• Theatre: Lion Island: Cuba’s Warrior of Words

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    7:30 pm Fridays & Saturdays 1:00 pm Sundays *Thursday, April 3rd at 7:30 pm is a special preview/community night NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium The NHCC and our friends and partners at the Vortex Theatre invite you to experience a captivating original play adapted from Margarita Engle’s award-winning young adult novel in verse, Lion Island: […]

  • Opera Southwest: Doña Clementina

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    April 6, 11, & 13, 2025 2:00 pm Sundays, 7:30 pm Friday Opera Southwest presents Boccherini’s Doña Clementina. Discover Boccherini’s Gem: The American Premiere of Doña Clementina. Experience love, honor, and Spanish flair in Luigi Boccherini’s opera Doña Clementina, making its American debut. Follow the captivating journey of a courageous young woman navigating passion, loyalty, and […]

  • Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Cuentas divinas

    Virtual

    12:00 pm MST All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu Eulalia Ramón, a renowned Spanish actress, presents her first work as a director, produced by her daughter Anna Saura. This is a very black comedy that places a serial killer at the center of a narrative with social undertones that breaks […]

  • Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Pequeño

    Virtual

    12:00 pm MST All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu Álvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera humorously present us with a moral dilemma in which parents confront their love for their daughter and the novel options of bioethics. It is one of the most transgressive works that have come to the […]

  • Student Matinee: Lion Island: Cuba’s Warrior of Words (Not Public)

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    10:00 am The Center invites middle and high school students to attend a special free matinee performance of Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words! NHCC requires one chaperone or school staff member for every 15 students at school performances. Limited bus funding for free performances and behind the scenes experiences available — please contact alejandrina.padilla@dca.nm.gov […]

  • AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion: We Will Not Perish

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    3:00 pm NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium Screening of documentary Ayiti Pap Peri: Ayiti Will Not Perish. A spotlight on Haitian expatriates returning to work on behalf of their country. Panelists include the documentary’s director and journalist Cassandre Thrasybule, Haitian American author Patrick Sylvain, Afro Cuban artist and actress Lili Bernard, and documentarist Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy. Followed by […]

  • AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening: Together We Stand

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    7:00 pm NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Screening of documentary Standing Above the Clouds. Through the lens of mothers and daughters in three Native Hawaiian families, the film explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of safeguarding cultural sites. Panelists include Hawaiian tradition bearer Pua Case; Alaskan playwright Marleah Makpiaq LaBelle; Grand Canyon Havasupai Carletta […]

  • AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening: No Other Land

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    7:00 pm NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Screening of this year's Oscar winner for Best Documentary, “No Other Land,” made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors. Over the course of five years, Basel Adra films his Palestinian community of Massager Yatta being destroyed and its populace incarcerated, all as he builds an alliance […]

  • AfroMundo Festival: Panel Discussion: Food is Power-Cultivating Resilience

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    7:00 pm NHCC | Salón Ortega Panel discussion with Palestinian/Syrian Chef Reem Assil; Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo Chef Norma Naranjo, and Haitian Chef Cynthia Verna. Followed by Q&A. Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal. About the Festival: From April 12 – 19, enjoy music, […]

  • Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: La hija indigna

    Virtual

    12:00 pm MST All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu This heartbreaking documentary, created by the young Argentine filmmaker Abril Dores based on real events, explores the relationship between a genocidal father and his daughter. It is an inquiry into family ties and the deep emotions that bind us to people […]