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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
