Festival
César Chávez Day Celebration
Times TBD Recuerda César Chávez Committee Facebook page HERE Since 2007, the National Hispanic Cultural Center has collaborated with Albuquerque’s Recuerda a César Chávez Committee (RCCC) to celebrate the life and legacy of the renowned American civil rights leader César Estrada Chávez, co-founder, with Dolores Huerta, of the National Farmworkers Association and subsequently president of the United Farmworkers of America. In previous years, the annual Marcha de Justicia has departed from the NHCC to begin the day’s activities, returning to the Center for an afternoon community Fiesta. (more...)
NHCC Children’s Bilingual Book Festival
9 am-5 pm (MST) Live online. Visit the festival website This annual festival is the only one of its kind in the U.S. that features children’s books in Spanish and English and Indigenous languages and English. The focus on Spanish, English, Indigenous languages books and authors makes this festival particularly meaningful and vibrant, reflecting the identities of many children in New Mexico, the American Southwest, and beyond. We want to encourage children to see themselves in contemporary children’s literature as well as introduce a bilingual body of (more...)
VOCES Summer Writing Institute for Teens
9:30 am - 4 pm (MST) Weekdays, Monday - Friday Registration link coming soon. Limited to 15 teens (Apply early to get in! First come, first served) Voces is a FREE, month-long writing institute for high school writers. Teens (rising 9th graders through graduating seniors) are inspired to write prose, poetry and monologues through a wide range of experiential activities. The program culminates with chapbooks and a public reading/performance. This free institute is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for teens to experience the equivalent of a writing intensive, with (more...)
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Compañía Flamenca Irene Lozano “Lachiqui de Málaga”
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM8 pm (MST) More information and tickets available HERE. The National Institute of Flamenco and Festival Flamenco Alburquerque present Compañía Flamenca Irene Lozano "Lachiqui de Málaga" - Las Mujeres Que Habitan en Mi. From renowned flamenco dancer Irene Lozano "Lachiqui de Málaga" comes the new show "Las Mujeres Que Habitan en Mi," a stunning tribute to all of the women and the possibilities that have influenced her life and art. "The women who live within me, those whose lives I have not been able to live and (more...)
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Compañia Flamenca Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Angeles
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM8 pm (MST) More information and tickets available HERE. Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Compañia Flamenca Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Angeles - Mestizaje Puro Acclaimed flamenco artists residing in Los Angeles, Compañia Flamenca Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Angeles present Mestizaje Puro, a powerful new flamenco show. "Embracing our Cosmic Mestizaje and channeling and honoring the Ancestors. Flamen-Curando the colonial wound and claiming our birthright to and inheritance of the art that is Flamenco, the art that became our collective cry for freedom and our medicine, just (more...)
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Yjastros: The American Flamenco Company with invited guests
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM8 pm (MST) More information and tickets available HERE. Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Yjastros: The American Flamenco Company with invited guests Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company showcases choreographies from flamenco’s top creators. Join Yjastros for a special evening featuring invited guests Vicente Griego y Revózo Juan Siddi Chuscales Valeria Montes and Juani de la Isla
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Compañía Flamenca Nino de los Reyes
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM8 pm (MST) More information and tickets available HERE. Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Compañía Flamenca Nino de los Reyes -PerpetuARTE (lucha contra la extinción) Grammy-award winning flamenco dancer Nino de los Reyes presents his latest work, PerpetuARTE, an exploration of artists' will to survive and prevail against even the most difficult of circumstances. Baile, Dirección: Nino de los Reyes Baile: Triana Maciel Prats, Isaac de los Reyes Guitarra: José Luis de La Paz
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...)
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...)