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August 2021
Mrs. Señora United States and Miss New Mexico Beauty Latina Pageant
6 pm
Mrs. Señora United States and Miss New Mexico Beauty Latina Pageant is New Mexico’s Premier Beauty pageant program. A show for the whole family featuring beauty, glamour, typical heritage dresses, fashion, dancers, music, red carpet and more. Dress to impress.
$47 VIP, $37 General Admission and $12 Kids 6-12
Film Screening: Reasons
7 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday
The Sandia Performing Arts Company (SPAC) presents the film version of their recent production of Reasons. Directed by Ruben Muller, Reasons is the dark and disturbing story of Elvino Luis Mulares, a Mexican American World War II Army veteran who survived the war but still carries the psychological scars, spanning a 40-year period of his life as an alcoholic with a growing family in mid-century New Mexico. Mulares, the narrator of his story, has now died, and begins speaking to an unknown audience to make a case for why he deserves to be admitted to Heaven, rather than damned for his mistakes. The filmed version is just under an hour in length.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show
Dance Auditions: Carnaval 2022
11 am
Albuquerque’s CARNAVAL 2022 at the NHCC’s Roy E Disney Center for Performing Arts is scheduled for February 25th & 26th, 2022. The Odara Dance Ensemble will be holding audition Saturday, August 21st starting at 11 am at the NHCC’s PNM Rehearsal Hall . Be prepared to audition to various styles of dance, including cultural elements of Cuba, Trinidad, Brazil, and New Orleans.
Carnaval, the festive season occurring before Lent in many countries, is one of the world’s most widespread celebrations and one of its biggest parties. Frank Leto Musical Ventures and the NHCC continue their annual partnership to celebrate Carnaval at the Center with a festive and colorful evening of music, dance, and theatre, featuring the Odara Dance Ensemble and the musical group PANdemonium. Carnaval 2022, a dazzling spectacle of vibrant dance, engaging music, and beautiful costumes, showcases the Carnaval traditions of Cuba, Trinidad, Brazil, and New Orleans and marks the 15th annual Carnaval Celebration at the NHCC.
For more information, please email odaradance@gmail.com
September 2021
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Foco de Ignacio Pardo
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Ignacio Pardo is one of the pioneers of video art in Galicia and in Spain, utilizing digital animation in work revolving around the classic themes of Eros and Thanatos. Frequently recurring motifs include decay, suffering, and pain, as well as sexuality as a natural element in an ongoing life cycle, and his films display a humor that reflects an acceptance of this cycle and an ability to find joy in living. The short works screened include Videoviolín, Parpadeo, Triángulo, Corpore insepulto, Ninfografía, Carne viva, Ojo de pez, Ventanas de noche, La tentación del caracol vive arriba, and Moscas.
1985-2004; Spanish with English subtitles; 34 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Lume
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Lume (Fire) is one of the most recent works by Alberte Pagán, a specialist in experimental cinema, and part of Pagán’s “Superficies” (“Surfaces”) series, in which the director plays with juxtaposing still photographs of natural elements with the movement of his story. In Lume, an intense, reddish chromatic palette, reminiscent of fire, emphasizes the rage shown in the audiovisual images, projected on a photograph of roots. The live sound in the piece is from a demonstration in Santiago de Compostela in memory of 16-year-old Carlos Palomino, assassinated by a neo-Nazi in November 2007.
2020; Gallego with English subtitles; 6 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Inside the Microtubule
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
In Inside the Microtubule, Judith Adataberna, a visual artist specializing in photography, video installation, and experimental film, explores the mechanisms of memory through the increasingly fragile memories of her 99-year-old grandmother. Images from a mountain climb at night during a snowstorm, together with images of the neurons and synapses that form the physical basis of our memories, reinforce the director’s reflections on memory, fear, and solitude.
2018; Gallego with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Reality
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Visual artist and filmmaker David Fidalgo Omil uses animation to create his humorous and critical pieces. Reality explores the violence and absurdity of reality televisión, as comedy turns to tragedy in this satirical look at human misery.
2020; Spanish; 8 minutes; suitable for viewers 16 and older.
Free community event
Global Headphone Dance Party
7 pm (MST)
¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s Annual World Music & Culture Celebration returns to the National Hispanic Cultural Center on September 17 and 18, celebrating immigrant and Indigenous culture in the U.S. with live music, from cutting edge to traditional, on the Center’s Plaza Mayor. This year’s festival, produced by Avokado Artists, kicks off with a headphone dance party on September 16.
Learn more at www.Globalquerque.org.
Learn more at www.Globalquerque.org.
$10 to check out one headphone
COVID PROTOCOLS:
¡GLOBALQUERQUE!
5 pm (MST)
¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s Annual World Music & Culture Celebration returns to the National Hispanic Cultural Center on September 17 and 18, celebrating immigrant and Indigenous culture in the U.S. with live music, from cutting edge to traditional, on the Center’s Plaza Mayor. This year’s festival, produced by Avokado Artists, kicks off with a headphone dance party on September 16.
Learn more at www.Globalquerque.org.
COVID PROTOCOLS:
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Foco de DSK
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
This anthology showcases the diverse work of DSK, a collective formed by Juan Lesta and Belén Montero. The artists, pioneers of video art in Galicia, were active for 20 years, creating pieces that experiment with hybridization among different disciplines and play with humor and irony as well as aesthetics. The short works screened include M09, Vida, Twin Power, Crépitation, O tempo perdido, aTienda, Morphing, Miro la vida pasar, Square Religion, Vide, Pedra e auga, and Estiven en Galicia e lembreime de ti.
2000-2017; Spanish, Gallego; 57 minutes; not rated.
Free community event