¡HAH! Happy Arte Hour
2016-05-05 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
On the first Thursday of the month, NHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a relaxed social setting, which includes snacks, refreshments, and beer & wine for sale from Pop Fizz. 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.
This month local artist Valerie Roybal will work with participants to learn different techniques of collage. Inspired by the Art Museum’s current exhibit The House on Mango Street.
Each session is led by a different artist and the art-making technique varies in this adults focused community event.
Please pre-register using the link below (so we know how many materials to prepare)
http://goo.gl/forms/HXmsdOpNkZ
Questions? Call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 ext. 167 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies

Saturdays in the Museum
2016-04-30, 2016-04-23, 2016-04-16, 2016-04-09, 2016-04-02 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
1 pm to 2 pm
National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum presents Saturdays in the Museum Tours every Saturday afternoon starting at 1 pm. Each tour will be different depending on the exhibit and theme.
Free with NHCC Museum admission

REZILIENCE 2016—Indigenous Arts Experience
2016-04-30
9 am—Gates Open
5 pm—Main Concert
REZILIENCE—Indigenous Arts Experience is an immersive, all-ages experience that focuses on modern Indigenous art processes. Artists include both nationally and locally recognized entertainers, muralists, multimedia artists, and poets. More than sixty Indigenous artists and art-related professionals representing the U.S., Canada, and Latin America will participate during the full-day event, sharing their talents, skills, and knowledge in eight creative arenas. Event sections titled “Movement,” “Design,” “Inspiration,” “Voice,” “Vision,” “Expression,” and “Exchange” will feature a variety of disciplines and creative activities. Founded on values of collaboration, social entrepreneurship, and resource sharing, REZILIENCE will encourage conversations about Indigenous art processes worldwide.
For more information go here.
“Celebrating Culture, Creativity, Movement, Life—Live Your REZILIENCE!”
Campus entrance $5; main concert $25
Tickets to the main concert include campus entry

The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community
2016-04-29 - 2016-09-25 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
Traveling to the NHCC from the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, this exhibition is inspired by the novel The House on Mango Street by the accomplished Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros. The contemporary works of art on display in the exhibition highlight many of the issues facing adolescents growing up in urban areas. The intended result is for individuals from diverse neighborhoods, cities, ethnic backgrounds and walks of life to identify commonalities in their coming of age experiences.

Opening Reception: The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community
2016-04-29 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
The National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum will be opening a new, bilingual exhibition entitled The House on Mango Street: Artist Interpret Community, on April 29, 2016, with a free, public opening from 6-8pm. Organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago and curated by NMMA’s Visual Arts Director and Chief Curator Cesáreo Moreno, the exhibition features art works inspired by the classic novel The House on Mango Street, first published in 1984 by award-winning author Sandra Cisneros.
Free event

La Canoa Legacy Talks: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca: The Good Life
2016-04-28 | History and Literary Arts Building
6 pm
The La Canoa Legacy Series features talks by Hispanic/Latino academic and community researchers with long-standing and distinguished records of research and teaching about New Mexico and the region. Like la canoa—referring in New Mexican Spanish to several utilitarian objects used to receive and transport people and resources and thus provide a service to the community—these talks are meant to serve the community by presenting new or overlooked information about our region to interested audiences. We want them to transport us to new understandings of our region and its rich cultural and historical inheritance, and to move the conversation back and forth in rich dialogue between presenters and audience members.
Free event

Dr. Tey Diana Rebolledo will discuss Fabiola Cabeza de Baca : The Good Life. Fabiola Cabeza de Baca was born into a prominent and landed family in Las Vegas New Mexico. She was a woman who overcame many obstacles and became a teacher, writer, extension agent and proponent of change while at the same time fostering traditional values. Her life spanned New Mexico as a territory New Mexico as a state, World War I, The Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War. She taught nutrition and food preservation, founded Women’s Extension Clubs and discussed kitchen design to help homemakers. She authored several cookbooks and was interested in history and folklore. She incorporated these interests in several books, which have become classics of New Mexican literature: The Good Life and We Fed Them Cactus. She was a woman on the move, an independent woman who had adventures and who survived challenges and sorrow. This presentation will be a visual journey through her life and accomplishments.
Dr. Tey Diana Rebolledo is Distinguished Professor of Spanish Emerita from the University of New Mexico. She is the author of The Chronicles of Panchita Villa, Women Singing in the Snow, editor of Las mujeres hablan, Nuestras mujeres, and Infinite Divisions as well as many articles on Chicana/o and Latin American Literature.
The talk will be held in the History and Literary Arts Building-Library on Thursday, April 28th at 6pm. It is free to the general public, with light refreshments served.

