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  • El Voto Femenino: Sufragistas Latinas luchando por el derecho al voto

    History and Literary Arts Building

    The National Hispanic Cultural Center’s History and Literary Arts Program presents a new exhibit, “El voto femenino: Sufragistas Latinas luchando por el derecho al voto/The Women’s Vote: Latina Suffragists who Fought for the Right to Vote” which opens on Friday, January 24, 2020, and runs through June 30, 2020. There will be a free opening reception on Friday, January 24, 2020, from 6-8 pm in the historic History and Literary Arts (HLA) Building on the NHCC campus, where the exhibit is on display. The exhibit features women (more...)

  • NHCC & Opera Southwest Present Daniel Catan’s Il Postino

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

    February 2, 7 & 9, 2020 2 pm—Sundays 7:30 pm—Friday Opera Southwest presents Daniel Catán’s Il Postino, a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Spanish with both Spanish and English translation supertitles, and presented in two acts with one intermission. Presented in partnership with the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Il Postino is based on the novel Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skármeta, as well as the film by Michael Radford. When exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda arrives on a tiny Italian island, he receives so much fan (more...)

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  • Inside Opera Series: Il Postino

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

    6-7:30 pm Tuesdays, January 21, 28, and February 4 Join us for our second year of “Inside Opera”—a workshop series presented by the NHCC in partnership with Opera Southwest.  This year the opera is “Il Postino” and each workshop will focus on a different element of the performance (see below).  Those who attend any one of the three workshops will receive a 15% discounted ticket to the show.  Sign up for the workshops here:  https://nhccnm.wufoo.com/forms/inside-opera-workshop-series-il-postino/ Inside Opera: The Three Versions of Il Postino Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 (more...)

  • Opera Southwest Presents Verdi’s La Traviata

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St 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 22, 25, 27 & 29, 2019 2 pm—Sundays 7:30 pm—Wednesday & Friday Opera Southwest presents Verdi’s La Traviata, a fully-staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles and presented in three acts with one intermission. One of the most famous of the great classic operas, La Traviata is a sweeping love story set against the backdrop of decadent Paris high (more...)

  • 11th Annual Vocal Artistry Art Song Festival of New Mexico: Canciones Españolas

    7:30 pm Vocal Artistry Website, www.vocalartistryartsong.com Please consider a donation to support programming at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Click HERE to donate. Vocal Artistry’s Art Song Festival is an annual festival open to all students, singers, and pianists living in the state of New Mexico. The goal is to encourage the further study of Art Song repertoire, which plays a vital role in sculpting classical singers. Open performances by singers and pianists from all over the state are held before a guest faculty, including international artists (more...)

  • Premiere: Bless Me, Ultima Radio Broadcast

    11 am On Albuquerque’s Classical 95.5 KHFM and 98.7 WFMT-FM in Chicago A live national broadcast of the world premiere performance of the opera Bless Me, Ultima, on Albuquerque’s Classical 95.5 KHFM and 98.7 WFMT-FM in Chicago, hosted by Valerie Martinez. Opera Southwest, along with the National Hispanic Cultural Center and San Jose’s Opera Cultura, is thrilled to have commissioned this work based on Rudolfo Anaya’s best-selling novel. The composer, Hector Armienta, worked with Mr. Anaya on the libretto, and the resulting production, which premiered at the (more...)

  • US Postal Service Release of Our Lady of Guápulo Stamp

    9:30 am (MTS) A virtual first day of issue ceremony held on the Postal Service’s Facebook and Twitter pages: usps.com/guapulo, facebook.com/USPS, and twitter.com/USPS The United States Postal Service is partnering with the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) on the release of the Our Lady of Guápulo Christmas forever stamp. The event will include remarks from Postal Service Vice President for Retail and Post Office Operations Angela Curtis and NHCC Art Museum and Visual Arts Program Director and Chief Curator Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn, and entertainment will be (more...)

  • Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Richard Flint & Shirley Cushing Flint, Overhaul

    1 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE In Overhaul, A Social History of the Albuquerque Locomotive Repair Shops, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque’s locomotive repair shops, the driving force behind the city’s economy for more than seventy years. In the course of their study they also document the thousands of skilled workers who kept the locomotives in operation, many of whom were part of the growing Hispano and Native American middle class. Free community event Their critical work (more...)

  • Film:Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia

    8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Una dedicatoria a lo bestia, a 2019 documentary by Nucbeade (the collective formed by artists QuielaNuc and Andrea Beade), focuses on a variety of objects found at the headquarters in San Fernando de Henares of the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer. This internment center for young women ages 13 to 21 was in operation from 1944 to 1985. The filmmakers’ use of documentary as an archaeological exercise, uncovering evidence of the daily reality experienced (more...)

  • Position: Customer Service Representative-Advanced

    Position: Customer Service Representative-Advanced Hours: Part-Time, must be able to work weekends Salary: midpoint $15.05/hr. Why does this job exist? This position exists to provide admissions, ticket sales, and customer service in the NHCC Art Museum, NM Mutual Welcome Center and Performing Arts Box Office as well as other programmatic events at the NHCC. To accommodate ticket sales and admissions and the business needs of the NHCC during normal operating days and hours. The Performing Arts Box Office and NM Mutual Welcome Center must be staffed with (more...)