New Mexico Black Leadership Council

Category: Community Event

  • Inclusive Narratives: “Rising Voices” film screening (AfroMundo Festival event)

    This short (18-min) 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.

  • Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Survival (AfroMundo Festival)

    For Afro diasporas, food remains one of the most effective means of resistance, of cultural retention, and innovation. The foods of Afro peoples continue to incorporate ingredients of ancestral dishes and to preserve African ways of preparing ingredients native to the Americas. Presenters will discuss the African roots of various dishes and defy stereotypes of what “soul” food is.

    Food pickup at Three Sisters Kitchen from 4-6 pm; panel discussion at National Hispanic Cultural Center at 7:30.

  • Folk Medicine – Healing & Spirituality: AfroMundo Festival event

    Folk Medicine – Healing & Spirituality: AfroMundo Festival event

    Screening of short (15-min) film “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings” followed by panel discussion.

    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.

  • “Garifuna in Peril” Film Screening: AfroMundo Festival event

    “Garifuna in Peril” Film Screening: AfroMundo Festival event

    “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.

  • From Decimas to Spoken Word: AfroMundo Festival Event

    Explores the poetic tradition of decimas in the context of poetry as a means of resistance for Afro peoples. With poet Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz and special guest artists Pauila Melissa Alves, aka Mel Adún, Marcus Gonçalves da Silva, aka Guellwaar Adún, Monice Aguilar, J. Gourdin, and Leandro Pita.

  • AfroMundo Festival

    AfroMundo Festival

    AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity
    Music, dance, films, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions & more!
    All events are free and open to the general public.
  • “Hayes = Health” APS Medicaid & Hayes MS Health Fair

    “Hayes = Health” APS Medicaid & Hayes MS Health Fair

    APS Medicaid Enrollment & Hayes MS present a health fair for the whole community which features on-site Medicaid/SNAP enrollment, Covid & 7th grader required vaccines, free tablets for those already on Medicaid, snacks/drinks & door prizes! This event is free and open to the public. No registration required.

    Resources also for Be Well NM (federal insurance marketplace) as well as other support, so stop on by and check it out!

  • Adult Storytime: Esteban – First North American Black Explorer

    Come to the San Pedro Library hear the true story of Esteban (or Estevanico), an enslaved African man, who may have been the first non-native person to visit the southern reaches of the Colorado Plateau in what we now call New Mexico. 5600 Trumbull SE, Albuquerque.

  • Isotopes Jackie Robinson Celebration Game

    Isotopes Jackie Robinson Celebration Game

    Join the Albuquerque Isotopes baseball team on Tuesday, April 18 at 6:35 pm for a game in celebration of baseball great Jackie Robinson!

    Art attribution: Osbrun, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

  • 2nd Annual Ganja Freedom Fest

    2nd Annual Ganja Freedom Fest

    Celebrating the freedom of plant medicine & Mother Earth for the 4/20 holiday and Earth Day! Support community, plant medicine, nature and safe spaces for BIPOC at the beautiful Mujeres Valley Campground.

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