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  • Summer Institute Performances: Voces

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7 pm The NHCC’s Summer Institutes—Circo Latino, the Manoa Project, and Voces— students from the Voces writing program will perform selected pieces from their month of intensive writing that explore their own inner voices and the themes of community, agriculture, farming and our relationship with nature represented in the NHCC Art Museum’s current exhibit Outstanding in His Field: San Ysidro—Patron Saint of Farmers. Free public event; suggested donation $5

  • Film: The Sea Inside/Mar Adentro

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7 pm The Sea Inside is based on the life story of Ramón Sampedro, a Spanish ship mechanic and part-time poet who was left quadriplegic and bedridden at the age of 26 following a diving accident. Sampedro fought a 30-year campaign for the legal right to end his life with dignity; despite his wish to die, he was able to inspire those who were close to him to live life to the fullest. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series. 2004; directed (more...)

  • La Pasión de Mariachi: Salute to Mariachi History and Excellence

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

    6 pm (doors open at 5:30 pm) La Pasión de Mariachi is a celebration of the art form of mariachi. The purpose is to create greater awareness, understanding, and appreciation of traditional and authentic mariachi music by providing insights into the music, band member make-up, and instruments. Mariachi groups, like orchestras, are typically comprised of 18 to 20 members; many of the instruments, such as the guitarrón, are unique to this form of music. Performances will demonstrate various styles within the genre, including son, huapango, and ranchera. (more...)

  • Film: Princesas

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7 pm The “princesas” of the film’s title are two young prostitutes on the streets of Madrid: Spanish-born Caye, who is hiding her profession from her middle-class family and is disturbed by the influx of competition from other countries, and Zulema, an undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic who is sending money home to her mother and son. As the two struggle to survive for different reasons under stressful circumstances, an unlikely and touching friendship develops. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film (more...)

  • Film: Only Human/Seres Queridos

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7 pm Leni, a Jewish television personality, brings her boyfriend Rafi, a Palestinian university professor, home to meet her family in Madrid. Sharing an apartment, the extended family includes a belly-dancing sister, a brother with a wounded pet duck, and a blind grandfather with a loaded rifle. Add in a potentially lethal block of frozen soup, and the couple discovers that whatever can go wrong, will…. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series. 2004; directed by Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegrí; Spanish (more...)

  • AMP Concerts Presents John Gorka (Rental)

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

    7:30 pm A singer/songwriter famed for his stunningly soulful baritone, John Gorka is one of the leading lights of the new folk movement. In 1987, Gorka cut his debut album, I Know, for the Red House label, winning acclaim for his songs’ subtle wit and acute observations. In the 1990s, he released several albums on the Windham Hill label. Since returning to Red House in 1998, Gorka has released several well-regarded albums, including The Company You Keep and So Dark You See, as well as Red Horse. (more...)

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  • Film: Extraterrestrial

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7 pm When Julio wakes up in a strange apartment, his pleasure at realizing that he has spent the night with the beautiful Julia is complicated by the unexpected return of Julia’s boyfriend and the interference of a prying neighbor, as well as the discovery of a giant flying saucer hovering over the deserted city of Madrid and, possibly, the end of the world. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series. 2011; directed by Nacho Vigalondo; English; 90 minutes; not rated. Free (more...)

  • AMP Concerts Presents Over the Rhine (Rental)

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7:30 pm After more than 20 years of making music, it's obvious that Ohio duo Over The Rhine is in it for the long haul. Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, named to Paste magazine's list of 100 Best Living Songwriters, began performing together in 1990 in local Cincinnati clubs and gathering places. Their first show drew about 20 people, most of them friends. But even from this somewhat humble beginning, audiences knew that they had stumbled onto something special.  Treating their listeners like family, Karin and Linford (more...)

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  • Film: Valentín

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7 pm Eight-year-old Valentín lives with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires. Solemn and observant, he spends a lot of time “building stuff for astronauts” and peering at the world through enormous glasses, observing the adults in his life with analytical zeal. When he feels that the adult world is handling its affairs badly, he takes matters into his own hands. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series. 2002; directed by Alejandro Agresti; Spanish with English subtitles; 86 minutes; rated PG-13. Free (more...)

  • Film: Pelo malo/Bad Hair

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7 pm Junior, a nine-year-old boy living in a housing project in Caracas with his widowed mother and baby brother, wants to have his stubbornly curly—or “bad”—hair straightened for his yearbook picture. As he grows increasingly obsessed with his hair, his mother finds him increasingly difficult to handle, and a showdown looms. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series. 2014; directed by Mariana Rondón; Spanish with English subtitles; 93 minutes; not rated. Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show