MANA de Albuquerque Scholarship Banquet
2016-04-28 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:30 pm – Registration, Social, Silent Auction
6:30 pm – Dinner – featuring keynote speaker Rebecca Avitia, NHCC Executive Director
7:15 pm – Hermanitas awards and scholarship presentations
MANA de Albuquerque is a chapter of MANA, A National Latina Organization. An all-volunteer driven 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to creating a community of informed and active Latinas working together to support the success of all Latinos. MANA de Albuquerque’s mission is “…to empower Latinas through leadership development, community service, and advocacy.”
Please join us on Thursday, April 28th, 5:30 pm- 8:00 pm to honor our 2016 scholarship recipients.
Tickets: $50, Table $500. Proceeds benefit MANA de Albuquerque’s scholarship fund. For table sponsorship opportunities, please contact Diana Rael at admin@manadealbuquerque.org or call (505) 321-2601.

Film: Todos están muertos/They Are All Dead
2016-04-28 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Since the death of her brother, Lupe has lived an agoraphobic life with her hostile teenage son and her superstitious mother. It takes a drastic Day of the Dead ritual to teach her the importance of saying goodbye. “Ciclo Cine Español Contemporáneo,” presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes.
2014; Spanish with English subtitles; 88 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Albuquerque Film & Music Experience: Spare Parts
2016-04-24 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
1 pm – 3 pm
Albuquerque Film & Music Experience: Spare Parts Directed by Sean McNamara. Four Hispanic high school students form a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this ragtag team goes up against the country’s reigning robotics champion, MIT. This Albuquerque Film & Music Experience feature presentation stars George Lopez, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Lee Curtis, Carlos PenaVega, José Julian, David Del Rio, Oscar Javier Gutierrez II, Alessandra Rosaldo, J.R. Villarreal, Alexa PenaVega, Steven Michael Quezada, Esai Morales and a long list of incredible New Mexico cast and crew members. The screening will be preceded by a robotics demonstration by the Albuquerque School of Excellence on the NHCC’s Plaza Mayor.
The Albuquerque Film & Music Experience (AFME) is Albuquerque’s premier film and music festival. Now in its fourth year, AFME features domestic and international movies, engaging industry panels and workshops, exciting networking events and parties, live music, poetry, art exhibitions, and more.
For more information on the Albuquerque Film & Music Experience, visit www.abqfilmexperience.com
$8

Alice King Community School: Talent Extravaganza (Rental)
2016-04-23 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:30 pm
Alice King Community School presents Talent Extravaganza, its end-of-the-year school talent show showcasing kindergarten through fifth grade students in dancing, singing, instrumental, comedy, and other talent performances.
$3

Film: Cuchillos en el cielo/Knives in the Sky
2016-04-22 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
4:30 pm; a talk by the director will follow the screening
Declared innocent and released from prison after ten years, a woman tries to reconnect with the daughter conceived through a prison rape, while seeking at the same time to bring the rapists to justice, in Alberto Durant’s 2012 film Cuchillos en el cielo. The narrative of the woman and her rapist is a microcosm of a larger story—the aftermath of the violent political conflict that took place in Peru from 1980-2000. This special screening at the NHCC is part of the University of New Mexico’s “Conducting Fieldwork under Complicated Circumstances: An Interdisciplinary Conference.”
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Alberto Durant, who holds a directing diploma from the London International Film School, has won many prizes for his work throughout Europe and Latin America, including a Jury Prize for Ojos de perro at Havana’s Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano and Best Film, Best Cinematography, and Best Actor awards for Alias “La Gringa” at the Festival de Cine de Bogotá. Durant has taught film in Peru and Cuba, has served on the juries of many international film festivals, and is currently President of the Peruvian Filmmakers Association.
The primary sponsors of the conference are the University of New Mexico’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy and Latin American & Iberian Institute, with additional sponsorship from UNM’s College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Political Science, University College, School of Law, Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, Department of Linguistics, Department of Sociology, Department of History, Africana Studies, Peace and Justice Studies, School of Public Administration, Women Studies, and Feminist Research Institute, as well as the NHCC.
Spanish with English subtitles; 87 minutes; not rated.
For additional information, visit www.unmfieldwork.weebly.com.

