Theatre
PAPA’s Senior Showcase 2023
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm The Senior Class of 2023 at Public Academy for Performing Arts showcases what they do best in music, dance, theatre, film, and visual art. Don’t miss your opportunity to see these rising stars, as this event is one night only! Approximate length of event: 2.5 hours $10, $20, $30 The event is a rental event, not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images, and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving (more...)
Broadway Bound LIVE: Round 7
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:00 pm to 9:00 pm The program is a televised musical theatre competition show for low-income young adults between the ages of 18-28. The program awards up to 18 contestants with private voice, group dance, and group acting lessons for 16 weeks as they compete for a $60,000 scholarship to AMDA College of the Performing Arts in New York City. Learn more at www.katharsismedia.org/bblsponsor. $22, $27 & 32 with a $2 discount for seniors and students 12 years old and younger *Price of the ticket includes a $2 (more...)
New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus: The Show Must Go On
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:30 pm Saturday | 3:00 pm Sunday New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus presents The Show Must Go On. We’re ready to rock you as NMGMC presents the music of Queen. This choral rock concert will feature some of Queen’s most popular hits presented in a fun, campy way that only NMGMC can do. Get ready to hear favorites like "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Somebody to Love," "We Are the Champions," and more. The chorus and the live band on stage will deliver what will truly be an epic evening (more...)
Feature Film: Backstreet to the American Dream
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM1st Annual NHCC Film Symposium: The Power of Our Stories Feature: Backstreet to the American Dream (2021) directed by Patricia Nazario 6:00 pm: Pre-film reception and cash bar 7:00 pm: Film Screening Followed by Director’s Q&A Backstreet to the American Dream is a modern-day look at the classic American Dream done through the quintessential 21st Century entrepreneurial endeavor – food trucks! This deep dive into the birthplace of the $2 billion dollar global industry, Los Angeles, profiles two trucks and juxtaposes the experiences of American entrepreneurs and Mexican (more...)
AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Afro-Indigeneity
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:00 pm Screening of film “Garifuna in Peril" (2012), 99 mins. Produced and Directed by Alí Allié y Ruben Reyes Latin America has traditionally treated Indigenous and Afro peoples as separate. Yet the fates and identities of both have been intertwined since the arrival of Africans to the Americas. The film Garifuna in Peril delves into the Indigenous and Afro roots of the Garinagu, also known as the Garifuna. Panelists include: Garifuna Scholar Pablo Jose Lopez Oro; San Ilefonso Tradition Bearer and Healer Tauz Tamu Povi; Afro-Latinidad (more...)
AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Folk Medicine: Healing & Spirituality
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:00 pm Screening of short film “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings” (2022), written and directed by Cara Lawson, 15 mins. Savannah’s moss-covered forests are alive to Bertie Bee Hooks, a gifted granddaughter of a midwife. With the wisdom of folk medicine, Bertie Bee depends on mystical connections to the spirit world as she becomes exposed to the tragedies of a wounded American past. Panelists include Film Writer & Director Cara Lawson; Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Birthing Project—Underground Railroad for New Life, Kathryn Hall Trujillo; Doulah & (more...)
Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, 50th Anniversary Concert
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM3:00 pm The Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating their 50th Anniversary Grand Finale Concert! Music Director Byron Herrington conducts Toccata and Fugue in d by J.S Bach, and Latin American Symphonette by Morton Gould on the first half. Then we will have a 20-minute intermission, closing with Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73, by Johannes Brahms. Join us in celebrating our 50th Anniversary with cake and coffee after the concert! We would love to meet our patrons! Free community event. Tickets available at the door day (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Soñando un lugar
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities Alfonso Kint and Lucía Camón are two artists who embarked on the adventure of moving to a village in the province of Zaragoza to try a different life. Their project Pueblos en Arte was born from this bet, which managed to attract other people with a similar vital profile in an attempt to achieve a better way of life and to generate other creative synergies in (more...)
Film Screening: Bound by Honor
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 pm: Reception & Book Signing 6:00 pm: Pre-Film Talk with Jimmy Santiago Baca 7:00 pm: Film Screening Our Summer Film Series kicks off with a 30th anniversary screening of Bound by Honor (Blood In, Blood Out) and special guest Jimmy Santiago Baca. Bound by Honor, an American epic crime drama, directed by Taylor Hackford, has become a cult-classic film within the Mexican-American community. Based on the true-life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on Chicano step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their biracial cousin (more...)
Hamilton Masterclass with Broadway Bound LIVE
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting11:00 am Enjoying Broadway Bound LIVE and looking to hone your own acting chops? You're in luck: Broadway Bound is hosting a FREE acting masterclass, featuring members from the touring cast of Hamilton, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center! Actors will be expected to come with prepared monologues, so please prepare accordingly. This free community event will be limited to 40 attendees, so please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance. Please help serve the mission of the NHCC by letting us know who will be attending (more...)