Events on Central

The KiMo hosts what appears to be a live taping and festival run tied to Season 6 of Bands of Enchantment's Albuquerque Sessions, a locally produced music series that has...

A fundraiser night at Painted Lady Bed & Brew on Central, with proceeds going to Barrett House, which provides transitional housing and support services for women in recovery. Painted Lady...

Cody Polston launches his new book at Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series, which means you get a reading inside one of the more atmospheric rooms on Central. The bed-and-brew...

Five short plays in two acts follow a young immigrant girl navigating two cultures at once, written and performed by an Albuquerque troupe that has been building this kind of...

The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame takes over the Route 66 Visitor Center for a four-hour concert series tied to centennial celebrations, which puts the music literally on the historic corridor itself. The Hall of Fame tends to book acts with deep New Mexico roots, the kind that don't always surface in advance press,...

Opera performed up close inside the Albuquerque Museum, where the architecture and gallery spaces become part of the staging rather than just a backdrop. Museum admission covers it, which means you could wander the permanent collection beforehand and walk into a live operatic performance without buying a separate ticket. Old Town on a September evening...

An Albuquerque production company screens the pilot episode of Facing Scars, a drama about a amateur boxing champion rebuilding her life after escaping an abusive marriage, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Every dollar from ticket sales goes directly to S.A.F.E. House, New Mexico's largest intimate-partner domestic violence shelter, because tickets are sold through...

Part of Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series, this is a ticketed evening of tarot readings with Triple Moon Bewitched in one of the more genuinely atmospheric rooms on the corridor. The Bed & Brew's interior does a lot of the heavy lifting here, the kind of space where this sort of thing doesn't feel...

Wickedly Cunning and Lunatyk Arts are staging a Halloween-season high tea at Painted Lady Bed & Brew, which means expect theatrical weirdness layered over the scones-and-small-plates format rather than a...

This two-act, 90-minute production at the NHCC's Albuquerque Journal Theatre moves through centuries of Mexican cultural history, from Aztec ceremony to varsovianas, spoken poetry, and live Mariachi Xochitl. The Albuquerque Journal Theatre is a proper sit-down house with good sightlines and real production values, so this is a more polished evening than a typical community...