Flamenco en la Voz de Cervantes: Miguel de Cervantes Celebration with Fernando Barros Lirola and Company
2016-04-22 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Pre-show reading—6 pm
Performance—7 pm
Commemorate the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes’ death with a special flamenco recital, performed by singer and composer Fernando Barros Lirola and his company.
The performance will combine music and dance in an exploration of Cervantes’ major work, Don Quixote, and a tribute to the flamenco tradition, one of the most revered in Spanish culture. It will be preceded by a reading of the best-known passages from Don Quixote.
Fernando Barros, internationally recognized as an innovator, reveals in his compositions the “melody” inherent in Spanish literature and poetry, including the works of García Lorca, Machado, Jiménez, and Cervantes.
Free public event

Film: Las ovejas no pierden el tren/Sidetracked
2016-04-21 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
A couple in their 40s who have moved to the country attempt to navigate new directions in their lives, and find their daily routines entangled with surreal situations. “Ciclo Cine Español Contemporáneo,” presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes.
2014; Spanish with English subtitles; 103 minutes; recommended for 12 and older.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Salud y Sabor: Cuba
2016-04-21 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Sponsored by the University of New Mexico Hospitals, Salud y Sabor, a partnership between the Agri-cultura Network, Street Food Institute, and the NHCC, is a free evening of food, hands-on art, health screening and information, and entertainment aimed at providing families with an opportunity to connect around nutrition, cooking, healthy lifestyles, and culture
On the third Thursday of each 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.
For more information on Salud y Sabor, contact David Torres at 505-246-2261 Ext. 150 or DavidM.Torres@state.nm.us.
Free public event

New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra Presents ¡Zarzuelas! Rediscovered Romance
2016-04-17 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
2 pm
Javier Lorenzo, conductor
Areu, Selections
Areu, Zarzuela, El Retiro
Areu, Zarzuela, Un Conato de Coburgo
Unheard for more than a century, rediscovered Spanish operettas, or zarzuelas, by late 19th and early 20th century composer Manuel Areu will be performed by your NMPhil and conducted by Areu expert and Argentina native Dr. Javier Lorenzo. These rare masterworks will astound you with their beauty and spirit!
To contact the NM Philharmonic directly, please call (505) 323-4343 or visit New Mexico Philharmonic Website
$24, $35, $46, $68, group discounts available

DreamBuilders 2016
2016-04-15 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
9 am to 3:30 pm
Join us on April 15th for DreamBuilders 2016, an annual STEAM event developed to inspire and foster interest in the intersection of the Arts with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines. This is a community project designed to focus on artistic expressions enabled through and integrated with technology while highlighting our rich cultural identity.
We offer day-long workshops for middle school, high school and college age students as well as specialized workshop for teachers, parents, and professionals across the entire spectrum of STEAM. This year’s workshops include: Mobile Apps/Gaming; Ecology, Art and Culture; Creativity, Art & Technical Innovation; Maker Fair; Creating Your Own Website, Blog, and Social Media; Scribble Machines, Plastics and Polymers, and many more!
To register or for more information contact: David Torres at DavidM.Torres@state.nm.us or Lenny Martinez at lmartinez@ppc.com.
DreamBuilders is spornsored by Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Security, LLC, LANL Foundation, with support by PPC, and the New Mexico Innovation Laboratory.
Free event

