Jamila Woods
In Concert
In Concert
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 7:30 PM
Outpost Performance Space
FREE tickets.
RESERVATIONS are required.
Opening Concert
Jamila Woods Jamila Woods is a poet, songwriter, and performing artist from the South Side of Chicago. Her first solo album, HEAVN was released by JagJaguwar Records in 2017 to critical acclaim. Her sophomore offering, LEGACY! LEGACY! (2019), features 12 tracks named after writers, thinkers, and visual artists who have influenced the creator’s life and work — including James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez. Jamila Woods has been featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk, CBS This Morning, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. An award-winning poet, her work blurs boundaries between poem and song.
True Justice
Sunday, April 12, 2026, 11 AM
National Hispanic Cultural Center: Wells Fargo Theater
FREE tickets. Registration opens soon.
Documentary Screening
Screening “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality,” directed by George Kunhardt, Peter W. Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt (2019. 1hr 42m). This documentary follows 30 years of Equal Justice Initiative’s work on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. The film won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary, and is the winner of the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications’ 26th annual Vision Award and a Peabody Award.
Fight for Equality
Sunday, April 12, 2026, 3 PM
National Hispanic Cultural Center: Wells Fargo Auditorium
FREE tickets. Registration opens soon.
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion with Darlene T. Gomez, attorney for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives; Abraham Paulos of BAJI (Black Alliance for Just Immigration); Dr. Estévan Rael-Gálvez, President and founder of Native Bound-Unbound; and Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal and Advocacy for Project South. Moderated by Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace, Director of UNM’s Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program. Followed by a Q&A.
Narratives of Power: Myth, History, and the Stories that Shape Us
Sunday, April 12, 2026, 7 PM
National Hispanic Cultural Center: Wells Fargo Theater
FREE tickets. Registration opens soon.
Literary Reading
Literary Reading with Samoan storyteller Gabby Langkilde; Puerto Rican poet Dr. Eleuterio Santiago-Diaz; and Virgin Islands’ author Tiphanie Yanique. Moderated by Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace, Director of UNM’s Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program. Followed by a Q&A.
Gabby Langkilde
Dr. Eleuterio Santiago-Diaz
Tiphanie Yanique
The Future is Now
Monday, April 13, 2026, 7 PM
National Hispanic Cultural Center: Bank of America Theater
FREE tickets. Registration opens soon.
Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Screening of documentary “The Fight to Preserve & Revitalize the CHamoru Language.” Directed by Brian Muna. (2025. 13m.) Followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include Ashby Combahee, Library and Archives Program Manager at the Highlander Research and Education Center; Darlene T. Gomez, attorney for Medicine Wheel Ride; Gabby Langkilde, founder of Pasefika Presence; and Akilah Martinez, award-winning Diné creative technologist and cultural bearer. Moderated by CHamoru filmmaker Brian Muna. Followed by Q&A.
Re-imaginings: Power & Transformation
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 7 PM
National Hispanic Cultural Center: Bank of America Theater
FREE tickets. Registration opens soon.
Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Screening of Puerto Rican documentary “The Bee—A Reflection on Women, Land, and Occupation.” Directed by Nelson Varas-Diaz. (2024. 30m.) Followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include award-winning afro-diasporic siblings, mulowayi and mapenzi who together comprise Las Nietas de Nonó ; Afro-Puerto Rican attorney and former member of the Puerto Rican Senate, Ana Irma Rivera Lassén; Robert Washington-Vaughns, founder of Black Men Flower Project; and Tyeshia ‘Ty’ Wilson, Certified Impact Philanthropy Advisor and award-winning Giving Circle expert. Moderated by Latinx, transfeminist sociologist, Amaury J. Rijo Sanchez.
Food is Power: Cultivating Community
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Chefs in the Kitchen: 8 AM–5 PM
Food Pickup: 2–4 PM
Chefs in the Kitchen: 8 AM–5 PM
Food Pickup: 2–4 PM
Three Sisters Kitchen
FREE tickets. Registration opens soon.
Culinary Taste Feast
Samoan Chef Devynne Fuga Ah-Mai and Puerto Rican Chef Pau Rocío prepare foods for one hundred registered recipients in anticipation of that evening’s culinary discussion.
Chef Devynne Fuga Ah-Ma
Chef Pau Rocío
Food is Power: Cultivating Resilience
Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 7 PM
National Hispanic Cultural Center: Salon Ortega
FREE tickets. Registration opens soon.
Panel Discussion
Panel discussion with Samoan Chef Devynne Fuga Ah-Mai and Puerto Rican Chef Pau Rocío . Moderated by Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace, Director of UNM’s Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program. Followed by a Q&A.
Manifesting the Envisioned
Thursday, April 16, 2025, 7 PM
National Hispanic Cultural Center: Salon Ortega
FREE tickets. Registration opens soon.
Multidisciplinary Arts Presentation and Conversation
Artistic presentation by Puerto Rico’s award-winning Las Nietas de Nonó . Followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include Las Nietas de Nonó; liberation strategist and fabulist c.j Davison; multidisciplinary CHamoru artist Dakota Camacho; and Alabama playwright, performer and cultural worker David H. Parker. Moderated by artist AfroMundo Youth Council member, Lauryn Mills-Bohannon.
Spirits Rising: Ceremonies & Offerings
Friday, April 17, 2026, 7 PM
National Hispanic Cultural Center: Salon Ortega
FREE tickets. Registration opens soon.
Cross-Cultural Ceremonies and Offerings
Multi-generational, cross-cultural offerings from throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam and Virgin Islands. Followed by a Q&A and communal sharing of narratives. Presentations by: Sherry Aragon, Dakota Camacho, c.j. Davison, Devynne Fuga Ah-Mai, Teresa Karolina, David H. Parker, and MokoJumbie Yisrael Allan Petersen. MC: Kimora Toledo.
Photo courtesy of Adolphe Pierre-Louis, from AfroMundo Festival 2025 event "Wade in the Water"
Together We Heal
Saturday, April 18, 2026, 1 PM
National Hispanic Cultural Center: Salon Ortega
FREE tickets. Registration opens soon.
Communal Healing & Talk Circle
Reiki practitioners and local curanderas from the Sacred Spring Reiki Collective and the Freedom to Heal Program will be collaborating to offer a 2-hour Group Healing Circle. The Healing Modalities in this Circle will include Meditative Imagery, Reiki, Sound Healing, a short Limpia (spiritual cleansing with Rosemary), and will close with a brief Talking Circle.
This Healing circle addresses the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs of participants, and will help individuals increase awareness of the present moment, reduce stress, promote relaxation, and enhance personal and spiritual growth.
This Healing circle addresses the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs of participants, and will help individuals increase awareness of the present moment, reduce stress, promote relaxation, and enhance personal and spiritual growth.
Sacred Springs Reiki Collective
Fabiola Méndez in Concert
Saturday, April 18, 2026, 7 PM
South Broadway Cultural Center
FREE tickets. Registration opens soon.
Closing Concert
Fabiola Méndez is an Emmy-nominated composer known for her unique blend of genres, including folk, jazz, and Afro-Caribbean influences. Her music takes listeners on a journey through various identities, cultures, and roots. Native to Caguas, PR, Fabiola began playing the cuatro, Puerto Rico's national instrument, at six. She got her early music training at the Antonio Paoli School of Music in Caguas and her Bachelor's in Music from Berklee College of Music, where in 2018, she made history as the first graduate to play the Puerto Rican cuatro as the principal instrument.
Fabiola Méndez
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