Desert Stories: The Art of Kelly Frye & Jazmin Novak is an artist-led exhibition collaboratively curated by Kelly Frye (Tesuque Pueblo/Mescalero Apache descent) and Jazmin Novak (Diné) of the Santa Fe, New Mexico area. Desert Stories interweaves visual narratives of the Southwest in paintings, glass, clay, and bronze artworks. In Frye’s paintings, she reorganizes geometric patterns into symphonies of color that melt into each other. In Novak’s sculpture, she uses asymmetry in her color palettes to give emphasis to certain parts of desert animals, like rabbits and coyotes. Bringing together two- and three-dimensional expressions creates an innovative take on the world of the Southwest desert as seen in the artists’ reimaginings of angular pottery designs and iconic, brush-dwelling animals. Using color as a method of disorientation, Frye and Novak make us see familiar Southwest elements in a completely different and unfamiliar light.

The IPCC is honored to open the Pueblo Baseball Community Gallery, on view from August 10 through October 27, 2024. This gallery is presented as a new addition to the Pueblo Baseball: Stitching Our Community Together exhibition. The Pueblo Baseball Community Gallery offers visitors an opportunity to learn more about Pueblo Baseball through a variety of perspectives in players’ and coaches’ stories, contributions, and memorabilia that portray the legacy of a sport that is deeply rooted in Pueblo communities.

The IPCC is thrilled to announce the 44th Annual Native American Student Art Show showcasing artwork by Native American students K-12 in New Mexico. The exhibition will be held in our Artists Circle Gallery from November 23, 2024 through February 6, 2025. New this year, artwork submission information must be completed using the online entry form on this webpage, and artworks must be delivered to the South Entrance between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. from October 30, 2024 to November 4, 2024 .  The IPCC will have computers available during delivery to complete online submission forms.

This year’s theme is “Water is Life,” offering students a chance to explore its meaning through their own lens. Consider these guiding questions:

• What does “water is life” mean to you?
• How do you get water?
• What is water used for?
• What does water provide?

Benefiting: Blessed and Beautiful - The Endorphin Power Company - Warehouse505 - Passion's Story  

Haunted Scarecrow has returned to the Duke City!

And this year we've brought a few new terrifying friends! Join us as we take you through the 13 Gates of Terror each room more terrifying than the last! 

Located On: 2122 Central Ave SE  

October 4th to October 31st

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, the IPCC’s Curatorial Department will be partnering with Basement Films. The in-person workshop is geared towards 6th to 12th graders. The goal of the workshop is to introduce participants to cinematographic film. Students will get an opportunity to experience drawing on, carving into and staining pre-developed 16mm film stock.

Please join us for this amazing free workshop on October 12th starting at 12 pm – 4pm. 

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is about celebrating! The second Monday in October is a day to honor Native American people, their histories, and cultures. People mark the day with food, dancing, and songs. In this week’s book by Katrina M. Phillips, readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways. Our storyteller, Guest Experience staffer Angel (Diné), will also be bringing her brother to demonstrate Fancy Dancing.

Roberto Minczuk Music Director
Olga Kern piano

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in d minor, Op. 30
Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major, WAB 104

Olga Kern is back, this time performing Sergei Rachmaninoff’s most technically challenging concerto, one made famous by Vladimir Horowitz. This will be but the latest of Olga’s visits to New Mexico, each one building upon the last. The symphonies of Anton Bruckner, including the fourth, performed here, were also built one upon the other. His Symphony No. 4 is known for both the extensive revisions it received by the composer as well as its powerful finale.

Roberto Minczuk Music Director

The New Mexico Philharmonic’s Power Concerts series is back for another season of illuminating, affordable, family-friendly concerts! This series is geared toward introducing young audience members and their families to classical music, the orchestra, and the instruments that make it all possible. Our first Power Concert of the season starts off with a bang! Our brass and percussion sections steal the show in the Power Concerts’ signature tune, the opening to Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra. Then, the magic of Bruckner meets the magic of the movies when we pair movements of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 with two of John Williams’s classics, the “Flying Theme” from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and “Darth Vader’s Theme” from Star Wars. Music Director Roberto Minczuk conducts.

