Category: Performing Arts and Film
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Lynn Nottage’s “Clyde’s”
Enjoy a showcase of Black women’s talent! “Clyde’s” was written by a Kenyan-American, Pulitzer-winning playwright, is led at the Vortex by Black director Marya Errin Jones, and features two actresses playing Clyde, a “powerful Black woman” according to the play’s director.
Don’t miss this funny, fast-paced play about life after incarceration… and how to make the perfect sandwich.
Get your “Clyde’s” tickets here!
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Storytelling Open Mic
Everyone’s story matters! Come to the new Barelas Community Center to share a piece of history, a personal story, a poem… however you want your voice to be heard. All formats welcome.
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Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations
Nominated for 12 Tony Awards and 2019 winner for Best Choreography, Ain’t Too Proud recounts the group’s personal and political conflicts during a decade of civil unrest in America. And of course it includes the band’s hits, like “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination,” “Get Ready,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” and more.
Tickets HERE.
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Roots Summer Leadership Academy Harambee Final Performance
Join us for the celebratory ending to 2025’s Roots Summer Leadership Academy (RSLA)! The Harambee features student performances and a shared meal. When the Harambee is over, so is camp!
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AfroMundo Festival: No Other Land
Join AfroMundo for a FREE screening of this year’s Oscar winner for Best Documentary, “No Other Land.”
Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors. “Over the course of five years, Basel Adra films his Palestinian community of Massager Yatta being destroyed and its populace incarcerated, all as he builds an alliance with an Israeli journalist.”
The film screening in NHCC’s Bank of America Theater will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include Palestinian Muslim-American grassroots feminist and organizer Samia Assed; Nicole D. Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project; and Brandi Kellam, a Gracie and Emmy awarded Journalist. Moderated by Doaa Omran.
Tickets are FREE but registration is required.
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AfroMundo Festival: Together We Stand
Join AfroMundo for a FREE screening of the documentary Standing Above the Clouds in NHCC’s Bank of America Theater.
“Through the lens of mothers and daughters in three Native Hawaiian families, the film explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of safeguarding cultural sites.”
Followed by a panel and Q&A. Panelists include Hawaiian tradition bearer Pua Case, Alaskan playwright Marleah Makpiaq LaBelle, and Grand Canyon Havasupai Carletta Tilousi. Moderated by filmmaker Amber Espinosa.
Reservations for the film screening are FREE but required.
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AfroMundo Festival: Changing the Narrative
Join AfroMundo in NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for presentations by Haitian American poet Patrick Sylvain, Afro-Cuban filmmaker Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy, and Egyptian Palestinian American author, filmmaker, and actor Randa Jarrar. Q&A to follow.
Tickets are free, but reservations are required.
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AfroMundo Festival: We Will Not Perish
The documentary “Ayiti Pap Peri: Ayiti Will Not Perish” shines a spotlight on Haitian expatriates returning to Haiti (Ayiti), despite many challenges, to work on behalf of their country.
The film screening will be followed by one of AfroMundo’s acclaimed panel discussions and Q&A. Panelists include the documentary’s director and journalist Cassandre Thrasybule, Haitian American author Patrick Sylvain, Afro Cuban artist and actress Lili Bernard, and documentarist Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy.
Tickets to the screening at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater are free, but reservations are required. View the film trailer here.
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August Wilson’s Two Trains Running
Explore the depth of racism’s roots in America with August Wilson’s Pulitzer-finalist 1990 play. The last in Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle, the play takes place in the context of the civil-rights movement, rioting, and gentrification, and focuses on Memphis Lee’s attempts to get a fair price for his restaurant when the city pans to demolish it.
