2024 AfroMundo Festival: Contemporary Rebel Women
2024-04-14 | Salón Ortega, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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.

A literary reading of poetry and prose. Poet Shirley Campbell Barr is author of five poetry collections, among them De Negro Vengo Ataviada, the seminal Rotundamente Negra y Otras Poemas, and Palabras Indelebles de Poetas Negras. Suzanne Barr is the author of My Ackee Tree: A Chef’s Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen. Yashika Graham is a Jamaican writer, visual artists, and author of the forthcoming poetry collection Some of Us Can Go Back Home.
All events in the 2024 AfroMundo Festival are free and open to the general public. Please make your reservation below.
*AfroMundo Festival 2024 graphic Bold Futures by artist, Lauryn Mills Bohannon

2024 AfroMundo Festival: Black Farmers: Modern Maroons (Sold Out)
2024-04-15 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
NOTE: This event is sold out. Tickets will be released on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 7:10 pm.
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.
Screening of Documentary Farming While Black
Directed by Mark Decena, 2023, 75 min
Farming While Black examines the historical plight of Black farmers in the United States and the rising generation reclaiming their rightful ownership to land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots.
Screening is followed by a panel discussion with New Mexico Black farmers. Alyssa Frye is a community organizer, holistic health advocate, and nomadic earthworker. Shahid Mustafa is the founder of Taylor Hood Farms and Board Vice President of the New Mexico Agrarian Commons. Eugene Pickett is Chairman Founder of Black Farmers and Ranchers.
All events are free and open to the general public. Please make your reservation below.
*AfroMundo Festival 2024 graphic “Thorns & Blooms” by Lauryn Mills Bohannon, featured courtesy of Bold Futures.

Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime
2024-04-16 | NHCC Library, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:00 am
Stories come to life through art, movement, and more! In April, our theme will be “Fun and Games.” Join us as we read from Playing Loteria/El juego de la Loteria, by Rene Colato Lainez, and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom/Chica chica bum bum, by Bill Martin. For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers.
Free Community Event, generously supported by NM Gas.

2024 AfroMundo Festival: Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Creativity
2024-04-17 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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; and with Chef Suzanne Barr, recipient of a 2021 Social Advocate of the Year Award, and featured in acclaimed documentary The Heat: A kitchen (R)evolution (2018).
All events are free and open to the general public. Please make your reservation below.
*AfroMundo Festival 2024 graphic “Thorns & Blooms” by Lauryn Mills Bohannon, featured courtesy of Bold Futures.

2024 AfroMundo Festival: World Premier: Sterling’s Silver
2024-04-19 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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 and strategies for generations.”
New Mexico resident Karen Jones Meadows is the author of multiple anthologized and performed plays, and the recipient of a 2020 Story Protector Award. She has presented at the United Nation, UNESCO, International Women’s Economic Forum, and much more.
All events in the 2024 AfroMundo Festival are free and open to the general public. Please make your reservation below.
*AfroMundo Festival 2024 graphic “Thorns & Blooms” by Lauryn Mills Bohannon, featured courtesy of Bold Futures.

Cervantes Film Series: Relatos de la Resistencia: Light Falls Vertical
2024-04-19 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here:
Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo
Efthymia Zymvragaki receives a proposal from a man who confesses to abuse in order to investigate the vision of the perpetrator of violence. With the courage to tell a story in the first person, the debut feature of this Greek director addresses the issue of violence that weighs so heavily in today’s society with the intention of approaching it in a complex and intimate way.
Synopsis: A man named Ernesto, a resident of the Canary Islands, contacts filmmaker Efthymia Zymvragaki to propose making a film about his life. He explains to her that in gender violence there are always two sides: the victim and the aggressor. He confesses to being the aggressor. The Greek director then embarks on a journey, real and cinematic, in which she discovers the hidden corners, the lights and shadows of a character trapped in the cycle of violence, and in the process realizes that Ernesto is, in reality, half criminal and half victim, and that his story pushes her to confront her own family history, which she left in her native country two decades ago.
Screening: Light Falls Vertical | Director/s: Efthymia Zymvragaki | Year: 2022 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 85 min | Genre: Documental | Country: España, Alemania, Italia y Países Bajos | Original version: español | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués (de Brasil), italiano, español | Rated: +12

Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo, the strength of documentary filmmaking in Spain is a phenomenon with three decades of history. The work of the monographic festivals has been crucial to maintain its strength and validity among the public interested in the new expressive forms of cinema, but also among those who seek in the documentary to know the perspective and experiences of others, often very distant spatially, temporally, and culturally.
In collaboration with the DocsBarcelona festival, this online film series that stars the month of April on our Vimeo channel brings together four documentaries that allow us to meet people whose lives are marked by adventure, and not always in its most positive interpretation. In addition, the direction of these works tells us about the place from where we elaborate the stories of loss, but also those of survival and overcoming.
PROGRAM
April 5: La Chana (2017), by Lucija Stojevic
April 12: Los Bilbao (2022), by Pedro Speroni
April 19: Light Falls Vertical (2022), by Efthymia Zymvragaki
April 26: Querida Sara (2021), by Patricia Franquesa

Festival Ballet Albuquerque: Billy the Kid & Other Tall Tales
2024-04-19 - 2024-04-20 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm Friday
2:00 pm & 7:00 pm Saturday
Billy the Kid, Blue Jean Blues, Southwest FolkTails, & Giselle
Festival Ballet Albuquerque presents an original production of Billy the Kid, a ballet telling the story of Billy from childhood until his death at age 22, true to historical accuracy as anyone knows. The ballet has an ensemble of cowboys, townspeople, dance hall girls, and the important people in Billy’s life, including his beloved Mother, John Tunstall, J.J. Dolan, love interest Maria, and of course, Sheriff Pat Garrett.

The evening begins with the music of the Mystic Vic Blues Band playing live onstage with the FBA professional dancers in Blue Jean Blues choreographed by Patricia Dickinson Wells. A new children’s ballet, Southwest FolkTails is based on families of New Mexican “critters” sporting tails with character costumes expertly designed and constructed by master craftsman, Joe Moncada. Imagine hummingbirds, quails, coyotes, snakes, and roosters!
The evening ends with the classical 18th century ballet, Giselle (in One Act) complete with village scenes, beautiful costumes, and scenery. The epic ballet premiered in 1841, but most of the versions today are based on the revivals by choreographer Marius Petipa in the early 20th century. Set to music by composer Adolphe Adam, the epic story follows the tragically short life of Giselle through love, heartache, death, and the after-death where she is summoned from her grave by the vengeful, deadly sisterhood of the Willis who are unmarried women who died after being betrayed by their lover. Giselle’s great love for her betrayer, Albrecht, saves him from sure death by the Willis, and thus saves herself from becoming one of them.
Come ½ hour early before showtime and enjoy a pre-concert performance by Mystic Vic Blues Band!
$14, $20, $29, $39 & $49 w/ a $2 discount for seniors and children 10 years old and younger
Run Time: 2 hours
*The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Colcha Community Stitch A-Long
2024-04-23 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
9:30 am in-person
10:30 am Zoom
Our Colcha Community Stich-A-Long is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting. This workshop is instructed by Annette Gutierrez-Turk. Annette has taught colcha, a Spanish Colonial embroidery style, to groups internationally and at the NHCC for many years. She is also an award-winning artist, most recently recognized in 2019 at Traditional Spanish Market in Santa Fe. Annette will demonstrate as well as answer questions. Join us every month on the fourth Tuesday, in-person at 9:30am and on Zoom at 10:30am. Everyone will have a chance to share what they are working on.
Please register here every month and we will email the Zoom link to you. Questions: email Annette at Annette.Lujan@dca.nm.gov or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771.
Free Community Event.
Thank you to the Sandia Mountains-EGA for their continued support of this program.
For more on Colcha, please watch this video: Colcha Circle Video
Here is the pattern used in the beginner colcha kit. Click the thumbnail below to enlarge.

NHCC Book Club
2024-04-24 | HLA Conference Room, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The NHCC is thrilled to announce that we will be reconnecting in person with lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the far reaches of Latinidad. We will meet on the last Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room.
In April, we will be reading Afterlife, by Julia Alvarez. Afterlife tells the story of an immigrant writer, reeling from her beloved husband’s sudden death in the wake of her retirement, whose life is further derailed by the reappearance of her unstable sister and an entreaty for help by a pregnant undocumented teen.
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending below.

