Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime
2025-10-21, 2025-11-18 | NHCC Library, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:00 am
NHCC | HLA Library
Stories come to life through art, movement, and more! For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers.
Bilingual Storytime is designed for children ages 3 to 5 and their caregivers. For school, childcare, or homeschool groups; please reach out to NHCC Librarian Amy Padilla at amy.padilla@dca.nm.gov or the NHCC HLA Interim Program Manager Robin Moses at robin.moses@dca.nm.gov to find out about group options and available dates. We are unable to accommodate these groups during the Bilingual Storytime on third Tuesdays.
Free community event, generously supported by NM Gas. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.

NHCC Book Club: Street of Too Many Stories, by Denise Chavez
2025-10-22 | HLA Conference Room
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
NHCC | HLA Conference Room
The NHCC invites lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the history and vast the array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room.
Street of Too Many Stories by Denise Chávez is a novel of magical realism about four families on Encantada Street in a New Mexican town, exploring themes of love, pain, dysfunction, hope, mercy, and the healing of families. The story uses the street and its spirited inhabitants, including dancing spirits, to reveal the complex, layered realities of humanity and the liminal space between challenge and hope.
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.

NHCC 25th Anniversary Celebration
2025-10-25 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Join us on Saturday, October 25th to celebrate 25 years of art, community, and culture at the National Hispanic Cultural Center!
25th Anniversary Torreón Tours
October 25, 2025
11:00 am, 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm & 2:00 pm
NHCC | NM Mutual Welcome Center
This is a free community event with limited availability. Please let us know who will be attending below.
In celebration of the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s 25th Anniversary we have an afternoon of Torreón Tours. Please join us for four guided tours throughout the afternoon starting at 11:00 am.
Kids Activities & Celebration
NHCC | Education Building
October 25, 2025
12:00 pm
Throughout the event, enjoy fun for all ages with activities like dance performances. On stage recitals by children, teens and professionals. Featuring our friends and partners at the National Institute of Flamenco. Join us for a special day for the whole family. Contribute to our community ofrenda and view ofrendas created by local schools and community organizations. Decorate sugar skulls, craft paper flowers, and enjoy face-painting, and much more.
Nosotros Special Performance
NHCC | Campus
Cap off the evening with a headlining performance from the award-winning Latin band Nosotros! Enjoy a free performance from one of the most recognizable and original Latin bands in the Southwest United States.
Award-winning ensemble Nosotros began as a guitar trio in Las Cruces in 1994. Now an eight-member band, they relocated to the Albuquerque/Santa Fe area in 2001 and have established themselves as one of the most popular bands in New Mexico. Combining Latin rhythms with elements of rock, salsa, jazz, and cumbia to create their original sound, they have released seven albums, including the anthology CD titled XX to celebrate their 20 years together as a band in 2014. They have received numerous New Mexico Music (“MIC”) Awards, including Album of the Year and Producer of the Year for their third, self-titled album, Nosotros, and have appeared with artists including Ozomatli, Los Lobos, Etta James, The Wailers, and the Gipsy Kings. M.E. Schenck, in Hyperactive Music Magazine, said, “Nosotros’ music is not to be explained, it is to be felt in the pit of our souls.”
Visual Art Museum Collection Tours
October 28, 30 & November 1, 2025
12:00 pm, 1:30 pm & 3:00 pm Tuesday & Thursday
10:30 am, 12:00 pm, 1:30 pm, & 3:00 pm Saturday
NHCC | Visual Art Museum
Have you ever strolled through the NHCC Visual Art Museum and found yourself wondering about the rest of the art collection? Now’s your chance to get a behind-the-scenes tour with the Visual Arts staff and see more of the 4500 artworks that comprise the museum’s permanent collection!

NHCC 25th Anniversary: Torreón Tours
2025-10-25 | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
11:00 am, 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm, & 2:00 pm
NHCC | NM Mutual Welcome Center
In celebration of the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s 25th Anniversary we have an afternoon of Torreón Tours. Please join us for four guided tours throughout the afternoon starting at 11:00 am.
A Vision of History through Fresco…
Mundos de Mestizaje by Frederico Vigil is a mural housed in the Torreón on the campus of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This monumental fresco depicts thousands of years of Hispanic history highlighting diverse cultural connections between people and places from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The 4,000 square foot painting is one of the largest frescos in North America.
This is a free community event with limited availability. Please let us know who will be attending below.

