¡HAH! Happy Arte Hour
2019-12-05 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:30 pm to 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.
Welcome to Elena’s Holiday Gift Making Extravaganza! We will have a variety of supplies available to make cards, gift tags, gifts, ornaments….no two alike! We also have felt to weave place mats and more. There will be a variety of gift making stations!
Please pre-register using the link HERE (so we know how many materials to prepare)
For more information please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies

First Friday: Volunteer Education and Conversation
2019-12-06 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
9 am – 11 am
On the first Friday of each month, NHCC docents and core volunteers meet for coffee and conversation along with monthly presentations on topics that build the knowledge and skills of the docent core to give tours, educate the NHCC visitors and share the NHCC mission and programs.
For location and more information on the NHCC Docent and Volunteer program, Please call Annette Lujan at 505-383-4783 or email her at Annette.Lujan@state.nm.us for more information.
Free event

¡Vamos al Museo!
2019-12-07 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:30 am to 12 pm
A great morning of art-making for children of all ages and families of all sizes. A visit to the museum is included in this artist-led workshop. We will meet in the Creative Classroom in the Pete V. Domenici Building.
We will visit with six Winter Spanish Market youth artists and then return to the classroom and create an ornament inspired by our observations.
Please pre-register HERE (so we know how many materials to prepare)
For more information please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies

Mundos de Mestizaje
2019-12-07 - 2019-12-08, 2019-12-14 - 2019-12-15, 2020-01-11 - 2020-01-12, 2020-01-18 - 2020-01-19 | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
12 pm to 5 pm
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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Free

Baila! Baila! and the NHCC Present Christmas in New Mexico® 2019
2019-12-07 - 2019-12-08 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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 multigenerational cast including dancers as young as six, as well as Baila! Baila!’s professional company dancers. Special guest performances include Mariachi Tapatio from El Paso, Texas and an appearance by company founder Israela Garcia.
$22, $27, $32 w/ $2 discounts for students, seniors and NHCC members

Baila! Baila! Dance Academy was founded in 1990 with the mission of educating students solely in traditional Mexican folk dance. The school’s curriculum has expanded to additional dance genres including country western, salsa, hip hop, classical ballet, and Danza Azteca.
Thank you to our Performing Arts Season Sponsors Heritage Hotels and Resorts, the Albuquerque Journal and Southwest Airlines!

2019 Winter Spanish Market
2019-12-07 - 2019-12-08 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
10 am-5 pm—Saturday
10 am-4 pm—Sunday
Save the Date!
The 2019 Winter Spanish Market is back on the 7th and 8th of December! Experience authentic 400-year-old traditions and innovative Spanish Colonial style artwork, made by New Mexico artists. Come and join this Hispanic festival including art, local music, food, demonstrations and more. Interact personally with extraordinary artists, learn about their traditions and take home a special purchase to add to a collection or give as a gift.
$6 Individual OR $10 for two people. Children 12 and younger free
Presented by the Spanish Colonial Arts Society

NHCC Museum Holiday Pop up Shop
2019-12-07 - 2019-12-08 | 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

¡Iluminarte! 2019
2019-12-08 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4 pm – 8 pm
National Hispanic Cultural Center/Paseo del Bosque Trail/CABQ BioPark and Tingley Beach
¡ILUMINARTE! is a winter holiday celebration inspired by luminarias and farolitos—a New Mexico tradition. This Sunday evening event includes storytelling, an illuminated bike parade along the Paseo del Bosque Trail, and performances by Story Riders–a bilingual after-school and bike-riding program for elementary school students—with Circo Latino, AirDance New Mexico and Albuquerque Poet Laureate Michelle Otero. The event is free and open to the general public.
To participate in the Magical Light and Bike Parade, register here: https://nhccnm.wufoo.com/forms/iluminarte-2019-parade-registration-form

