AfroMundo Festival 2024 graphic Bold Futures by artist, Lauryn Mills Bohannon

2024 AfroMundo Festival: Contemporary Rebel Women

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. A literary reading of poetry and prose. Poet Shirley Campbell Barr is author of five poetry collections, among them De Negro Vengo Ataviada, the seminal Rotundamente Negra y Otras Poemas, and Palabras Indelebles de Poetas Negras. Suzanne Barr is the author of My Ackee Tree: A Chef’s Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen. (more…)

2024 AfroMundo Festival: Historic Rebel Women

3:00 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. 2024 AfroMundo Festival: Historic Rebel Women. Screening of Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess. Directed by Roy T Anderson, 2015, 59 min This film documents the military genius of Nanny of Jamaica, one of the most successful yet least recognized heroines of slave rebellions. The screening is followed by a panel discussion of (more…)

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…)

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

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. 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; (more…)

AMP Concerts: Flor de Toloache (Las Cruces)

7:30 pm Join us in Las Cruces for a second performance featuring Latin Grammy® winning, New York Based all-female ensemble Flor de Toloache! Flor de Toloache continue to win the hearts of both progressive and traditional mariachi music fans alike through their distinct artistic vision and sophisticated, enlightened interpretation of traditional mariachi instruments. The female quartet’s diverse ethnicities and musical backgrounds have also transcended culture and gender by forging new paths. $25 w/ discounts for children 12 and younger. Approximate time of event: 2 hours including intermission. (more…)

2nd Annual Native American Theater Festival

Opening Reception in the Cayetana Romero lobby and in front of the Bank of America Theatre: *Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 pm Theatrical Performance in the Bank of America Theatre: Beauty Way: Into the Matriarchy *Friday, April 26 at 7:30 pm *Sunday, April 28 at 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm *Friday, May 3 at 7:30 pm *Saturday, May 4 at 7:30 pm Staged Readings in the Wells Fargo Auditorium: *Saturday, April 27 at 1:00 pm: The Woman Who Was Captured by Ghosts by Julie Pearson Littlethunder *Saturday, (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…)

Gran Baile: Gathering of Communities

6:00 – 10:00 pm UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies presents Gran Baile: Gathering of Communities, featuring Bandalegre and Los Texmaniacs. Event for all ages with an enchilada dinner. For more information, please call 505-277-6414. Free Community Event, please register below.

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