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

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…)

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

2024 AfroMundo Festival: World Premier: Sterling’s Silver

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…)

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

2024 AfroMundo Festival: Black Farmers: Modern Maroons

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…)

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

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

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…)

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: Lupe Under the Sun & Team Meryland

2nd Annual Film Symposium 12:30 pm: Doors open 1:00pm: Screening- Lupe Under the Sun 2:30 pm: Screening- Team Meryland 3:15 pm: Panel Discussion and Q&A to immediately follow with Gabriel Gaurano and Rodrigo Reyes moderated by Deborah Blanche as Emma Tenayuca Free Community Event. Lupe Under the Sun is a neorealist film following an aging migrant worker living in California, who longs to return to Mexico before it is too late. Featuring a cast of nonprofessional actors, real farmworkers and authentic locations, Lupe Under the Sun tackles (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 Espinoza 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…)

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