Join us for a celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day as we honor the culture and resilience of the Pueblo people, as well as all Indigenous people across the country. We will be celebrating with a full day of cultural dances, as well as speakers celebrating the culture and achievements of the Pueblo community.

Dance groups and times subject to change.

9:00am: Tlacayolt Dance Group
Tribe: Chichimeca Mexica Azteca

10:00am: The Pueblo Dance Group
Tribes: Laguna, Acoma, Zuni, Hopi

11:00am: Sky City Buffalo Ram Dancers
Tribe: Acoma Pueblo

12:00pm: Howeya Family Traditional Dance Group
Tribe: Acoma Pueblo

1:00pm: Start of speakers

2:00pm: Cellicion Traditional Dance Group
Tribe: Zuni Pueblo

3:00pm: Anshe:Kwe Dance Group
Tribe: Zuni Pueblo

Live Music, Art Vendors, Food, and More!

Big 98.5 on site!

Live Music Schedule:

• Adrian Wall 5pm
• Jacob Shije 6pm
• Levi Platero 7:30pm

Science on Tap is not your ordinary lecture series. Grab a beer from Bombs Away Beer Company and enjoy a relaxed presentation by scientists, researchers, and subject matter experts on various engaging science topics. Join the conversation!

What's on Tap this Month?

NUCLEAR ARCHAEOLOGY
Measurement and Modeling Insights into the First Reactor
with Professor Carl Willis

Join Professor Carl Willis, professor of Practice and Chief Reactor Supervisor in the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of New Mexico, as he uncovers what his modern measurements and models reveal about the Chicago Pile-1 reactor eight decades later.

Join us on Friday, October 18, at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. Doors open at 5:30 pm. The presentation begins at 6:00 pm and ends at 7:00 pm.

In “Sculptural Stories,” an IPCC Youth Arts Workshop, youth ages 9 to 13 years old will be introduced to making visual art in sculptural forms and learn that they can make their own vision come to life. Participants will transform an idea into a colorful, three-dimensional clay object, bring this object home with them, and consider what sculptural forms that they can make in the future. The workshop will focus on building and painting sculptural stories in clay and connecting this arts education activity with the current IPCC Artists Circle Gallery exhibition, Desert Stories: The Art of Kelly Frye & Jazmin Novak. The workshop will be instructed by artists Kelly Frye (Tesuque Pueblo/Mescalero Apache descent) and Jazmin Novak (Diné). To complement the workshop, the instructors will give a gallery talk for youth participants.

The Water Strider Dance Group (Zuni) will be dancing.

Celebrate the seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance with our Cultural Dance Program. Dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator.

They ensure that life continues and connections to the past and future are reinforced. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is the only place in North America to offer cultural Native American dances every week, year-round.

The Water Strider Dance Group (Zuni) will be dancing.

Celebrate the seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance with our Cultural Dance Program. Dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator.

They ensure that life continues and connections to the past and future are reinforced. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is the only place in North America to offer cultural Native American dances every week, year-round.

The Water Strider Dance Group (Zuni) will be dancing.

Celebrate the seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance with our Cultural Dance Program. Dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator.

They ensure that life continues and connections to the past and future are reinforced. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is the only place in North America to offer cultural Native American dances every week, year-round.

The Water Strider Dance Group (Zuni) will be dancing.

Celebrate the seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance with our Cultural Dance Program. Dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator.

They ensure that life continues and connections to the past and future are reinforced. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is the only place in North America to offer cultural Native American dances every week, year-round.

Join us for a forum where local food entrepreneurs unite with the goal of enhancing New Mexico’s food system. Engage with a community of innovative thinkers dedicated to producing local value-added products.