Colcha Community Stitch-Along
2016-04-15 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
9:30 am – noon
Join our monthly gathering for colcheras of all skill levels led by Annette Gutierrez Turk. If you are beginning or advanced in the traditional New Mexican style of embroidery, bring your current colcha project along and enjoy these monthly, informal, community work sessions to share ideas, resources and encouragement!
For more information, call Elena at 505-246-2261, ext. 167, or e-mailing elenad.baca@state.nm.us.
Free event

Yjastros, 30th Season
2016-04-14 - 2016-04-16 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Thursday-Saturday, April 14-16, 2016
7 pm—Thursday
8 pm—Friday & Saturday
This powerful, poignant show features accomplished flamenco artists Marisol and Joaquin Encinias, singer Vicente Griego, guitarist Calvin Hazen, and members of Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, directed by Joaquin Encinias.
Yjastros 30th Season will astound and delight with exquisite selections from the company’s repertory as they blend intricate rhythms, delirious melodies, and an uncanny elegance on a stage where impossible feats become reality. Audiences will share an intimate experience of the strength, stamina, grace, and artistry needed to practice flamenco, as well as the deep communication among the artists who create it.
The show presents works by artists from Spain, featuring Gala Vivancos, Javier LaTorre, Valeriano Paños, Alfonso Losa, and Olga Pericet. The original staging of these works was made possible through a unique dance residence program created by the University of New Mexico in partnership with the National Institute of Flamenco; the works were then taken and re-staged by Joaquin Encinias.
$15, $25, $35, $45 w/ $5 off for students, seniors and NHCC Members

Film: Loreak/Flowers
2016-04-14 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
The lives of three women are altered by the weekly gift of a bouquet of flowers, sent anonymously to each in memory of a loved one, and causing forgotten feelings to bloom again. “Ciclo Cine Español Contemporáneo,” presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes.
2014; Euskadi (Basque) with English subtitles; 99 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Artist Panel for El retrato nuevomexicano ahora/ New Mexican Portraiture Now
2016-04-10 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
2 pm to 4 pm
Artist panel featuring artists in the New Mexican Portrait Exhibition in the NHCC Art Museum’s Community Gallery.
Hear what the artists have to say! Fun, conversational, and educational panel with Oscar Lozoya, Derrick Montez, Arturo Olivas, Cecilia Portal, and Jocelyn Salaz. Moderated by Tey Marianna Nunn
The exhibit, El retrato nuevomexicano ahora/ New Mexican Portraiture Now, has been extended by popular demand through June 12, 2016.
Free event

Film: La isla mínima/Marshland
2016-04-07 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
In 1980, in a remote village on the Guadalquivir Marshes, two homicide detectives from Madrid investigate the disappearance of two teenage girls during a village festival and discover that a serial killer is on the loose. “Ciclo Cine Español Contemporáneo,” presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes.
2014; Spanish with English subtitles; 105 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

¡HAH! Happy Arte Hour
2016-04-07 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
On the first Thursday of the month, NHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a relaxed social setting, which includes snacks, refreshments, and beer & wine for sale from Pop Fizz. 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.
This month local artist Rosalie Lopez will work with participants to explore the stories that make us who we are, then make paper-cut self-portraits inspired by two current Center exhibits: NM Portraiture and Moving Forward, Looking Back.
Each session is led by a different artist and the art-making technique varies in this adults focused community event.
Please pre-register using the link below (so we know how many materials to prepare)
http://goo.gl/forms/HXmsdOpNkZ
Questions? Call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 ext. 167 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies

Introduction to Flamenco Dance, taught by Bridgit Luján
2016-04-06 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Denver) | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:15 pm to 8:15 pm
Students will learn basic flamenco technique and a short choreography. No experience required; men and women of all ages and ability are welcome!
$10 suggested donation

