• Nutcracker Ballet in the Land of Enchantment

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    7 pm—Friday, Saturday & Sunday 2 pm—Saturday & Sunday Festival Ballet Albuquerque is partnering with the National Hispanic Cultural Center to present an original production, The Nutcracker Ballet in the Land of Enchantment, choreographed by Patricia Dickinson Wells. The beloved holiday classic is transported to territorial New Mexico in the late 1800s, with added elements of the state’s heritage and traditions including Spanish dancers, southwestern snakes, sheep and shepherdesses, a lively fandango, a storyteller doll with children, and lavish Victorian-era western costumes. Now in its 8th year (more...)

  • Carnaval 2019: with PANdemonium and Odara Dance Ensemble

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    7:30 pm The NHCC’s annual celebration of Carnaval is a dazzling spectacle of vibrant dance, engaging music, and beautiful costumes, featuring the band PANdemonium and the Odara Dance Ensemble and showcasing the Carnaval celebrations of Cuba, Trinidad, Brazil and New Orleans. Carnaval, the festive season occurring before Lent in many countries, including Latin American and Caribbean nations as well as parts of the United States, is one of the world’s most widespread celebrations and one of its biggest parties. Among the guidelines that the Performing Arts program (more...)

  • Revolutions International Theatre Festival: Words from the Walls

    NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    Thursday, March 21, 2019 Saturday, March 23, 2019 7 pm both days Produced by Tricklock Company, the Revolutions International Theatre Festival welcomes performance companies from all over the globe to perform and connect across cultures and communities. For the 19th annual festival, Tricklock and the NHCC present Words from the Walls. Created by world-renowned Colombian/US Nemcatacoa Words from the Walls is a site-specific performance that explores different points of view about walls that separate people.  A non-conventional performance that mixes bilingual poetry, video projection, music, and physical theater on stilts. Words from the Walls creates an ambulatory (more...)

  • Revolutions International Theatre Festival: Where Did We Sit On The Bus?

    NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting

    Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Friday, March 29, 2019 7 pm on Wednesday & 8 pm on Friday Produced by Tricklock Company, the Revolutions International Theatre Festival welcomes performance companies from all over the globe to perform and connect across cultures and communities. For the 19th annual festival, Tricklock and the NHCC present Where Did We Sit On The Bus?. Where Did We Sit on the Bus? is an electric one-man show pulsing with Latin rhythms, rap, hip-hop, spoken word, and live looping. During a third grade lesson on (more...)

  • ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas: Lecture & Film

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    3 pm ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas. Organized by Instituto Cervantes,Casa Sefarad@Nahalat Shalom, Festival Djudeo-Espanyol, National Hispanic Cultural Center. In collaboration with Consulate of Mexico, Red de Juderías de España, Diputación of Lleida, Latin American and Iberian Institute at UNM, Consulate General of Israel in Houston, Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Congregation B´Nai Israel, Congregation Albert, ADL Mountain States Region, New Mexico Humanities Council and Century Automotive, a Mapfre Company. Lectures: 3 pm – 6 pm Lecture: Women of Valor 1. (more...)

  • ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas: Lecture & Concert

    Domenici Education Building - Grand Hall

    3 pm ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas. Organized by Instituto Cervantes,Casa Sefarad@Nahalat Shalom, Festival Djudeo-Espanyol, National Hispanic Cultural Center. In collaboration with Consulate of Mexico, Red de Juderías de España, Diputación of Lleida, Latin American and Iberian Institute at UNM, Consulate General of Israel in Houston, Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Congregation B´Nai Israel, Congregation Albert, ADL Mountain States Region, New Mexico Humanities Council and Century Automotive, a Mapfre Company. Lectures: 3 pm – 6 pm Lecture: “DNA and New Mexico: (more...)

  • ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas: Concert Only

    Domenici Education Building - Grand Hall

    6:30 pm ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas. Organized by Instituto Cervantes,Casa Sefarad@Nahalat Shalom, Festival Djudeo-Espanyol, National Hispanic Cultural Center. In collaboration with Consulate of Mexico, Red de Juderías de España, Diputación of Lleida, Latin American and Iberian Institute at UNM, Consulate General of Israel in Houston, Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Congregation B´Nai Israel, Congregation Albert, ADL Mountain States Region, New Mexico Humanities Council and Century Automotive, a Mapfre Company. Concert: 6:30 pm Neshama del Bosque (Soul of the Forest) in (more...)

  • ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas: Art Exhibits & Opening Reception

    Domenici Education Building – Grand Hall

    7 pm ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas. Organized by Instituto Cervantes,Casa Sefarad@Nahalat Shalom, Festival Djudeo-Espanyol, National Hispanic Cultural Center. In collaboration with Consulate of Mexico, Red de Juderías de España, Diputación of Lleida, Latin American and Iberian Institute at UNM, Consulate General of Israel in Houston, Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Congregation B´Nai Israel, Congregation Albert, ADL Mountain States Region, New Mexico Humanities Council and Century Automotive, a Mapfre Company. Art Exhibits: 7 pm “Shalom Sefarad” presents - through photos, stories, (more...)

  • Festival Flamenco Alburquerque: Compañía Olga Pericet, La Espina

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    8 pm Festival Flamenco Alburquerque presents Compañía Olga Pericet in La Espina que Quiso Ser Flor o La Flor que Soñó la Bailaora. From award-winning dancer Olga Pericet, Espina encompasses a personal journey through dance that comes from memory, wounds, past kisses, and time, where the real and the oneiric melt in a single space-time: the interior. Espina’s language delves into the roots of the unknown; sows new things; creates a universe where feminine and masculine, humorous and dramatic fit in equal parts; and encounters human lights (more...)

  • ¡Cine Magnífico!: 7th Annual Latino Film Festival: Black is Beltza

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    Opening Film / NM Premiere 6 pm Opening Reception, 8 pm Film Screening and Q & A with Fermin Muguruza, Director ¡Cine Magnífico! celebrates Spanish and Latin American culture through presentation of some of the best of modern cinema in a weekend-long program, featuring work by first-time filmmakers and established masters alike. The subject matter runs the gamut from comedies, action, romances and documentary films, to dramatic masterpieces. Some of the riskiest and most innovative films of recent years will be included. October 1965. Pamplona’s troupe of (more...)