Visual Arts Museum: First Sunday Free Admission
2022-08-07, 2022-07-03 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
The first Sunday of every month the Visual Arts Museum is free to all New Mexico residents. During this time, visitors are encouraged to explore the NHCC’s Visual Arts Museum art exhibitions such as Aquí Estamos: New Selections from the Permanent Collection, Tempo y Tiempo: 4 Photographers in New Mexico, and Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond.

Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2022-08-05, 2022-08-04, 2022-07-29, 2022-07-28, 2022-07-22, 2022-07-21, 2022-07-15, 2022-07-14 and 5 more dates | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
11:00 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 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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Film: Better Days
2022-07-29 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Fran Herrero Ansoleaga’s Better Days presents the testimonies of five people who have fled harassment in their home countries because of their gender identities and have sought asylum in Spain. Before the director’s camera, they share their fears, doubts, and certainties, as well as their belief that “everything gets better.”
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Robert Arellano, With a Special Introduction by Levi Romero
2022-07-28 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
Secrets, Spies, and Spanish Rice: Six Decades of the Cuban-American Experience
Award-winning author Robert Arellano, With a Special Introduction by Levi Romero
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
October marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. For millions of Cubans exiled by the Revolution, it was the point of no return — time to settle in for a long embargado as immigrant Americanos. Join us for a multimedia presentation on la vida cubana-americana, a dance with one foot on the island and the other in the United States: three generations trying to keep in step with their cubanidad. Arellano will span six decades in 60 minutes while bringing this rich culture and complex history to life through stories, photographs, and a healthy dose of Latin jazz, offering you more than a few secretos sabrosos of the Cuban-American experience.
This is a free, ticketed event. Please register HERE.

Robert Arellano is an award-winning Cuban-American novelist and scholar. His Cuban Noir series, beginning with Havana Lunar and Havana Libre, has received starred reviews from Booklist and CrimeReads and been shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Prize. Arellano has also written short fiction for collections like the recent Let’s Hear Their Voices: Cuban American Writers of the Second Generation (State University of New York Press), poems for the forthcoming first edition of the New Mexico Poetry Anthology (Museum of New Mexico Press), and five more novels including Curse the Names: a New Mexico Noir. He has been awarded fellowships by the Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Family Foundation and served on the faculties at Brown University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, UNM-Taos and Southern Oregon University. He is currently at work on the third novel in the Cuban Noir series as well as a nonfiction book about the hardcore-punk and metalhead youth of post-revolutionary Cuba titled Friki.

Film: (A) Normal
2022-07-26 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Leo, Juan, David, and Lucio meet in the gym locker room—four people with four different views on issues such as masculinity. Miguel Parra’s (A) Normal demonstrates, through the debates that ensue, that “normality” is as personal as each individual’s particular essence and prejudices.
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 12 minutes; not rated.
Free cummunity event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

OCB Natural New Mexico
2022-07-23 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
OCB Natural New Mexico. This year’s competition will be held at the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Albuquerque Journal Theatre in Albuquerque, NM on Saturday, July 23, 2022. The OCB Natural New Mexico is a drug free tested competition.
$50 adults, $15 Minors 4 years old to 12 years old, Free for Kids younger than 4. $70 Assistant Ticket/Back Stage Pass

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.

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Film: Abriendo ventanas
2022-07-22 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Vicky Calavia’s documentary Abriendo ventanas is a story told in seven voices, in which seven women share their affective, sexual, and gender diversity, as well as the discrimination and violence that they have suffered in their lives.
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 30 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Yo soy una niña
2022-07-19 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Richard Zubelzu’s Yo soy una niña documents the reality of transsexuality in childhood, while emphasizing the important role of grandparents and their unconditional love for their grandchildren.
2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Explorar Las Artes: Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime—Gazpacho for Nacho
2022-07-19 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
10:00 am
Listen to the rollicking story, Gazpacho for Nacho and then use your five senses to explore the tasty ingredients of gazpacho! By Tracey Kyle (Author) and Carolina Farías (Illustrator). Our gazpacho will be made with cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, garlic, onion, olive oil, pepper, salt, vinegar.
For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers
Free. Register below.
This program generously supported through a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant.

