Opening Reception: Nexo Entre Raíces / Nexus Between Roots

4:00 pm to 7:00 pm

NHCC Art Museum

Join us to celebrate the opening of Nexo Entre Raíces / Nexus Between Roots!

Nexo Entre Raíces / Nexus Between Roots is an exhibition of prints by artists living and working in both Mexico and the United States. Their work traverses themes of culture, tradition, identity, and place, connecting those with Mexican roots across borders. Organized by artist Marco Sánchez and multidisciplinary scholar Claudia Ley in collaboration with the NHCC Art Museum, the exhibition features 32 artworks exchanged for a print portfolio between the participating artists as well as additional pieces contextualizing the artists’ work.

Nexo Entre Raíces es una exposición de grabados de artistas viviendo y trabajando en ambos lugares de México y Estados Unidos. Sus obras atraviesan temas de cultura, tradición, identidad y lugar, que se conectan con sus raíces transfronterizas. Organizado por artista Marco Sánchez y erudita multidisciplinaria Claudia Ley en colaboración con el Museo de Arte del Centro Nacional de Cultura Hispana, la exposición muestra 32 obras de arte intercambiadas entre los artistas que resulta en una carpeta de grabados de los artistas participantes tanto como obras adicionales que contextualizan las obras de los artistas.

Generously sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

New Mexico Latino Music All-Stars

6:00 pm: Doors Open with beer and wine service in the lobby7:00 pm: Performance begins

This fun and vibrant Latin-based music will feature New Mexico Latin artists showcasing Latin jazz, R&B, Cumbias, Boleros, Rancheras and Cha Cha. This large ensemble of New Mexico’s musical talent will bring on a fun and live energy performance. Come celebrate the summer season, Father’s Day or just a great night of entertainment with your favorite people in one of New Mexico’s premier venues.

This music charity event is hosted by the National Latino Behavioral Health Association in partnership with the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This will benefit the NLBHA JTR Scholarship program for Latino college students pursing a college degree in behavioral health.

$29, $39, $49 and $59 w/ a $2 discount for seniors, children 12 and younger & NHCC members

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents: Fiesta Flamenca

8:00 pm

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Fiesta Flamenca. Fiesta Flamenca on Saturday, June 17th has a star-studded gala evening of music and dance, illustrating the range and dynamic styles presented in Festival Flamenco. Elegance, sophistication, and physical brilliance challenge the audience to experience flamenco in all its forms. This vibrant display of artistry exemplifies flamenco’s depth and distinct characteristics.

In spectacular performances of powerful flamenco, headlining artists of Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, along with Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, share the stage for an evening of unforgettable music and dance. Each evening of Fiesta Flamenca showcases a unique cast!

Saturday’s cast features Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, Raquel Heredia “La Repompilla,” Andrés Marín, Patricia Guerrero, and Israel Galván.

$60, $75, $90, $105

Run time: 120 min

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents: Fiesta Flamenca

8:00 pm

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Fiesta Flamenca. Fiesta Flamenca on Friday, June 16th has a star-studded gala evening of music and dance, illustrating the range and dynamic styles presented in Festival Flamenco. Elegance, sophistication, and physical brilliance challenge the audience to experience flamenco in all its forms. This vibrant display of artistry exemplifies flamenco’s depth and distinct characteristics.

In spectacular performances of powerful flamenco, headlining artists of Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, along with Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, share the stage for an evening of unforgettable music and dance. Each evening of Fiesta Flamenca showcases a unique cast!

Friday’s cast features Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, Daniel Doña, Marco Flores, Olga Pericet, and Nazaret Reyes.

$60, $75, $90, $105

Run time: 120 min

Opening Reception: Aliento a Tequila y el Arte de Agave

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

NHCC Art Museum

Join us to celebrate the opening of Aliento a Tequila y el Arte de Agave (or The Spirit of Tequila and the Art of Agave) exhibition.

The Aliento a Tequila y el Arte de Agave (or The Spirit of Tequila and the Art of Agave) exhibition explores and celebrates the landscape, culture, and traditions that gave birth to tequila, Mexico’s national drink. In this series, photographer Joel Salcido includes the original distilleries that literally founded the industry, as well as several artisanal tequileras committed to the ancestral ways of making tequila from harvest to bottle. Objects and paintings related to the theme of agave will be on display from the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum Permanent Collection and loans from various institutions and artist Hailey Marmolejo.

