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November 2020
Virtual: Inside Yjastros
8 pm (MTS)
Virtual performance with a digital viewing pass.
Get pass HERE
Link and password will be sent to you one hour before the premiere, providing 48 hours of access.
In 1999, Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company set forth on an artistic journey that would become America’s most distinctive flamenco project. This revolutionary performance entity combines the mosaic quality of the American repertory company with the authentic idiom of flamenco, creating a living archive of choreographic masterworks.
Film: ¡Cine Magnífico: Cortos/Short Subjects
12 pm (available through 9 pm on Sunday, November 22)
Free Event
Request password by Monday, November 16th HERE
¡Cine Magnífico!, the Albuquerque Latino Film Festival, is organized every year by Instituto Cervantes, an institution founded by the Spanish government in 1991 to promote the teaching, use and study of the Spanish language and to contribute to the advancement of Spanish, Hispanic and Latin American cultures throughout the world. Instituto Cervantes has more than 90 centers in over 43 different countries on five continents around the world; its Albuquerque office is located at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
The short subjects offered by the festival are as follows:
Film: ¡Cine Magnífico: Largometrajes/Feature Films
Various times; see individual titles below for screening times (all titles are available for 24 hours after individual screenings open)
Free Event
Request password by Monday, November 16 HERE
¡Cine Magnífico!, the Albuquerque Latino Film Festival, is organized every year by Instituto Cervantes, an institution founded by the Spanish government in 1991 to promote the teaching, use and study of the Spanish language and to contribute to the advancement of Spanish, Hispanic and Latin American cultures throughout the world. Instituto Cervantes has more than 90 centers in over 43 different countries on five continents around the world; its Albuquerque office is located at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
The Largometrajes/Feature Films offered by the festival are as follows:
¡Música del Corazón!—Mariachis y Flamencos: New Mexico’s Beloved Stepchildren
3 pm
Free community event on the NHCC YouTube Channel HERE
On the wings of melody, rhythm, and poetry, ¡Música del Corazón! concerts, featuring new groups and different traditions each year, tell us as much about our past as about our future. The concerts honor the contributions of John Donald Robb, Sr., former dean of UNM’s College of Fine Arts and a recognized music pioneer, and are dedicated in memory of his son, John Donald Robb, Jr., a driving force in the development of the UNM John Donald Robb Musical Trust.
The seventh annual John D. Robb, Jr. concert will be an online virtual presentation featuring Frank McCulloch, solo voice and guitar; La Mariachi, with Lorenzo Martínez, Larry Martínez, Miguel Ojeda, Joseph Santiago, and José Carrillo; and Flamenco artists Vicente Griego, Eloy Gonzales, and Javier Saume Mazzei.
December 2020
¡Globalquerque! Cross-Cultural Crossover Encore
2 pm
Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/AfroLatinJazzAlliance
Free
Join us December 4, 2020 for an ENCORE performance of the ¡Globalquerque! Cross-Cultural Crossover, presented in partnership with Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance as part of their La Paza @ Digital Village YouTube Series!
The program features four past festival acts—Rahim AlHaj (Iraq), Nation Beat (Brazil/USA), Vivalda Ndula (Angola) and Nohe & Sus Santos (Honduras/New Mexico) collaborating on one another’s songs, deconstructing them and re-presenting them through a cross-cultural lens. Chats with the artists in between songs—where some of them were meeting face-to-face for the first time after recording together—give a glimpse at the process and all the emotions that went with it!
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Film: Cortos en Femenino Film Series: Dúctiles
12 pm
Online screening will be available through the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on Monday, December 7, 2020.
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Free
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque and the NHCC present the Cortos en femenino film series during the month of December, a month dedicated to cortometraje (short subjects) with “[ED+C] El día más corto”—the shortest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere. Designed by Trama, coordinator of women’s festivals in Spain, the series celebrates the talented female directors working in this format with screenings of four very different short films—two dramatic works, one documentary, and one montage.
Marisa Benito’s Dúctiles examines images of women that have been used and shaped by social norms and historical events of different eras, generating visual coding and stereotypes that have been filtered, in one way or another, through male hierarchies that have used them to attribute norms of ethical and moral conduct to women, as well as specific functions and spaces in society.
Film: Cortos en Femenino Film Series: Centrifugado
12 pm
Online screening will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on Monday, December 14, 2020.
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Free
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque and the NHCC present the Cortos en femenino film series during the month of December, a month dedicated to cortometraje (short subjects) with “[ED+C] El día más corto”—the shortest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere. Designed by Trama, coordinator of women’s festivals in Spain, the series celebrates the talented female directors working in this format with screenings of four very different short films—two dramatic works, one documentary, and one montage.
A young man helps an old lady carry her laundry up to her house. Once inside, she seems reluctant to let him go. The environment in which everyday life goes on always has its lights and shadows, and appearances are often deceiving. Centrifugado, Mireia Noguera’s first film, is a dazzling demonstration of ellipsis and humanity.
Film: Cortos en Femenino Film Series: No me despertéis
12 pm
Online screening will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on Monday, December 21, 2020.
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Free
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque and the NHCC present the Cortos en femenino film series during the month of December, a month dedicated to cortometraje (short subjects) with “[ED+C] El día más corto”—the shortest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere. Designed by Trama, coordinator of women’s festivals in Spain, the series celebrates the talented female directors working in this format with screenings of four very different short films—two dramatic works, one documentary, and one montage.
In Sara Fantova’s autobiographical film No me despertéis, teenage Jone is a student at a secondary school in Bilbao where the tense atmosphere reflects the social reality of the political division of the Basque Country in 2009. When her father assumes a position with the Basque Government requiring the services of a bodyguard, he will leave his former life behind, and Jone will have to learn to live between two worlds as well, and to understand that not everything is black or white.
Roadrunner Food Bank Distribution Location
11 am
The NHCC will be a special drive-thru distribution location for the Roadrunner Food Bank on Wednesday, December 23rd starting 11am. The Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico supplies food to hundreds of organizations throughout New Mexico and it is an honor to be a distribution partner during this difficult holiday season.
If you need help please reach out to the Roadrunner Food Bank by calling 505-349-5340 or go to their website at https://www.rrfb.org for more information.
Film: Cortos en Femenino Film Series: Quand j’étais petit
12 pm
Online screening will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 1 pm on Monday, December 28, 2020.
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Free
Instituto Cervantes-Albuquerque and the NHCC present the Cortos en femenino film series during the month of December, a month dedicated to cortometraje (short subjects) with “[ED+C] El día más corto”—the shortest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere. Designed by Trama, coordinator of women’s festivals in Spain, the series celebrates the talented female directors working in this format with screenings of four very different short films—two dramatic works, one documentary, and one montage.
Elena Molina‘s documentary Quand j’étais petit is the story of N’Sele Malone, as well as the story of childhood in many African countries, where violence and helplessness are often unavoidable. Now one of the most renowned puppeteers in West Africa, Malone uses the marionettes that he constructs in his Burkina Faso workshop to free and transform his early memories. The film is a fable illuminating the future, through the magic of the story and the timeless ability of stories to teach us how to live and grow.