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Feb 1, 2018
Siembra, Latino Theatre Season: El Corrido de Jorge
National Hispanic Cultural Center
7:30 AM - 9:30 AM

In this original play by Patricia Crepin, Jorge, the protagonist, has big dreams of being a singer. But when his father doesn’t return from a working trip to Mexico, Jorge is forced to put his dreams on hold and help his mother. When his mother dies from malnutrition, Jorge makes a pact with himself to find his father and kill him. But when he tracks down his father, George discovers that some things really are better left alone.

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Feb 2, 2018
Music at the Museum
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Rio

Hear live Boss Nova jazz performed by Rio at the museum 5-7PM.

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Feb 2, 2018
First Friday Art Chats
New Mexico Museum of Art
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Celebrating the 100 year history of the Museum, volunteer guides present 15 minute pop up talks prompting conversations about the architecture of the building and art in the collection.

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Feb 2, 2018
$5 First Friday at New Mexico Museum of Natural HIstory & Science Friday night, February 2
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM

$5 First Friday at New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Friday night, February2, from 5:30pm-9:00pm. The evening will include hands-on activities, as well as information regarding future programs and the upcoming Da Vinci--The Genius exhibition (coming February 10) including tips for visiting the Da Vinci--The Genius later this month with different ages, and sources for more study and reading so that families will get the most out of their visiting experience.

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Feb 3, 2018
Frank Buffalo Hyde
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Cultural Power of Native Art Series

Join us as we celebrate the work of Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondoga/Nez Perce) starting with the screening of the film Basquiat, followed by a talk Hyde in which is discusses the ways the artist influenced his own work.

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Feb 4, 2018
Cara Romero
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Cultural Power of Native Art

Join us as Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) discusses her photographic process and how her work has evolved through the years.

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Feb 4, 2018
Making History Series
New Mexico History Museum
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Making History

Making History Light Up

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Feb 7, 2018
Library Open House
New Mexico Museum of Art
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Museum Issues

Drop in to the library any time from 1-4PM to learn how museums work. The Museum’s Librarian/Archivist will be here to answer any questions and show you all the library has to offer. Free.

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Feb 7, 2018
Friends of History Lecture Series
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Christmas Revels: The 1919 New Mexico Mounted Police Raid on Santo Domingo Pueblo

Lecture by Joseph Sabatini, Retired Local History Librarian, Albuquerque Public Library

 Free Auditorium event

Seating is limited/bottled water only please

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Feb 8, 2018
Film: Cariños
National Hispanic Cultural Center
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Cariños, a serialized cinematic experience from visionary auteur Christopher Michael Roybal, examines who, how, and why people love. The film follows a group of New Mexicans throughout 2017 as they collide in unconventional and unexpected ways, all while trying both to uncover and to keep hidden secrets that could change their lives forever. 

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Feb 9, 2018
Carnaval Fever 2018
National Hispanic Cultural Center
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Frank Leto Musical Ventures and the National Hispanic Cultural Center continue their annual partnership to celebrate Carnaval with a festive and colorful evening of music, dance, and theatre, featuring the Odara Dance Ensemble and the musical group PANdemonium.

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Feb 10, 2018 - Jul 29, 2018
Da Vinci—The Genius Exhibition Opening at New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Da Vinci—The Genius opens at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science opens at 9am on Saturday, February 10, 2018.  This world class exhibition from Grande Exhibitions remains on display at the Museum daily from 9am-5pm through July 29, 2018.

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Feb 10, 2018
Carnaval Fever 2018
National Hispanic Cultural Center
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Frank Leto Musical Ventures and the National Hispanic Cultural Center continue their annual partnership to celebrate Carnaval with a festive and colorful evening of music, dance, and theatre, featuring the Odara Dance Ensemble and the musical group PANdemonium. 

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Feb 10, 2018
Lunar New Year Celebration
Museum of International Folk Art
Asian New Year Traditions for the Whole Family

Come and celebrate Asian New Year traditions with the Museum of International Folk Art! Family Fun for all ages with Free Admission.