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A Program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36: Patricia Guerrero y Compañía: Deliranza

8:00 pm

Sponsored by TourSpain

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Patricia Guerrero y Compañía in Deliranza. Winner of the 2021 Spanish National Dance Prize, the prodigious young dancer and her company immerse audiences into a performance of a thousand dreamlike adventures.

In Deliranza, Guerrero sets a work in a time conducive to creation and reverie: rehearsal time, where the creator, exhausted by the hours of work, rests and, like Alice, falls into a dream that makes her cross the limits of the everyday world. She breaks with logic enters into new, transformative worlds. As she descends into dreams, she encounters characters and obstacles, but above all the sounds of flamenco, the Soleá, the voice of a Granaína/Bulería or a Mariana… inviting the viewer to imagine and explore the sometimes lonely but gorgeous and dreamlike process of creation.

$50, $65, $80, $95

Run time: 90 min

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36: Daniel Doña Compañía de Danza: Entre Hilos Y Huesos

6:30 pm

Sponsored by the Covington Family Fund 

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Daniel Doña, winner of the 2019 Max Prize for best male dancer, and his awe-inspiring company of dancers and musicians to Festival Flamenco Alburquerque for the first time in the U.S. premiere of Entre Hilos y Huesos.

“What political passion or war tears apart, art can sew back together with its winged hands, with its subtle and invisible needle and thread.” – Gregorio Marañón

Entre Hilos y Huesos is the latest choreographic imagining of the company DDC Danza, directed by dancer and choreographer Daniel Doña. This work moves and shakes, it is poetic justice expressed from an avant-garde dance. It dares to move through tradition and contemporaneity, taking refuge in flamenco and the songs of yesteryear while overflowing and exploding in the current moment.

$50, $65, $80, $95

Run time: 120 min

A NOTE ON CONTENT: THIS PERFORMANCE CONTAINS A SCENE OF NUDITY, VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Inclusive Narratives

7:00 pm

Screening of short documentary film “Rising Voices” (2022), by Kwanza Gooden, 8 mins.

This short documentary explores the importance of investing in and sharing stories created by Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers and storytellers.

Panelists include: Mel Adún, Writer and Cofounder of Editora Ogums Publishing Collective; Ausettua AmorAmenkum, founder of New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center Resident Group; The Gradates—a performance group comprised of former members of the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women; and Josie Lopez, PhD, Head Curator at the Albuquerque Museum.

Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

 

AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Folk Medicine: Healing & Spirituality

7:00 pm

Screening of short film “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings” (2022), written and directed by Cara Lawson, 15 mins.

Savannah’s moss-covered forests are alive to Bertie Bee Hooks, a gifted granddaughter of a midwife. With the wisdom of folk medicine, Bertie Bee depends on mystical connections to the spirit world as she becomes exposed to the tragedies of a wounded American past.

Panelists include Film Writer & Director Cara Lawson; Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Birthing Project—Underground Railroad for New Life, Kathryn Hall Trujillo; Doulah & Healer Tauz TamuPovi; Ausettua AmorAmenkum who since the 1980s has engaged incarcerated women with performance & spiritual arts.

Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Afro-Indigeneity

7:00 pm

Screening of film “Garifuna in Peril” (2012), 99 mins.

Produced and Directed by Alí Allié y Ruben Reyes

Latin America has traditionally treated Indigenous and Afro peoples as separate. Yet the fates and identities of both have been intertwined since the arrival of Africans to the Americas. The film Garifuna in Peril delves into the Indigenous and Afro roots of the Garinagu, also known as the Garifuna.

Panelists include: Garifuna Scholar Pablo Jose Lopez Oro; San Ilefonso Tradition Bearer and Healer Tauz Tamu Povi; Afro-Latinidad and Afro-Indigeneity Scholar Dr. Sheryl Felecia Means; and Big Queen of the New Orleans Washitau Nation, Ausettua AmorAmenkum.

Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.