National Hispanic Cultural Center

11/11/2025

This Veterans Day, the NHCC Visual Art Museum is offering free admission to all New Mexicans who serve or have served.

Any New Mexico resident providing satisfactory proof of current or past armed service will be admitted free to the Art Museum, and other state museums and historic sites today, Tuesday, November 11 between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm. This includes spouses and children.

11/10/2025

We're sad to announce that the Genealogy Workshop scheduled for Nov. 15 has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. Additional details will be available soon at nhccnm.org/events. We apologize for the inconvenience.

11/10/2025

¡Feliz Navidad! mi Gente, we have 46 days until Christmas, but Christmas comes early this year to the NHCC. Our friends with Magnify Dance Ensemble and our partners at Baila! Baila! Dance Company will both show their holiday productions in November.

On November 15th we will have Magnify Dance Ensemble with the beautiful “Christmas Joy,” and November 21st and 22nd, the Baila! Baila! Dance Company will bring “Christmas in New Mexico” to the NHCC stage. Both productions are early this year and just in time to get you in the holiday spirit. Please support our friends and partners by celebrating Christmas early this year.

Reserve your tickets to Magnify Dance Ensemble: “Christmas Joy:
https://my.nmculture.org/overview/49971

Reserve your tickets to Baila! Baila! Dance Company: “Christmas in New Mexico”
https://my.nmculture.org/overview/50138

11/09/2025

Christmas In New Mexico 2025

11/09/2025

NHCC Fall Film Series: Plaza Catedral

Thursday, November 13, 2025
7:00 pm

The NHCC Fall Film Series features Hispanic filmmakers that preserve our stories, promote our experiences and advance the vast cultural identity of our gente. This film series continues with Plaza Catedral (2021) on Thursday, Nov. 13.

Alicia had a “perfect life” and lost it. Her six year old son died in an accident she feels she could have avoided. Her grief is plagued by guilt, which has made her disassociate from society, from married life, and from herself. She now lives in the old quarter of Panamá, a rich colonial enclave surrounded by Panamá’s poorest neighborhoods. There she meets Chief, a street-smart 13 year old who takes care of cars in front of her apartment and insists on getting paid for his job. Alicia keeps a safe distance from him, until one night Chief arrives at Alicia’s apartment bleeding from a gunshot wound, and begs her for help. Reluctantly, Alicia lets him in. What she could not imagine is that by opening the door to Chief, she would open the door to an unforeseen emotional bond. Caring for Chief makes her feel connected to life again, and it hurts.

Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Reserve Here:
https://my.nmculture.org/43076/48107

11/07/2025

Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company in Flamenco Fandanguero

November 8 & 9, 2025
8:00 pm Saturday & 2:00 pm Sunday

NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre

National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present Yjastros and invited guests in Flamenco Fandanguero

This November, don’t miss FLAMENCO FANDANGUERO: Primos de la Raza Cósmica, 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, K**e Vega, and Martha Vega.

FLAMENCO FANDANGUERO: Primos de la Raza Cósmica is a thrilling work of dance, music, and theatre by Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company and special guests, featuring over 30 musicians and dancers on stage!

Reserve your tickets here:
https://my.nmculture.org/overview/43419

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11/06/2025

Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque is launching the thirteenth edition of “Cine Magnífico,” the Annual Festival of Spanish Cinema. Over the course of its twelve previous years, this festival has been committed to promoting Spanish-language culture through cinema, and has brought visibility to New Mexico for numerous high-quality films along with short films made in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries.

The 2025 edition of the “Cine Magnifico” festival will be held at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque over three days. It will include a program of six feature films from countries such as Spain, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Portugal.

Cervantes Institute of Albuquerque: Cine Magnifico
November 7, 8 & 9, 2025

A free community event

Reserve your ticket here:
https://my.nmculture.org/overview/50153

11/06/2025

HAPPENING TONIGHT at the Albuquerque Museum in Old Town (2000 Mountain Road NW) at 6pm!

"Reflections on Chicana and Chicano Mural Production in Northern New Mexico: A Panel Discussion with Chicana and Chicano Muralists." Moderated by Dr. Irene Vásquez

This event is free and open to the public. Many thanks to Albuquerque Museum for hosting this event in support of the exhibition Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico!

11/05/2025

Join us for Dr. Bernadine Hernández’s lecture, “New Mexican Chicanas in the Spotlight: Chicana Feminism and Art in New Mexico” on Thursday, November 20 at 6pm!

This lecture is part of the programming series exploring themes discussed in the exhibition, 'Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico.'

The lecture will be held inside the NHCC Art Museum. Please register for free tickets at nhccnm.org/events.

11/03/2025

This Sunday, join our History & Literary Arts team at the Archiving Collections Open House at the Albuquerque Museum (2000 Mountain Rd NW) from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. Specialists will share easy techniques to store, digitize, and care for your treasured family items during this free, drop-in event.

Archiving Collections Open House
Sunday, Nov. 9 | 2:00 – 4:00 pm | Albuquerque Museum (2000 Mountain Rd NW)
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2:00 - 4:00 pm

11/02/2025

Mi gente ¡Feliz navidad! This year the NHCC is so very proud to partner with our friends at Opera Southwest and bring you the premier of Héctor Armienta’s adaptation of Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved children’s book “The Farolitos of Christmas.”

Opera Southwest: “The Farolitos of Christmas”
December 7, 12, 13 & 14, 2025
6:30 pm Friday, 2:00 pm & 6:00 pm Saturday, & 4:00 pm Sundays

Music & Libretto / Héctor Armienta

Opera Southwest and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present a heartwarming holiday opera for all ages with Héctor Armienta’s “The Farolitos of Christmas.”

A new opera for families and children based on Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved children’s book, “The Farolitos of Christmas” is a heartwarming holiday opera about love, tradition, and the quiet power of invention. Luz’s father is away at war. Her grandfather is too sick to build the luminarias. So, Luz finds a new way to light the path on Christmas Eve, one that will become tradition.

With music and libretto by Héctor Armienta (Zorro, Bless Me, Ultima) and stage direction by John de los Santos (Frida, Before Night Falls), this luminous one-act opera captures the spirit of New Mexico in winter: flickering light, faith, and family that endures.

Running time: Approximately 1 hour

Reserve your tickets here:
https://my.nmculture.org/overview/48262