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  • Film: Ciclo Ángela Molina, La mitad del cielo

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón had a significant influence on Ángela Molina’s career, directing several of the films she made in the years of transition to democracy, including Camada negra (1977), El corazón del bosque (1979), and Demonios en el jardín (1982). In La mitad del cielo, set after the Spanish Civil War, Rosa, the daughter of a humble family in Asturias, travels to Madrid with her own daughter following the death of her husband. With the help (more...)

  • Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: UnRaveling: Pancho Villa and Sam Ravel: An Encounter During the Infamous 1916 Raid on Columbus

    2 pm (MST) Live Via Zoom Register in advance HERE For more than a century scholars have debated why Pancho Villa attacked the border town of Columbus, New Mexico on March 9, 1916—a deadly incursion and the only time in the 20th century that a major foreign army invaded the continental United States. For Stacey Ravel Abarbanel, the battle is the context for a family tale so spectacular that she always wondered if it was true: when Villa raided the village he was looking to kill her (more...)

  • Public Reading: Enduring Querencias

    1 pm (MST) Live via Zoom: Register HERE Presented by the NHCC/History and Literary Arts program and the Gutiérrez-Hubbell House History and Cultural Center/Bernalillo County Open Space. From December 2020- January 2021, ten writers created original works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction inspired by the theme of “querencia” and readings from the anthology, Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland, edited by Levi Romero, Vanessa Fonseca-Chavez and Spencer Herrera (UNM Press 2020). Join us for a free public reading of works by Bonnie Bassan, Margo Chavez, Esther (more...)

  • Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde

    11 am (MST) Instituto Cervantes YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/cervantesabq This series of on-line talks highlights the work of women who have paved the way in investigating new artistic languages in disciplines such as electronic music, video creation, or photography. It features New Mexico artists such as filmmaker Sally Kewayosh, Spanish-speaking artists living in the United States such as photographer and filmmaker Jose Girl, and Spanish artists such as musician Niet! and video artist Regina Álvarez. Free community event In March, this programming will be complemented by “Pioneers of (more...)

  • NHCC Book Club: Atop the Windmill: I Could See Forever—Maria Dolores Gonzales

    5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “In this memoir a series of vignettes features Dolores, the fourth-born daughter in a family of five girls, growing up in rural, northeastern New Mexico. Atop the Windmill appeals to both adult and young readers who have an interest in the rich Nuevomexicano linguistic and cultural heritage of New Mexico.”—Bilingual Strategies. Free and open to the public

  • 2021 Winter ABQ Virtual Jewish Film Fest:  The House on Wannsee Street

    Screening—Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 7 pm (MST) * Available for 72 hours * Zoom Conversation—Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 12 pm (MST) Individual tickets are $8 and household tickets are $15; ticket prices include the film and the Zoom conversation. Purchase tickets HERE The House on Wannsee Street is the story of generations of family secrets that are uncovered in this sweeping international story that begins with the Second World War and concludes with an emotional twenty-first-century revelation. When award-winning Argentinean filmmaker Poli Martínez Kaplun decided (more...)

  • Film: Ciclo Ángela Molina, Las cosas del querer

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Jaime Chávarrri’s Las cosas del querer follows the trajectory of a song-and-dance duo and their piano player in the 1940s, with a look into their backstage lives and an evocation of the popular music of their times. As the group’s rise to fame and fortune parallels Franco’s consolidation of power in collusion with the Spanish aristocracy, their return to Madrid marks the most difficult  moments of their careers. Lavishly produced and vibrantly entertaining as a musical, (more...)

  • Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Michelle Otero, Bosque

    3 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Nestled in the heart of Albuquerque is a vibrant cottonwood forest that has flourished for centuries along the Río Grande—providing a home for porcupines, migratory birds, coyotes, and other wildlife as well as a sanctuary for its city residents. In her debut poetry collection, Bosque, Michelle Otero celebrates the importance of water and the bosque to the people of Albuquerque. Free community event “Michelle Otero reveals the palette of The Color Brown throughout the magnificent collection of poetry...A must (more...)

  • 2021 Winter ABQ Virtual Jewish Film Fest: The House on Wannsee Street

    Screening—Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 7 pm (MST) * Available for 72 hours * Zoom Conversation—Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 12 pm (MST) Individual tickets are $8 and household tickets are $15; ticket prices include the film and the Zoom conversation. Purchase tickets HERE The House on Wannsee Street is the story of generations of family secrets that are uncovered in this sweeping international story that begins with the Second World War and concludes with an emotional twenty-first-century revelation. When award-winning Argentinean filmmaker Poli Martínez Kaplun decided (more...)

  • Film: La Guerra Civil Española por nosotras/Female Views of the Spanish Civil War

    12 am (MST) Available through 11:59 pm (MST) March 7 Place: All titles will be available on the Mujeres de Cine VOD platform HERE Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque, in collaboration with Mujeres de Cine (Women of Cinema), presents the on-line film series La Guerra Civil española por nosotras (Female views of the Spanish Civil War), bringing together the views of three Spanish female directors on this conflict. The cycle comprises three full-length films: La buena nueva, by Helena Taberna, El gran vuelo, by Carolina Astudillo Muñoz, and El (more...)