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May 2023
New Mexico Folk Dance for Seniors
1:30 to 3:30 pm
New Mexico Folk Dance will feature 4 weeks of traditional New Mexico music with dance classes such as La Marcha. Classes run for four consecutive Thursdays from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. New Mexico Folk Dance is part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program, which provides a free multidisciplinary arts program for seniors.
Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP New Mexico. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
Cervantes Film Series: 150 i una grossa
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
The description of community life is not always easy for cinema, which tends to focus on characters. However, this film bets on making a collective story where the inhabitants of a village will have to make decisions that will radically change their lives. The choral portrait offered by this documentary is testimony to a common thread based on the commitment of a group of people from all generations to keep alive their population and their traditions.
Synopsis: Ametlla de Merola is one of the smallest towns in Catalonia, with just over 150 inhabitants. The theater is the central nucleus of the town, but they will have to close it due to lack of resources: it doesn’t even have seats. Everything changes when this textile colony wins the Christmas jackpot and its inhabitants decide to invest the money in renovating the theater and prevent it from disappearing.
Free community event
Cervantes Film Series: Los saldos
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
The transfer of knowledge between parents and their descendants was the only means by which rural families maintained their traditions, until the arrival of new technologies transformed their habits. Migrations also broke with this logic, although they never dispossessed the inhabitants of this ancestral knowledge. In Los saldos, a father and a son will have to face an evidence that work and coexistence are bringing to light: their lives are very different. The director Raúl Capdevila uses his training as a filmmaker to tell us his family story and works the magic of turning his way of life into an artistic reference that reveals how cinema allows us to observe the world with different eyes.
Synopsis: Raúl Capdevila tells us in the form of a western his return home, to a village in Huesca. His father, José Ramón, is the last of three generations of farmers and ranchers. The film director and his father will have to get along working together on the farm, but, in addition to their differences, they will have to face the implications of the construction of a large meat processing plant by a large meat company.
Free community event
Broadway Bound LIVE: Finals
7:00 pm Saturday, 2:00 pm Sunday
Broadway Bound LIVE presents You’re a Catch! Why are You Single?
A musical by Sarah Wynen
It’s Christmas time, and once again Becky needs to face the hoard of relatives questioning her love life (or lack thereof). As she explores the world of 21st-century dating, we meet an eclectic group of characters who tell their own story and showcase the highs and lows that go along with being alone. When Christmas time rolls around once more, will anything be different for Becky?
This musical about the woes of online dating is the grand finale for Broadway Bound LIVE Season 2!
Broadway Bound LIVE is a televised musical theatre competition show that will award FOUR young Broadway hopefuls with scholarships to AMDA College of the Performing Arts in New York City! Come out to watch, to laugh – possibly cry – and to VOTE for YOUR favorite contestant!
$22, $27 & 32 w/ a $2 discount for seniors and students 12 years old and younger
*Price of the ticket includes a $2 Facility Fee
Run time: Approximately 2 hours.
New Mexico Folk Dance for Seniors
1:30 to 3:30 pm
New Mexico Folk Dance will feature 4 weeks of traditional New Mexico music with dance classes such as La Marcha. Classes run for four consecutive Thursdays from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. New Mexico Folk Dance is part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program, which provides a free multidisciplinary arts program for seniors.
Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP New Mexico. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
Film: Acequias: The Legacy Lives On
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Food Trucks, Live Music & Cash Bar
7:00 – 8:15 pm: Acequias Screening
8:15 pm: Director Q&A following film screening
The University of New Mexico’s Center for Regional Studies and the NHCC present Acequias: The Legacy Lives On. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Aracely “Arcie” Chapa, Acequias: The Legacy Lives On is an hour-long, visually stunning documentary film about New Mexico’s enduring acequias as seen through the eyes of farmers, advocates, scholars, practitioners, lawmakers, journalists, and members of the community. Chapa produces and directs an emotional and reverential tribute to acequias’ past, present, and future.
Free Community Event. Please register here or or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
Film Screening: Boy and the World
3:00 pm
Brazilian artist Alê Abreu’s Academy Award-nominated masterpiece is a riotous explosion of music and color, a breathtakingly original and vibrant cinematic experience that depicts the wonders and struggles of the modern world as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
Cuca’s cozy rural life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family. The young boy’s journey unfolds like a tapestry, the animation taking on greater complexity as his small world expands. Entering civilization, industrial landscapes are inhabited by animal-machines, with barrios of decoupage streets and shop windows and flashing neon advertisements that illuminate the night. The story depicts a clash between village and city, hand crafted and mechanized, rich and poor – and throughout the tumult, the heart and soul of the people beats on as a song.
2013 | Animated Feature | Portuguese (spoken backwards) | 80 minutes | not rated | Directed by Alê Abreu
Generously supported by Bank of America.
June 2023
Film Screening: El Cantante
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm: Cash Bar | Pop Fizz | Food Truck (T’s Tynie Kitchen)
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Live DJ Pancho Quinones & Pedro Turon | Salsa Dancing with Jessica Montoya
7:00 pm: Film Screening
Puerto Rican singer Héctor Lavoe (Marc Anthony) emigrates to the United States and becomes a pioneer of salsa music. In New York, he meets Puchi (Jennifer Lopez), who becomes Héctor’s loving but fiery wife. Signing with Jerry Masucci’s Fania record label, Lavoe teams up with trumpeter Willie Colón (John Ortiz) to perfect the new musical style. The duo rise to fame, but Lavoe’s struggle with drug addiction threatens his life as well as career.
Director Leon Ichaso | 2007 | 106 minutes | English | Rated R (profanity, drug use and some violent and sexual situations)
Generously supported by Bank of America.
AMP Concerts: Tab Benoit
7:30 pm
AMP Concerts presents Tab Benoit. Mr. Benoit is a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and guitarist who has built a remarkable 30+ year career on the foundation of his gritty and soulful Delta swamp blues, acquiring a devoted legion of fans along the way, as well as 5 Blues Music Awards, including BB King Entertainer of the Year (twice) and an induction into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
Run Time: 2 hours including intermission.
Tickets go on sale to AMP Members: Wednesday, March 22nd at 10:00 am with special member promocode. Tickets will go on sale to the general public starting on Friday, March 24th at 10:00 am.
Summer Salsa for Seniors
1:30-3:30 pm
Looking for a way to beat the heat? Join us at the Center every Wednesday in June for four weeks of salsa and tango lessons. This new series is part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program, which provides a free multidisciplinary arts program for seniors.
Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP New Mexico. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-471 for assistance.