Performing Arts

Film Screening: The Motorcycle Diaries

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm: Food Trucks | Cash Bar | Pop Fizz | Motorcycle Show (ends 6:00 pm) 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Live Capoeira Performance 6:30 pm: Pre-Film Talk 7:00 pm: The Motorcycle Diaries Screening On a break before his last semester of medical school, Ernesto “Che” Guevara (Gael García Bernal) travels with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) from Brazil to Peru by motorcycle. The two men soon witness the great disparities in South America, encountering poor peasants and observing the exploitation (more…)

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Film Screening: Bound by Honor

5:00 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

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Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Iberia (2005)

12 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Don’t miss the latest online film series from Instituto Cervantes, focusing on the life and work of the internationally renowned director Carlos Saura. Saura’s 2005 film Iberia traces a series of dances inspired by composer Isaac Albéniz’s “Iberia” suite. The film received the Goya Award for Best Cinematography/Mejor Fotografía in 2006. 2005 | Spanish w/ English Subtitles | 1 hour 39 minutes | Not Rated Free Community Event

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Power Of Our Stories: Lupe Under the Sun & Team Meryland

2nd Annual Film Symposium 12:30 pm: Doors open 1:00pm: Screening- Lupe Under the Sun 2:30 pm: Screening- Team Meryland 3:15 pm: Panel Discussion and Q&A to immediately follow with Gabriel Gaurano and Rodrigo Reyes moderated by Deborah Blanche as Emma Tenayuca Free Community Event. Lupe Under the Sun is a neorealist film following an aging migrant worker living in California, who longs to return to Mexico before it is too late. Featuring a cast of nonprofessional actors, real farmworkers and authentic locations, Lupe Under the Sun tackles

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Feature Film: What We Leave Behind

1st Annual NHCC Film Symposium: The Power of Our Stories Feature: What We Leave Behind (2022) directed by Iliana Sosa 6:00 pm: Pre-film reception and cash bar  7:00 pm: Film Screening followed by Director’s Q&A What We Leave Behind is a 2022 documentary film. It’s a portrait of director Iliana Sosa’s grandfather, Julián Moreno, as he starts building a house in the Mexican state of Durango. As a younger man, Julián had spent decades living between the United States and Mexico, first working as a bracero and later traveling by bus

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The Pandemia Chronicles: A Divination Ritual by Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Balitrónica

6:30-8:00 pm MST The Pandemia Chronicles: A Divination Ritual A brand new spoken-word monologue & “live-action juke-box” by Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Balitrónica  by Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Balitrónica  La Pocha Nostra and the artists are thrilled to present excerpts from their most recent performance manuscripts and bank of ritual actions. Utilizing a casino roulette and traditional tarot deck, Balitrónica utilizes various forms of oracular magic to select spoken word texts and props for Gómez-Peña live performance. The fate of the script and the performance are determined by methods

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Broadway Bound LIVE: Round 4

6:00 PM *Please note the time has changed from 7:00 PM to 6:00 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

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Broadway Bound LIVE: Round 3

7:00 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

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