NHCC 25th Anniversary: Kids Activities & Celebration
2025-10-25 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
NHCC | Educational building
Throughout the event, enjoy fun for all ages with activities like dance performances. On stage recitals by children, teens and professionals. Featuring our friends and partners at the National Institute of Flamenco. Join us for a special day for the whole family. Contribute to our community ofrenda and view ofrendas created by local schools and community organizations. Decorate sugar skulls, craft paper flowers, and enjoy face-painting, and much more.
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending below.

NHCC 25th Anniversary: Nosotros Special Performance
2025-10-25 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm
NHCC Campus
Cap off the evening with a headlining performance from the award-winning Latin band Nosotros! Enjoy a free performance from one of the most recognizable and original Latin bands in the Southwest United States.
Award-winning ensemble Nosotros began as a guitar trio in Las Cruces in 1994. Now an eight-member band, they relocated to the Albuquerque/Santa Fe area in 2001 and have established themselves as one of the most popular bands in New Mexico. Combining Latin rhythms with elements of rock, salsa, jazz, and cumbia to create their original sound, they have released seven albums, including the anthology CD titled XX to celebrate their 20 years together as a band in 2014. They have received numerous New Mexico Music (“MIC”) Awards, including Album of the Year and Producer of the Year for their third, self-titled album, Nosotros, and have appeared with artists including Ozomatli, Los Lobos, Etta James, The Wailers, and the Gipsy Kings. M.E. Schenck, in Hyperactive Music Magazine, said, “Nosotros’ music is not to be explained, it is to be felt in the pit of our souls.”
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending below.

Opera Southwest: Dolores
2025-10-26 - 2025-11-02 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
October 26, 29, 31 & November 2, 2025
2:00 pm Sundays, 7:30 pm Wednesday & Friday
NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre
Music / Nicolás Lell Benavides
Libretto / Marella Martin Koch
1968. The Delano grape strike is dragging into its third year. Farmworkers in California are building solidarity that transcends race and
language. Bobby Kennedy is running for president. Tricky Dick is on the radio promising discipline. Dolores Huerta is holding the movement together with one hand. With the other, she dials home, again, to say goodnight to children she hasn’t seen in weeks.
She’s not a symbol. Not yet.
She’s just doing the work.
Dolores is an opera that floats between the real and the imagined, memory and nightmare. Composer Nicolás Lell Benavides and librettist Marella Martin Koch stitch history into something fragile and feverish. There are sacred chants, electric guitar pulsations, bossa nova hallucinations.
Labor icon Dolores Huerta helped build a union out of dust and righteous anger. She walked the fields, held the line, made the calls. With César Chávez and Larry Itliong, she shaped a movement that reached the ears of presidents but never lost sight of the people bent over the vines. The work didn’t stop. It never does. That’s the cost of believing another world is possible.
¡SÍ SE PUEDE!
Commissioned and Co-produced by Opera Southwest, West Edge Opera and San Diego Opera, presented in partnership with the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
Piano tuning and preparation are provided by Albuquerque Piano Services: albuquerque-piano-tuning.com
Running Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes including one intermission
SUNG IN ENGLISH
-English translations are projected above the stage for all operas-
45 Minutes before curtain, Opera Southwest offers our “Opera Insights” pre-opera talks. These take place in either Bank of America
Theatre or Wells Fargo Auditorium, accessible from the shared lobby with the Albuquerque Journal Theatre.
For more information on Opera Southwest please click HERE.
Enhance your weeknight opera-going experience with Taste of Opera – a pre-show dinner and relaxed conversation with Opera Southwest artistic staff members on Wednesday, October 29, 2025. Click here for more information.
*Tickets to the performance sold separately.
$29, $49, $69, $89 & $109 with discounts for groups of 8 or more, anyone 30 years old and younger and Opera for All with a WIC or EBT card. Opera for All tickets are limited to 2 per ID and must be purchased at the NHCC box office by calling 505-724-4771 or in person.

*In accordance with the ticketing policies of the event promoter, tickets for this event are not permitted to be advertised or re-sold for more than face value. All ticket sales must be purchased through National Hispanic Cultural Center or accompanying host partner.
*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261.

NHCC 25th Anniversary: Visual Art Museum Collection Tours
2025-10-28 - 2025-11-01 | Visual Art Museum, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
October 28, 30 & November 1, 2025
12:00 pm, 1:30 pm & 3:00 pm Tuesday & Thursday
10:30 am, 12:00 pm, 1:30 pm, & 3:00 pm Saturday
NHCC | Visual Art Museum
Have you ever strolled through the NHCC Visual Art Museum and found yourself wondering about the rest of the art collection? Now’s your chance to get a behind-the-scenes tour with the Visual Arts staff and see more of the 4500 artworks that comprise the museum’s permanent collection!
Free community event. Tours are limited to ten people and time slots are limited. Sign up Below!

