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Cervantes Film Series: Beti Bezperako Koplak
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation The animators included in Ageda Kopla Taldea – a group of twenty artists coordinated by Bego Vicarioapproach– weave a fascinating story that starts from the tradition of the bertsolaris, the Basque poets who recite their improvised verses, to bring us closer to the history of cultural and popular traditions at a time when their meanings and contents are being redefined. This work is part of the stream of (more...)
Afro Mundo: Gather
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow. Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political, and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. Free Community Event
Cervantes Film Series: Ezohikoak
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation Through a work with archival photographs, the animator Alejandra Bueno creates a reinterpretation of the presence of women in Basque culture, which combines the manipulation and intervention of these images with the oral enumeration of the functions traditionally attributed to women. The result is a provocative display of how to assume and reverse the elements of tradition and its representation to show its fissures and to open those (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Makun (No llores)
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation Emilio Martí's creative trajectory demonstrates his commitment to social issues that highlight our problems with coexistence and solidarity in today's society. Since his short film Desanimado (2011), winner of countless awards, his work has not stopped betting on a lively and effective story-telling and emotional resonance, always using animation as an expressive key. With this short film, which also won several awards, he brings us closer to (more...)
Media/Climate Justice Internship Film Premiere & Celebration
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting5:00 pm: Private Reception 6:00 pm: Graduation, Performances, & Screening Note: This screening has been moved from the Bank of America Theatre to the Wells Fargo Auditorium. Due to the smaller venue, space will be limited. Please register below. Come celebrate the culmination of El Puente, an 8-week youth summer program that aims to develop and nurture the talents of young individuals, providing them with the tools and skills necessary to become future media creators and advocates for environmental justice. Through hands-on experiences and mentorship, youth are (more...)
Film: Agave is Life
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 pm: Cash bar and food trucks 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: UNM Mariachi Ensemble 7:00 pm: Film screening Note: This screening will now be held in the Bank of America Theatre. Agave is Life is an exploration of the history of the agave plant in the cultures of Mexico and the American Southwest. Starting thousands of years ago when hunter-gatherers viewed the hardy desert succulent with its myriad uses as a gift from the gods, agave's story is told through the lens of archaeological, ethnographic, and (more...)
Afro Mundo: Sister Doula
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow. Black babies die at 5 times the rate of white babies. SISTER DOULA is the story of Hakima Payne, a nurse in Kansas City who tackles this crisis head-on, fighting to save Black babies by offering alternatives to the US healthcare system that surveils, criminalizes, and harms Black families. Mama Hakima is equal parts unapologetic truth-teller and wise-compassionate mentor. This is the story of the birth doulas she has mentored, who advocate for Black birthing people and (more...)
Antigravity Films & Red on the Side: Cinema Rendezvous
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM6:00 pm: Doors open 7:00 pm: Film Screening Antigravity Films & Red on the Side present CINEMA RENDEZVOUS. Join us for an evening of local short films and stay for the world premiere of the fan film Star Wars: Rendezvous, followed by a Q&A with our featured local filmmakers. Hosted by Brent Peterson of Antigravity Films, and Crystal Thomas of Red on the Side Productions. Mix & Mingle with Star Wars Characters at 6:00 pm; screening begins at 7:00 pm, followed immediately by the Q&A. Seats are limited. Tickets (more...)
Film: Pan’s Labyrinth
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 pm: Cash bar and food trucks 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Musical Performance: WillaJay 7:00 pm: Film screening It's 1944 and the Allies have invaded Nazi-held Europe. In Spain, a troop of soldiers are sent to a remote forest to flush out the rebels. They are led by Capitan Vidal, a murdering sadist, and with him are his new wife Carmen and her daughter from a previous marriage, 11-year-old Ofelia. Ofelia witnesses her stepfather's sadistic brutality and is drawn into Pan's Labyrinth, a magical world of (more...)
Afro Mundo: Maestra
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow. In 1961, over 250,000 Cubans joined their country’s National Literacy Campaign and taught more than 707,000 other Cubans to read and write. Almost half of these volunteer teachers were under eighteen years old, and more than half were women. Free Community Event Narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, MAESTRA explores the experiences of nine of the women who, as young girls, helped eradicate Cuban illiteracy within one year. Interweaving interviews, archival footage, and campaign photos, this (more...)