Art Museum hours and prices HERE Fantasía Fantástica: Imaginative Spaces and Other-Worldly Collage features the fantastical creations of four artists whose works toy with space and expand the parameters of collage. The artists, Nick Abdalla, Cynthia Cook, Carlos Quinto Kemm, and Rachel Muldez, collect objects and images that populate the day-to-day but often go unnoticed. They […]
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Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm 1st Saturday of the Month, 1pm-5pm A Life of Service: The Mari-Luci Jaramillo Collection, 1905-2007 The Mari-Luci Jaramillo Collection provides an unparalleled look at a life dedicated to and distinguished by service to community, state, and the nation. A native New Mexican and daughter of laborers, Mari-Luci Jaramillo grew from a studious child […] Tuesday-Saturday, 9 am to 6 pm Instituto Cervantes presents an exhibition in four parts, paying homage to Miguel de Cervantes, the famous author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, and commemorating the 400th anniversary of his death. The first part, “Quijotes del celuloide,” displays posters from various movies made about Don Quixote over the years. The second, […] By the Working Classroom 7 pm—Thursday-Saturday 2 pm—Sunday *Reception* Following the Friday, Feb. 17 performance, all audience members are invited to a special dessert reception to meet the cast and celebrate the performance. Working Classroom’s theatre ensemble collaborates with Scott Barrow from Tectonic Theater Project and guest director/playwright Milta Ortiz from Arizona’s Borderlands Theater to create an […] |
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Each year in March the National Hispanic Cultural Center celebrates women with programming that honors their contributions to dance, music, theatre, art, poetry, films, novels, and much more. Listed below are all the events that you can experience at the Center during Women’s History Month. Below are our offerings for 2017. Fantasía Fantástica: Imaginative Spaces […] |
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5:30 pm to 7:30 pm On the first Thursday of the month, the National Hispanic Cultural Center invites adults for artistic fun. Snacks and refreshments, as well as beer and wine are for sale from Pop Fizz to fuel your creative juices. This month, artist Rachel Muldez will be guiding a project inspired by her […] 
10 am Casa Flamenca and the NHCC present a school day event for Jesús Muñoz Flamenco in Red Note--original music and works by a cast of international dancers and musicians that explores dynamic, visionary movements in dance, music, and visual art inspired by cante flamenco. Red Note will take you on a journey through southern […] 
7 pm Folk icon Joan Baez celebrated her 75th birthday in 2016, honoring her legendary 50-plus years in music with a career-spanning live performance at New York’s historic Beacon Theatre. Baez performed with fellow artists and friends including David Bromberg, David Crosby, Damien Rice, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples, Indigo Girls, […] |
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8 pm Casa Flamenca and the NHCC present Jesús Muñoz Flamenco in Red Note—borrowed from the tastefully symbolic "Blue Note Jazz Club" and exploring dynamic, visionary movements in dance, music, and visual art inspired by cante flamenco. Like jazz, flamenco has its roots in raw, intimate improvisation upon standard structures; it improvises through interpretations of […] 
9:30 am - 12 pm 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 more information […] |
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10:30 am to 12:00 pm On the first Saturday morning of every month, join us for this fun and engaging artist-led family program. During the March event, families (limited to 25 participants) will get a 30-minute museum tour focused on the NHCC Art Museum’s current exhibit Fantasía Fantástica: Imaginative Spaces and Other-Worldly Collage led by artist Rachel […] 
2 pm to 4 pm Anita Rodriguez is a New Mexican artist and writer. Her father’s side goes back ten generations in her beloved Taos valley, and her mother is a painter who came to Taos from Austin, Texas. Anita’s training as an artist began in childhood from her mother and extended to her formal […] |
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2 pm to 4 pm Join us for the opening reception of ¡Aquí Estamos: The Heart of Arte! which celebrates the NHCC Art Museum’s growing permanent collection with a revitalized vibe and a brand new selection of works. This exhibition was a collaborative project as the entire NHCC Visual Arts staff and interns combed through […]
Art Museum hours and prices HERE ¡Aquí Estamos: The Heart of Arte! celebrates the NHCC Art Museum’s growing permanent collection with a revitalized vibe and a brand new selection of works. This exhibition was a collaborative project as the entire NHCC Visual Arts staff and interns combed through the collection and worked together to decide which […] |
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7 pm to 9 pm In celebration of International Women's Day, 19 different voices will perform poetry. The event will feature, Ebony Isis Booth, Alysia Coriz, Mercedes Holtry, Mary Oishi, Brenda Morales, Sarita Gonzalez, Merimee Moffitt, Ana Lopez, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, Brooke Von Blomberg, Eva Crespin, Arlaina Ash, Jules Nyquist, Liza Wolff-Francis, Yasmeen Najmi, Mikki […] |
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March 9-12 & 16-19, 2017 7:30 pm—Thursday-Saturday 2 pm—Sunday Hembras de Pluma—“feathered women,” or “women wielding the pen”—is a collective of women artists who have come together to present personal stories of childhood, growing older, loss, love, grief and joy, told as monologues and short plays, and written and performed to honor their histories, their […] 
7 pm Public Academy for Performing Arts presents the annual Spring Dance Concert featuring beginning to pre-professional ballet, contemporary, flamenco, hip-hop, and jazz dance students in grades 6 – 12 $7, $12, $17 The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for […] 
7 pm A documentary about the 27 women who served in the Spanish legislature in 1977, promoting political change during Spain’s transition to democracy following the end of the Franco regime. Through their personal experiences, the film traces the history of women’s political involvement in Spain up to the present day, and includes a debate […] |
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7:30 pm Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Perla Batalla consistently earns critical acclaim for her extraordinary voice and culture-merging compositions. Formerly a Leonard Cohen back-up singer, the Los Angeles born vocalist launched her solo career with Cohen’s encouragement. Since then she’s recorded seven albums, been featured in films and television, and taken her unique sound on tour in […] |
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2 pm The NMPhil Protégé Series returns, this time presenting gifted young cellist and Juilliard School freshman Edward Pogossian. Oriol Sans conducts a wondrous afternoon of music, including Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C and his stunning Symphony No. 49, “La passione.” Also, youthful prodigy Felix Mendelssohn’s lyrical Sinfonia in d minor. $24, $35, $46, $68 […] |
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THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! 8 pm Pussy Riot is a Russian all-female protest art collective based in Moscow. Founded in March 2011, it had a variable membership of approximately 11 women. They gained global notoriety when five members of the group staged a performance inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior in 2012, which […] |
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5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Salud y Sabor, a partnership between the Agri-cultura Network, Street Food Institute, and the NHCC, is a free evening of food, art, and entertainment aimed at providing families with an opportunity to connect around nutrition, cooking, healthy lifestyles, and culture. Once a month, community members gather for cooking demonstrations using fresh, […] 
7 pm Verbenas, summer festivals on town plazas featuring dance bands, were an integral part of the filmmaker’s childhood in Asturias. Her documentary focuses on the “end of the party”—when the plaza falls silent and “music, summer, work, money all disappear when winter arrives for musicians belonging to a time that is slowly fading away.” […] |
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8 pm—Friday 2 pm—Sunday Presented by Uganda’s Ndere Troupe, Obuntu Pearls is the celebration of “the beauty in humanity,” where cultural variation is celebrated as wealth and not a reason for conflict, and where respect is for all—irrespective of socioeconomic status, color, gender, creed, nationality, age or political affiliation. “The reason we call ourselves Ndere […] |
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2 pm & 7 pm Dance Visions: Festival of New Ballets is headlined by a new ballet by David Chavez. Chavez, a dance icon in Albuquerque during the 1980s and early ‘90s who is known for such masterpiece ballets as Sleepy Hollow, Carmina Burana, and The Jungle Book, has created his most epic ballet in […] 
2 pm - 4 pm Join A. Gabriel Meléndez, recently appointed director of UNM’s Center for Regional Studies, as he takes us on a fun and insightful journey through the life of Mexican actor Mario Moreno and his beloved character “Cantinflas.” Moreno starred in scores of films from the 1930s through the 1980s, and is […] |
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8 pm Presented by Colombia’s Picnic, TRI-CICLO begins with a direct, personal conversation between the performers and the audience outside the theatre. The audience then settles in for an engrossing journey full of unforgettable characters and situations, improvised in the moment, blossoming from that opening conversation. $26 w/ $6 discount for students & seniors; group rates […] 
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm The National Hispanic Cultural Center, in conjunction with Albuquerque’s annual Women and Creativity series celebrating women’s creativity across the disciplines, invites you to observe Women’s History Month with artist Cynthia Cook. This hands-on workshop will be led by Cook and inspired by her work and personal techniques, which are featured […] 
7 pm A documentary exploring the mechanisms that maintain patriarchal systems and perpetuate economic, cultural, and social inequality and imbalances of power in the 21st century, in the West in general and Spanish society in particular. Patriarchal ideology is revealed in images projected through our modes of communication; feminist thinkers interviewed include Ana de Miguel, […] |
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8 pm—Friday & Saturday 2 pm—Sunday In Fragmentos, Alice Blumenfeld and Esteban Garza will create an intimate, cutting-edge flamenco experience in the NHCC Salon Ortega that includes poetry and spoken word as well as dance. It will include original music by Alex Conde (Valencia, Spain) on the piano, Joaquín Gallegos (Santa Fe, NM) on the […] |
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March 26, 29 & 31 and April 2, 2017 2 pm—Sundays 7:30 pm—Wednesday & Friday Pagliacci is a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles and presented in two acts with one intermission. The original ripped-from-the-headlines true crime story, Pagliacci is the tragic tale of a traveling troupe torn apart […] |
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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 […] |
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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 […] 
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 […] |
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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 […] |
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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, […] 
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 […] 
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, […] 
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 […] 
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 […] |