Fright Night and Spooky Mercado

4:00 pm – 11:30 pm
7:00 pm Family Film
7:00 pm Food Trucks and Cash Bar
8:30 pm Horror Film Features

Family fun, vendors, food trucks, frightful films, and more. If you are looking for something spooky, uncanny, macabre, a little dark, supernatural, or Halloween-inspired, this event is for you!

For information about becoming a mercado vendor, please click Here.

Free Community Event, please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

NOTE: This event will be family friendly from 4pm to 8:30pm and “mas espooky” from 8:30 pm – 11 pm.

The Albuquerque Folk Festival

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Friday
10:00 am – 9:00 pm Saturday

Enjoy 2 fun days at the festival this year! Kids under 12 & seniors 85+ FREE at the gate.

Friday Night: Three performances (Flamenco, Lone Piñon, & Baracutanga) in the Journal Center Theatre; alcohol, soft drinks & snacks available for purchase; arts & craft vendors. Gates open 5pm, performances 6pm to 9pm. La Fonda Restaurant open till 8pm.

Saturday Full Day & Night: 100+ events indoors and outdoors with 5 stages, 5 music and dance workshop venues, 2-3 Jam venues, a storytelling tent, a musical instrument petting zoo, arts and crafts vendors, food trucks, kids’ tent, merch and consignment booths, a free instrument check & bike valet. Gates open at 10am; close at 9pm.

For the ABQ Folk Festival schedule, please click Here

For the ABQ Folk Festival prices, please click Here.

Purchase Tickets for Friday only, Saturday only or a 2-day Package Ticket. If you need help with tickets, please, call the NHCC Box Office at 505-724-4771.

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Happy Arte Hour

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

NHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a relaxed social setting. This is a great opportunity for friends to hang out, a unique date night option, or a place to come solo and connect with fellow art enthusiasts. Drinks and snacks will be available to purchase from La Fonda del Bosque and Pop Fizz. Explore printmaking inspired by the current NHCC Art Museum exhibit, Nexo Entre Raíces / Nexus Between Roots. Participants will work with a variety of tools and techniques to create a unique print to take home.

Please pre-register here or use the link below (so we know how many materials to prepare). Registration for the following month is available the day after the current program month. For more information, please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or elenad.baca@dca.nm.gov.

Free Community Event. $5+ donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies.

Film: Agave is Life

5:00 pm: Cash bar and food trucks
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: UNM Mariachi Ensemble
7:00 pm: Film screening

Note: This screening will now be held in the Bank of America Theatre.

Agave is Life is an exploration of the history of the agave plant in the cultures of Mexico and the American Southwest. Starting thousands of years ago when hunter-gatherers viewed the hardy desert succulent with its myriad uses as a gift from the gods, agave’s story is told through the lens of archaeological, ethnographic, and modern-day vignettes, closing with concerns about threats to the plant’s future.

Free community event. Please let us know how many will be attending below.

Generously supported by Bank of America.

Happy Arte Hour

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Free Community Event. $5+ donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies.

Happy Arte Hour

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Free Community Event. $5+ donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies.

Opening Reception: Hecho en Nuevo México: Recent Acquisitions by NM Artists

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

NHCC Art Museum

Join us for a free public reception to celebrate the opening of a new exhibition, Hecho en Nuevo México: Recent Acquisitions by NM Artists. This new exhibition in the museum’s Community Gallery showcases New Mexican artists whose artworks have been added to the museum’s permanent collection over the last few years. This is an opportunity to celebrate artists from across New Mexico, explore artworks created in a range of styles and media, and to thank the generous donors who made these acquisitions possible!

This event is generously sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Opening Reception: Nexo Entre Raíces / Nexus Between Roots

4:00 pm to 7:00 pm

NHCC Art Museum

Evento Comunitario Gratuito / Free Community Event!

4-7pm – Exhibition on view

4-5:30pm – Art Activities

6pm – Artist Panel Discussion

Nexo Entre Raíces / Nexus Between Roots is an exhibition of prints by artists living and working in both Mexico and the United States. Their work traverses themes of culture, tradition, identity, and place, connecting those with Mexican roots across borders. Organized by artist Marco Sánchez and multidisciplinary scholar Claudia Ley in collaboration with the NHCC Art Museum, the exhibition features 32 artworks exchanged for a print portfolio between the participating artists as well as additional pieces contextualizing the artists’ work.

Nexo Entre Raíces es una exposición de grabados de artistas viviendo y trabajando en ambos lugares de México y Estados Unidos. Sus obras atraviesan temas de cultura, tradición, identidad y lugar, que se conectan con sus raíces transfronterizas. Organizado por artista Marco Sánchez y erudita multidisciplinaria Claudia Ley en colaboración con el Museo de Arte del Centro Nacional de Cultura Hispana, la exposición muestra 32 obras de arte intercambiadas entre los artistas que resulta en una carpeta de grabados de los artistas participantes tanto como obras adicionales que contextualizan las obras de los artistas.

Generously sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Survival

7:30 pm

Join us on April 19 for a panel discussion by renowned chefs!

For Afro diasporas, food remains one of the most effective means of resistance, of cultural retention, and innovation. The foods of Afro peoples continue to incorporate ingredients of ancestral dishes and to preserve African ways of preparing ingredients native to the Americas. Presenters will discuss the African roots of various dishes and defy stereotypes of what “soul” food is.

Panelists include:

New Mexico resident Seiça Santana Carriaga, from the coastal town Itanhaém in São Paulo, who is renowned in Albuquerque for serving up her native cuisine, including Feijoada—a culinary creation of Africans enslaved in Brazil’s sugar plantations.
Gullah Geechee chef Benjamin BJ Dennis, featured in Netflix documentary series High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America.
Honduran Garifuna Francesca Chaney whose vegan restaurant has been featured in the 2020 Michelin Guide, Oprah’s 2020 Vision Tour, Rachael Ray, Tamron Hall, Good Morning America and more.

Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Happy Arte Hour

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

NHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a relaxed social setting. This is a great opportunity for friends to hang out, a unique date night option, or a place to come solo and connect with fellow art enthusiasts. Drinks and snacks will be available to purchase. Explore the world of soft sculpture with artist April Garcia, whose work is on display in Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond. A variety of fabrics and materials will be available for you to create your very own futurism-inspired soft sculpture.

Free Community Event. $5+ donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies.

Please note, the April 6th Happy Arte Hour will take place in our Salon Ortega.