Día del Libro

Día del Libro
Saturday, April 25, 2026
10:00 am – 6:00 pm

NHCC Campus

Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque celebrates International Book Day, Día del Libro, with an outdoor event open to the public, featuring a variety of activities. The centerpiece of the event will be a fair featuring booth from independent Albuquerque bookstores offering books in both Spanish and English. The Center will present the first 50 attendees with a complimentary book and a rose.

Free Community Event

Activities Include:
10:00 am: Opening Ceremonies with Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, Guest of Honor; Patricia Pinzón, Cónsul General of Mèxico in Albuquerque; Zack Quintero, National Hispanic Cultural Center Executive Director; Carlos Madrid, Director of Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque; Mistress of Ceremonies and former Poet Laureate of the City of Albuquerque, Jessica Helen López.

11:00 am: Peruvian Dance and Music performance by Peru-Dance Abq, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Peru in Denver.

11:00 am: Docent-guided tour of the NHCC’s Torreón fresco.

11:30 am: Free Demonstration: Spanish Class, honoring not only World Book Day but also Spanish Language Day—both celebrated on April 23.

12:00 pm: Poetry Slam session hosted by local group Chicharra Press, featuring local poets

1:00 pm: Film Screening of the Spanish film El jugador de ajedrez (2017), which features an in-person discussion with producer, Juan Antonio Casado—an event organized by the Spanish Resource Center of the Embassy of Spain in Washington.

2:00 pm: Tour of the NHCC’s History and Literary Arts Library with Amy Padilla, NHCC Librarian.

3:00 pm: Docent-guided tour of the NHCC’s Torreón fresco.

3:00 pm: Mariachi Performance by students from Albuquerque’s San José High School. Leyendo con México, a bike raffle and literacy-promotion event hosted by the Consulate General of Mexico in Albuquerque.

4:00 pm: Musical on Mexican history ¡Viva México!, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Albuquerque, in Wells-Fargo Auditorium.

5:00 pm: Poetry in the Plaza: Main Stage

7:00 pm: Huehuetenango Songbook: Concert of 16th- and 17th-century music from the Huehuetenango collection—a repertoire of polyphonic music and Gregorian chant fragments compiled between 1582 and 1635 in a remote region of what is now western Guatemala—performed by Argentine tenor Jonatan Alvarado and Argentine lutenist and vihuelist Ariel Abramovich.

Special thank you to our sponsors and partners.