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January 2023
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
11:00 am (MST)
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity.
Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. (more…)
Brigham Young University’s Living Legends: Storytellers
7:00 pm
Living Legends celebrates heritage and culture. In a performance of culturally inspired dance, music, and costumes, Brigham Young University’s Living Legends celebrates Latin American, Native American, and Polynesian cultures in their show, Storytellers.
$17, $27 & $37
Run Time: 90 minutes
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
11:00 am (MST)
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity.
Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. (more…)
Acequias: The Legacy Lives On
6:00 to 8:30 pm
Opening Reception in Cayetana Romero Lobby: 6:00 pm—6:45 pm
Film Screening: 7:00 pm—8:00 pm
Panel discussion: 8:00 pm—8:30 pm
The University of New Mexico’s Center for Regional Studies and the NHCC present Acequias: The Legacy Lives On. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Aracely “Arcie” Chapa, Acequias: The Legacy Lives On is an hour-long visually stunning documentary film about New Mexico’s enduring acequias as seen through the eyes of farmers, advocates, scholars, practitioners, lawmakers, journalists and members of the community. Chapa produces and directs an emotional and reverential tribute to acequias’ past, present and future.
Free Community Event. Please register here or or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
February 2023
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
11:00 am (MST)
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity.
Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. (more…)
Happy Arte Hour
6:00 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.
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.
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
11:00 am (MST)
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity.
Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. (more…)
Save the Bees
7:30 pm Friday & Saturday
2:00 pm Sunday
Teatro Paraguas and the NHCC present Save the Bees. In this play written by New Mexico Senator Bill O’Neill, we meet two senators: an older urban and liberal senator and his colleague, a younger rural and conservative senator. These two men dialogue candidly in an empty legislative chamber about their upbringing, friendship, their constituents, and the divisive issues in today’s politics which pit both senators and constituents against each other.
$22 w/ a $10 discount for students, seniors, NHCC members, veterans and AEA/SAG Union members
Run Time: 55 minutes, with a 20-30 minute talk following the performance.
Vamos al Museo: Family Art Workshop
10:30 am
¡Vamos al Museo! is a morning of artmaking for children of all ages and families of all sizes. A visit to the museum is included in this artist-led workshop. We will meet in the Creative Classroom in the Pete V. Domenici Building.
In February, attendees will have a chance to meet and work with artist April Garcia, whose soft sculpture artworks are featured in the art museum exhibition, Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond (on view Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm through March 12, 2023).
Free Community Event. Please register here or or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
Opera Southwest: Gioachino Rossini’s Le Comte Ory
February 5, 10 & 12, 2023
2:00 pm Sunday, 7:30 pm Friday
Opera Southwest presents Gioachino Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in French with English translation supertitles.
Opera Southwest continues its commitment to the works of Rossini with one of his Parisian comedies. The rakish Count Ory is determined to seduce the Countess Adele while others are off fighting in the Crusades. Disguises, mistaken identities, drink, and even a thunderstorm combine to make this hilarious romp through medieval France an energetic bel canto whirlwind. Noted Rossini specialist Maestro Anthony Barrese conducts.
$22, $42, $63, $85, $105 with discounts for groups of 8 or more, anyone 30 years old and younger and Opera for All with a WIC or EBT card.