The border isn’t a black line on a map that divides us. It is an incredible landscape that unites two countries and our wildlife. A landscape of opportunity for binational conservation efforts, where both countries can take pride in stewarding a shared ecosystem roamed by an animal so powerful and sacred that for thousands of years it has been revered as a god. Our sincerest hope is for these images to inspire people on both sides of the border, to see what can be gained by further conserving the Sky Islands, protecting the remaining travel corridors, and rewilding the borderlands.” — Ben Masters and Austin Alvarado

CCA is holding its first Fine Art Flea to raise funds for ongoing programming and events for the community on June 14. We need your help with securing donated original paintings, photography, sculptures and unique jewelry.

United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their family history. While exploring the house, left untouched since the 1940s, they excavate the life of their ancestor, Adele Vermillard, a 20 year old woman who lived there in 1895. The end of the 19th century saw the birth of both photography and the Impressionist movement, which profoundly changed painting. Through back-and-forth journeys between 1895 and 2025, they find in the relics of the past what will help them better envision their own future.

Residents of present-day Rijeka, Croatia reenact images of Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1919–1920 occupation of the city.

Follows a mysterious herd of ghost elephants in the jungles of Angola.

Thursdays, 4:30-6:30p May 14,21, 28, June 5 Cost: $250 (For all four classes) Location: CCA Conference Room This spring, poet Elizabeth Jacobson is offering a new session of her popular workshop series Intimate Immersion. During this four-week in-person intensive, the focus is on generating new poems, critiquing each participant’s work, revising poems, and looking at elements of craft. Each meeting, participants are invited to bring a new poem (with copies for everyone) for workshop discussion. Since this is the first look, the process creates a deep, concentrated attention different from preparing critique notes ahead of time. Additionally, contemporary poems are provided as a catalyst for the following week’s writing prompt. This is an intimate, focused immersion to reinforce the writing practice and foster the evolution of new poems. No class fees can be refunded after two weeks prior to start date. About Elizabeth Jacobson: Elizabeth Jacobson was the fifth Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her third collection of poems, "There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral" is just out from Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. Her previous book, "Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air," won the New Measure Poetry Prize (FVE/Parlor Press, 2019) and the 2019 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book. She is the reviews editor for the online literary journal Terrain.org. This program is supported by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry

A long table, a single microphone, and a community excited to listen – this is La Mesa, a new type of storytelling event! Six voices share true, 5–7 minute lived-experience stories, followed by short responses from table-mates, concluding in a conversation with the audience. La Mesa emphasizes listening, reflection, and connection across cultures, ages, and experiences. La Mesa is produced by Joe Lambert, storyteller, community artist, educator, and founder of the internationally renowned Storycenter. Partners for this event include the Center for Contemporary Arts Poetry Program and the Santa Fe Public Library, with support from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.

"Illusions" follows a young woman working at National Studios in Hollywood, which is very rare during that time. As the film progresses, Mignon Dupree creates the illusion of talent among white film stars while a young African American girl, Esther Jeeter, sings the part for the film. "Passing" follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.

Redemption Time is a 70-minute performance film featuring poet Jimmy Santiago Baca and jazz violinist Christian Howes––two formerly incarcerated artists who reclaimed their lives through art. While imprisoned, Howes discovered Baca's poetry, igniting a creative lifeline that would sustain them both. Through spoken word, jazz, and intimate testimony, the film reveals the trauma of incarceration and art's redemptive power. Directed by David Gonzalez, Redemption Time is an emotional journey and a call to reimagine justice, identity, and human potential.

This Renesan Presentation is 1 Session. Birds of Santa Fe: Their Natural History and Where to Find Them Renesan Presentation Information: "Although many of us are familiar with a dozen or so birds that frequent our birdbaths and feeders, birders have sighted almost 200 species of birds at the Audubon Center in Santa Fe and even more in the state. Naturalist and birder Janie Chodosh returns to Renesan with her popular presentation about common birds of New Mexico, what we know about them, and where to find them. Enthusiasts can register separately for a bird walk." About The Presenter: Janie Chodosh is a naturalist, birder, writer, and educator. She currently teaches ecology and environmental science at Santa Fe Community College. She has four published books all related to science, conservation, and the natural world. Her new book about the Rufous Hummingbird will be published in spring of 2027.

