¡Colores!; Villa de Alburquerque

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · September 24, 2006

Colores Version 52:46 APT Version 57:03 CC In honor of Albuquerque, New Mexico’s tricentennial celebration, KNME proudly presents “Villa de Alburquerque.” This ¡Colores! production is a one-hour documentary that looks at the life and times of 18th-century Albuquerque. The documentary covers the Spanish colonial period (1706–1821) and provides audiences with a sense of how people--settlers, soldiers, servants, nomadic tribes, and others--lived. It will also examine the cross-cultural influences of the time that defines what it means to be a New Mexican today. Avoiding a textbook chronological map of the period, and with the help of historians, musicians, re-enactors, and a DNA investigator, “Villa de Alburquerque” explores the historical roots of our mixed heritage while also conveying the lives of the common people behind the big names and events of New Mexico’s Spanish colonial period. Funding for this program was provided by The Albuquerque Tricentennial and New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.