Film: The Human Zoo (Calafate, zoológicos humanos)
2024-04-25 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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.
With Chilean historian Christian Baez, director Hans Mülchi Bremer contacts these native people’s descendants, and traces their voyage from South America across Europe, paying particular attention to the fate of Calafate, a Selk’nam boy who was taken when he was just 9 years old, and survived to return to his native land.
Others were not so lucky. The filmmakers discover a collection of skeletons of five Kawesqar people in the archives of the Anthropology Department at the University of Zurich, and with help from the Swiss researchers, begin the process of repatriation to Chile.
Their efforts—and those of the Kawesqar descendants—reveal not only the persisting legacy of colonial oppression, but also the fissures that still separate indigenous Chilean communities from their national government.
Program generously supported by UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute, FIU Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Guadalupe Institute Western Hemisphere Center, New Mexico Humanities Now!, & Student Organization for Latin American Studies (SOLAS)
The Human Zoo (original title: Calafate, zoológicos humanos) | A film by Han Mülchi Bremer | 93 minutes/ color | English; Spanish/ English subtitles | Release: 2013 | Copyright: 2011 | https://icarusfilms.com/if-zoo | Run Time: 93 mins
Free community event

2nd Annual Native American Theater Festival
2024-04-25 - 2024-05-05 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Opening Reception in the Cayetana Romero lobby and in front of the Bank of America Theatre:
*Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 pm
Theatrical Performance in the Bank of America Theatre:
Beauty Way: Into the Matriarchy
*Friday, April 26 at 7:30 pm
*Sunday, April 28 at 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm
*Friday, May 3 at 7:30 pm
*Saturday, May 4 at 7:30 pm
Staged Readings in the Wells Fargo Auditorium:
*Saturday, April 27 at 1:00 pm: The Woman Who Was Captured by Ghosts by Julie Pearson Littlethunder
*Saturday, April 27 at 3:00 pm: Gathering of Souls by Micheal Lente
*Sunday, May 5 at 1:00 pm: Blue Jay’s Canoe by Theresa May and Marta Clifford
*Sunday, May 5 a 3:00 pm: Gathering of Souls by Micheal Lente
Closing Reception will take place in the Cayetana Romero lobby and Wells Fargo Auditorium on:
*Sunday, May 5th at 4 pm
Two Worlds is reclaiming our identity through the arts! We are guided by shared Native experiences and we strive to develop ways of telling our stories through honest and creative expression. Our ensembles will continue to discover and give voice to the visions and stories of Native and Indigenous people around the world through performing, educating diverse communities, and providing mainstream culture with a positive representation of Native and Indigenous communities.
This year’s featured play is: “Beauty Way: Into the Matriarchy”. This play will be performed 5 times as the centerpiece of the festival. An interactive storytelling and multi-media performance featuring the narratives, experiences, and cultural history of Matriarchal Native and Indigenous and Chicana Women. Narrated by Spider Woman, a traditional Navajo deity; she unwebs the stories of these women who come up against everyday personal struggles, self-identity, and inequality in the world.
This production has been in works since 2017 and has been featured in several conferences such as Native Women Lead, Taos Storytelling festival, Q-Staff theatre, and The National Day of Racial Healing.
Beauty Way: Into the Matriarchy will be accompanied at the festival by several staged readings, conversations, Q & As, talkbacks, remarks, refreshments and more.
Theatrical Performances:
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
$18 for adults’ w/ discounts for seniors 60 years or older, children 10 and under, and NHCC Foundation members.
Staged Readings:
NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium
$13 for adults’ w/ discounts for seniors 60 years or older, children 10 and under, and NHCC Foundation members.
Please let us know who will be attending below.
Learn more about the festival at www.twoworldsnm.org. The festival is proudly Co-sponsored by Two Worlds and the NHCC.

