Exhibit: Nuclear Past, Present, and Future: Art in Action Panel Talk
2026-06-04 | Visual Art Museum, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
Thursday, June 4, 2026
6:00 pm
NHCC | Visual Arts Museum
Join us for a panel discussion and opportunity to view the exhibition Nuclear Past, Present, and Future: Art in Action. More information forthcoming.
This is a free community event. Please let us know who will be attending below.
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Vamos! Experience the Arts Family Program
2026-06-06 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Saturday, June 6, 2026
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
NHCC | Domenici Education Building
Vamos to the National Hispanic Cultural Center on the first Saturday of the month for vibrant monthly family workshops that provide immersive experiences exploring Visual Arts, Performing Arts and History and Literary Arts. Designed to inspire creativity, foster cultural appreciation, and build community, each workshop will offer an inclusive and welcoming space where participants of all ages and backgrounds can come together to explore and celebrate culture through artistic expression, movement, and traditions in an engaging, fun, and educational environment!
Check nhccnm.org/events for updates. Note: this program will not be held in January, July, or November.
Please pre-register so we know how many materials to prepare. For more information, please call or email Elena Baca at 505-220-7928 or ElenaD.Baca@dca.nm.gov.
Free community event, $5 donations are encouraged to support the program & purchase supplies.
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NM CreativeCon
2026-06-06 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Saturday, June 6, 2026
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre
NM CreativeCon is a statewide celebration of New Mexico’s creative community, taking place from March through June 2026. Hosted by the New Mexico Economic Development Department’s Creative Industries Division, CreativeCon brings together. creative entrepreneurs, community partners, and support organizations from across the state to connect, learn, and share ideas.
All tickets $25 each
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Visual Arts Museum: First Sunday Free Admission
2026-06-07 | Visual Art Museum, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
June 7, 2026
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
The Art Museum presents multiple exhibitions in its three gallery spaces each year and welcomes visitors of all ages. Our three galleries showcase artworks from a range of media that focus on diverse subject matter and examine identity and culture.
On the first Sunday of every month, the Visual Arts Museum is free to all New Mexico residents!
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!

Arte para Chiquitos: Play, Storytime & Art
2026-06-09 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
10:00 am
Arte para Chiquitos: Play, Storytime & Art | 6 months – 4 years old and their grown-ups
NHCC | Pete V. Domenici Education Building
This free, monthly, 45-minute program for children ages 2 to 4 years and their caregivers cultivates creativity and self-expression through the exploration of Hispanic/Latin arts and culture. Participants explore and engage in artmaking, music, dance and play.
Free Community Event. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
This program is generously supported by NM Gas.
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Stitch Night
2026-06-10 | HLA Conference Room, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
5:00 – 7:00 pm
NHCC | HLA Conference Room
Stitch socially with us on the second Wednesday of the month! Bring whatever knitting, crocheting, weaving, or cross stitch, or fiber art projects you’re working on, and join the conversation with your fellow crafters for an informal craft get-together. If you would like to learn the basics of a particular stitching technique, please bring supplies with you, though we will always have basic crochet and knitting materials on hand for an impromptu demonstration!
Meetings will be in the Conference Room of The History and Literary Arts building from 5:00pm-7:00pm. For young adult and adult audiences.
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.
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Saturday Special: Visual Arts Museum Tour
2026-06-13 | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
1:00 pm
NHCC | Visual Arts Museum
Beginning March 14, the NHCC will offer Docent-guided tours of both the Torreón and Art Museum on the second Saturday of every month. Additional Docent-led tours of the Torreón will be held each Friday and Saturday after March 14.
Admission to the museum is free with the price of admission. Tickets are available for advance purchase below or can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited.
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Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime
2026-06-16 | NHCC Library, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
10:00 am
NHCC | HLA Library
Stories come to life through art, movement, and more! For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers.
Bilingual Storytime is designed for children ages 3 to 5 and their caregivers. For school, childcare, or homeschool groups; please reach out to NHCC Librarian Amy Padilla at amy.padilla@dca.nm.gov or the NHCC HLA Interim Program Manager Robin Sánchez at robin.sanchez@dca.nm.gov to find out about group options and available dates. We are unable to accommodate these groups during the Bilingual Storytime on third Tuesdays.
Free community event, generously supported by NM Gas. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.
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Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 39: María Pagés-De Scheherezade
2026-06-20 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Saturday, June 20, 2026
8:00 pm
NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre
De Scheherezade is a large-scale flamenco work by María Pagés Compañía, co-created with dramaturg El Arbi El Harti. Beginning where the tale of the Thousand and One Nights ends, De Scheherezade reframes Scheherezade as “one woman, all women.” Across 12 choreographic chapters, a collective female protagonist moves between solos and choral tableaux, set to live music that places flamenco in dialogue with classical, popular, and Moroccan traditions. Audiences experience a portrait of women as storytellers and agents: rhythmic, physical, and ensemble-driven, with the word and the body as tools for survival. U.S. Premiere.
$49, $69, $89, $109, & $129, no other discounts for Festival Flamenco Albuquerque.
*Price includes a NHCC facility fee.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!

