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!
7:00 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Opening Film // US Premiers: Una Quinta Portuguesa by Avelina Prat The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner. La desaparición de su esposa deja a Fernando, un discreto profesor de geografía, completamente desolado. Sin rumbo, se hace pasar por otro hombre como jardinero en una casa de campo portuguesa, donde entabla (more...)
12:00 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras by Camilo Becerra and Sofía Gómez Inspired by real events: Ximena, a successful psychiatrist, receives the unexpected visit of her eldest daughter, Tamara, whom she hasn't seen in a long time. While she takes refuge at her mother's house, an investigation is launched: Tamara's newborn son disappeared under strange circumstances within the sect. Both the justice system and Ximena will try to uncover the fate of the missing baby. Inspirada en (more...)
11:00 am In addition to our regularly scheduled Thursday and Friday Torreón Tours, the National Hispanic Cultural Center now has a newly added Saturday Tour on the second Saturday of every month. This is a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil, located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, depicting thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity. Admission to the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome (more...)
10:30 – 12:00 pm NHCC | Dominici Education Building / Rooms 122-124 The Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico welcomes Linda Tigges PH.D.. Author, Historian, Archivist Researcher, Dr. Tigges’, extensive research into New Mexico Spanish Colonial documents uncovered extensive and interesting topics and works published in her outstanding writings, books and in presentations! Working with translators of Spanish Colonial documents, Linda Tigges, PH.D. has published primary source materials which have been foundational in many fields of research. Over the past decade, Linda's works have assisted geneologists, (more...)
4:45 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Culpa Cero by Valeria Bertuccelli and Mora Elizalde Berta Muller's life, a successful self-help writer, is shaken when, at the peak of her career, she is exposed in the media for the significance of plagiarism. Far from assuming responsibility, she will deny the accusations and try to justify herself ridiculously, even if it means exposing all her darkness. La vida de Berta Muller, una exitosa escritora de autoayuda, se ve sacudida cuando, en el pico máximo de su carrera, (more...)
7:00 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja), by Ernesto Martínez Bucio Five siblings abandoned by their parents mimic their fears with those of their schizophrenic grandmother and dissolve the barriers between the real and the imaginary to try to stay together. Cinco hermanos abandonados por sus padres imitan sus miedos con los de su abuela esquizofrénica y disuelven las barreras entre lo real y lo imaginario para intentar permanecer juntos. Cast: (more...)
8:00 pm Saturday & 2:00 pm Sunday National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present Yjastros and invited guests in Flamenco Fandanguero This November, don’t miss FLAMENCO FANDANGUERO, the groundbreaking work produced for Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, made in collaboration among the company’s Artistic Director Joaquín Encinias, Choreographer Marisol Encinias, Theater Director Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez, Musical Director, Sinuhé Padilla, flamenco musicians Vicente Griego, Isa Jurado, and Ángel Ruiz, and celebrated son jarocho musicians Los Vega: Fredi Vega, Raquel Vega, Kike Vega, and Martha Vega. FLAMENCO FANDANGUERO is a thrilling work of dance, (more...)
4:15 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Una Sombra Oscilante by Celeste Rojas Múgica He develops and imagines a world inside a darkroom. His daughter weaves a dialogue inside it: about latent, invented images. About the ways of resisting and navigating the darkness. "Una sombra oscilante" (An Oscillating Shadow) explores how the intimate and political weight of images can open spaces to reflect upon them as acts of resistance, either because they are made despite the horror of their context or because they offer an imaginary (more...)
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 (more...)
