Amy Goodman wants you to see Steal This Story, Please at CCA!
Opening May 22
Undeterred by armed soldiers, smooth-talking politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media.
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions – as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?
Tickets and more info: /event/steal-this-story-please
Come see the 2026 IAIA MFA Show at CCA!
Opening reception this Friday, 05/15 from 5pm to 9pm
Exhibit shows through June 7, 2025
The exhibition features a breadth of media including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and textiles. Artists include Matthew Bahe (Diné), Amanda Raquel Dorval (Nuyorican-Dominican), Ash Frantz (Makah), Chanelle Gallagher (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe), Victoria Hubbard (Mescalero Apache), Sayokla Kindness-Williams (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin), Viola LeBeau (Pit River), Jimmy Lízarde Ramírez (Xicanx Two Spirit), Cedar Rose Silverado (Dene and Diné), and Ryle Yazzie (Diné).
Pictured:
Jimmy Lízarde Ramírez (Xicanx Two Spirit) | Still from hustling flying crying in the imagined mission, 2026, video documentation.
Amanda Raquel Dorval (Nuyorican-Dominican-US) | En el nombre de la Madre, 2025, giclée print on aluminum dibond.
Ryle Yazzie (Diné) | Still from Native Genes Commercial 2, 16mm film, 2:58, 2025, 16mm movie film.
Details at https://iaia.edu/event/be-held-exhibition/
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Will we see you this weekend? Four great new films coming to CCA starting Friday, May 15.
An Autumn Summer - It’s the Summer of 2010, and 18-year-old Kevin is two months into his family’s annual summer trip in Northern Michigan. Kevin is soon joined by his girlfriend Cody, and best friends Jared and Martin, as they arrive from their hometown Chicago to spend the rest of the summer together.
Everyone Is Lying To You For Money - Actor and author Ben McKenzie turns investigator, pulling back the curtain on the cryptocurrency industry and the culture of hype, misinformation, and speculation that fueled its explosive rise. What began as a promise of financial freedom has evolved into a volatile ecosystem rife with fraud and reckless gambling, carrying with it devastating consequences for everyday people.
Last One for the Road - Two middle-aged friends, who swear each drink is their last, cross paths with a shy architecture student and take him under their wing on a free-flowing bender through the Italian countryside in a scruffy intergenerational odyssey.
Wizard of the Kremlin - Russia, early 1990s. The USSR has collapsed. Amid the chaos of a country rebuilding itself, a fiercely intelligent young man, Vadim Baranov, is charting his path. First, an avant-garde artist, then a reality TV show producer, he becomes the unofficial advisor to a former KGB agent destined to seize absolute power, the man who will soon be known as “The Tsar”, Vladimir Putin.
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US Magazine calls Blue Heron "2026’s Best Movie So Far"! Check it out at CCA this week!
Tickets and info:
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The Center for Contemporary Arts is pleased to announce its first Santa Fe Fringe Festival happening Thursdays – Mondays, July 30 – August 9th, 2026 ….. plus our special Best of Fringe Night to take place on Monday, August 10th.
OK, City Different….Let’s show them what you got!
Are you a performer with a piece you are dying to show this art-loving community? We’re looking for your no-tech short play, reading, stand-up comedy routine, dance piece, burlesque performance, monologue, spoken-word, music or anything in between we would love to give you a space to perform!
We are currently accepting applications for performers of all stripes to make-up two weekends of non-stop “no tech” performances.
Check out the performer FAQ page at /santa-fe-fringe-festival-performer-faq/
Deadline to apply is May 25, 10am.
Questions? Email [email protected].
Important Updates Regarding the Upcoming Renesan event May 14 - Renesan – Face to Face with the 30s and 40s: American Music Comes of Age
1: Tickets ARE available at /event/renesan-face-to-face-with-the-30s-and-40s-american-music-comes-of-age/. There was a technology problem that was mistakenly showing this event was sold out.
2: Please note that the event is happening at St John's Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail.
The 1930s and 40s were trail-blazing decades in the development of American classical music. Many American composers had spent time in the 1920s living and writing music in Paris while studying with Nadia Boulanger. As events in Europe grew increasingly ominous, they returned to the U.S. where Roger Sessions, Virgil Thomson, and Aaron Copland in particular organized concerts to develop audiences and put American music on the map. During the Depression, the WPA sponsored both film and dance projects for which composers such as Copland, Thomson, and Roy Harris wrote. Well-known to Renesan audiences, Ms. Helin will share personal anecdotes of her working relationships with Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland and play piano works by Thomson, Copland, Sessions, Harris, and Samuel Barber as she explores the work of these fertile decades.
Well known to Renesan audiences, Steinway Artist Jacquelyn Helin has played solo, concerto, and chamber performances in many of the renowned musical venues in the U.S. and Europe. She is especially well known for performing music by American composers such as Copland, Thomson, Barber, and George Gershwin. Her recordings of Thomson’s music for New World and Musical Heritage have garnered critical acclaim and she was a featured artist in the PBS documentary, Virgil Thomson at 90.