Film: Hidroalcohólico
2022-07-15 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In Roberto Pérez Toledo’s Hidroalcohólico, two boys on a blind date discuss the problems, occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, of coming into physical contact with another person. Between comedy and paradox, the short film explores the surreal situations that this new reality has unleashed.
2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 6 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Extraterrestrial (Spain)
2022-07-15 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Join us for free tours of Fronteras del Futuro and other pre-film entertainment, including a cash bar and food from Phat Stax Burgers and More.
7:00 pm: Film screening
When Julio wakes up in a strange apartment, his pleasure at realizing that he has spent the night with the beautiful Julia is complicated by the unexpected return of Julia’s boyfriend and the interference of a prying neighbor, as well as the discovery of a giant flying saucer hovering over the deserted city of Madrid and, possibly, the end of the world.
2011; directed by Nacho Vigalondo; English; 90 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
The Bank of America provides generous support for this film series

Thank you Phat Stax Burgers and More food truck for joining us. For more information on Phat Stax Burgers and More check out their Facebook page HERE and their website HERE.

Film: Antes de la erupción
2022-07-12 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
While a volcano can erupt without previous warning, it is more likely that it will emit different types of signals in advance, if we know how to recognize them—in people as well as in natural phenomena. Roberto Pérez Toledo’s Antes de la erupción, told in retrospect by one of five young participants in a trip to the volcanic island of Lanzarote, offers guidelines .
2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 10 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Colcha Community Stitch A-long
2022-07-12 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
9:30 am (MST)
Live via Zoom only on July 12th and hybrid: on Zoom and onsite beginning August 9, 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 questions. We hope you will join us every month on the second Tuesday, for this virtual stitch-a-long. Everyone will have a chance to share what they are working on.
This is a free community event. Register in advance here.

Questions: Please email Elena at ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us or call 505-220-7928
Thank you to the Sandia Mountains-EGA for their continued support of this program.
Colcha Community Stitch-A-Long dates:
Second Tuesday of every month at 9:30 am (MST)
For more on Colcha, please watch this video.
Colcha Circle Video
Here is the pattern used in the beginner colcha kit.
Click thumbnail to enlarge.

NM Jazz Latino Orchestra
2022-07-09 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
In their fifth performance at the NHCC, “Cuba Linda,” the New Mexico Jazz Latino Orchestra (NMJLO) honors the invaluable contributions of Cuban artists to the genres of Latin jazz and salsa. Their journey into the musical styles that have been introduced to the world by beloved Cuban legends begins with Latin jazz interpretations.
$25, $27 w/ $2 discount for NHCC Members

This event was postponed from January 22nd to July 9th. Ticket holders on January 22nd will automatically be transferred to the July 9th performance. If you can not attend the rescheduled performance on July 9th a refund can be issued. Please contact the box office at 505-724-4771 or email david.rivera1@state.nm.us to request a refund.

The concert continues with a long overdue dedication of honor to the “Queen of Salsa” Celia Cruz, known for blending elements of Cuban rhythms such as rumba, guaracha, and son to create her unique signature sound. This tribute set will be led by vocalists Annette Bisconte Aragon and Jackie Zamora, and followed by a performance by the evening’s guest of honor. This year, the New Mexico Jazz Latino Orchestra is pleased to present “La Van Vanera” Yeni Valdes, the famed former vocalist of Los Van Van, who will be performing the hits that she made popular with Los Van Van and NG La Banda, with backing by NMJLO.
The 13-piece ensemble showcases the versatility and talents of artists who are now New Mexico residents, while bringing in international guest artists to introduce audiences to traditional instrumentation and rhythms from Latin America and demonstrate how jazz fusion can provide a harmonious and exciting blend of ancestral and contemporary tones.

Film: Tarek
2022-07-08 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In Anatael Pérez’ Tarek, four young people, of different sexual orientations, relate their experiences of a night at a party where they met a young man named Tarek, offering a suggestive and enigmatic portrait of a character who will always remain out of the frame.
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated.
Free Event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

On Point Dance Studio: A World of Dance
2022-06-26 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm
On Point Dance Studio presents our 2022 Summer Recital. Our students will perform routines they have learned during our spring semester, a combination of Folklorico, Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, Tumbling and Contemporary.
$20, $25, $30

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 Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus presents NakedMan
2022-06-24 - 2022-06-25 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:30 pm
New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus presents the New Mexico premiere of NakedMan, a 16-movement song cycle about gay men’s lives, and the bravery required to love authentically and without shame. Over sixty gay men were interviewed about their experiences coming out, finding love, facing discrimination, serving in the military, wrestling with religion, losing loved ones, and accepting themselves. Their stories were woven together into NakedMan, an empowering, epic collection of anthems laying bare the lives and souls of gay men, championing love and healing over hatred and fear.
$22, $27, $37, $47

The live performance will include images and dancers showing partial nudity.

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.
