Feb 20 2009
Volunteer for film festival? LOve jazz?
NM always creates more fun than the average person can absorb. Come and check out events often and culture participation will be a breeze! ABQarts has more to show you of the really great events. www.abqarts.com
Carnaval Dance Party at NHCC
Frank Leto and PANdemonium are joined by Pilar Leto and the Odara Dance Ensemble in a production blending original music with dance and costumes celebrating the Carnaval traditions of Trinidad, New Orleans, Cuba and Brazil.
Special Event Fri-Sat, Feb. 20-21, 8pm
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 Fourth St. SW
(877) 531-4107
nhccnm.org
Global DanceFest kicks off February 26 at N4th
The 9th annual Global DanceFest ventures to Latitudes North/Scandinavia to offer New Mexicans a window on contemporary dance and culture at the top of the world. Much of the work is multi-media, infused with theatrical devices and technology. The art is cerebral but imbued with humor. The artists represent the global shifts and schisms common to every region - a Norwegian-Iranian, Israelis at home in Denmark, Indigenous Greenlanders sharing a contemporary tale. Continues through March 28.
World Premiere Thurs. Feb. 26
Week 1 Performances Feb. 27-March 1
N4th Theater & Gallery
4904 Fourth St. NW
(505) 344-4542
vsartsnm.org
2009 Mother Road Theatre Company Prebut
Based on the theme Heretics, Henchmen & the Holy, Mother Road has chosen The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Carson Kreitzer to be produced in the spring and Life During Wartime, by Keith Reddin to be produced in the fall. Scenes from both will be showcased at the PREBUT. Scenes from the following will also be presented and the audience will vote on their favorite. The play receiving the most votes will round out Mother Road’s 2009 season!!
The Unseen, by Craig Wright
Incorruptible, by Michael Hollinger
Third Selection TBD
Prepare yourself for an evening of feuding monks and misplaced bones, prisoners and their keeper, Oppenheimer’s dance with the Bomb and ancient Lilith, the corruption of money and love! The amazing ensemble cast will include Albuquerque and Santa Fe theatre and film veterans Ryil Adamson, Morse Bicknell, Clifton Chadwick, Steve Corona, Kristin de la O, Wendy Scott, Danielle Louise Reddick, Jeff Caudle. Admission is free, donations will be accepted. This is a fundraiser for Mother Road Theatre.
Performances Fri-Sun, Feb. 27-March 8
Curtain: Friday 8pm, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 2pm
The Filling Station
1024 4th St. SW Tickets: Company. (505) 243-0596 reservations@motherroad.org.
Antigone at the Vortex
A fascinating examination by Sophicles of the balance between government power and personal rights. Runs through March 27.
Opening performance Friday, Feb. 27, 8pm
Vortex Theatre
2004-1/2 Central NE
(505) 247-8600
vortexabq.org
Living Legends kicks off Women’s History Month
Part of the 2009 Women and Creativity Series, the performance features novelist Kimberla Roby Lawson, playwright Karen Jones Meadows and poet Evie Shockley.
Performance Saturday, Feb. 28, 4-6pm
UNM Student Union Ballroom B
(505) 277-5644
For more about on-going performances not being highlighted in undergroundARTS, visit the albuquerqueARTS website.
abqarts.com
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| musical performances, workshops and festivals Tommy Castro Band back at the El Rey Tommy Castro’s career has been marked by one triumph after another. In a short time, he went from performing at a San Francisco saloon to being opening act on BB King’s national tours. He has wowed and won fans across the country with his riveting presence and talent as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. Tommy and the band continue to explore the boundaries of American roots music and their blend of rock, blues and Memphis soul will provide an evening’s entertainment you won’t forget soon. Performance Saturday, Feb. 21, 8pm Historic El Rey Theatre 7th and Central Downtown Tickets at Zone, Encore Music, Bookworks, Birdland or by phone at (866) 443-8849 elreytheatre.com NM Jazz Workshop’s 23rd Annual Guest Artist Series The Carolina Chocolate Drops at the Outpost Civil War by Musical Theatre Southwest For more about on-going performances not being highlighted in undergroundARTS, visit the albuquerqueARTS website. |
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| art films, films about art, and news from the Film Industry Screening and Talk at 516 Arts 516 ARTS presents a screening of the new short narrative film Chimayó (Güero), followed by a discussion with screenwriter Art Corriveau and director Kevin Jaramillo. When Justin, a high school senior, loses his mom to leukemia, he suddenly finds himself living with his estranged grandmother in the 400-year-old village of Chimayó, equally known for its miraculous curative dirt as for its rampant heroin addiction. Justin’s resentment over the dirt’s inability to heal his mom propels him to seek the company of his cousin Miguel, a third-generation heroin addict. Suddenly Justin must choose between the healing power of community and faith, and the annihilating abyss of drug addiction. The film was produced through the New Mexico Filmmakers Intensive, a 9- month program in motion picture arts funded, in part, by the state of New Mexico. Chimayó (Güero) was directed by Kevin Jaramillo and produced by Rob Horvath. Art Corriveau received his MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Michigan. He has both a BS in Mass Communication and a BA in French Literature from Boston University. He is the author Blood Pudding, a collection of short stories, and the novel Housewrights. He is currently at work on an historical novel set in early 20th-century Vienna called Männerheim. He has also written a feature-length script of his forthcoming middle-school novel The Seeing Eye. Screening Saturday, Feb. 21, 8pm 516 Arts 516 Central SW (505) 242-1445 516arts.org Volunteer Opportunities-Aldo Leopold Film Festival |
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