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2019
3:30 pm. NHCC Plaza. CABQ Esperanza FREE bike clinic and valet. Get your bikes checked and ready for the parade. This is a great time to light yourself and your bike up, before the parade begins.
4:30 pm: Performance/NHCC Plaza. AirDance New Mexico performance: luminarias cast flickering light that dances across the wintery darkness, promoting warmth, guidance, and community. AirDance explores these themes through the lens of aerial dance. Free, no tickets required.
5 pm Illuminated Bike Parade. The ¡ILUMINARTE! cyclists, let by Circo Latino and Story Rider students from Dolores Gonzales, Reginald Chavez and Valle Vista Elementary Schools, and the general public proceed on illuminated bikes from NHCC plaza to the luminaria-lit Paseo del Bosque Trail. Cyclists ride to the rear entrance to the BioPark “River of Lights.” If you plan to ride in the parade, make sure you register. The parade is free and open to the public.
5:30 pm. Cyclists park their bikes with a free valet and then can wander the “River of Lights” during Magic Hour. Be sure you buy a ticket for entrance to the Botanical Gardens/ROL ahead of time.
6 pm: Performance/ABQ BioPark-River of Lights. Circo Latino performs for the opening of River of Lights.
6:30 (or so): Illuminated Bike Parade returns to Bosque Trail and goes south to Tingley Beach.
6:15 pm: Parade continues from the BioPark to Tingley Beach.
6:30 pm: Poetry Reading at Tingley Beach. ABQ Poet Laureate Michelle Otero with Story Riders from Valle Vista Elementary School. Free and open to the public.
7 pm: Illuminated Bike Parade continues back to NHCC and finishes in the luminaria-lit plaza.
7:15 pm: NHCC Plaza or History/Literary Arts Building. Hot chocolate, biscochitos. Free bike valet.

To participate in the Magical Light and Bike Parade AND to order a t-shirt click here: https://nhccnm.wufoo.com/forms/iluminarte-2019-parade-registration-form

¡ILUMINARTE! is a one-of-a kind creative partnership between the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the City of Albuquerque, Story Riders, Artful Life, Circo Latino, AirDance New Mexico and the Albuquerque Poet Laureate Program.

Check out some photos of ¡Iluminarte! 2018 here!

¡Baile! Casino (Cuban Salsa) Dance Class
2019-12-10, 2019-12-17, 2020-01-07, 2020-01-14 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
6 pm to 8:15 pm
6 pm to 7:15 pm—Beginning and Intermediate Class.
No experience is necessary to participate in this class.
7:15 pm to 8:15 pm—Advanced Class
In order to participate in this class, dancers must come to at least one 6 pm class and be familiar with the vocabulary and movement introduced in these classes.
Dance classes are taught by Larry Heard and Rueda 505 Friends.
There is no need to pre-register; just show up in comfortable clothes ready to dance! For more information, call 505-246-2261.
$5 to $10 per class (pay what you can)

Film: Where God Left His Shoes
2019-12-12 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
The film originally scheduled for December 12, Nosotros los Nobles/The Noble Family, will be rescheduled at a later date. There will be no film screenings on December 26 or January 9. The Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series will resume on January 23.
Jobless and living with his family in a homeless shelter, a one-time boxer takes his 10-year-old stepson with him as he hustles for work on Christmas Eve. Praised as John Leguizamo’s “truest performance on film,” Where God Left His Shoes is the story of a family who discover that they will survive as long as they have each other. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2007; Salvatore Stabile; English; 96 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

NHCC Book Club
2019-12-12 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
5:30 pm
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for December: The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) by Carlos Fuente.
To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.

La Canoa - Giving Baque: On Hemispheric Indigeneities and the Southern Border of New Mexico
2019-12-14 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
2 pm – 4 pm
Building on and departing from the work of interethnic thought-leaders in New Mexico, Dr. Gregorio Gonzales will consider how competing logics of settler-statecraft and Native American nationhood operate in a place of both Native- and nuevomexicanx-led struggles for political autonomy and religious liberty. The current humanitarian crisis along New Mexico’s southern border demonstrates the urgency of Indigenous transnational existences as they transit and transgress the political integrities of settlerstates and tribal nations alike. Dr. Gonzales will discuss the significance of New Mexico in building bridges of critical understanding and alliance inside this vital thoroughfare between Native America and Latin America.
This is a FREE event OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Gregorio Gonzales is Genízaro and Comanche from the borderlands of Comanchería and Genízaro country in northern New Mexico. He is currently the 2019-2020 Riley Scholar-in-Residence in Anthropology and Southwest Studies at Colorado College. Earning his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2017, Dr. Gonzales’s writings have appeared in the New Mexico Magazine, Peace Review, and Red Ink, among others. As a community-engaged scholar and relative, Dr. Gonzales remains involved with the Albuquerque-based urban Indian nonprofit, Americans for Indian Opportunity, and continues his youth development work this fall with relatives in the Taos and Rio Chama valleys.