This Renesan Presentation is 1 Session and takes place at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden. Cultivated Connections: A Guided Garden Experience Renesan Presentation Information: "Join Christie Collins, Director of Education and Interpretation at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, for a leisurely walk through the Garden that weaves together history, plant stories, and behind-the-scenes projects. Along the way, you’ll discover how the Garden has grown and changed, learn about plants that thrive in our landscape, and uncover fascinating environmental connections. This relaxed, visual, and story-rich tour is designed for curiosity, conversation, and enjoying the Garden at an easy pace." About The Presenter: Christie Collins is the Director of Education and Interpretation at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden with a background in biology and marketing. She develops interpretive exhibits and public programs focused on pollinators, native plants, and invertebrates, emphasizing science-based, place-based environmental education.

This Renesan Presentation is 1 Session. It meets offsite at the Randall Davey Audubon Center and Sanctuary Santa Fe Bird Walk with Janie Chodosh Renesan Presentation Information: "Naturalist and birder Janie Chodosh will lead a small group (maximum of 10) on a bird walk through the Randall Davey Audubon Center and Sanctuary--timed to coincide with the arrival of migratory birds that will join our resident species. The tour is designed for easy walking. A guideline is that participants should be able to walk a mile on flat terrain. Parking is free but limited, and carpooling is encouraged." About The Presenter: Janie Chodosh is a naturalist, birder, writer, and educator. She currently teaches ecology and environmental science at Santa Fe Community College. She has four published books all related to science, conservation, and the natural world. Her new book about the Rufous Hummingbird will be published in spring of 2027.

Location: St John’s Methodist Church Sanctuary, 1200 Old Pecos Trail Steinway Artist Jacquelyn Helin has performed in many of the music world’s most-renowned venues and is especially well known for championing the piano works of American composers. Her Virgil Thomson recordings have garnered critical acclaim, and she was a featured artist in the PBS documentary Virgil Thomson at 90.

Rising Hope spent five years inside the Mississippi Delta, one of the most persistently impoverished regions in the United States, listening to the people who live and work there — educators, faith leaders, nonprofit organizers, veterans, and young people finding their way forward against long odds. The film doesn't offer easy answers. It offers something rarer: real people doing real work, in real places, for each other. In a time when the national conversation about race, poverty, and community often generates more heat than light, Rising Hope steps back from the noise and into the lives of people who have been navigating these realities for generations. Their stories are not about despair. They are about what it looks like when people refuse to give up on one another — and on themselves. The film — shot in anamorphic widescreen and described by audiences as recalling the visual language of Terrence Malick — presents a grounded American story rooted in lived experience rather than headlines. It invites audiences not only to reflect, but to reconsider what responsibility to community can look like in their own lives. Rising Hope is a collaboration between Academy Award-winning producer Lynn Appelle, Emmy Award-winning composer Alex Wurman, and director Theo Avgerinos, whose debut feature premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI is a raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmuller (Swept Away). Giancarlo Giannini (Love and Anarchy) gives a wonderfully comic performance as the 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. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella (Mariangela Melato), with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor, an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences. A blistering satire of Italy in the 1970s, THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI takes aim at a corrupt government, compromised labor leaders and the Neanderthal sexual politics of men in power, with uproarious results.

Based on two manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge, who rose to underground celebrity thanks to his surrealist tales published in the pages of the bastion of Japanese avant-garde cartooning, Garo, 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). Winner of the Golden Leopard at last year’s Locarno Film Festival, hailed “a true masterpiece” by Shiguéhiko Hasumi, Japan’s greatest living film critic, Two Seasons, Two Strangers is at one and the same time as simple as its straightforward title suggests and immensely, exhilaratingly complex.

After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.

Rachel doesn't realize she has grown up in captivity working for an advertising agency where her job is to assess Mommy 6.0 - her favorite pop star.

One of international cinema’s most fearless and provocative filmmakers, Nadav Lapid has long been an outspoken critic of his birth country’s government policies, channeling a lifetime of fury and frustration into vital films like Synonyms and Ahed’s Knee that brim with righteous anger, spite, and shame. In Yes, Lapid once again takes vigorous critical aim at the Israeli government with a new approach: submission. In the days following October 7, Y., a jazz musician, and his wife Yasmin, a dancer, resolve to say yes to everything. Y. and Yasmin sell their bodies and souls to the highest bidder, surrendering themselves and their art to Israel’s social, political and military elite. Soon, Y. is entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to compose the music for a rousing, ruthless new national anthem. Feverishly whirling between moments of satire, sincerity, and complete submission, Yes is a visceral, blistering indictment of modern Israel, and an essential addition to post-October 7 cinema.