Film: Ciclo Ángela Molina, Las cosas del querer

12 pm (available for 48 hours)

Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE

Jaime Chávarrri’s Las cosas del querer follows the trajectory of a song-and-dance duo and their piano player in the 1940s, with a look into their backstage lives and an evocation of the popular music of their times. As the group’s rise to fame and fortune parallels Franco’s consolidation of power in collusion with the Spanish aristocracy, their return to Madrid marks the most difficult moments of their careers. Lavishly produced and vibrantly entertaining as a musical, Las cosas del querer also addresses issues of fascism, feminism, and homophobia in postwar Spain.

Free event

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Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde

11 am (MST)

Instituto Cervantes YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/cervantesabq

This series of on-line talks highlights the work of women who have paved the way in investigating new artistic languages in disciplines such as electronic music, video creation, or photography. It features New Mexico artists such as filmmaker Sally Kewayosh, Spanish-speaking artists living in the United States such as photographer and filmmaker Jose Girl, and Spanish artists such as musician Niet! and video artist Regina Álvarez.

Free community event

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Film: Ciclo Ángela Molina, La mitad del cielo

12 pm (available for 48 hours)

Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE

Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón had a significant influence on Ángela Molina’s career, directing several of the films she made in the years of transition to democracy, including Camada negra (1977), El corazón del bosque (1979), and Demonios en el jardín (1982). In La mitad del cielo, set after the Spanish Civil War, Rosa, the daughter of a humble family in Asturias, travels to Madrid with her own daughter following the death of her husband. With the help of the influential supplier who hires her to work in his household, she obtains a market position that serves as the point of departure for a meteoric career rise. Rosa ultimately opens an exclusive restaurant that transforms into a political and intellectual meeting place.

Free event

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Virtual Screening & Discussion: Con Alma

7 pm (MST)
This event can be viewed AMP Concerts website HERE

Con Alma: Exploring the Creative Process with Paola Prestini & Magos Herrera

Screening of videos from the Con Alma project, including a world premiere video, La Creación de las Aves (The Creation of the Birds), followed by a live on-line discussion and open Q&A session with Paola Prestini and Magos Herrera, moderated by Cristina Baccin from KUNM’s Raices program. The discussion will be hosted by the National Hispanic Cultural Center via Zoom, in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque and UNM’s Latin America and Iberian Institute. Prestini and Herrera will discuss the creative process, the social engagement, and the creation of the virtual event.

Donations will be accepted on the AMP Concerts webpage

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Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!

6:30 pm (MST)

Live on Zoom

We are back! Coming to you through zoom!

Happy Arte Hour is an adult only at making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm (MST) February – December.

Please register and prior to the class you will receive an email with the zoom link and items/art supplies to gather from around your house. Please do not pass out the link, we will let you in to the zoom room from your registration, thank you!

Free community event

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Film: Cortos en Femenino Film Series: No me despertéis

12 pm

Online screening will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on Monday, December 21, 2020.
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here

Free

Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque and the NHCC present the Cortos en femenino film series during the month of December, a month dedicated to cortometraje (short subjects) with “[ED+C] El día más corto”—the shortest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere. Designed by Trama, coordinator of women’s festivals in Spain, the series celebrates the talented female directors working in this format with screenings of four very different short films—two dramatic works, one documentary, and one montage.

In Sara Fantova’s autobiographical film No me despertéis, teenage Jone is a student at a secondary school in Bilbao where the tense atmosphere reflects the social reality of the political division of the Basque Country in 2009. When her father assumes a position with the Basque Government requiring the services of a bodyguard, he will leave his former life behind, and Jone will have to learn to live between two worlds as well, and to understand that not everything is black or white.

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Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!

6:30 pm

Live via Zoom

Please use this link to register HERE

Happy Arte Hour is an adult only art making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us for our first virtual Happy Arte Hour.

We will have some simple project demos and suggestions for at home art making. This virtual Happy Arte hour is a chance for us to reconnect with our regular participants and for new people near and far to join us for a creative night of fun!

We are looking forward to offering Happy Arte in the New Year!

We will send you an email with the zoom link and a list of basic supplies to gather from your home.

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Film: Cortos en Femenino Film Series: Centrifugado

12 pm

Online screening will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on Monday, December 14, 2020.
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here

Free

A young man helps an old lady carry her laundry up to her house. Once inside, she seems reluctant to let him go. The environment in which everyday life goes on always has its lights and shadows, and appearances are often deceiving. Centrifugado, Mireia Noguera’s first film, is a dazzling demonstration of ellipsis and humanity.

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¡Globalquerque! Cross-Cultural Crossover Encore

2 pm

Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/AfroLatinJazzAlliance

Free

Join us December 4, 2020 for an ENCORE performance of the ¡Globalquerque! Cross-Cultural Crossover, presented in partnership with Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance as part of their La Paza @ Digital Village YouTube Series!

The program features four past festival acts—Rahim AlHaj (Iraq), Nation Beat (Brazil/USA), Vivalda Ndula (Angola) and Nohe & Sus Santos (Honduras/New Mexico) collaborating on one another’s songs, deconstructing them and re-presenting them through a cross-cultural lens. Chats with the artists in between songs—where some of them were meeting face-to-face for the first time after recording together—give a glimpse at the process and all the emotions that went with it!

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Virtual: Inside Yjastros

8 pm (MTS)
Virtual performance with a digital viewing pass.
Get pass HERE
Link and password will be sent to you one hour before the premiere, providing 48 hours of access.

In 1999, Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company set forth on an artistic journey that would become America’s most distinctive flamenco project. This revolutionary performance entity combines the mosaic quality of the American repertory company with the authentic idiom of flamenco, creating a living archive of choreographic masterworks.

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