Events

Events

AfroMundo Festival: Cross-cultural Healing Ceremonies: Wade in the Water: The Will to Heal

Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

7:00 pm NHCC | Salón Ortega Multi-generational, cross-cultural healing ceremonies and offerings from Hawaii, Alaska, New Mexico, Haiti, Cuba and more. Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal. About the Festival: From April 12 – 19, enjoy music, literature, oral histories, theater, film, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions, and more. Mark your calendars and join us for this bilingual, weeklong, arts & humanities series that explores the shared traditions, histories, struggles, activism and aspirations of Black and (more...)

Inaugural Native Theater & Performing Arts Festival: Opening Reception

Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

7:00 – 9:00 pm NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium Dancing With Fire Productions in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center presents An Inaugural Native Theater & Performing Arts Festival. Please join us for our Inaugural Native American Theater & Performing Arts Festival on April 24-27 and May 1-4, 2025 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. We'll kick off the festival with an opening reception featuring music and dance performances on Thursday, April 24. About the Festival: Our Key Host of the festival will be Ms. Lori (more...)

Día Del Niño

Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

11:00 am - 3:00 pm NHCC | Domenici Education Building Join us for a day of celebrating the youth in our community during this free event for families of all ages and sizes! Enjoy Nanny’s Petting Zoo, performances from Voces de Coronado and Ballet Folklorico Fiesta Mexicana, student films, and our Youth Art Market. Learn about birds and bugs with the U.S. Forest Service. Make art, play, climb a rock wall and discover a variety of community resources from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & (more...)

Inaugural Native Theater & Performing Arts Festival: Closing Reception: Native Fashion Show

Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

5:00 – 7:30 pm NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium Dancing With Fire Productions in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center presents the Inaugural Native Theater & Performing Arts Festival. Please join us for our Inaugural Native American Theater & Performing Arts Festival on April 24-27 and May 1-4, 2025 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, featuring music, dance, staged readings, and more! About the Festival: Our Key Host of the festival will be Ms. Lori Chavez, beginning with an Opening Reception with music and dance performances on (more...)

SOMOS ABQ 2025

NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

4:00 – 11:00 pm (Doors open at 3:30 pm) NHCC Campus SOMOS ABQ 2025: A Love Letter to Albuquerque On Saturday May 10, the creative community of Burque will transform the National Hispanic Cultural Center into a living, breathing work of art—a place where music, creativity, and culture collide in a kaleidoscope of color, movement, sound and connection. By day, immerse yourself in large-scale art installations, hands-on maker activities, and interactive experiences that invite all ages to create, play, and explore. Wander through a world of sculpture, (more...)

Artist Chisme: Creative Conversations

Visual Art Museum 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

2:00 to 4:00 pm  Join the curator and artist Vicente Telles along with artists Vanessa Alvarado, Eric Romero, and Daisy Quezada Ureña for a fun and casual afternoon celebrating the NHCC art exhibition Rendered Presence: Artistas de Nuevo México.  Attendees will have a chance to walk through the exhibit with the artists. Community, artists and NHCC staff will sit and relax in the museum while participating in engaging conversation. The chisme will continue over light refreshments served in the museum courtyard. Free community event, please register using (more...)

Noche de Familia: Noche de Curanderismo & Bless Me, Ultima

Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

4:00 pm Limpia Workshop 6:30 pm Film Screening: Bless Me, Ultima New Mexico Gas Company presents Noche de Familia: Noche de Curanderismo, consisting of a limpia workshop and screening of Bless Me, Ultima. Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved and iconic Bless Me, Ultima returns to the NHCC with Carl Franklin’s screen adaptation in partnership with the English department of the University of New Mexico. Bless Me, Ultima is set in the 1940s in rural New Mexico and tells the story of a young boy and the mysterious healer who opens his eyes to (more...)

Noche de Familia: Noche de Superhéroe Film Spiderman: Across the Spider Verse

Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

4:00 pm – 9:00 pm 4:00 pm: Kids Film Activity at Lovelace Sandia Corridor 5:00 pm: Spiderman: Across the Spider Verse at the Bank of America Theatre Bring your children dressed as their favorite superhero! We will be screening the movie Spiderman: Across the Spider Verse. There will also be an opportunity for young people to show off their superhero moves and see them on the screen before the film. This activity that will share some movie-making magic with young people! Free community event. Bring the whole (more...)