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2024 AfroMundo Festival: Black Farmers: Modern Maroons

Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

7:00 pm 2024 AfroMundo Festival Maroons, Rebels, Dreamers & Visionaries Featuring Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica & USA April 12 - 20, 2024 Music, literature, oral histories theater, films, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more. Screening of Documentary Farming While Black Directed by Mark Decena, 2023, 75 min Farming While Black examines the historical plight of Black farmers in the United States and the rising generation reclaiming their rightful ownership to land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots. Screening is followed by a panel discussion with New (more...)

Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime

NHCC Library 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

10:00 am Stories come to life through art, movement, and more! In April, our theme will be "Fun and Games." Join us as we read from Playing Loteria/El juego de la Loteria, by Rene Colato Lainez, and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom/Chica chica bum bum, by Bill Martin. For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers. Free Community Event, generously supported by NM Gas.

2024 AfroMundo Festival: Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Creativity

Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

7:00 pm 2024 AfroMundo Festival Maroons, Rebels, Dreamers & Visionaries Featuring Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica & USA April 12 - 20, 2024 Music, literature, oral histories theater, films, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more.   Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Creativity: For Afro diasporas, food remains one of the most effective means of resistance, of cultural retention, and innovation. Come join in this culinary discussion with Angelica Mena: Afro-Columbian Chef and Founder of San Francisco’s Sukulentas; and with Chef Suzanne Barr, recipient of a 2021 Social Advocate of (more...)

2024 AfroMundo Festival: World Premier: Sterling’s Silver

Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

7:00 pm 2024 AfroMundo Festival Maroons, Rebels, Dreamers & Visionaries Featuring Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica & USA April 12 - 20, 2024 Music, literature, oral histories theater, films, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more. An enhanced Reader’s Production of a play by Karen Jones Meadows. “In the 1800s a 150-year plan fueled by war, vision, passion, naïveté, rage, secrets, entrepreneurship, and African-American sweat, fashion a clandestine community determined to leave a living legacy of sovereignty and strategies for generations.” New Mexico resident Karen Jones Meadows is (more...)

Festival Ballet Albuquerque: Billy the Kid & Other Tall Tales

Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

7:00 pm Friday 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm Saturday Billy the Kid, Blue Jean Blues, Southwest FolkTails, & Giselle Festival Ballet Albuquerque presents an original production of Billy the Kid, a ballet telling the story of Billy from childhood until his death at age 22, true to historical accuracy as anyone knows. The ballet has an ensemble of cowboys, townspeople, dance hall girls, and the important people in Billy’s life, including his beloved Mother, John Tunstall, J.J. Dolan, love interest Maria, and of course, Sheriff Pat Garrett. (more...)

Colcha Community Stitch A-Long

Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

9:30 am in-person 10:30 am Zoom Our Colcha Community Stich-A-Long is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting. This workshop is instructed by Annette Gutierrez-Turk. Annette has taught colcha, a Spanish Colonial embroidery style, to groups internationally and at the NHCC for many years. She is also an award-winning artist, most recently recognized in 2019 at Traditional Spanish Market in Santa Fe. Annette will demonstrate as well as answer questions. Join us every month on the fourth Tuesday, in-person at 9:30am and on Zoom (more...)

NHCC Book Club

HLA Conference Room

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm The NHCC is thrilled to announce that we will be reconnecting in person with lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the far reaches of Latinidad. We will meet on the last Wednesday of every month in the Center's HLA Conference Room. In April, we will be reading Afterlife, by Julia Alvarez. Afterlife tells the story of an immigrant writer, reeling from her beloved husband's sudden death in the wake of her retirement, whose life is further (more...)

Film: The Human Zoo (Calafate, zoológicos humanos)

Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, United States

5:00 pm Reception & Cash Bar 6:00 pm Doors 6:30 pm Director’s talk 7:00 pm Screening Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Toward the end of the 19th century, 25 people from four different Chilean indigenous groups were kidnapped from Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by a German businessman and taken to Europe to be exhibited as attractions in cities throughout the continent. THE HUMAN ZOO uncovers the history of this colonial spectacle, and follows the fallout into the present. (more...)

Yjastros: Flamenco Fandanguero: Primos de la Raza Cósmica

Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

8:00 pm Friday, 4:00 pm Saturday This April, don’t miss Flamenco Fandanguero: Primos de la Raza Cósmica, the brand new work produced for Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, made in collaboration among the company’s Artistic Director Joaquín Encinias, Choreographer Marisol Encinias, Theater Director Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez, Flamenco musicians Ángel Ruiz and Vicente Griego, and Son Jarocho musician Sinuhé Padilla. $55, $65, $75, $85, & $95 w/ a $5 discount for seniors, students’ w/Id, children 12 years old and younger and NHCC members YJASTROS is the only U.S.-based flamenco company (more...)

An Evening with Jimmy Santiago Baca

Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, United States

30th Anniversary of Blood In, Blood Out Featuring Special Guest Melina Martinez 6:30 pm: Reception and Book Signing 7:30 pm: Readings Join us for an evening with Jimmy Santiago Baca in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Blood In, Blood Out on Saturday, April 27 at 6:30 pm. Located in the Bank of America Theatre, this event will feature a reception and book signing for the Blood In, Blood Out Coffee Table Book from 6:30 – 7:30 pm as well as readings featuring Melina Martinez and Jimmy (more...)

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