Performing Arts
Film Screening: The Motorcycle Diaries
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 pm to 7:00 pm: Food Trucks | Cash Bar | Pop Fizz | Motorcycle Show (ends 6:00 pm) 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Live Capoeira Performance 6:30 pm: Pre-Film Talk 7:00 pm: The Motorcycle Diaries Screening On a break before his last semester of medical school, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Gael García Bernal) travels with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) from Brazil to Peru by motorcycle. The two men soon witness the great disparities in South America, encountering poor peasants and observing the exploitation (more...)
Ozomatli with special guests Nosotros & Baracutanga
This event has reached capacity and is sold out. IMPORTANT: ALL RESERVATIONS WILL EXPIRE AT 6:30 pm AND WE WILL OPEN SPACE FOR PEOPLE WAITING IN LINE. If you have not checked in by 6:30 pm your reservation will be released, and it will be 1st come 1st serve after that until we reach capacity! Gates open at 4:30pm. Music starts at 5:30 Join us for a special performance on NHCC's Plaza Mayor, featuring Ozomatli with special guests Nosotros & Baracutanga! This free performance of powerhouse Latin (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Azaletik azalera
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation With this award-winning short film, Mel Arranz has managed to place himself within the interesting panorama of animation made in the Basque Country. His piece, colored in various shades of black and white, began to take shape during his artistic stay in Mexico and is a visual experiment: his short film manages to demonstrate a bodily intimacy through the detail shots of the touching of skins, hardly (more...)
New Mexico Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
7:30 pm Bringing Shakespeare to Life in New Mexico! The New Mexico Shakespeare Festival believes that Shakespeare is for everyone - whether you've seen dozens of plays or none at all. You are invited to join them on the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Plaza Mayor and enjoy a wonderful performance! A Midsummer Night's Dream | Directed by Julia Thudium Free community event. Tickets will be available at the event one hour prior to the performance. Director's Note: If Samhain or Halloween is the night, where the veils (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: La mesa
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation With a captivating work drawing on a black and white photographic image, director Adrian Garcia Gomez delves into memory to orient his imagination regarding identity and the past in the environment of the western and Mexican cinema of the 1940's and 50's. This short film follows its predecessor Mikveh (2016), and shares that film's sensitive attunement regarding its formality and concerns, which the Californian creator will continue (more...)
Film: Bless Me, Ultima
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM5:00 - 7:00 pm: Reception & Cash Bar 6:00 pm: Levi Romero Pre-Film Talk 7:00 pm: Screening Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved and iconic Bless Me, Ultima returns to the NHCC with Carl Franklin’s screen adaptation. Bless Me, Ultima is set in the 1940s in rural New Mexico, and tells the story of a young boy and the mysterious healer who opens his eyes to the wonders of the spiritual realm. As the entire world is plunged into war and Antonio Marez grapples with the harsh realities all around him, his life is (more...)
Paul Mitchell Systems Presents: The Kingston Trio LIVE!
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm Fans of legendary folk icons The Kingston Trio can rediscover their timeless music all over again! All three current members, Mike Marvin, Tim Gorelangton and Buddy Woodward, have intrinsic links to and experience with the original group: Mike is the adopted son of founding member Nick Reynolds, who was also his musical mentor; Tim, a close friend since boyhood, is one of the few musicians outside the Trio who has recorded with Nick Reynolds; and Buddy, who has performed with longtime Kingston Trio member George (more...)
Guerrilla Opera: A Discussion with Composer/Director Nathan Felix
Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM6:00pm A discussion with composer/director Nathan Felix about his guerilla approach to opera and staging unconventional classical music performances in non-traditional spaces and how it relates to his collaboration with NHCC. Felix will also give a retrospective insight into his process and inspiration behind his imaginative works such as '6 Pianos in Surround Sound', 'Opera on a Bus' and 'Immersive Operas'. Free Community Event
Prophets, Pyramids & Paños
Visual Art Museum 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States1:00pm - 4:00pm Explore music and performance art in various areas of the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) on Saturday, October 28th. The brainchild of composer Nathan Felix, this exploratory, immersive production titled, Prophets, Pyramids & Paños, showcases an array of local talent that will come together to create a surrealistic musical world at the NHCC where attendees can walk through various locations on the NHCC campus including the pyramid and Torreón to see these different site-specific presentations. Free Community Event
Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Super 8 (1996)
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here David Domingo is one of the renovators of experimental cinema in Spain. Continuing the legacy of Iván Zulueta and absolute reference of analog cinema in super-8 and 16 mm (the format in which he shot his first films), Domingo is the owner of a unique imaginary in which pop references, visual experiments of all kinds, animations (from frame-by-frame animation to visual collage), domestic epic and a dazzling and colorful aesthetic converge. Free Community Event. About (more...)