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  • 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...)

  • Perspectivas Modernas: Trans-American Detritus: A Study in Trans-Femicide  

    6 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE This presentation focuses on the photography series, En la Pista (2016) by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. I focus on Margolles' use of portraiture to capture a snapshot of the lives of transwomen in Juarez, Mexico, and the transitions of the border. Margolles' work visually disrupts narratives of femicide and slows the frantic pace of life on the border within the boundaries of the frame of the photographs. Free and open to the public Francisco Galarte is an assistant professor (more...)

  • Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!

    6:30 pm (MST) Live on Zoom Register in advance HERE We are back! Coming to you through zoom! Happy Arte Hour is an adult only at making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm (MST) February – December. Please register and prior to the class you will receive an email with the zoom link and items/art supplies to gather from around your house.  Please do not (more...)

  • Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Manuel González, Duende de Burque: Alburquerque Poems and Musings

    3 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE A virtual event partnership with the University of New Mexico Press and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Manuel González will read and be in conversation with Valerie Martinez, Director of History and Literary Arts at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. At its center, Manuel Gonzalez’s Duende de Burque is a love letter to Alburquerque and its surroundings—the Sandia Mountains, the Rio Grande Bosque, and all the people whose spirits fill these spaces.  Manuel González was the City of Albuquerque’s (more...)

  • Film: Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde, Segundo López, aventurero urbano

    12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE In Ana Mariscal’s neorealist comedy Segundo López, aventurero urbano, an honest countryman arrives in Madrid looking for work. When he befriends a street urchin, they embark on innumerable urban adventures. Mariscal, an iconic Spanish film actress, also stars in her directorial debut. 1953; Spanish with English subtitles; 80 minutes; not rated. Free community event In February, the Pioneras series featured on-line talks highlighting the work of women who have paved the way in investigating new (more...)

  • Colcha Community Stitch-Along

    1 pm (MST) Live via Zoom Our Virtual Colcha Community Workshop is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting, wherever they may reside. This workshop is instructed by Annette Gutierrez-Turk. Annette has taught this art form to groups internationally and at the NHCC for many years. She is also an award winning artist, most recently recognized in 2019 at Santa Fe Spanish Market. This workshop is for all levels of experience in an informal setting.  Annette will demonstrate as well as answer questions. We hope you will join (more...)

  • Film: Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde, La gata

    12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Co-directed by Margarita Alexandre and Rafael Torrecilla, La gata, set in in the Andalusian countryside, is the story of a love triangle playing out in the world of bullfighting. It has been described as a “beautiful tragedy,” as well as a melodrama. Actress, director, and producer Margarita Alexandre worked in film and theatre in Spain during the early days of the Franco regime, and in Cuba following the Revolution. Born in León in 1923, she (more...)

  • Film: Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde, El crimen de Cuenca

    12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Pilar Miró’s El crimen de Cuenca is an unsparing depiction of real events that took place in 1913 in the Spanish province of Cuenca.  When a shepherd mysteriously disappears, his companions, believed to be responsible for his murder, confess to the crime under torture and are condemned to prison, serving 11 years of an 18-year sentence.  After they are released, the man they supposedly killed turns up alive. The film was initially banned in Spain (more...)

  • Film: Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde, Función de noche

    12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE In Josefina Molina’s Función de noche, the actress Lola Herrera, performing nightly in Miguel Delibes’ play Cinco horas con Mario, comes to confound her own life with that of the character she plays. In the close confines of her dressing room, she and her former husband, actor Daniel Dicenta, engage in a cathartic conversation about their professional and personal lives. 1981; Spanish with English subtitles; 90 minutes; Rated PG13 Free community event In February, the (more...)