Make plans now for all of the three great films opening this weekend at CCA!
Blue Heron - directed by Sophy Romvari, Blue Heron is a semi-autobiographical drama following a Hungarian immigrant family in the late 1990s who move to Vancouver Island. Told from the perspective of eight-year-old Sasha, the story depicts a seemingly idyllic new life that is slowly fractured by the increasingly erratic, dangerous, and antisocial behavior of her older brother, Jeremy.
Parallel Mothers - The latest in our Pedro Almodovar retrospective. Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.
Two Pianos - After years of self-imposed exile, pianist Mathias (François Civil) returns to France, where his former mentor, Eléna (Charlotte Rampling), has invited him to perform a series of concerts with her in his hometown of Lyon. Soon after his arrival, a chance encounter with a child who looks just like him throws Mathias into turmoil, threatening to drag him down, and leads him back to his first love, Claude (Nadia Tereszkiewicz).
Returning this week: Colors of Time & Ghost Elephants (in its third week).
Tickets and more information at .
We can't wait to show you our new suite of films opening today and available through May 8:
Colors of Time - only at CCA!
A group of strangers, all descendants of a woman named Adèle Meunier, are gathered in Normandy. The town would like to purchase her long-abandoned property, and four “cousins” are tasked with overseeing the transaction. Thus begins a genealogical journey into the past, taking us to 1895 Paris, with the City of Light on the brink of an industrial and cultural revolution.
Two Seasons, Two Strangers - only at CCA!
Based on two manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge, Miyake’s bifurcated live-action feature observes (and draws parallels and contrasts from) a summertime meet-cute between Nagisa and Natsuo (Yuumi Kawai and Mansaku Takada) and a snowbound winter encounter between screenwriter Li and innkeeper Ben-zō (Shim Eun-kyung and Shinichi Tsutsumi)
Volver - Our Pedro Almodóvar retrospective continues!
VOLVER follows three generations of women who survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.
Yes - only at CCA!
“A whirling, maximalist satire at once despairing and exuberant, subtle as a cannonball in its evisceration of the ruling classes and those who obey them, it’s both absurdist comedy and serious-as-cancer polemic… it’s exhilaratingly of the moment and in the moment.”– Guy Lodge, Variety
All this, plus limited screenings of our latest in the Black Cinema Series (the double-bill of Passing paired with Illusions) AND an encore week of Ghost Elephants, the can't-miss documentary.
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The Black Cinema Series returns to CCA May 1 with a fantastic pairing of films!
Passing: Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, PASSING tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York.
Illusions: The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor; the place is National Studios, a fictitious Hollywood motion picture studio. Mignon Duprée, a Black woman studio executive who appears to be white and Ester Jeeter, an African American woman who is the singing voice for a white Hollywood star are forced to come to grips with a society that perpetuates false images as status quo.
Limited shows through Wednesday, May 6.
CCA's Black Cinema series is curated by Anpa’o Locke, an Afro-Indigenous writer, filmmaker, and curator who is Húŋkpapȟa Lakota and Ahtna Dené (Village of Tazlina), born in the Standing Rock Nation and now residing in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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COMING UP 6:30 pm, April 30 AT CCA! ONE NIGHT ONLY!
The Jaguar’s Footprint: Rewilding Stories
Film and Conversation! Jaguar conservation specialists Megan (Turtle) Southern and Pablo Guerra from the Rewilding Institute will share stories and images from a combined 40 years of jaguar conservation in the U.S., Mexico, Argentina and elsewhere in the Americas. Come and meet the people who know jaguars!
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Four new films opened at CCA today! Which are you most excited about?
Ghost Elephants - Directed, narrated and written by legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, GHOST ELEPHANTS is a lyrical tale of survival, reconnection and the enduring power of ancient knowledge in the face of modern loss.
The Seduction of Mimi - Join us for this special 4K Restoration of Lina Wertmüller’s second full length feature. This raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmuller (Swept Away) centers on sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia’s candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife, and his home.
Talk to Her - The next installment of our Pedro Almodóvar retrospective, winner of the 2002 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
FIUME O MORTE! - In FIUME O MORTE! (“Fiume or Death!”), Croatian filmmaker Igor Bezinović tells the story of D’Annunzio’s escapade in the most entertaining way possible, using brashly anachronistic re-enactments featuring residents of modern-day Rijeka — the city which includes what used to be Fiume.
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We look forward to seeing you tomorrow for the next Fine Art Flea drop off at CCA from 3-5pm! We'd love to see your fine art, unique jewelry and art books.
We have received amazing pieces already and we can't wait to share them with you at the event on June 14. We are so grateful to the community for supporting this new event.
More details at w/ccas-fine-art-flea/.
