Performing Arts
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...)
Instituto Cervantes Film Series: A rapa das bestas (2017)
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In her first films, Jaione Camborda chose to shoot in super-8 as a sign of identity, with confidence in the image, materiality and lyrical grain. Throughout her filmography, the filmmaker reflects from an ethnographic perspective on man's relationship with the animal, violence, and the atavistic, as we see reflected in her pieces Proba de axilidade (2015), A rapa das bestas (2017) and Videogramas #4 (2022). Free Community Event About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en (more...)
Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company: Xicano Power
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM8:00 pm Friday, 4:00 pm Saturday National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present the Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company in Xicano Power. Xicano Power is the seasonal culmination of Yjastros’ progression and evolution. This performance made its world premiere at the 2023 Festival de Jerez, marking the first time a company from the United States was ever invited to perform in the prestigious international festival. The current concert season marks the performance's first appearance at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. $48, $58, $68, $78 & (more...)
Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Sin Dios ni Santa María (2015)
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Sin Dios ni Santa María takes as its starting point the historical rereading of the figure of the witch, an investigation that led its directors to texts like Calibán y la bruja, by Silvia Federici. It is an analysis that unearths the dynamics of social expropriation directed over the body, knowledge, and reproduction of women for centuries. Free Community Event. About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide. Flashes of light and other divergences in (more...)
Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Descartes (2021)
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In 2016, a search for information began in Filmoteca Española for a research projection on the documentary film Rocío, which had been censored in the early 1980s. Among the materials deposited in its warehouses were 260 rolls of 16 mm photo negatives. They were the leftovers of the editing, footage that was left out of the final version. The forgotten images of a banned film come to life on the screen after forty years in Descartes. (more...)
¡Música del Corazón! 10th Anniversary Celebration. John Donald Robb, Jr. Memorial Concert
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM3:00 pm Música del Corazón celebrates its tenth anniversary with our favorite performers in the Nuevoméxicano tradition with Nueva Luna, a conjunto featuring Lara Manzanares, Rob Martínez, and Felix "Gato" Peralta, with special guest Jordan Wax, the founder of Lone Piñón. Two emerging ensembles join us: A new mix of Jarocho musicians under the leadership of the renowned Laura Rebolloso, and UNM's Mariachi Lobo directed by Robert Lucero, Jr., with ethnomusicologist Adolfo Estrada. Free Community Event. 2:00 pm: ABQ Journal Theatre lobby *Box Office Opens: NHCC requests all audience members obtain a free ticket (more...)
Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Toxos e flores (2016)
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here A portrait of the landscape of the San Sadurniño area. Natural architectures, still-lifes, spaces of green lights and absolute browns. Filmmaker Lucía Vilela explores the texture of the cut wood, the tiles on the roofs of the houses, the tops of the trees that follow the cadence of the drums of Mociños de Igrexafeita (1971), a popular song that favors an atmosphere of rhythms sheltered by the texture of the celluloid. Free Community Event. About (more...)