Community Calendar

The Santa Fe International Literary Festival will take place May 16–18, 2025, bringing together world-renowned authors, thinkers, and passionate readers to celebrate the power of story in a city known throughout the world for its beauty, history, and artistic inspiration.
The three-day festival features big-stage presentations, intimate talks, and curated excursions. In all, more than thirty Festival events will take place over the weekend at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, in Santa Fe’s historic downtown.
Rich in cultural diversity and creativity, including a literary tradition that stretches back centuries, the beautiful, maverick city of Santa Fe is a perfect host for the Festival. At this time of extraordinary upheaval, authors and readers from around the world and close to home come together for three remarkable days to explore a range of issues—in politics, justice, race, the environment, and much more.

Festival Sefardí 2025: Albuquerque’s 16th Annual Celebration of the History, Language, and Culture of the “Hidden Jews” of New Mexico Returns May 16–18, 2025

New Mexico’s only annual celebration of the unique history and culture of the Sephardic Jews in the Southwest, enters its 16th year with a focus on the Indigenous experience in relation to early settler Jewish history in New Mexico and its continued impact on contemporary society. The festival, which runs from May 16 to 18, will feature music, dance, poetry, art, workshops, and talks by scholars, diving into the complex intercultural dynamics that continue to weave the fabric of New Mexico’s cultural tapestry.

The Santa Fe International Literary Festival will take place May 16–18, 2025, bringing together world-renowned authors, thinkers, and passionate readers to celebrate the power of story in a city known throughout the world for its beauty, history, and artistic inspiration.
The three-day festival features big-stage presentations, intimate talks, and curated excursions. In all, more than thirty Festival events will take place over the weekend at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, in Santa Fe’s historic downtown.
Rich in cultural diversity and creativity, including a literary tradition that stretches back centuries, the beautiful, maverick city of Santa Fe is a perfect host for the Festival. At this time of extraordinary upheaval, authors and readers from around the world and close to home come together for three remarkable days to explore a range of issues—in politics, justice, race, the environment, and much more.

The Santa Fe International Literary Festival will take place May 16–18, 2025, bringing together world-renowned authors, thinkers, and passionate readers to celebrate the power of story in a city known throughout the world for its beauty, history, and artistic inspiration.
The three-day festival features big-stage presentations, intimate talks, and curated excursions. In all, more than thirty Festival events will take place over the weekend at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, in Santa Fe’s historic downtown.
Rich in cultural diversity and creativity, including a literary tradition that stretches back centuries, the beautiful, maverick city of Santa Fe is a perfect host for the Festival. At this time of extraordinary upheaval, authors and readers from around the world and close to home come together for three remarkable days to explore a range of issues—in politics, justice, race, the environment, and much more.

The cultural label of “Chicano” originated as a derogatory term for individuals of Mexican American heritage, but was reclaimed by members of the Pachuco movement in the 1940s and then adopted by members of Hispanic communities in their fight for civil rights. Today this term generally applies to individuals of Mexican American descent, however it is a term that has always encompassed nuances of meaning and that has remained unchanged. Caminos Distintos refers to the many paths that Chicano artists in New Mexico have taken in the expression of their “Chicanismo”. Celebrated in this exhibition are different artistic themes, such as cultural traditions, the relevance of food and family, the landscape and importance of place, Dia de Los Muertos, traditional religious mediums, and expressions that have evolved and fused with styles of contemporary Chicano artists. Chicano art and identity are explored through an exhibition of artwork carrying potent political statements, a mainstay in Chicano art past and present.