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  • Salud y Sabor celebrates Mexico and Día de los Muertos

    Domenici Education Building - Grand Hall

    11:30 am - 2 pm Free Family Fun Salud y Sabor, a partnership between the Agri-cultura Network, Street Food Institute, and the NHCC is a free event with food, art, and entertainment aimed at providing families with an opportunity to connect around nutrition, cooking, healthy lifestyles, and culture. Once a month, community members gather for cooking demonstrations using fresh, locally grown ingredients, as well as fun art activities for kids and adults, health screenings, and live entertainment. An emphasis is placed on exploring traditional Hispanic dishes, providing (more...)

  • Diwali: The Festival of Lights

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Diwali is one of the biggest Hindu festivals, celebrated in India with great enthusiasm and happiness for five continuous days. The third day is celebrated as the main Diwali festival, or “Festival of Lights,” and different varieties of colorful fireworks are always associated with this festival. On this auspicious day, people light diyas (lamps) and candles all around their houses. They perform Laxmi Puja in the evening and seek divine blessings from the Goddess of Wealth. The festival of Diwali is never (more...)

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  • Baila! Baila! and the NHCC Present Christmas in New Mexico® 2019

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    2 pm—Saturday & Sunday 7 pm—Saturday Baila! Baila!’s annual holiday show is a whirlwind extravaganza, taking audiences on a journey through the sights and sounds of Christmas in New Mexico. Music, song, and dance with the traditional Southwestern flair that has been cultivated in our state over the generations, as well as unique segments saluting Christmas traditions from around the world, will delight theatregoers of all ages. In 2019, Baila! Baila! will be celebrating their 30th year in spectacular fashion. Christmas in New Mexico features a large (more...)

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  • NHCC Museum Holiday Pop up Shop

    September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes

    10 pm to 4 pm—Saturday 11 pm  to 4 pm—Sunday National Hispanic Cultural Center NHCC Art Museum pop-up Shop! We invite you to join us for the first–ever NHCC Museum Holiday Pop up Shop! Festive and Fun Gifts Piñatas (own a piece of museum history!) Tea towels Mugs T-shirts Jewelry Cards and mucho más! Drawings for gift baskets ALL Proceeds directly support the NHCC Art Museum. For information please contact Tey Marianna Nunn at tey.nunn@state.nm.us Photo: Tey Diana Rebolledo

  • Los Pastores de Belén

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    3 pm Los Pastores, the New Mexican Shepherds Play, was brought to New Mexico in 17th century from Spain. The play follows the adventures, antics, and battles of shepherds, angels, and devils. On their journey to Bethlehem to take their presents, the shepherds are waylaid by Demonio. The audience is amused by the mischief of Bartolo, the lazy shepherd, and the rhetorical prowess and swordplay of San Miguel. Before it was revived in 1973, when a manuscript was discovered in a home in Las Nutrias, the last (more...)

  • Festival Ballet Albuquerque Presents The Nutcracker in the Land of Enchantment

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    7 pm—Friday, Saturday & Sunday 2 pm—Saturday & Sunday Festival Ballet Albuquerque is partnering with the National Hispanic Cultural Center to present an original production, The Nutcracker in the Land of Enchantment. The beloved holiday classic is transported to territorial New Mexico in the late 1800s. Resplendent in its classical origins, this unique southwestern version adds elements of the state’s heritage and traditions including Spanish dancers, southwestern snakes, sheep and shepherdesses, a lively fandango, a Cochiti Pueblo Storyteller doll with children complete with Roadrunner and Coyote characters! A special treat are the lavish (more...)

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  • Carnaval Celebration 2020

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    7:30 pm—Friday & Saturday Carnaval, the festive season occurring before Lent in many countries, is one of the world’s most widespread celebrations and one of its biggest parties. Frank Leto Musical Ventures and the NHCC continue their annual partnership to celebrate Carnaval at the Center with a festive and colorful evening of music, dance, and theatre, featuring the Odara Dance Ensemble and the musical group PANdemonium. Carnaval 2020, a dazzling spectacle of vibrant dance, engaging music, and beautiful costumes, showcases the Carnaval traditions of Cuba, Trinidad, Brazil, (more...)

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  • Revolutions Theatre Fest: And Then…?

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    All events at the NHCC through April 9, 2020 have been cancelled / postponed. Please call the NHCC at 505-246-2261 for more information. 7 pm Led by its world-renowned founder and director Dr. Rwangyezi Stephen, Ndere is a cultural development organization that specializes in Ugandan traditional music, dance, and drama. Ndere boasts a repertoire of over 40 different dances, hundreds of songs, and a wide variety of instruments. Masterpieces like Ekitaguriro, Bwola, Embaga, Mwaga, Agwara, Bakisimba/Nankasa/Mowogola, Runyege/Ntogoro, Ding Ding, Ekizino, Adungu, and Gaze make the troupe a (more...)

  • Revolutions Theatre Fest: Free Speech Comedy Arts Series featuring John Fugelsang

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    All events at the NHCC through April 9, 2020 have been cancelled / postponed. Please call the NHCC at 505-246-2261 for more information. 9:30 pm Comedian John Fugelsang (SiriusXM, The Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour, MSNBC & CNN) returns to Revolutions with his brilliant and hilarious insights on the world in this stand-up comedy special. John will be back in Albuquerque for one night only to celebrate 20 years of Revolutions with his irreverent comedy including special guests, Albuquerque favorites Rusty Rutherford and Sarah Kennedy. Produced by Tricklock (more...)

  • 27th Annual César Chávez Day Fiesta

    NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    All events at the NHCC through April 9, 2020 have been cancelled / postponed. Please call the NHCC at 505-246-2261 for more information. March—10:30 am Fiesta—12 noon-3 pm Join us in honoring the life and legacy of César Chávez at the 27th annual César Chávez Day Fiesta, with a march—La Marcha de Justicia-- beginning at 10:30 am at the National Hispanic Cultural Center and ending at noon on the Center’s Plaza Mayor.  Following the march, the family fiesta at the Center includes poetry, dancing, community exhibits, children’s (more...)