Bridgit (Brigida) Luján began studying dance at the age of two, and earned a Master’s degree in dance from the University of New Mexico. After performing under the direction of Eva Encinias, Lili del Castillo, Pablo Rodarte, and Antonio Hidalgo, she joined Maria Benitez’ Estampa Española in 2000. She has traveled to Spain on numerous occasions to further her study of flamenco with many master teachers, and has directed her own touring company since 2004. Over the past ten years, she has performed in choreographed works in Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque and Festival Jerez.
Bridgit has taught at the University of New Mexico, Santa Fe Community College, Albuquerque Public Schools, and National Conservatory of Flamenco, and is a contributor to Dance Magazine. In 2013 she became the first and only American flamenco teacher to be an endorsed member of the Professional Association of Professors in Classical, Ballet and Flamenco Dance of Madrid, Spain (APDE). As founder and director of Dulce Flamenco Internacional, she was awarded the Hall of Fame Young Alumni Award from UNM’s Anderson School of Management.
For questions, please contact swflamencoarts@msn.com.

Opera Southwest Presents Rossini's Il Turco in Italia
2016-04-03 - 2016-04-10 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
April 3, 6, 8 & 10, 2016
2pm Sundays
7:30pm Wednesday & Friday
In the second New Mexico premiere of our 43rd season, Opera Southwest returns to our popular and critically acclaimed exploration of the music of Rossini, with his delightfully zany Il Turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy)-a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles and presented in two acts with one intermission.
Fiorilla, the unsatisfied and coquettish wife of the exquisitely boring Don Geronio, meets the dashing Turk Selim-so she decides to fall in love. No one is more upset about this than her current lover, Narciso!
Later, at a masked ball, tremendous confusion (and hilarity) ensues, as Selim ends up with his old flame Zaida while Fiorilla is cast out by Geronio. But, under the watchful eye of Prosdocimo the poet, all find forgiveness before the curtain comes down. Maestro Anthony Barrese conducts.
Opera Southwest Website
$15, $25, $35, $53, $63, $73, $80, $85
Discounts for groups and patrons 30 and younger

Tour & Book Signing: Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys Across the Old Spanish Trail
2016-04-02 | History and Literary Arts Building
4 pm to 6 pm
Join artist and curator Janire Nájera for an exhibition tour and book signing of Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys Across the Old Spanish Trail, which explores Spanish heritage in the United States Southwest via the Old Spanish Trail, a route that linked the colonial outposts of New Mexico and California. The exhibition is presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center and SPAIN Arts and Culture, and supported by Wales Arts International. This free event will take place at 4pm on April 2, 2016, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s History and Literary Arts Building.
Free event

An artistic and genealogical project combining photography, video and sound by artist and curator Janire Nájera, this exhibition began in March 2014 with a road trip across the Southwest following the footsteps of trader Antonio Armijo, who opened the route of the Old Spanish Trail between the states of New Mexico and California in the 19th century. The objective of Nájera’s trip was to meet, interview, and photograph Spanish descendants to explore how the traditions of the first settlers have merged with local cultures influencing the creation and identity of today’s pueblos and cities. The journey has been documented with the assistance of visual artist Matt Wright, who took a range of panoramic images and time lapses to place the portraits within the environments in which they were captured.
Each portrait in the exhibition has an associated, taped conversation between Nájera and the protagonist of the picture. The portrayed talk about their experiences, their memories, their perception about being Hispanic descendants, and how these origins influence in their lives. In addition to the exhibition, Nájera has recorded her experience along the route in a book, combining the portraits and interviews of the Spanish descendants with academic essays about the legacy of Spanish language, architecture, gastronomy, art, religion, and intangible heritage found in New Mexico and California, once connected through the Old Spanish Trail.

¡Vamos al Museo!
2016-04-02 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
This is a fun and engaging docent and artist-led family program. Families (limited to 25 participants) get a 30-minute museum tour focused on an art form, source inspiration, artist or type of material. Following the tour, the whole family can create their own artwork in the Pete V. Domenici Education Building Messy Classroom.
April’s guest artist will be Catalina Salinas exploring storytelling through images, inspired by our new exhibition Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys Along the Old Spanish Trail.
A great morning of art-making for children of all ages and families of all sizes! For more information please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 ext. 167 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies
