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2019 Winter Spanish Market
September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes10 am-5 pm—Saturday 10 am-4 pm—Sunday Save the Date! The 2019 Winter Spanish Market is back on the 7th and 8th of December! Experience authentic 400-year-old traditions and innovative Spanish Colonial style artwork, made by New Mexico artists. Come and join this Hispanic festival including art, local music, food, demonstrations and more. Interact personally with extraordinary artists, learn about their traditions and take home a special purchase to add to a collection or give as a gift. $6 Individual OR $10 for two people. Children 12 and (more...)
NHCC Museum Holiday Pop up Shop
September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes10 pm to 4 pm—Saturday 11 pm to 4 pm—Sunday National Hispanic Cultural Center NHCC Art Museum pop-up Shop! We invite you to join us for the first–ever NHCC Museum Holiday Pop up Shop! Festive and Fun Gifts Piñatas (own a piece of museum history!) Tea towels Mugs T-shirts Jewelry Cards and mucho más! Drawings for gift baskets ALL Proceeds directly support the NHCC Art Museum. For information please contact Tey Marianna Nunn at tey.nunn@state.nm.us Photo: Tey Diana Rebolledo
¡Iluminarte! 2019
NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM4 pm - 8 pm National Hispanic Cultural Center/Paseo del Bosque Trail/CABQ BioPark and Tingley Beach ¡ILUMINARTE! is a winter holiday celebration inspired by luminarias and farolitos—a New Mexico tradition. This Sunday evening event includes storytelling, an illuminated bike parade along the Paseo del Bosque Trail, and performances by Story Riders--a bilingual after-school and bike-riding program for elementary school students—with Circo Latino, AirDance New Mexico and Albuquerque Poet Laureate Michelle Otero. The event is free and open to the general public. To participate in the Magical Light (more...)
NHCC Art Museum Holiday Pop Up Shop
September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes10 am - 3 pm NHCC Art Museum Tiendita Festive and Fun Gifts Piñatas (own a piece of museum history!) Tea towels Mugs T-shirts Jewelry Cards and mucho más! ALL Proceeds directly support the NHCC Art Museum. For information please contact Tey Marianna Nunn at tey.nunn@state.nm.us Photo by Tey Diana Rebolledo
Mundos de Mestizaje
NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States12 pm to 5 pm A Vision of History through Fresco… Mundos de Mestizaje by Frederico Vigil is a mural housed in the Torreón on the campus of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This monumental fresco depicts thousands of years of Hispanic history highlighting diverse cultural connections between people and places from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The 4,000 square foot painting is one of the largest frescos in North America. The digitized imagery of the painting ensures that this culturally significant work can be a (more...)
Christmas Joy
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM1 pm & 5 pm—Saturday 2 pm—Sunday Come...Experience the Miracle!....Awaken your heart to the true Spirit of Christmas in dance as The Performers Ballet & Jazz Company will present the 35th Anniversary season of its Bravos Award-winning holiday production, Christmas Joy. Over fifty classically-trained dancers will once again inspire audiences in the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Albuquerque Journal Theater with a collection of moving and inspirational classical ballet, jazz and contemporary dance performances choreographed to traditional and contemporary Christmas music. $22, $33 w/ $3 discount for students, (more...)
Los Pastores de Belén
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-303 pm Los Pastores, the New Mexican Shepherds Play, was brought to New Mexico in 17th century from Spain. The play follows the adventures, antics, and battles of shepherds, angels, and devils. On their journey to Bethlehem to take their presents, the shepherds are waylaid by Demonio. The audience is amused by the mischief of Bartolo, the lazy shepherd, and the rhetorical prowess and swordplay of San Miguel. Before it was revived in 1973, when a manuscript was discovered in a home in Las Nutrias, the last (more...)
Festival Ballet Albuquerque Presents The Nutcracker in the Land of Enchantment
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7 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 in the Land of Enchantment. The beloved holiday classic is transported to territorial New Mexico in the late 1800s. Resplendent in its classical origins, this unique southwestern version adds elements of the state’s heritage and traditions including Spanish dancers, southwestern snakes, sheep and shepherdesses, a lively fandango, a Cochiti Pueblo Storyteller doll with children complete with Roadrunner and Coyote characters! A special treat are the lavish (more...)
Mundos de Mestizaje
NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States12 pm to 5 pm A Vision of History through Fresco… Mundos de Mestizaje by Frederico Vigil is a mural housed in the Torreón on the campus of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This monumental fresco depicts thousands of years of Hispanic history highlighting diverse cultural connections between people and places from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The 4,000 square foot painting is one of the largest frescos in North America. The digitized imagery of the painting ensures that this culturally significant work can be a (more...)
El Voto Femenino: Sufragistas Latinas luchando por el derecho al voto
History and Literary Arts BuildingThe National Hispanic Cultural Center’s History and Literary Arts Program presents a new exhibit, “El voto femenino: Sufragistas Latinas luchando por el derecho al voto/The Women’s Vote: Latina Suffragists who Fought for the Right to Vote” which opens on Friday, January 24, 2020, and runs through June 30, 2020. There will be a free opening reception on Friday, January 24, 2020, from 6-8 pm in the historic History and Literary Arts (HLA) Building on the NHCC campus, where the exhibit is on display. The exhibit features women (more...)