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.
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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 with an Israeli journalist. Panelists include Palestinian Muslim-American grassroots feminist and organizer Samia Assed, Nicole D. Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project, and Brandi Kellam, a Gracie and Emmy awarded Journalist. Moderated
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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 Tilousi. Moderated by filmmaker Amber Espinosa. Followed by a Q&A. Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal.
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7:00 pm NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium Presentations by Haitian American poet Patrick Sylvain, Afro-Cuban filmmaker Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy, and Egyptian Palestinian American author, filmmaker, and actor Randa Jarrar. Followed by a Q&A. Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal.
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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 a Q&A. Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal.
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7:00 pm Saturday 2:00 pm Sunday Festival Ballet Albuquerque presents an original production of Romeo & Juliet, the two star-crossed lovers, by William Shakespeare, to the music by Sergei Prokofiev. It is a story about an age-old feud between two powerful families, Capulets and Montagues, erupting into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues risk further conflict by gatecrashing the Capulet’s ball. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father’s choice, Count Paris. With the help of Juliet’s nurse, the women arrange for the couple be married the following day by Friar Lorence. Romeo’s
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5:00 – 7:30 pm Join us for a free public reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition, Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico, curated by Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D. and Irene Vásquez, Ph.D. This is an exhibition 7 years in the making that feature a group of New Mexican artists who were among the earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. All 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, were students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in Las Vegas
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2:00 pm The New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus presents The Unbreakable Harvey Milk . A reprise of two powerful stories about the LGBTQ+ communities by Andrew Lippa. I Am Harvey Milk chronicles the life of the civil rights leader who became one of the first openly gay men to be elected to public office in California. Unbreakable presents a historical arc to the experiences of LGBTQ+ people over the last 12 decades, illuminated by stories drawn from real-life stories throughout LGBTQ+ history. $20, $30, $45 & $60. Discount tickets for those 30
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This is an exhibition 7 years in the making that features a group of New Mexican artists who were among the earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. All 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, were students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in Las Vegas in the early 1970s when Chicano scholar Pedro Rodríguez was hired as the inaugural Director of Chicano Studies at NMHU. It was at NMHU that these young men and women became politically activated and proceeded to paint
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