NHCC Art Museum Holiday Pop Up Shop
2019-12-14 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
10 am – 3 pm
NHCC Art Museum Tiendita
Festive and Fun Gifts
Piñatas (own a piece of museum history!)
Tea towels
Mugs
T-shirts
Jewelry
Cards and mucho más!
ALL Proceeds directly support the NHCC Art Museum.
For information please contact Tey Marianna Nunn at tey.nunn@state.nm.us
Photo by Tey Diana Rebolledo

Christmas Joy
2019-12-14 - 2019-12-15 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
1 pm & 5 pm—Saturday
2 pm—Sunday
Come…Experience the Miracle!….Awaken your heart to the true Spirit of Christmas in dance as The Performers Ballet & Jazz Company will present the 35th Anniversary season of its Bravos Award-winning holiday production, Christmas Joy. Over fifty classically-trained dancers will once again inspire audiences in the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Albuquerque Journal Theater with a collection of moving and inspirational classical ballet, jazz and contemporary dance performances choreographed to traditional and contemporary Christmas music.
$22, $33 w/ $3 discount for students, seniors and NHCC members

A moving and uplifting production, Christmas Joy has become an Albuquerque holiday tradition. In 1999, members of the Albuquerque Arts Alliance conferred the Bravos Award for Dance Excellence upon The Performers Ballet & Jazz Company. In addition, in 2012 Christmas Joy was awarded the Albuquerque Community Live Art and Performance Services (Q-Claps), Applause Award for favorite performance.

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.

Los Pastores de Belén
2019-12-15 | 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 time that Los Pastores had been performed in this area was in 1929. Filomena Baca and a group of parishioners of Nuestra Señora de Belén have been performing the play ever since.
(taken from Enrique Lamadrid’s “Reflections on Los Pastores“)
Free public event
A discussion and Q&A session before the performance will be led by Filomena Baca and Dante Berry, one of the actors in the play, which has been performed by members of his family for generations.

Colcha Community Stitch-Along
2019-12-20, 2020-01-17 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
9:30 am – 12 pm
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 or e-mailing elenad.baca@state.nm.us.
Free event
Facilitated by Sandia Mountains Chapter-EGA

Festival Ballet Albuquerque Presents The Nutcracker in the Land of Enchantment
2019-12-20 - 2019-12-22 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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 western Victorian-era costumes. Now in its ninth year at the NHCC, the production showcases New Mexico heritage and traditions while maintaining the classical grace and family appeal of its origins.

A live orchestra performs under the baton of Maestro Guillermo Figueroa, former music director of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and an internationally renowned conductor and violinist who was a 2012 Latin Grammy nominee.
$14, $20, $29, $39, $49 w/ $2 discount for seniors, children 12 and younger, and NHCC members
Thank you to our Performing Arts Season Sponsors Heritage Hotels and Resorts, the Albuquerque Journal and Southwest Airlines!

The Santaland Diaries
2019-12-20 - 2019-12-22 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
7:30 pm—Friday & Saturday
2 pm—Sunday
Cardboard Playhouse presents The Santaland Diaries By David Sedaris, Adapted by Joe Mantello, Starring Kelsey Leos Montoya
Based on his beloved humorous and autobiographical essays, David Sedaris’ The Santaland Diaries is a wry and witty look at the combination of retail hell and theatrical spectacle that is the holiday season, a sharp, narrowly observed dark comedy.
$22

Kelsey Leos Montoya is a founding Member of Cardboard Playhouse Theatre Company and has performed with many theatre companies in Albuquerque.

Kelsey starred as Erik in the horror film “Fender Bender” and co-starred as Jason in Adam Wingard’s cult favorite, “The Guest” starring Dan Stevens.
*The Santaland Diaries is for Mature Audiences Only*

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.