*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 39: Yjastros-Flamenco Fandanguero
2026-06-21 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Sunday, June 21, 2026
6:00 pm
NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre
FLAMENCO FANDANGUERO: Primos de la Raza Cósmica is a thrilling work of dance, music, and theatre by Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company and special guests, featuring over 20 musicians and dancers on stage! This unforgettable celebration builds from a conversation between flamenco and son jarocho, distinct art forms that share a common ancestor. Reuniting the primos hermanos (first cousins) of flamenco and son jarocho, this captivating performance explores shared identities and histories. Audiences will be transformed by this unique, transcendent experience that showcases the cosmic essence of son jarocho and flamenco.
This project was made possible by a National Dance Project grant with lead funding from the
Doris Duke and Mellon Charitable Foundations.
$44, $64, $84, $104, & $124, no other discounts for Festival Flamenco Albuquerque.
*Price includes a NHCC facility fee.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!

*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 39: Miguel Poveda-Recital de Cante
2026-06-23 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
8:00 pm
NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre
Miguel Poveda presents a traditional Recital de Cante, in which he will journey through some of the most representative styles of flamenco, all expressed through his powerful personality and surrounded by the musicians with whom he has spent years moving audiences around the world.
The repertoire will include tributes to the masters who, with the utmost respect, have shaped in him a sound deeply faithful to tradition, while at the same time cultivating a very distinctive, contemporary, and compelling style that makes him unique and personal. This recital is a journey into the past, viewed through a lens of the present and the future.
He is joined on this journey by guitarist Jesús Guerrero, percussionist Paquito González, and providing compás are Carlos Grilo and the cantaor “El Londro.”
The recital Poveda offers will have the evocative and magical atmosphere that characterizes his concerts, delighting both the most discerning aficionados and those new to flamenco alike. Don’t miss it!
$49, $69, $89, $109, & $129, no other discounts for Festival Flamenco Albuquerque.
*Price includes a NHCC facility fee.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!

*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261.