Cervantes Film Series: Relatos de la Resistencia: Querida Sara
2024-04-26 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here:
Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo
The relationship between Patricia Franquesa, the director of this documentary, and Sara, the first cab driver in Afghanistan, is proposed to us as a story of friendship whose thread is united by the gaze in front of the camera, where we stand as spectators, but to which the protagonist of the documentary constantly speaks.
All the material filmed in front of this strong and confident woman, who is aware of being filmed and in the story, is offered to us as a tribute that acquires greater impact when we learn about the political and social evolution that took place and continues to take place in Afghanistan.
Synopsis: This is a moving portrait of Sara, the first woman cab driver in Afghanistan. Spanish filmmaker Patricia Franquesa captures the strength of a powerful woman who breaks through the barriers of a society marked by patriarchy. Sara has bright eyes, tireless in defending women’s rights and fighting to achieve what seemed impossible. It is an inspiring story of friendship between two women full of life, a hymn to empathy and dialogue between cultures: the circular tale of Sara’s life story turns from fear to love and from love to fear: a testimony of a reality that no longer exist.
Screening: Querida Sara | Director/s: Patricia Franquesa | Year: 2021 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 60 min | Genre: Documental | Country: España, Serbia y Noruega | Original version: farsi, uzbeko e inglés | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués, italiano, español | Rated: SC

Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo, the strength of documentary filmmaking in Spain is a phenomenon with three decades of history. The work of the monographic festivals has been crucial to maintain its strength and validity among the public interested in the new expressive forms of cinema, but also among those who seek in the documentary to know the perspective and experiences of others, often very distant spatially, temporally, and culturally.
In collaboration with the DocsBarcelona festival, this online film series that stars the month of April on our Vimeo channel brings together four documentaries that allow us to meet people whose lives are marked by adventure, and not always in its most positive interpretation. In addition, the direction of these works tells us about the place from where we elaborate the stories of loss, but also those of survival and overcoming.
PROGRAM
April 5: La Chana (2017), by Lucija Stojevic
April 12: Los Bilbao (2022), by Pedro Speroni
April 19: Light Falls Vertical (2022), by Efthymia Zymvragaki
April 26: Querida Sara (2021), by Patricia Franquesa

Yjastros: Flamenco Fandanguero: Primos de la Raza Cósmica
2024-04-26 - 2024-04-27 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm Friday
4:00 pm Saturday
NOTE: Audiences are invited to a post show talk in the Albuquerque Journal Theatre with the artists immediately following each performance.
This April, don’t miss FLAMENCO FANDANGUERO: Primos de la Raza Cósmica, the brand-new work produced for Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, made in collaboration among the company’s Artistic Director Joaquín Encinias, Choreographer Marisol Encinias, Theater Director Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez, flamenco musicians Vicente Griego, Isa Jurado, and Ángel Ruiz, and son jarocho musician Sinuhé Padilla, and celebrated son jarocho dancers, Patricio Hidalgo and Yaratzé Hidalgo.
FLAMENCO FANDANGUERO: Primos de la Raza Cósmica is a thrilling work of flamenco dance theatre by Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, featuring over 30 musicians and dancers on stage!
$55, $65, $75, $85, & $95 w/ a $5 discount for seniors, students’ w/Id, children 12 years old and younger and NHCC members
FLAMENCO FANDANGUERO seeks to place in conversation distinct art forms that share a common ancestor, and create an unforgettable work of art. Reuniting the “primos hermanos” first cousins of flamenco and son jarocho, this captivating performance explores 21st century mestizaje, and Indo-Hispano, Chicano, and Latino identities and shared histories through flamenco and jarocho. Ultimately the work endeavors to create a unique and transcendent musical and dance experience that showcases the shared humanity and cosmic essence of son jarocho and flamenco, celebrating the beauty of our complex cultures and histories through the power, energy, and excitement of Flamenco.
This project was made possible by a National Dance Project grant.

Día de Familia: Día del Niño
2024-04-27 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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 Harwood and many more!
Performances:
11:30 am – Voces de Coronado
1:00 pm – National Institute of Flamenco
Activities:
Clay Creations
Pinwheels
Storywalk
Parachute Play
Free Books and Coloring Books
Food:
The Munchie Truck (11am – 1pm)
Happenings:
Youth Films
Nanny’s Petting Zoo
Youth Art Market
Wonder on Wheels Mobile Museum
Harwood Art Center
i9 Sports
US Forest Service
Explora
ABQ/BernCo Public Library
NM State Library
National Institute of Flamenco
UNM Early Childhood Services Center
Heat NM Bill Assistance
NM Museum of Natural History & Science
NM PBS
Free Community Event, generously supported by New Mexico Gas.

An Evening with Jimmy Santiago Baca
2024-04-27 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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 Santiago Baca followed by Q&A from 7:30 – 8:30 pm.
This limited-edition book is a 30th anniversary tribute to the cult classic film, and features production materials with hundreds of unseen behind-the-scenes photographs and film stills shot by photographer Merrick Morton, paintings by the late San Antonio artist Adan Hernández, whose mural “Carnalismo” is shown in the film’s final scene, and original poems by screenwriter Jimmy Santiago Baca.
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending using the link below. Funding is provided by AARP of Albuquerque and the Ford Foundation.

NHCC Foundation: Cinco de Mayo Run
2024-04-28 | NHCC | Education Building: Grand Hall, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
9:00 am: 10K
9:05 am: 5K
10:15 am: Kids K
Join RunFit and the National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation (NHCCF) for our exciting Annual Cinco de Mayo Run! Whether you’re an avid runner or enjoy a leisurely walk, there’s something for everyone with options including a 10K Run, a 5K Run or Walk, and even a Kids K. But the fun doesn’t stop at the finish line – stay with us for Día de Salud, the NHCC Foundation’s annual health fair. It’s a day packed with health-focused activities, delicious food, and much more, making for a truly holistic experience.
This event is more than just a run; it’s a vital fundraiser for the NHCC Foundation. Our mission centers on supporting the diverse and rich cultural programs at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. From art exhibitions and educational workshops to vibrant performances and community outreach, the NHCC Foundation ensures that these programs continue to thrive and enrich our community. Without the support generated through events like this, the impactful programs at NHCC wouldn’t be possible.
We’re thrilled at the opportunity to share the beauty and cultural vibrancy of the National Hispanic Cultural Center with all of you. See you at the starting line!

NHCC Foundation: Día De Salud
2024-04-28 | NHCC | Education Building: Grand Hall, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Following the Cinco de Mayo run, join us for our second annual Día De Salud health fair! Don’t miss this chance to take control of your health and wellness journey. Whether you’re looking for informative talks, interactive activities, or just a fun day out with the family, our Health Fair has something for everyone. Admission is FREE! Mark your calendar to bring your friends and family for a day of health and happiness featuring chair massages, blood pressure screenings, glucose checks, dental hygiene education, free lung screenings, pediatric immunizations, food demonstrations, music, and MORE!

Opera Southwest: Carmen – en español!
2024-05-04 - 2024-05-12 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
2:00 pm Saturday & Sunday
7:30 pm Wednesday & Friday
Music / Georges Bizet
Libretto / Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy, Spanish translation by Eduardo De Bray
Head to the National Hispanic Cultural Center for one of the most popular operas of our time!
Opera Southwest and the NHCC present Carmen – en español! “Habanera” and “Toreador” are well-known arias that linger in your mind long after the performance is over. The controversial themes of rebellion, immorality, and the tragic death of the main character shocked French audiences when it was initially performed. The opera’s popularity and the main character’s notoriety left lasting impressions on audiences for decades.
The tale revolves around a passionate love triangle between Carmen, a seductive cigarette girl, Don Jose, a solider, and Escamillo, a handsome bullfighter. Despite Don Jose’s efforts to resist her charms, he succumbs to Carmen’s enchantment, resulting in his downfall and Carmen’s demise.
$22, $42, $63, $85, $105 with discounts for groups of 8 or more, anyone 30 years old and younger and Opera for All with a WIC or EBT card.

The presentation of Carmen will be in Spanish. The translation, by Eduardo de Bray, dates back to 1904 and comes from a Barcelona zarzuela company.
Running time: 2 hours 30 minutes, including one intermission.

Visual Arts Museum: First Sunday Free Admission
2024-05-05 | Visual Art Museum, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
On the first Sunday of every month, the Visual Arts Museum is free to all New Mexico residents!

