• Magnify Dance Ensemble: How Love Wins

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

    2 pm Magnify Dance Ensemble presents How Love Wins, a sequel to the company’s award-winning holiday production ofChristmas Joy.  Inspired by the Gospel and expressed through dance, the story of How Love Wins is filled with meaningful and engaging choreography.  Progressing from the birth of Jesus through His life, death and resurrection, this newest addition to Magnify Dance Ensemble’s repertoire carries on the professionalism and extraordinary level of performance our audiences have come to expect.  How Love Wins came alive as a new opportunity for Magnify to share the (more...)

  • Colcha Community Stitch A-long

    Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    9:30 am (MST) on the second Tuesday of the Month Live via Zoom on February 8 and hybrid: on Zoom and onsite beginning March 8, 2022 Our Colcha community Workshop is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting. This workshop is instructed by Annette Gutierrez-Turk. Annette has taught this art form to groups internationally and at the NHCC for many years. She is also an award winning artist, most recently recognized in 2019 at Santa Fe Spanish Market. Annette will demonstrate as well as answer (more...)

  • Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour

    NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

    This tour has SOLD OUT! 11 am (MST) The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity. Admission for 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. (more...)

  • PAPA’s Senior Showcase 2022

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

    7 pm The Class of 2022 at Public Academy for Performing Arts showcases what they do best in music, dance, theatre, film, and visual arts. Don’t miss your opportunity to see these rising stars, as this event is one night only! $10, $20, $30 Approximate length of event: 2.5 hours This event is a rental event, not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images, and description for the event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not (more...)

  • Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour

    NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

    11 am (MST) The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity. Admission for 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 (more...)

  • Film: A media voz

    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Patricia Pérez and Heidi Hassan, directors of A media voz, are childhood friends who face the challenges of uprooting as they try to rebuild their lives away from Cuba. This moving auto-ethnographic documentary about nostalgia, friendship, roots, and exile reflects the uneasiness of an entire generation. 2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 80 minutes; rated G. Free community event In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, Cinema in Spanish, screening four contemporary (more...)

  • AfroMundo Festival: Beyond the Pale Literary Event

    NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting

    3:00 pm A literary reading and discourse with Puerto Rican and Dominican authors Mayra Santos Febres, Eleuterio Santiago Díaz and Loida Maritza Pérez. “Beyond the pale” is a British colonial phrase for those who, for living beyond borders and boundaries, actual or imagined, were considered beyond the rule of law and of accepted social norms. The phrase further suggests “otherness” and has since taken on racial connotations, as in not white; dull, savage, incompetent, dark, backwards; heathen; diabolic, transgressor, hence illegal. Authors will read works and discuss (more...)

  • AfroMundo Festival: Divinations: Ika, Ijekun, Obara – Visual Arts Chat/Slide Presentation

    NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting

    7:00 pm Afro Caribbean Cosmology is rooted in understanding how the ashé, the underlying power in all living things, manifests and connects to human beings.  For souls to live in balance, it is essential to learn how to read nature’s inherent powers.  It is by identifying with nature that one develops conscience, as well as the iwa pele, the “good character” that guarantees joy, a full life, and an ability to “see” and to understand the connection between all living things. Free community event “Divinations” are photosculpture (more...)

  • AfroMundo Festival: Angelica Screening & Panel Discussion

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7:00 pm Free community event This Spanish w/English subtitles film takes an intimate look at racial issues within a Puerto Rican family and brings taboo discussions of racial politics to the foreground.  “People talk about racism and sexism in the U.S.,” Film Director Gómez-Mouakad explains. “They may not do much, but in talking about it they are at least addressing the problem. In Puerto Rico — and across the Caribbean and Latin America — there is a lot of denial. If you do talk about the issues, (more...)

  • AfroMundo Festival: Jamaica y Tamarindo Screening & Panel Discussion

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7:00 pm This Spanish w/English subtitles documentary explores Afro-Mexican identities via multiple perspectives.  Panelists include Film Director Ebony Marie Bailey, Dr. Dora Careaga Coleman, Heather Smith, and Naomi Ambriz. Free community event AfroMundo Festival Shared Roots: A Celebration of Afro-Latinx Culture AfroMundo was born of a desire to counter alienation and marginalization by fostering civic engagement. It was therefore founded on the principles of convite—an age-old collaborative tradition that enables community members to pool their talents and scarce resources for rituals of life, socialization and mutual support, (more...)