National Hispanic Cultural Center Holiday Hours
2019-12-23 - 2020-01-01 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
The NHCC Visual Arts Museum and NHCC Library will be closed Wednesday, December 25th and Wednesday, January 1st but will otherwise maintain normal operating hours.
The Performing Arts Box Office will be closed Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 23rd, 24th & 25th and have special holiday hours of 12 pm to 5 pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday, December 26th 27th and 28th. Closed Sunday and Monday, December 29th and 30th but open on Tuesday, December 31st from 10 am to 5 pm. Closed on Wednesday, January 1st. Tickets are available at the NHCC website after hours by going to www.nhccnm.org or clicking HERE.
As a reminder, admission to the museum is free the first Sunday of the month, January 5, 2019.
From our family to yours Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year! ¡Feliz Navidad y feliz año nuevo!

Opera Southwest Presents New Year’s with the Opera!
2019-12-31 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
2 pm & 7 pm
New Year’s with the Opera is a fun variety show featuring Opera Southwest’s most beloved performers, the Albuquerque Youth Symphony, and the Opera Southwest Chamber Orchestra. With a variety of opera favorites and light classics, there is something for everyone to ring in the New Year. This year, for the first time, we offer a family-friendly presentation at 2 pm along with our evening performance at 7 pm.
$45, $55, $65;

an additional $45 upcharge for the New Year’s Eve VIP After-Party with the cast after the 7 pm performance.

Visit the Opera Southwest website HERE.

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.

Travel the Hispanic World this New Year's Eve!
2019-12-31 | History and Literary Arts Building
Noon – 2 pm
Celebrate New Year’s Eve at the National Hispanic Cultural Center by touring 12 stations with interactive activities. Each station celebrates New Year’s Eve with a different tradition from a different country. In Brazil, eat seven raisins. In Mexico, pocket a handful of lentils. In Spain, eat 12 grapes and make 12 wishes. Tear up your 2019 calendars in Uruguay. In Colombia, create a little suitcase to celebrate adventures to come–and so much more! Visitors can also create a zine reflecting on the past and looking to the 2020 future.
FREE! KIDS & FAMILIES WELCOME!
For more information, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us; 505-383-4708

La Canoa - Nina Otero-Warren: New Mexican 20th Century Mujerota
2020-01-11 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
2 pm – 4 pm
In celebration of the 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial, please join Dr. Anna Nogar as she explores the many facets of Nina Otero Warren. Early 20th century nuevomexicana Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren ran for national office as a Republican candidate to Congress from New Mexico in 1922, shortly after women gained the right to vote. An advocate of suffrage, Otero-Warren achieved political prominence for her promotion of Spanish/English education, and involvement in educational and health efforts supporting Indo-Hispano nuevomexicanos. Otero-Warren authored Old Spain in Our Southwest (1936), was superintendent of schools, and an educator, who supported herself and her extended family; in short, a nuevomexicana mujerota.
This is a FREE event OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Anna Nogar is Associate Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UNM. Dr. Nogar’s teaching and research specializations include Mexican American cultural and literary studies; colonial Mexico; early modern writers and communities of reading; and community oral histories.

New Mexico Philharmonic: Brass, Winds, & Bach’s Air
2020-01-12 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
3 pm
New Mexico Philharmonic presents Brass, Winds, & Bach’s Air. The NMPhil winds and brass step out to warm this midwinter afternoon! Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds, scored for two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, three French horns, cello, and double bass, is both lyrical and intensely beautiful. French horns and trumpets stand out in Crespo’s rollicking Spirit of Brass.
Breathe in the beauty of Bach’s “Air on the G String.” Then—four trumpets, four trombones, horn, and tuba frame Jan Koetsier’s Brass Symphony—a masterpiece of the brass repertoire. Finally, two gorgeous 16th-century Gabrieli Canzons.
$24, $35, $46, $68

Dvorak: Serenade for Winds
Beethoven: Octet for Winds
Crespo: Spirit of Brass
J.S. Bach/arr. Allen: “Air on the G String”
Koetsier: Brass Symphony
Gabrieli: Canzon in echo duodecimi toni à 10, Ch. 180
Gabrieli: Canzon septimi toni No. 2

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