  • Lion Dance performance and parade at 1:30 and 3:30

  • Mocha Tsuki Rice Cake Pounding presentation by Santa Fe JIN

  • Hands on art making: paper lanterns and paper drums

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Feb 13, 2018
Pueblo Pottery Demonstration
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
with Ray Garcia (San Felipe Pueblo))

Ray Garcia (or Rayduck) first learned about pottery from his grandmother, who he helped collect clay at the southern end of San Felipe Pueblo. Since then, he has gathered, processed, and created pottery with San Felipe clay. He began formal instruction from 2009 to 2012, under the instruction of Clarence Cruz at the Poeh Center in Pojoaque. While at the Poeh, he learned to gather, process, and make pots with micaceous clay. He also studied with Max D. Early of Laguna from 2012 to 2014 learning traditional methods of gathering clay and pottery making in Laguna Pueblo.

Since he is from both San Felipe and Santa Ana Pueblos, Garcia has begun to work with both styles in his painting and clay shaping.

Garcia has won various awards for both pottery and jewelry at the Heard Museum Indian Art Market in Phoenix; Red Earth Indian Art Market in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Cahokia Mounds Contemporary Indian Art Show, in Collinsville, Illinois; and the Artesian Arts Festival in Sulphur, Oklahoma. His work has also been shown at the Southwestern Indian Art Market in Tucson, Arizona; Indian Summer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and the Haskell Indian Art Market in Lawrence, Kansas.  

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Feb 13, 2018
Pueblo Pottery Demonstration
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
with Ray Garcia (San Felipe Pueblo))

Ray Garcia (or Rayduck) first learned about pottery from his grandmother, who he helped collect clay at the southern end of San Felipe Pueblo. Since then, he has gathered, processed, and created pottery with San Felipe clay. He began formal instruction from 2009 to 2012, under the instruction of Clarence Cruz at the Poeh Center in Pojoaque. While at the Poeh, he learned to gather, process, and make pots with micaceous clay. He also studied with Max D. Early of Laguna from 2012 to 2014 learning traditional methods of gathering clay and pottery making in Laguna Pueblo.

Since he is from both San Felipe and Santa Ana Pueblos, Garcia has begun to work with both styles in his painting and clay shaping.

Garcia has won various awards for both pottery and jewelry at the Heard Museum Indian Art Market in Phoenix; Red Earth Indian Art Market in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Cahokia Mounds Contemporary Indian Art Show, in Collinsville, Illinois; and the Artesian Arts Festival in Sulphur, Oklahoma. His work has also been shown at the Southwestern Indian Art Market in Tucson, Arizona; Indian Summer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and the Haskell Indian Art Market in Lawrence, Kansas.  

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Feb 15, 2018
Picturing Zozobra
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

FOCA+P members only. 5:30-7PM

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Feb 15, 2018
Film: Red Sky at Morning
National Hispanic Cultural Center
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Based on the novel by Richard Bradford, Red Sky at Morning follows an adolescent boy who is relocated with his mother to Corazón Sagrado, New Mexico when his father goes off to World War II. 

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Feb 16, 2018
Adult Party: DATE NIGHT WITH DA VINCI
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
6:30 PM - 11:30 PM

Adult Valentine’s Party at the Museum

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Feb 16, 2018
Opening Reception for La Ultima Exhibición
National Hispanic Cultural Center
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

La Ultima Exhibición, curated by Augustine Romero, is organized around the visual interpretations of Rodolfo Anaya’s acclaimed book, Bless Me, Ultima (1972)—a  portrait of life in rural New Mexico as seen through the eyes of a young boy during World War II.

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Feb 18, 2018
Celebrate the Year of the Dog
Museum of International Folk Art
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Third Annual Lunar New Year

Third annual community celebration of Lunar New Year with music, dance and refreshments. Admission to MoIFA is FREE for everyone courtesy of the Cotsen Family Foundation.

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Feb 18, 2018
Guided Tour of the Tunstall Murder Site
Lincoln Historic Site
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join the staff of Lincoln Historic Site for a special guided tour to the site of John Tunstall’s 1878 murder.

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Feb 18, 2018
GranMary’s Winter Storytelling Series
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Featuring Emmett Garcia

Please join us on Sunday, February 18 at either 2pm or 3pm for storytelling with Emmett Garcia (Santa Ana / Jemez).

Free with museum admission.

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Feb 21, 2018
People to People
New Mexico Museum of Art
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Art Maier

Artist Ati Maier 12:30-1:15pm

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Feb 21, 2018
"Let’s Take a Look"
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
MIAC Curators Examine Your Treasures

During this time, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them. They prefer to work with objects from the Southwest but are willing to take a look at anything that is brought in. If they can not identify an object an attempt will be made to find someone who can. Sometimes, the discussion among the curators may become as much or more informative than the identification of the artifact.

Curators cannot appraise any items but can refer you to resources that will.

For more information, visit this page: http://indianartsandculture.org/lets-take-a-look 

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Feb 22, 2018
Film: Nasario Remembers the Río Puerco
National Hispanic Cultural Center
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

A new documentary follows celebrated folklorist Nasario García doing what he loves: wandering through landscape and memory amid the ghost towns of New Mexico’s Río Puerco valley, reviving recuerdos (memories) of his youth when the ranching villages thrived and viejitos (elders) told stories beside a river that once ran.

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Feb 23, 2018
Conversations with Collections
New Mexico Museum of Art
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Documenting your collection

Free with admission. Limit 15 people. Email rebecca.potance@state.nm.us to reserve a spot.

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Feb 24, 2018
Dropouts, Renegades, and Utopians: Irwin Klein’s photographs of the ’New Settlers’ of northern New Mexico
New Mexico History Museum
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Author talk with Benjamin Klein

Join us for a counterculture encore. Benjamin Klein shares the development of his project gathering and documenting the 80 known photographs by his late uncle Irwin Klein taken across northern New Mexico in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Pick up a copy of the University of Nebraska Press publication from our bookstore following the talk: “Irwin Klein and the New Settlers: Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico.”

Support provided by the New Mexico Humanities Council

Free Auditorium event-Bottled water only please

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Feb 24, 2018
The Bead Project with Cannupa Hanska Luger
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Community Day to Contribute to Artist’s Installation

Join us on Saturday, February 24 for a day of making beads with Cannupa Hanska Luger. Drop in and make a few beads to represent a handful of indigenous individuals lost to violence.

For the most complete information - including video - on Luger’s proejct, visit http://www.cannupahanska.com/mmiwqtbeadproject

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Queer and Trans People BEAD PROJECT:

2” beads made from clay, unfired are requested from our communities to complete a monumental beaded portrait which will be created by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger from a photograph taken by First Nations photographer Kali Spitzer. This collaboration with community acknowledges our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Queer and Trans people. In Canada alone, the number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women was at 4,000 in 2016 as noted in research gathered by the Native Women’s Association of Canada. 

We are aware that the narrative of MMIWQT expands beyond a specific region, and by starting here, with acknowledging this number and this place for this specific portrait and creating collectively, we can move forward and continue to address MMIWQT in all of our respective homelands. This community engagement is meant to activate our processing of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People through the action of doing and feeling in a collective effort to say ‘this is enough’.


As you create, we ask you to hold awareness that each one of these beads represents an individual from our Indigenous communities that we have lost.

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Feb 24, 2018
The ABCs: Archaeology, Beliefs, & Childhood
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Archaeology 101 Series / with Paulina Przystupa

Throughout history, more people have experienced childhood than survived into adulthood. In this lecture - delivered by Paulina Przystupa (UNM Graduate Student) - hear the ways in which we can learn about children as individuals and as members of prehistoric or historic communities using archaeology.

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Feb 25, 2018
“Him Old Ruins” Edgar Lee Hewett and the History of Pueblo Painting
New Mexico Museum of Art
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Lecture by Nancy Owen Lewis

Tickets $10. Referred to "Him Old Ruins" by his Pueblo friends, Edgar Lee Hewett’s interest in their ceremonies helped spark the development of a new artistic genre.

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Feb 25, 2018
Talk at the Museum by Christian Heinsen
New Mexico History Museum
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Accomplished work in rural communities of Northern Chile in the Altiplano

Cristian Heinsen, Executive Director of the Fundación Altiplano in Arica, Chile, will make a presentation on the work being accomplished to help rural communities of Northern Chile in the Altiplano.

Free event-Bottled water only please

 

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Feb 27, 2018
Winter Lecture Series
New Mexico Museum of Art
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Fray Angelico Chavez Vs. Willa Cather

Come learn about the history of two great Southwestern writers, Fray Angelico Chavez and Willa Cather, in St. Francis Auditorium 6 - 7 pm. Free.

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Feb 28, 2018
LECTURE - LEONARDO’S MANY LIVES
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Discover da Vinci’s place in the history of science.

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