Date Night
Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!
6:30 pm (MST) Live on Zoom Register in advance HERE We are back! Coming to you through zoom! Happy Arte Hour is an adult only at making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm (MST) February – December. Please register and prior to the class you will receive an email with the zoom link and items/art supplies to gather from around your house. Please do not (more...)
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Lume
12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Lume (Fire) is one of the most recent works by Alberte Pagán, a specialist in experimental cinema, and part of Pagán’s “Superficies” (“Surfaces”) series, in which the director plays with juxtaposing still photographs of natural elements with the movement of his story. In Lume, an intense, reddish chromatic palette, reminiscent of fire, emphasizes the rage shown in the audiovisual images, projected on a photograph of roots. The live sound in the piece is from a demonstration (more...)
Global Headphone Dance Party
NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7 pm (MST) ¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s Annual World Music & Culture Celebration returns to the National Hispanic Cultural Center on September 17 and 18, celebrating immigrant and Indigenous culture in the U.S. with live music, from cutting edge to traditional, on the Center’s Plaza Mayor. This year’s festival, produced by Avokado Artists, kicks off with a headphone dance party on September 16. Learn more at www.Globalquerque.org. Learn more at www.Globalquerque.org. $10 to check out one headphone COVID PROTOCOLS: ¡Globalquerque! will be abiding by all CDC and local public health (more...)
¡GLOBALQUERQUE!
NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM5 pm (MST) ¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s Annual World Music & Culture Celebration returns to the National Hispanic Cultural Center on September 17 and 18, celebrating immigrant and Indigenous culture in the U.S. with live music, from cutting edge to traditional, on the Center’s Plaza Mayor. This year’s festival, produced by Avokado Artists, kicks off with a headphone dance party on September 16. Learn more at www.Globalquerque.org. COVID PROTOCOLS: ¡Globalquerque! will be abiding by all CDC and local public health mandates and guidelines. In addition to this, only those who are fully (more...)
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States11 am (MST) The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil twice a week, Thursdays and Fridays at 11 am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity. Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. A Vision of History through (more...)
Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), El evangelio de las maravilla
6 pm (opening reception at 5 pm) The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since 1986. Ripstein, who began his career under the mentorship of Luis Buñuel, is considered one of the greatest Mexican filmmakers of all time. His creative partner and wife, Garciadiego, is an award-winning screenwriter; their latest collaboration is La calle de la amargura. Both are recipients of the Premio Mirada Internacional 28° FCM-PNR (Festival (more...)
Pat Metheny Side Eye
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:30 pm The New Mexico Jazz Festival presents Pat Metheny Side Eye with James Francies and Joe Dyson. Composer and guitar icon Pat Metheny has announced over 100 concerts world-wide to accompany the release of Side-Eye— returning to the road this fall and spanning well into 2022. As on the recording, the live version of Side-Eye will feature the phenomenally talented pianist/organist/keyboardist James Francies. The drum chair in Side-Eye has been filled to date by some of the most electrifying players around, including Eric Harland, Anwar Marshall, and, most notably, Marcus Gilmore, (more...)
The 21st Revolutions International Theatre Festival
The 2021 Revolutions International Theatre Festival, from October 20 through November 6, 2021, spotlights the cultural wisdom, resilience, and creativity of Colombia, Haiti, and Uganda through performances, panel discussions, and workshops all live-streamed and featured on-line. Produced by Revolutions Inc, a new nonprofit organization and laboratory space dedicated to supporting and nurturing artists, and presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the festival will build upon the legacy of Tricklock Company and its deeply rooted artist-centric approach to production and collaboration. The three-week festival seeks (more...)
Opera Southwest: La Traviata
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NMOctober 24, 27, 29 & 31, 2021 Sundays at 2 pm, Wednesday and Friday at 7:30 pm Verdi’s La Traviata is a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles. Presented in three acts with one intermission. One of the most famous of the great classic operas, Verdi’s La Traviata is a sweeping love story set against the backdrop of decadent Paris high society where the celebrated courtesan Violetta eschews her wealthy suitors for the simple life with poor Alfredo. $21, $41, $62, $83, $103 with discounts for groups of 8 or more, anyone 30 years old or younger, (more...)
19th Annual Come Out Show: Artistic Directions
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7 pm For 19 years Sinatra DeVine Productions has been producing show-stopping variety shows highlighting up-and-coming Drag Queen performances in celebration of National Coming Out Day. This show has always been on the cutting edge when "drag" was only considered taboo. Our last show was in 2016, and fans and supporters have been "aching" to be part of that fabulously dragalicious experience once more. Chaz Malibu and Fontana DeVine will again serve as your hosts with the most. Come see past entertainers and newcomers, and remember and (more...)