AfroMundo Festival: Jamila Woods
Jamila Woods has been featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk, CBS This Morning, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Don’t miss this award-winning poet whose work blurs boundaries between poem and song! Like all AfroMundo Festival events, this opening concert is FREE but RESERVATIONS are required.
AfroMundo Festival: Fabiola Mendez
Don’t miss Puerto Rican cuatrista, singer, educator, and Emmy-nominated composer Fabiola Méndez! Fabiola’s unique blend of influences includes folk, jazz, and Afro-Caribbean genres. Look closer at Fabiola’s instrument—it’s not a guitar, but a Puerto Rican Cuatro. Sharing this unique instrument is one of Mendez’s missions, along with celebrating folk music and collective storytelling. Like all AfroMundo […]
Together We Heal: A Community Healing Circle
This free session, led by the Sacred Spring Reiki Collective, will invite people to heal in community. We don’t have to face our fears or problems alone. Communally, we can overcome great challenges. Calm the mind through the practice of intentional breathing, gentle movement, and reiki energy healing, allowing you to tap into the deep […]
AfroMundo Festival Begins
In its first two years, the annual AfroMundo Festival has become a favorite. Be sure to check out the third annual festival, “Maroons, Rebels, Dreamers & Visionaries,” including live music, films, food tastings, and more! The full 2024 lineup, with daily events from April 13 to 20, is on AfroMundo’s website, or check out […]
AfroMundo Festival: Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Creativity
For Afro diasporas, food remains one of the most effective means of resistance, cultural retention, and innovation. Join an exciting 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 the Year Award, featured in acclaimed documentary The Heat: A kitchen (R)evolution (2018). […]
AfroMundo Festival: Screening of Documentary “Sonic Forest”
The 30-minute documentary Sonic Forest features two Colombian communities risking their lives to preserve the earth, doing the global work of conservation like many Afro and Indigenous communities in the Americas. The screening will be followed immediately by a Panel Discussion with land rights activists from right here in Albuquerque and across the Americas. […]
AfroMundo Festival: Nidia Gongóra in Concert
Grammy-nominated singer, composer, tradition-bearer, folklorist and champion of the Pacific coast’s Afro-Colombian cultural heritage Nidia Gongóra will perform music that blends the music of her native Timbiquí with other world genres. Tickets are FREE! Get yours HERE.
AfroMundo Festival: Screening of Documentary Short “Silence Sam”
This 18-minute documentary short was directed by young activists in reaction to a documentary that was done about them without their consent. View their story told through their own art! A panel discussion will follow, featuring activists and leaders for change. Reservations required. Details coming soon.
AfroMundo Festival: “Farming While Black” film screening
The documentary “Farming While Black,” directed by Mark Decena, examines the historical abuses of Black farmers and the current movement for their descendants to reclaim their right to the land. A panel discussion will immediately follow the film, featuring Black New Mexico farmers. Registration is free and required. More info and registration link HERE.
Contemporary Rebel Woman Reading
Shirley Campbell Barr, Suzanne Barr, and Yashika Graham will share their poetry and prose. Shirley Campbell Barr will read selections from her five poetry collections. She has written De Negro Vengo Ataviada, the seminal Rotundamente Negra y Otras Poemas, and Palabras Indelebles de Poetas Negras. Suzanne Barr is the author of My Ackee Tree: A Chef’s […]