Festival

Inaugural Native Theater & Performing Arts Festival: Echo in the Canyon

April 25, 26, May 2, & 3, 2025 7:00 – 9:00 pm NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium Dancing With Fire Productions in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center presents An Inaugural Native Theater & Performing Arts Festival. Please join us for our Inaugural Native American Theater & Performing Arts Festival on April 24-27 and May 1-4, 2025 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, featuring music, dance, staged readings, and more!

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Inaugural Native Theater & Performing Arts Festival: Opening Reception

7:00 – 9:00 pm NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium Dancing With Fire Productions in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center presents An Inaugural Native Theater & Performing Arts Festival. Please join us for our Inaugural Native American Theater & Performing Arts Festival on April 24-27 and May 1-4, 2025 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. We’ll kick off the festival with an opening reception featuring music and dance performances on Thursday, April 24.

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SOMOS ABQ 2025

4:00 – 11:00 pm (Doors open at 3:30 pm) NHCC Campus SOMOS ABQ 2025: A Love Letter to Albuquerque On Saturday May 10, the creative community of Burque will transform the National Hispanic Cultural Center into a living, breathing work of art—a place where music, creativity, and culture collide in a kaleidoscope of color, movement, sound and connection. By day, immerse yourself in large-scale art installations, hands-on maker activities, and interactive experiences that invite all ages to create, play, and explore. Wander through a world of sculpture,

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AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening: No Other Land

7:00 pm NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Screening of multiple award-winning 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 author Saeed Teebi, Nicole D. Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project, and Brandi Kellam, a Gracie and Emmy Award-winning Journalist. Moderated by Doaa Omran. Followed by a

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AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening: Together We Stand

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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AfroMundo Festival: Literary Reading: Changing the Narrative

7:00 pm NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium Presentations by Haitian-American poet Patrick Sylvain, Afro-Cuban filmmaker Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy, and Palestinian-Canadian author Saeed Teebi. Followed by a Q&A. Presentation consists of readings by Sylvain and Teebi, followed by the screening of a 17-minute documentary, Guillermina, by Sarduy. Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal.

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

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 & Journalist Cassandre Thrasybule, Haitian-American author Patrick Sylvain, Afro-Cuban Artist & 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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