Join Elevated Entertainment at FUSION on Sunday, October 18, at 5 PM for an evening of soulful music, storytelling, and celebration as Albuquerque’s own singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Dee Brown celebrates the release of Life, the first album in his three-part Life, Love, and Faith project. This is an official event of the Rising High Arts Festival! Elevated Entertainment is the MC for the night!

Get ready to laugh your way through a hilarious evening at Rising High Comedy Night, featuring some of the best local comics on Friday, October 16, at 7 PM! PLUS an afterparty with a DJ in FUSION’s Velvet Echo Lounge! Hosted by comic and show producer Nax, the evening brings together Victor, Count, Sarina, Hannah, and headliner Tripp

Our featured readers include Manuel González, the current New Mexico State Poet Laureate, and the Native American Community Academy (NACA) Spoken Word Poetry Team, including poets Keira Farias, Marissa Victorino, Luciano Lingnau, Luc Gutierrez, Violet Begay, and Summer Cruz-Haskey.

This year, you can look forward to your favorite fungi producers, fermented beverages and foods, hands on demonstrations covering all things fermentation and fungi, educational presentations and of course, our beloved Battle of the Breads Competition! 

On October 10, we’re taking over FUSION | The Meadow for an all-day mashup of live music, deep grooves, inspiring rhythms, authentic funk, and whatever happens when Albuquerque gets together and decides it’s time to dance.

Caribe is coming to FUSION | 708 on Friday, October 9, at 8 PM (Doors at 7:30 PM). Step into the spirit of New York’s legendary Village Gate for a special evening celebrating the groundbreaking Salsa Meets Jazz series and the extraordinary music created when giants of jazz and Afro-Caribbean music shared the same stage

Author and journalist T.J. English is coming to FUSION on Friday, October 9, at 6 PM as part of the Rising High Arts Festival. English is the author of Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld, and is currently on tour for his latest book, Blood in the Desert: The T. J. English Reader. Bringing another dimension of storytelling, Blood in the Desert spans subjects as varied as jazz, boxing, police corruption, and violence in the desert Southwest.

With the dynamic Writing On The Wall and a tour calendar busting at the seams, Coco Montoya is as excited as he's ever been to perform the new songs live with his burning-hot band. Montoya's well-earned reputation as an eye-popping live performer precedes him.

The Albuquerque Art Business Association (AABA) is proud to present the 2026 AABA Full Members Exhibition at FUSION, as an official part of Rising High Arts Festival, celebrating the remarkable diversity, creativity, and talent of Albuquerque's artist community.

The Poetry of Flowers Collaborative developed organically—perhaps even a little haphazardly. Each artist brought a personal connection, a particular talent, or a completely unexpected way of seeing a flower.  Maggie Seeley, the poet, initiated or responded to that vision with words, and then the artwork and poem began to speak to one another.