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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […] |
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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 […] |
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Stage Adaptation by Amy Ludwig 10 am both days 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 […]
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm On the first Thursday of the month, NHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a relaxed social setting, which includes snacks, refreshments, and beer & wine for sale from Pop Fizz. This is a great opportunity for friends to hang out, a unique date night option, or a place to […]
7 pm When Joe Mondragón, an impoverished farmer in Milagro, NM, diverts water from the future site of a large, and lucrative, resort development to irrigate his small bean field, he sets off a chain reaction that threatens to erupt into a small war in this comedy of everyday people caught up in extraordinary circumstances. […] |
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10 am to 12 pm What is a curator? What is their job? What is their role in Art? Students will tour a current exhibit with NHCC’s art museum curator and learn about what a curator’s job is in a museum. Students will have their own opportunity to bring out their inner artist, with an […]
6 pm Two award-winning poets from Cuba, Ruiz Montes and Alfredo Zaldívar, will be coming to Albuquerque in April to launch two new books of poetry, published by Red Mountain Press in Santa Fe. The books will be bilingual editions, with Spanish-English translations provided by renowned poet Margaret Randall. The two poets, who are current […] |
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2 pm both days How Love Wins is a sequel to The Performers Ballet and Jazz Company’s award-winning holiday production of Christmas 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 The […] |
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7 pm A visually stunning look at the relationship between humankind and water brings together diverse stories from around the globe to examine how the liquid shapes people’s lives—how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it, and the impact of that use on this precious resource. Presented as […] |
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7:30 pm Lonnie Yanes has been performing as Elvis for over 20 years, and was voted Best Elvis Impersonator three times. Lonnie and his 11- to 16-piece band will sing some of the best songs Elvis ever recorded or sang on stage. The concert will also feature Twist and Shout, a Beatles tribute band singing […] |
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During Cervantes Week, we will commemorate one of the most universally acclaimed figures of Spanish language and culture, Miguel de Cervantes. This event is organized by Instituto Cervantes-Albuquerque in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the Spanish Resource Center, and the Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque. La Semana Cervantina es un espacio en el que […] |
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10 am to 12 pm Students tour select sections of current museum exhibits, create artwork with re-cycled or “second life” materials, attend a tour of the Bosque, adjacent to the NHCC and have a discussion on connections between land, culture, art and sustainability. This is a free event with registration. Limited availability. Limit 35 per […] |
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8:30 am - 7 pm—Thursday & Friday 8:30 am - 4 pm—Saturday The University of New Mexico is hosting an interdisciplinary environmental justice public forum, “Decolonizing Nature: Resistance, Resilience, Revitalization,” which includes a four-day interdisciplinary conference from April 19 through April 22 at the NHCC; a companion exhibition at 516 ARTS from April 15 through […] |
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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 Beloved Mexican comic Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) portrays a young lawyer who dedicates himself to resolving the problems of the less fortunate. The title is a play on words deriving from his old professor’s description of him as “un hombre puro, y sin mancha” (a pure man, without stain)—qualities he is perceived to share […] |
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6 pm to 8 pm Each spring, New Mexico communities celebrate San Ysidro (aka San Isidro or Saint Isidore) the patron saint of farmers, gardeners, and workers. San Ysidro blesses the fields, brings rain and discourages drought, and assures a healthy growing season for local crops such as chile, beans, corn and squash. The exhibition […]
Art Museum hours and prices HERE Each spring, New Mexico communities celebrate San Ysidro (aka San Isidro or Saint Isidore) the patron saint of farmers, gardeners, and workers. San Ysidro blesses the fields, brings rain and discourages drought, and assures a healthy growing season for local crops such as chile, beans, corn and squash. The exhibition […] |
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2 pm to 4 pm Join Rebecca Blum Martinez, professor of bilingual and ESL education in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico, for a talk on the history and present state of bilingual education in New Mexico. Blum Martinez has worked with and advocated for bilingual students and their families in […] |
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10 am to 12 pm Students tour select sections of current museum exhibits, create artwork with re-cycled or “second life” materials, attend a tour of the Bosque, adjacent to the NHCC and have a discussion on connections between land, culture, art and sustainability. This is a free event with registration. Limited availability. Limit 35 per […] |
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7 pm When three young catadores—boys picking trash in the slums of Rio de Janeiro—find a wallet in the daily detritus of their local dump, they little imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the police show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet’s return, the boys realize that what […] |
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7 pm An all-ages event, VOICE is a night of vibrant contemporary and traditional indigenous musical performances. This second annual event, hosted by hip hop artist Def-I, features multiple genres celebrating our resilience as Indigenous Peoples, and showcases the talents of artists Shining Soul (hip hop), Lindy Vision (alternative), Leela Gilday (acoustic rock), Raye Zaragoza […] |
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8 am to 6 pm (Rio Rez Run in Bosque from 8 am to 9 am; NHCC campus opens at 9 am) A full day of interactive art, education, wellness, and technology programs, this premiere event features a mix of contemporary and traditional activities coordinated by various organizations and professionals working with and within Indigenous […] |
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7:30 pm VIP Emerald City Tickets include a post-show meet-and-greet and photo opportunity with Todrick Hall and an autographed poster. Todrick Hall is a multi-hyphenate content creator with a dedicated social media following who writes, directs, acts, and sings. He’s known for his original musicals such as Cinderoncé, The Wizard of Ahhhs, and, most recently, […] |
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9:30 am OR 11:30 am In anticipation of Cinco de Mayo, students are invited to participate in a unique cultural movement workshop with local dance instructors leading the way. A terrific way to increase physical activity and cultural awareness at the same time! This is a free event with registration. Limited availability. Limit 45 per […]
7:30 pm Singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens is the co-founder of the Grammy award-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, in which she also plays banjo and fiddle. She began gaining recognition as a solo artist when she stole the show at the T Bone Burnett–produced Another Day, Another Time concert at New York City’s Town Hall in […] |
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5:30 pm to 7:30 pm UPDATE: Because of unexpected demand for this event and limited supplies, we have to close registration and cannot accept any additional participants. Please consider joining us for the next Happy Arte Hour on June 1. On the first Thursday of the month, NHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a […]
7 pm Cinco de Mayo: La batalla is the story of the 1862 Battle of Puebla, the most important battle in Mexican history. Defending the city of Puebla, the army of General Ignacio Zaragoza, numbering around 2,000 men, won an unlikely victory against a supposedly unbeatable French army of over 6,000—at that time the world’s […] |
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7:30 pm Dzul Dance fuses dance with aerial arts, contortion, and acrobatics to communicate indigenous pre-Hispanic, Mexican and Latin culture and create bridges between contemporary art and historical heritage. Artistic director Javier Dzul grew up in the jungles of southern Mexico performing Mayan ritual dance until the age of 16; he has since performed with […] |
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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. Families (limited to 25 participants) get a 30-minute museum tour focused on an art form, source inspiration, artist or type of material. Following […]
2 pm to 4 pm Join author A. Gabriel Meléndez for a reading from his new book The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico. The Book of Archives tells the story of New Mexico’s Mora Valley, located in the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, through the ghosts […] |