Las Flores del Valle: SW Borderland Harmonies
2025-10-30 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Experience the vibrant sounds of the Southwest Borderlands! Join Las Flores del Valle—Carol Vigil & Leila Flores—with special guests George Saenz (accordion), Joshua Castillo (percussion), and Ricardo García (guitar) for an unforgettable night of rancheras, norteñas, and a touch of country with a Southwestern flair. From heartfelt ballads to dance-inspiring rhythms, celebrate the music where cultures meet and blend, and where boundaries dissolve. A ticketed event—FREE to the public! Come feel the harmonies, spirit, and soul of the Borderlands!

Día de Familia: Día de Muertos
2025-11-01 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
11:00 am
NHCC | Domenici Education Building
Join us for a special day for the whole family commemorating Día de Muertos traditions. Contribute to our community ofrenda and view ofrendas created by local schools and community organizations. Decorate sugar skulls, craft paper flowers, enjoy face-painting, and sample Pan de Muerto. Visitors can also enjoy food from local food trucks.
Please bring a non-returnable photo or item to contribute to our community ofrenda.
Free Community Event, generously supported by NM Gas Co.

WORLD PREMIERE: Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery
2025-11-01 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
1:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
WORLD PREMIERE
On this special weekend, when we honor all saints and all souls, we are excited to launch this magnificent project focused on Indigenous slavery — a history and legacy centering creativity, consciousness, and community.
Join us for an afternoon of reflection, dialogue, and celebration featuring the project team, community voices, a performance by Unbound, and a reception to follow.
Free community event
Please join the Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery, on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 1:00 pm in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, New Mexico for a second opportunity to be a part of this celebration. This is a Free community event as well.

Visual Arts Museum: First Sunday Free Admission
2025-11-02 | Visual Art Museum, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
The Art Museum presents multiple exhibitions in its three gallery spaces each year and welcomes visitors of all ages. Our three galleries showcase artworks from a range of media that focus on diverse subject matter and examine identity and culture.
On the first Sunday of every month, the Visual Arts Museum is free to all New Mexico residents!

*CANCELED* Happy Arte Hour: with Artist Jocelyn Salaz
2025-11-06 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
*CANCELED*
6:00 – 8:00 pm
NHCC | Pete V. Domenici Education Building
NHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a relaxed social setting. This is a great opportunity for friends to hang out, a unique date night option, or a place to come solo and connect with fellow art enthusiasts. Drinks and snacks will be available to purchase.
Please pre-register with the link below (so we know how many materials to prepare). Registration for the following month is available the day after the current program month. Call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 if you need assistance.
Free Community Event. $5+ donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies.

Cine Magnifico Opening Film// US Premiers: Una Quinta Portuguesa
2025-11-07 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Opening Film // US Premiers:
Una Quinta Portuguesa
by Avelina Prat

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
La desaparición de su esposa deja a Fernando, un discreto profesor de geografía, completamente desolado. Sin rumbo, se hace pasar por otro hombre como jardinero en una casa de campo portuguesa, donde entabla una inesperada amistad con el dueño.
Cast: Manolo Solo, Maria de Medeiros, Rita Cabaço, Branka Katić
2025 // 114 min. // Spain, Portugal // Drama // Spanish and Portuguese with English subtitles
View the Una Quinta Portuguesa official trailer here:

Free community event

Cine Magnifico: Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras
2025-11-08 | NM
12:00 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras
by Camilo Becerra and Sofía Gómez

Inspired by real events: Ximena, a successful psychiatrist, receives the unexpected visit of her eldest daughter, Tamara, whom she hasn’t seen in a long time. While she takes refuge at her mother’s house, an investigation is launched: Tamara’s newborn son disappeared under strange circumstances within the sect. Both the justice system and Ximena will try to uncover the fate of the missing baby.
Inspirada en hechos reales: Ximena, una exitosa psiquiatra, recibe la inesperada visita de su hija mayor, Tamara, quien estuvo aislada en una secta por mucho tiempo. Mientras se refugia en casa de su madre, comienza una investigación policial, debido a que el hijo recién nacido de Tamara, desapareció en extrañas circunstancias al interior de la secta. Tanto la justicia como Ximena intentarán descubrir cuál es el destino del bebé desaparecido.
Cast: Aline Kuppenheim, Camila Roeschmann, Julia Lübbert
2024 // 95 min. // Chile, Argentina // Drama, thriller, cults // Spanish with English subtitles
View the Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras official trailer here:

Free community event

Saturday Special- Torreón Tour: Mundos de Mestizaje
2025-11-08 | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
11:00 am
In addition to our regularly scheduled Thursday and Friday Torreón Tours, the National Hispanic Cultural Center now has a newly added Saturday Tour on the second Saturday of every month. This is a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil, located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, depicting thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity.
Admission to the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited.
A Vision of History through Fresco…
Mundos de Mestizaje by Frederico Vigil is a mural housed in the Torreón on the campus of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This monumental fresco depicts thousands of years of Hispanic history highlighting diverse cultural connections between people and places from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The 4,000 square foot painting is one of the largest frescos in North America.
The digitized imagery of the painting ensures that this culturally significant work can be a sharing and learning experience for students and families anywhere. We invite you to explore the imagery, history and complexities of the Mundos de Mestizaje mural.
Discover on your own by clicking the link HERE.
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Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of NM Speaker Series: Linda Tigges PH.D.
2025-11-08 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:30 – 12:00 pm
NHCC | Dominici Education Building / Rooms 122-124
The Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico welcomes Linda Tigges PH.D.. Author, Historian, Archivist Researcher, Dr. Tigges’, extensive research into New Mexico Spanish Colonial documents uncovered extensive and interesting topics and works published in her outstanding writings, books and in presentations!
Working with translators of Spanish Colonial documents, Linda Tigges, PH.D. has published primary source materials which have been foundational in many fields of research. Over the past decade, Linda’s works have assisted geneologists, anthropoligists, historians, museum curators, and novelists with accounts from original Spanish Colonial documents. These documents tell the stories of New Mexico’s 18th century founders and settlers through their mishaps, grievences, complaints and outrageous behaviors.
Come see and hold some of these historic objects!
“Historical Artifacts/Materials: Metal Objects, Tools Including a Sword from Civil War:” Historic objects hold stories from the times and lives of N.M. Past Eras!”
Free community event

Cine Magnifico: Culpa Cero
2025-11-08 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:45 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Culpa Cero
by Valeria Bertuccelli and Mora Elizalde

Berta Muller’s life, a successful self-help writer, is shaken when, at the peak of her career, she is exposed in the media for the significance of plagiarism. Far from assuming responsibility, she will deny the accusations and try to justify herself ridiculously, even if it means exposing all her darkness.
La vida de Berta Muller, una exitosa escritora de autoayuda, se ve sacudida cuando, en el pico máximo de su carrera, es expuesta mediáticamente por la trascendencia de un plagio. Lejos de asumir su responsabilidad, ella negará las acusaciones e intentará justificarse ridículamente, aunque esto implique sacar a la luz toda su oscuridad.
Cast: Valeria Bertuccelli, Justina Bustos, Cecilia Roth, Gaia Garibaldi
2024 // 110 min. // Argentina // Comedy // Spanish with English subtitles
View the Culpa Cero official trailer here:

Free community event

Cine Magnifico: El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja),
2025-11-08 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
El Diablo Fuma
(y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja),
by Ernesto Martínez Bucio

Five siblings abandoned by their parents mimic their fears with those of their schizophrenic grandmother and dissolve the barriers between the real and the imaginary to try to stay together.
Cinco hermanos abandonados por sus padres imitan sus miedos con los de su abuela esquizofrénica y disuelven las barreras entre lo real y lo imaginario para intentar permanecer juntos.
Cast: Mariapau Bravo Aviña, Rafael Nieto Martínez, Regina Alejandra, Laura Uribe Rojas, Donovan Said, Carmen Ramos, Micaela Gramajo and Bernardo Gamboa
2025 // 97 min. // Mexico // Dramatic comedy, supernatural // Spanish with English subtitles
View the El Diablo Fuma official trailer here:

Free community event

Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company in Flamenco Fandanguero
2025-11-08 - 2025-11-09 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm Saturday & 2:00 pm Sunday
National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present Yjastros and invited guests in Flamenco Fandanguero
This November, don’t miss FLAMENCO FANDANGUERO, the groundbreaking work produced for Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, made in collaboration among the company’s Artistic Director Joaquín Encinias, Choreographer Marisol Encinias, Theater Director Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez, Musical Director, Sinuhé Padilla, flamenco musicians Vicente Griego, Isa Jurado, and Ángel Ruiz, and celebrated son jarocho musicians Los Vega: Fredi Vega, Raquel Vega, Kike Vega, and Martha Vega.
FLAMENCO FANDANGUERO is a thrilling work of dance, music, and theatre by Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company and special guests, featuring over 30 musicians and dancers on stage!
$109, $89, $69, $49, & $29* w/ a $2 discount for seniors, students w/ID, children 10 years old and younger, and NHCC Foundation members.
FLAMENCO FANDANGUERO is an unforgettable celebration, and a conversation between flamenco and son jarocho, distinct art forms that share a common ancestor. Reuniting the primos hermanos (first cousins) of flamenco and son jarocho, this captivating performance explores shared identities and shared histories through flamenco and jarocho. Audiences will be transformed by this unique and transcendent musical and dance experience that showcases the shared humanity and cosmic essence of son jarocho and flamenco, celebrating the beauty of our complex cultures and histories through the power, energy, and excitement of Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company and special guests.
This project was made possible by a National Dance Project grant with lead funding from the Doris Duke and Mellon Charitable Foundations.
For more information, please contact the National Institute of Flamenco: https://www.nifnm.org
*Price includes the NHCC’s $4 box office fee.

*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261.

Cine Magnifico: Una Sombra Oscilante
2025-11-09 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:15 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Una Sombra Oscilante
by Celeste Rojas Múgica

He develops and imagines a world inside a darkroom. His daughter weaves a dialogue inside it: about latent, invented images. About the ways of resisting and navigating the darkness.
“Una sombra oscilante” (An Oscillating Shadow) explores how the intimate and political weight of images can open spaces to reflect upon them as acts of resistance, either because they are made despite the horror of their context or because they offer an imaginary vanishing point that might just set us free.
Él revela e imagina un mundo en el interior de un cuarto oscuro. Su hija hace de eso un juego: sobre imágenes latentes, posibles, inventadas. Sobre las formas de resistir y transitar la oscuridad.
“Una sombra oscilante” explora el peso íntimo y político de las imágenes para abrir un espacio donde pensarlas como acto de resistencia, ya sea porque se hacen pese al horror, o porque existen para ofrecer un punto de fuga imaginario que quizás nos libre de este.
2024 // 77 min. // Chile, Argentina, France // Documentary // Spanish with English subtitles
View the Una Sombra Oscilante official trailer here:

Free community event

Archiving Collections Open House
2025-11-09 | Off Campus: Albuquerque Museum (2000 Mountain Rd NW), 2000 Mountain Rd NW, ALBUQUERQUE, NM, 87104, United States
2:00 – 4:00 pm
If you’ve wondered how to care for your family photographs, documents, quilts, and other treasures, come to the Archiving Collections Open House! Learn collections care techniques from collections managers at Albuquerque Museum, National Hispanic Cultural Center, and the Special Collections branch of the Albuquerque Public Library at this free, drop-in event. Specialists will share easy techniques to store, digitize, and care for your treasured family items.
Free event, available on a drop-in basis. NOTE: items cannot be appraised.
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Cine Magnifico: Matryoshka
2025-11-09 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Matryoshka
by Jorge Forero

Ana travels for a few days to her grandmother’s house in the country. Her mother is also present, but the relationship is visible awkward as she feels she was neglected.
Ana’s secret abortion due to an unplanned pregnancy moves her prospect of becoming a mother and makes her understand her own mother’s life, on this weekend to heal from burdens and secrets carried for generations.
Ana viaja unos días a casa de su abuela en el campo. Su madre también está presente, pero la relación se vuelve visiblemente incómoda, pues se siente abandonada.
El aborto secreto de Ana, debido a un embarazo no planeado, renueva su perspectiva de ser madre y la ayuda a comprender la vida de su propia madre. En este fin de semana, busca sanar de las cargas y los secretos que ha arrastrado durante generaciones.
Cast: Vicky Hernández, Ana María Sánchez, Alma Rodríguez
2024 // 87 min. // Colombia // Drama, motherhood // Spanish with English subtitles
View the Matryoshka official trailer here:

Free community event

Stitch Night
2025-11-12 | HLA Conference Room
5:00 – 7:00 pm
NHCC | HLA Conference Room
Stitch socially with us on the second Wednesday of the month! Bring whatever knitting, crocheting, weaving, or cross stitch, or fiber art projects you’re working on, and join the conversation with your fellow crafters for an informal craft get-together. If you would like to learn the basics of a particular stitching technique, please bring supplies with you, though we will always have basic crochet and knitting materials on hand for an impromptu demonstration!
Meetings will be in the Conference Room of The History and Literary Arts building from 5:00pm-7:00pm. For young adult and adult audiences.
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.