Substance Prevention Resource and Empowerment Expo (SPREE)
2024-05-06 | NHCC | Education Building: Grand Hall, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
4:30 pm – 7:30 pm: DJ, Food Trucks and Resource Tables Open
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Welcome, Native Land Acknowledgement and Keynote Speaker Round 1
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Second Keynote Speaker and transition to Student Panel
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Student Panel
7:00 pm – 7:30 pm: Repeat of Keynote 1 and 2; Closing
Please join Bernalillo County, The City of Albuquerque, Albuquerque Public Schools, NM Department of Health, and the DEA in a groundbreaking collaborative event, the first annual Substance Prevention Resources and Empowerment Expo (SPREE).
Free community event
SPREE will be alive with:
– a live DJ
– FREE FOOD from local food trucks
– Hidden in Plain Sight Mobile Education Experience and Impaired Driving Cart Obstacle Course from NM National Guard.
– FREE Souvenir Event Bag and RAFFLE for prizes
– Extra credit for APS students who attend
– Indoor and outdoor resource tables with information and materials on substance
prevention, intervention/treatment and healthy alternatives to use.
– Student panel
– Keynote speakers and Interactive Workshops on current drug trends, social media
safety and how to talk to your child about substances.
– Narcan training and FREE distribution
Run time: 3 hours
*The event is a rental event, not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Stitch Night
2024-05-08 | HLA Conference Room, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 to 7:00 pm
Stitch socially with us on the second Wednesday of the Month! Bring whatever knitting, crocheting, weaving, or cross stitch, or fiber art projects you’re working on, and join the conversation with your fellow crafters for an informal craft get-together. If you would like to learn the basics of a particular stitching technique, please bring supplies with you, though we will always have basic crochet and knitting materials on hand for an impromptu demonstration!
In 2024, we will meet on March 13, April 10, May 8, June 12, July 10, August 14, September 11, October 9, November 13, and December 11.
Meetings will be in the Conference Room of The History and Literary Arts building from 5:00pm-7:00pm.
Free Community Event. For young adult and adult audiences.

Free Summer Series Film Screening: To The End (2022)
2024-05-09 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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, climate policy is taking center stage for the first time in American history, and the fight is on.
Directors: Rachel Lears, Production year 2022. Rated R, Studio- Lions Gate Films, Inc., Runtime- 95 minutes, Cast- Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Varshini Prakash, Alexandra Rojas
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending below.

UNM Dept of Chicana & Chicano Studies: Ballet Folklorico: Noche de Folklore
2024-05-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
UNM Dept of Chicana & Chicano Studies presents Ballet Folklorico: Noche de Folklore
Mariachi Lobo de Nuevo Mexico
UNM Folklórico
UNM Son Jarocho Collective
UNM Flamenco
The Ballet Folklorico Spring 2024 class in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at UNM will be closing the semester out with a community performance as their final. Please come and join us as we witness the students’ hard work in this end-of-semester final performance.
Free Community Event. Please let us know who will be attending below.
*The event is a rental event, not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Arte para chiquitos
2024-05-14 | Salón Ortega, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:00 – 10:45 am
Arte para chiquitos is a free, monthly, 45-minute program for babies and toddlers ages 0 months to 4 years and their caregivers that cultivates creativity and self-expression through the exploration of Hispanic/Latine arts and culture. Participants explore the NHCC Museum, Performing Arts Center, and engage in artmaking, music, movement, dance, drama, and bilingual story time. NHCC instructors model age-appropriate arts techniques that celebrate self-expression, build vocabulary, and strengthen both fine-motor and gross-motor skills in a fun environment.
Free Community Event. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
This program is generously supported by NM Gas.

Afro Mundo: Film Screening: All the World is Sleeping
2024-05-15 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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 2017 Bold Futures NM resourced seven system-impacted women to create a story that explored the complexities of trauma, substance use, and parenting in New Mexico. The insight derived through this process, and from our leaders evolved into a feature film highlighting characters with authenticity and heart with the aim of pushing back against the stigma faced by pregnant women and people living through substance use and addiction. This beautiful film will shed light on the realities of addiction, and the resources that are so desperately needed for families living in cycles of substance use and addiction while lifting the expertise of women who have lived these truths.
Created by: Bold Futures
Directed by: Ryan Lacen
Story created by: Jade Sanchez, Doralee Urban, Myra Salazar, Patricia Marez, Carly Hicks, Kayleigh Smith, Malissa Trujillo
Executive Produced by: Micaela Lara Cadena, Charlene Bencomo, Denicia Cadena, Esperanza Dodge, Tannia Esparza
Co-Produced by: Kat Sanchez, Naomie Germain
Produced by: Ian Simon P.G.A, Ryan Lacen P.G.A, Sonja Mereu, Anthony Baldino
Cast: Melissa Barrera, Kristen Gutoskie, Lisandra Tena, Luis Bordonada, with Jackie Cruz and Jorge Garcia
Run Time: 1 hour 50 minutes. | Rated: TV-MA | Language: English | Genre: Drama
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending below.

