screening. NHCC | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium Afro Mundo presents All the World is Sleeping. Fighting for her own life and the ones she loves, a Chicana in New Mexico sinks deeper into her addiction while struggling to surface for her daughter. This incredible film was created by Bold Futures and seven system-impacted women: we bring light to complexities of trauma, substance use, and parenting in this raw and riveting story. In (more...)

  • Instituto Cervantes Film Series: FanCineQueer. Infancias (June 2024)

    Virtual

    The FanCineQueer. Infancias films in this series will be available on the Cervantes Institute's Vimeo channel, link below, for 96 hours, starting at 2:00 am. Cervantes Institute's Vimeo HERE The Cervantes Institute joins the celebration of LGTBIQ+ culture by presenting a program of short films co-organized with the Extremadura festival FanCineQueer. FanCineQueer. Infancias Screening: Cocodrilo– Thursday, June 6, 2024 Elsa - Monday, June 10, 2024 El rey de las flores - Thursday, June 13 17 minutos con Nora - Monday, June 17: Cristiano - Thursday, June 20 (more...)

  • Free Summer Series Film Screening: Street Heroines (2021)

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    5:00 pm: Food Trucks & Cash Bar 6:00 pm: Breaking Hearts 7:00 pm: Screening Director’s Talk & Q&A to follow immediately after screening. NHCC | Bank of America Theatre STREET HEROINES  is an award-winning feature-length documentary celebrating the courage and creativity of women who despite their lack of recognition have been an integral part of the graffiti and street art movement since the beginning. With authentic vérité storytelling woven between an interview-driven narrative, STREET HEROINES  juxtaposes the personal experiences of three emerging Latina artists from New York City, (more...)

  • Free Summer Series Film Screening: The First Rainbow Coalition (2019)

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    6:00 pm: Food Trucks & Cash Bar 7:00 pm: Screening 8:00 pm: Director’s Talk & Q&A to immediately following screening. NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium Join us for a panel discussion with Filmmaker Ray Santisteban and Black Panther activist Aaron Dixon. The First Rainbow Coalition, Directed & Produced by Ray Santisteban, charts the history and legacy of a groundbreaking multi-ethnic coalition that rocked Chicago in the 1960s. Comprised of activists from the Black Panthers, the Young Patriots (southern whites), and the Young Lords (a former Puerto Rican street (more...)