NHCC Book Club: Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
2026-06-24 | HLA Conference Room
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
6:00 – 7:30 pm
The NHCC invites lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room.
For the month of July, we will be reading Cristina Rivera Garza’s Puliter Prize Winning Memoir Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice.
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Can you enjoy yourself while you are in pain? The question, which is not new, arises over and over again during that eternity that is mourning.
In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana’s story instead became subsumed into Mexico’s dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana’s case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope for justice.
In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces the story of her childhood, her early romance with a handsome–but possessive and short-tempered–man, through the exhilarating weeks leading up to that fateful July morning, a summer when Liliana loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before.
Using her remarkable talents as a scholar, novelist, and poet, Cristina Rivera Garza returns to Mexico after decades of living in the United States to collect and curate evidence–handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, architectural blueprints–in order to render and understand a life beyond the crime itself. Tracing the full arc of their childhood and adolescence in central Mexico, through the painful and confusing years after Liliana’s death, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister, and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she is–and what she fights for–today.
“In this gut-wrenching blend of memoir and reportage, Rivera Garza (No One Will See Me Cry), a Hispanic studies professor at the University of Houston, investigates her younger sister Liliana’s 1990 murder by an abusive ex-boyfriend, who remains at large. Placing her sister’s death in the context of the femicide crisis in Mexico, Rivera Garza interweaves startling facts and statistics (an average of 10 women are killed per day in Mexico) with lyrical meditations on her family life and Liliania’s efforts to break away from her obsessive high school boyfriend, Ángel González Ramos.” (Goodreads)
This book is available at the Albuquerque Public Library: 2 copies available, plus Kindle ebook and Libby Audiobook
This is a free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.
NHCC Book Club | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 39: Puentes Flamencos and Certamen Coreográfico
2026-06-24 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
4:00 pm
NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre
New this year! The National Institute of Flamenco presents Puentes Flamencos and Certamen Coreográfico, two juried competitions offering today’s top student and emerging flamenco talent a chance to showcase their work on Festival Flamenco Alburquerque’s international stage.
These programs invite participants to step forward, be seen, and share their work on a professional stage through high-level performance experiences that emphasize artistry, discipline, and growth. Artists gain meaningful visibility, mentorship, and recognition while connecting with the festival’s vibrant artistic community. Puentes Flamencos highlights the work of student ensembles and Certamen Coreográfico presents the work of emerging professionals.
General admission: $29
*Price includes a NHCC facility fee.
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*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 39: Úrsula López Compañía-Comedia sin título
2026-06-25 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Thursday, June 25, 2026
8:00 pm
NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre
Beginning from Federico García Lorca’s unfinished Comedia sin título, Úrsula López builds a choreographic essay on how flamenco carried Lorca’s presence through hostile territory: the dictatorship years, the work made in exile, and the international stages where his texts and images were remade in dance.
Audiences encounter history as something embodied, where rhythm, gesture, and text carry memory without requiring a linear plot. With an ensemble cast, cante, guitar, sax, and percussion, Comedia sin título places pure dance forms beside theatrical and contemporary frames, asking what survives, what changes, and what we inherit when flamenco remembers aloud. U.S. Premiere
$44, $64, $84, $104, & $124, no other discounts for Festival Flamenco Albuquerque.
*Price includes a NHCC facility fee.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!

*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 39: Fiesta Flamenca-Friday
2026-06-26 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Friday, June 26, 2026
8:00 pm
NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre
Fiesta Flamenca-Friday Features Daniel Ramos, Miguel Ángel Heredia, Carmen Talegona, Antonio Molina “El Choro,” and María Pagés
The two-night Fiesta Flamenca is the grand finale and a true highlight of Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, the largest and longest-running flamenco festival outside of Spain. The Friday performance features Ganador Puentes Flamencos (the winner of this year’s Puentes Flamencos competition), Daniel Ramos, Miguel Ángel Heredia, Carmen Talegona, Antonio Molina “El Choro,” and María Pagés.
This star-studded gala evening brings together a dazzling array of flamenco music and dance, showcasing performances by some of the most renowned artists and companies in the world. Each Fiesta Flamenca features a unique cast, delivering an unforgettable celebration of the depth, diversity, and passion that define flamenco artistry.
$49, $69, $89, $109, & $129, no other discounts for Festival Flamenco Albuquerque.
*Price includes a NHCC facility fee.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!

*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 39: Fiesta Flamenca-Saturday
2026-06-27 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Saturday, June 27, 2026
8:00 pm
NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre
Fiesta Flamenca-Saturday Features Daniel Ramos, Miguel Ángel Heredia, Carmen Talegona, Antonio Molina “El Choro,” and María Pagés.
The two-night Fiesta Flamenca is the grand finale and a true highlight of Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, the largest and longest-running flamenco festival outside of Spain. The Saturday performance features Ganador Certamen Coreográfico (the winner of this year’s Certamen), Juan Fernández, Susana Casas, Úrsula López, and “El Yiyo”
This star-studded gala evening brings together a dazzling array of flamenco music and dance, showcasing performances by some of the most renowned artists and companies in the world. Each Fiesta Flamenca features a unique cast, delivering an unforgettable celebration of the depth, diversity, and passion that define flamenco artistry.
$49, $69, $89, $109, & $129, no other discounts for Festival Flamenco Albuquerque.
*Price includes a NHCC facility fee.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!

*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261
