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  • Spanish Olive Oil Tasting

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

    5:30 pm - 8 pm Olive oil is a key ingredient of Spanish cuisine. This olive oil tasting workshop, organized by Instituto Cervantes and the National Hispanic Cultural Center and facilitated by Spanish specialists Alfonso J. Fernández López and Alberto Moya Carraffa, will give you the knowledge to appreciate its different flavors and textures. Alfonso J. Fernández López works in the olive oil business; his family has been involved in olive oil production and cultivation for 5 generations. Living in Andalucia, the largest production area worldwide, Alfonso (more...)

  • Film: El lugar de las fresas

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7 pm Lina, now in her seventies, has always been a farmer, going at dawn to Turin’s Porta Palazzo, Europe’s biggest open air market, to sell her vegetables and strawberries. Her life has always been “home, church, and work,” until she encounters a young Moroccan immigrant looking for a job. The filmmaker’s documentation of their evolving lives and relationship over the next several years addresses themes of immigration, globalization, and transformation, as well as the enduring value of working with the land. Presented in partnership with Instituto (more...)

  • Siembra, Latino Theatre Season: The House on Mango Street

    NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting

    Stage Adaptation by Amy Ludwig March 30-April 2, 2017 Thursday-Saturday 7:30 pm; Sunday 2 pm April 6-9, 2017 Thursday-Saturday 7:30 pm; Sunday 2 pm April 13-15, 2017 Thursday & Friday 7:30 pm; Saturday 2 pm & 7:30 pm Based on the book by celebrated Chicago writer Sandra Cisneros, the stage adaptation, by Amy Ludwig, of The House on Mango Street is a touching and humorous collection of vignettes told by a young girl growing up in one of Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods. Esperanza Cordero dreams of a new life (more...)

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  • Revolutions International Theatre Festival: Engine, Un día más sobre la tierra

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    8 pm Engine, from Argentina and France, presents Un día más sobre la tierra, a concert featuring violent and sophisticated guitars, overlapped by the raw voices of two actor-musicians. The songs, woven of Latin American rhythms and rock dynamics, punctuated by simple and powerful theatrical ruptures, poetically tell the story of an ancient device floating unseen over the skies of the world. The elegant protagonists sing without stopping, dance scandalously, and throw themselves on the floor with attractive complicity. Engine, the always invisible machine, carries the rhythm (more...)

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  • ¡Vamos al Museo!

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

    10:30 am to 12:00 pm The National Hispanic Cultural Center is pleased to offer children’s programming on the first Saturday morning of every month. This is a fun and engaging artist-led family program.  This month the artist will be Kenny Chavez. 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 Creative Classroom. A great morning of art-making for (more...)

  • 24th Annual César Chávez Day

    March—11 am Fiesta—12 pm Join the 24th annual César Chávez Day celebration, with a march—La Marcha de Justicia—beginning at 10:30 am at the Dolores Huerta Gateway Park, picking up additional participants at the National Hispanic Cultural Center at 11:00 am, and ending at noon on the NHCC’s Plaza Mayor. Following the march, the family fiesta at the Center includes poetry, dancing, community exhibits, children’s activities and games, food, a keynote speech by Dolores Huerta, and live music. Additionally, the 2017 César Chávez and Dolores Huerta ¡Sí Se Puede! (more...)

  • New Mexico Medical Cannabis Conference 2017 (Rental)

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    For information on the 2018 New Mexico Medical Cannabis Conference click HERE. 8:30 am - 1:30 pm The Verdes Foundation and Southwest Organic Producers (SWOP) present the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Conference, with experts in the medical field sharing current cannabis-related applications and protocols. As the first dispensary in New Mexico to offer nursing services, the Verdes Foundation is proud to host this event with Southwest Organic Producers to continue to help patients gain access to cannabis education. The forum will feature doctors and experts who will (more...)

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  • Reading & Booksigning: Celia López-Chávez, Epics of Empire and Frontier

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm to 4 pm Join author Celia López-Chávez for a reading from her new book Epics of Empire and Frontier: Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers. Epics of Empire and Frontier reveals new ways of thinking about the themes of empire and frontier from the muse of the epic poems La Araucana by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla and Historia de la Nueva México by Gaspar de Villagrá, Mexican-born captain under Juan de Oñate in New Mexico, both of which (more...)

  • Regalos: NHCC’s Spring Craft Fair

    La Tiendita, the museum store

    10 am to 2 pm Discover unique and beautiful crafts that make great gifts for your friends and family (or for yourself !) our Spring Regalos craft fair. All purchases not only support local artists and artisans but also the NHCC Foundation, which funds programs and events at the NHCC. The craft fair will take place outside of La Tiendita, in the NHCC's Visual Arts Building. To become a vendor at the event or to get more information about the event, please contact Corina Marquez in the (more...)

  • Call for Involvement: Our Truth Project

    The National Hispanic Cultural Center is taking on a project, supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, with the goal of giving value and meaning to the lived stories of our New Mexico community; bringing heightened awareness of racial divides and inequalities; and helping navigate ways to heal and move forward together through art. Our overarching plan is to facilitate community dialogues and then commission artists to share these stories through devised works, presented in meaningful and discussion-inducing ways. The works created from stories told by the community would include (more...)