The AAIAF is the only authentic, all-Native American art show in town during the Balloon Fiesta.

This premier event will showcase the work of over 50 artists vendors. Meet, talk with, and shop directly form Native artists. The two-day festival also includes cultural dances and art demonstrations.

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

The AAIAF is the only authentic, all-Native American art show in town during the Balloon Fiesta.

This premier event will showcase the work of over 50 artists vendors. Meet, talk with, and shop directly form Native artists. The two-day festival also includes cultural dances and art demonstrations.

Na’Zir McFadden conductor
Sydney Tasker cello
Kate Shao piano

Coleridge-Taylor Ballade in a minor
Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet

Just over 100 years ago, George Gershwin composed a concerto for jazz orchestra, and the result redefined American music. Take in his Rhapsody in Blue, performed by Kate Shao, first-place winner in the piano division of this year’s Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition. The youthful vigor continues with cellist Sydney Tasker, the first-place string division winner, performing Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 1. Also on the program are Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s energetic Ballade and Tchaikovsky’s Overture-Fantasy Romeo and Juliet.

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

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.

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!

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.

“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!”