NHCC Fall Film Series: Plaza Catedral
2025-11-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
The NHCC Fall Film Series features Hispanic filmmakers that preserve our stories, promote our experiences and advance the vast cultural identity of our gente. This film series continues with Plaza Catedral (2021) on Thursday, Nov. 13.
Alicia had a “perfect life” and lost it. Her six year old son died in an accident she feels she could have avoided. Her grief is plagued by guilt, which has made her disassociate from society, from married life, and from herself. She now lives in the old quarter of Panamá, a rich colonial enclave surrounded by Panamá’s poorest neighborhoods. There she meets Chief, a street-smart 13 year old who takes care of cars in front of her apartment and insists on getting paid for his job. Alicia keeps a safe distance from him, until one night Chief arrives at Alicia’s apartment bleeding from a gunshot wound, and begs her for help. Reluctantly, Alicia lets him in. What she could not imagine is that by opening the door to Chief, she would open the door to an unforeseen emotional bond. Caring for Chief makes her feel connected to life again, and it hurts.
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Genealogy Workshops (Cancelled)
2025-11-15 | Salón Ortega, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
NOTE: This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. Additional details will be available soon at nhccnm.org/events. We apologize for the inconvenience.
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
NHCC | Salón Ortega
Explore your cultural heritage at the NHCC with a free genealogy workshop as part of our Siempre Creativo program! These workshops will provide participating seniors with an opportunity to learn about the descendants of a person, their family, or their connection with an ancestor. Join us as we discover where we came from, where we have been and the complex interrelating parts of our familial ancestral lines.
This workshop will feature a presentation from the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico.
Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP New Mexico. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Magnify Dance Ensemble: Christmas Joy
2025-11-15 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
2:00 pm & 6:30 pm
Magnify Dance Ensemble presents Christmas Joy. Come, Experience the Miracle! Awaken your heart to the true Spirit of Christmas in dance as Magnify Dance Ensemble will present the 41st season of its Bravos Award-winning holiday production, Christmas Joy. Over sixty-five classically trained dancers will once again inspire audiences in the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Albuquerque Journal Theater. They come to us with a collection of moving and inspirational classical ballet, jazz and contemporary dance performances choreographed to traditional and contemporary Christmas music.
A moving and uplifting production, Christmas Joy has become an Albuquerque holiday tradition. Christmas Joy is the recipient of multiple awards including the Bravos Award for Dance Excellence in 1999 by members of the Albuquerque Arts Alliance, and the Albuquerque Community
$36-$42 w/ a $2 discount for students, seniors and NHCC members. Group rates available.

*The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.
*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261.

India Association of New Mexico: DIWALI, Festival Of Lights
2025-11-16 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 pm
NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre
The INDIA Association of New Mexico presents the Diwali Festival of Lights 2024. Diwali is one of India’s biggest Hindu festivals, celebrated with great enthusiasm and happiness. The festival lasts five continuous days, and the third day is celebrated as the main Diwali festival or ‘Festival of Lights.’ Different colorful varieties of fireworks are always associated with this festival. On this auspicious day, people light up diyas and candles all around their house. They perform Laxmi Puja in the evening and seek the divine blessings of Goddess of Wealth. The festival of Diwali is never complete without the exchange of gifts. People present Diwali gifts to all near and dear ones.
Tickets are available at the INDIA Association of New Mexico or by calling 505-306-9624.

*The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

New Mexican Chicanas in the Spotlight: Chicana Feminism and Art in New Mexico
2025-11-20 | Visual Art Museum, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
6:00 to 7:00 pm
Head to the NHCC Visual Art Museum for a conversation a Lecture and Q&A with Bernadine Hernández, associate professor in the Department of English at the University of New Mexico. She will be introduced by Ray Hernández-Durán, co-curator of the NHCC art exhibition Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico.
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.
About the exhibition: Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico features a group of New Mexican artists who were among the earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. The artworks on display capture a distinctly New Mexican Chicana and Chicano experience that has received little attention in Chicano art history. Learn more at nhccnm.org/museum.
