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2024 AfroMundo Festival: World Premier: Sterling’s Silver

NOTE: A limited number of tickets are available for this event. 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 (more…)

2024 AfroMundo Festival: Black Farmers: Modern Maroons (Sold Out)

NOTE: This event is sold out. Tickets will be released on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 7:10 pm. 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 (more…)

Animal Humane New Mexico: Feline Film Festival 2024

4:00 pm Kitten Yoga 4:00 pm Film 1st Screening 5:15 pm Happy Hour 6:30 pm Film 2nd Screening NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium This year, Animal Humane New Mexico’s Feline Film Festival is the Cat’s Pajamas! Sponsored by Garcia Subaru, this cat-tastic event will feature an incredible collection of cat-inspired silent action cinema from around the world, food trucks, vendors, kitten yoga class, Happy Hour & pet adoptions. Only the two film screenings, kitten yoga class, & Happy Hour are ticketed. Meeting adoptable kitties from around the (more…)

Power of Our Stories: Salt of the Earth (1954), Chuy Martinez & Jesus Quinones

2nd Annual Film Symposium 2:00 pm: Doors open 2:30 pm: Screening- Salt of the Earth (1954) Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow with Chuy Martinez & Jesus Quinones & Special Guests Free Community Event. At New Mexico’s Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacon) helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza (Rosaura Revueltas), with a similar unfairness. When an injunction (more…)

Power of Our Stories: Crow County: Our Right to Food Sovereignty, Adios Amor, & Mayors of Shiprock

2nd Annual Film Symposium 6:00 pm Doors 6:30 pm Screening Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty 7:00 pm Screening Adios Amor 8:00 pm Screening The Mayors of Shiprock 9:00 pm Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow with Ramona Emerson, Laurie Coyle, Tsanavi Spoonhunter NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Free community event. Crow country: Our Right To Food Sovereignty is a 20-minute documentary that enlightens its audience to one tribe’s struggle to retain food security. The Crow Indian Reservation is the largest reservation in Montana, encompassing 2.2 million (more…)

Power of Our Stories: Unseen & Singing Our Way to Freedom

2nd Annual Film Symposium 4:30 pm Screening Unseen 6:00 pm Dinner Break 7:00 pm Screening Singing Our Way to Freedom 8:30-9:30 pm Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow with Set Hernandez & Paul Espinosa NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Free community event. Most people dream of a better future. Pedro, an aspiring social worker, is no different. But as a blind, undocumented immigrant, Pedro faces political restrictions to obtain his college degree, secure a job in his field, and support his family. As he finally (more…)

Film: The Human Zoo (Calafate, zoológicos humanos)

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…)

Power of Our Stories: Building the American Dream & Campesinos: America’s Unsung Heroes

2nd Annual Film Symposium 2:00 pm Screening Building the American Dream 3:30 pm Screening Campesinos: America’s Unsung Heroes 4:00 pm Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow with Chealse Hernandez, Alex Ontiveros & shiloh burton NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Free community event Across Texas, an unstoppable construction boom drives urban sprawl and luxury high-rises. Its dirty secret: abuse of immigrant labor. BUILDING THE AMERICAN DREAM captures a turning point as a movement forms to fight widespread construction industry injustices. Grieving their son, a Mexican family campaigns for (more…)

Power of Our Stories: In the Pit & Chicano Movement Music

2nd Annual Film Symposium 5:00 pm Food Trucks (Cubish) & Cash Bar 6:00 pm Chuy Martinez Songs of the Chicano Movement 7:00 pm Screening Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow with Chuy Martinez & shiloh burton, NHCC Film Coordinator NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Free community event. Please register below. Using state of the art digital filmmaking, “gorgeous time lapse sequences” (NY Newsday), and a “terrific soundtrack” (Time Out) made of a “magical montage of found sounds” (Chicago Sun-Times), Juan Carlos Rulfo’s In the Pit (more…)

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