Magnify’s 10th Anniversary Showcase- Through the Decades
2024-05-17 - 2024-05-18 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:30 pm Friday
11:00 am Saturday
Through the Decades, Magnify Dance Center’s 10th Anniversary Spring Showcase, will include an
entertaining array of dance styles and musical hits of past and present with highlights performed by Magnify Dance
Ensemble. A portion of proceeds will benefit Casa Esperanza. Join us for this two-act performance, which will inspire
and delight!
$20-$27 discounts for students and seniors.
*The event is a rental event, not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Ekphrastic Poetry Contest Reading
2024-05-19 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
3:00 – 5:00 pm
The winners and honorable mentions for the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs inaugural Ekphrastic Poetry Contest are invited to read their poems inspired by artwork on display at the Center and across the state. Members of the public are encouraged to attend. More information about the Poetry Contest is available at nmculture.org/poetry.

Sandra's School of Dance: Lights, Camera, Dance Recital 2024
2024-05-19 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:00 am, 1:00 pm & 4:00 pm
Sandra’s School of Dance presents Lights, Camera, Dance Recital 2024. Get ready for Lights, Camera, Dance; a movie-themed extravaganza at Sandra’s School of Dance! Step into the spotlight as our talented dancers bring your favorite films to life through their incredible performances. From iconic dance sequences to show-stopping routines, this recital will transport you to the magical world of cinema.
Tickets will be available starting on April 20, 2024 at 10:00 am.
$20, $25, & $30 Advance Sales April 20th through April 30th
Regular ticket prices begin May 1, 2024 at 10:00 am.
$25, $30, & $35, no other discounts
Grab your popcorn and join us for an unforgettable night of Lights, Camera, and Dance! Sandra’s School of Dance is an incredible dance studio that has been rocking the dance floor for over 40 years! We specialize in providing top-notch dance education for dancers aged 18 months to 18 years old. With experienced instructors, a nurturing environment, and a wide range of dance styles to choose from, it’s the perfect place for dancers of all ages and levels to grow and thrive.
Whether you’re just starting out or are a seasoned dancer, Sandra’s School of Dance is where dreams are turned into reality. Join our dance family and let your passion shine! Please visit our website for more information at Sandra’s School of Dance: Dance Classes in Albuquerque, NM.
*The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime
2024-05-21 | NHCC Library, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Stories come to life through art, movement, and more! In May, our theme will be “Being Different is My Superpower!” Join us as we read from a trio of books: Spanish is My Superpower: A Social Emotional, Rhyming Kid’s Book About Being Bilingual and Speaking Spanish, by Jennifer Jones; A Color of His Own/ Su propio color by Leo Lionni; and What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?/Que Harias Con Una Cola Como Esta? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers.
Free Community Event, generously supported by NM Gas.

East Mountain Dance: Recital 2024: The Wizard of Oz!
2024-05-25 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
12:00 pm, 3:00 pm, & 6:00 pm
East Mountain Dance presents our 2024 end-of-year recital, fully costumed, and performed on one of the best stages in NM! Broken into three unique performances, the studio’s classes will all have the opportunity to perform for friends, family, and the community.
Please check with your student PRIOR to purchasing tickets as most classes and students will perform in ONLY one (1) of the three (3) shows on May 25th. The first two shows (12pm and 3pm) will be approximately 1 hour each, with no intermissions, and will be geared towards our younger students and their families. Our final show of the day (6pm) will be our older showcase. This will be geared towards our older students and their families, will include a brief intermission, and will wrap up with a final performance by this year’s EMD Amethyst Dance Team of this season’s competition choreography. These shows are open to the public and we thank everyone for supporting youth/adolescent development and arts education!
There is nothing like performing on stage, and we hope all of our students, friends, family, and community will join us in celebrating a wonderful year of dance and growth!
$14, $17, $20, and $25. w/ $2 discount for children and seniors.
Please note, the run time for the 12:00 pm and the 3:00 pm performance will be approximately 1-hour and the 6:00 pm performance will be the full 2-hour performance.
* The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.