Presenters: A-dae Romero-Briones, First Nations Development Institute (FNDI), VP Policy & Research, Nourishing Native Foods and Health| Amber Benson, New Mexico State University (NMSU), Family & Consumer Science Agent| Lara Hays, Intertribal Agriculture Council (IAC), Business Development Specialist| Mytegia Lee, Southwest Native Assets Coalition (SWNAC), Executive Director

Roberto Minczuk Music Director

Richter On the Nature of Daylight
Golijov Last Round
Dvorak Serenade Op. 22, B.52, E major

A serenade can be defined as a musical work to be performed outdoors on a beautiful evening. Antonín Dvořák helped define the genre with his five-movement serenade from 1875. Hear this work along with Osvaldo Golijov’s tango-flavored Last Round.

Includes coffee and donuts!

The Pueblo Dance Group (Laguna, Acoma, Zuni & Hopi) will be dancing.

Celebrate the seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance with our Cultural Dance Program. Dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator.

They ensure that life continues and connections to the past and future are reinforced. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is the only place in North America to offer cultural Native American dances every week, year-round.

On Saturday, October 26th, our storyteller will be our Guest Experience staffer Chastity (Diné), and our book will be Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun: A Cherokee Story by Geri Keams, illustrated by James Bernardin.

When Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world. After reading, children will be lead in crafts with sunflower seeds.

The Pueblo Dance Group (Laguna, Acoma, Zuni & Hopi) will be dancing.

Celebrate the seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance with our Cultural Dance Program. Dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator.

They ensure that life continues and connections to the past and future are reinforced. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is the only place in North America to offer cultural Native American dances every week, year-round.

“As you wish.”

Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles … Experience one of the most beloved films of all time as never before… with the power of a full symphony orchestra performing the entire musical score live-to-picture!

Directed by Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride features an all-star cast including Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Wallace Shawn, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Christopher Guest, Fred Savage and André the Giant.

The great Peter Falk narrates this romantic tale of the beautiful maiden, Buttercup, and her one true love, a young farm hand named Westley. After he’s captured by a ruthless pirate and presumed dead, Buttercup’s unhappy marriage to the horrible Prince Humperdinck seems inevitable. But before the wedding can take place, she’s kidnapped by three outlaws and it’s up to a mysterious Man in Black to come to her rescue.

Composer Mark Knopfler’s unforgettable score has been specially arranged for symphony orchestra. Missing this cinematic concert experience would be inconceivable!

So, in the words of Miracle Max, “Have fun stormin’ the castle!”

The Pueblo Dance Group (Laguna, Acoma, Zuni & Hopi) will be dancing.

Celebrate the seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance with our Cultural Dance Program. Dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator.

They ensure that life continues and connections to the past and future are reinforced. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is the only place in North America to offer cultural Native American dances every week, year-round.

The Pueblo Dance Group (Laguna, Acoma, Zuni & Hopi) will be dancing.

Celebrate the seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance with our Cultural Dance Program. Dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator.

They ensure that life continues and connections to the past and future are reinforced. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is the only place in North America to offer cultural Native American dances every week, year-round.

Join us on November 2, 2024 at the Nuclear Museum for an evening of fun, hands-on experiments, and art projects for guests ages 21 and over at Discovery After Dark!

Enjoy food and beverage trucks, a cash bar with Bomb's Away Brewery, and the Nuclear Museum’s thought-provoking and engaging exhibits while participating in hands-on science, technology, engineering, art, and math fun! Explore your inner child with mind-blowing science adventures and more! Dance to our DJ and compete in our Day of the Dead costume contest!

New VIP Hour at Discovery After Dark—Join us one hour before general admission for our VIP hour! You'll have the museum and activities to yourself, preferred parking, and one drink from Bomb's Away Brewery! Limited to 100 people, VIP tickets are $50.00 per person. Doors open for VIP hour at 5:30 p.m.

General Admission Tickets are $20.00 in advance and $25.00 at the door. Doors open for general admission from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

You must be 21+ to attend. A photo ID is required.

• Please leave all four-legged friends at home (assistance/service dogs are always welcome).
• No outside food or drink will be allowed into the event. No smoking or firearms will be permitted on Museum property.
• Food and drink are available for purchase.
• Please carpool or ride share. Overflow parking is available at Costco.
• This event is a fundraiser for our indoor exhibit restoration and expansion.