Events

Name: Pre-Code Classics: Love Me Tonight
Start: 2026-11-05T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-11-05T13:00:00-07:00
Location: Center for Contemporary Arts

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October 2026
The Condor Daughter

October 9 - October 11

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Directed by Alvaro Olmos Torrico, THE CONDOR DAUGHTER tells the story of Clara, a teenager growing up in a small indigenous...
Sundays with Hitch: Frenzy

October 11 @ 11:00 am

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Welcome to Sundays with Hitch! Join us for our continuing screening series celebrating the work of the Master of Suspense, Alfred...
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival: WHERE TO?

October 11 @ 3:30 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Premiering at Berlinale where it was nominated for Best Film, Where To? follows a Palestinian Uber driver whose chance encounters...
2026 Santa Fe International Film Festival

October 14 - October 19

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

The Academy Award®-qualifying Santa Fe International Film Festival is a spectacular event for film enthusiasts and industry professionals alike, October 14-19, 2026....
The Scout

October 23 - October 29

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Sofia works as a location scout for a TV pilot filming in New York City. It’s her job to find...
Psycho: A Fundraising Special Event Supporting SHAP

October 23 @ 7:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Join us for a special fundraising event with the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock and his iconic film PSYCHO. A...
November 2026
Pre-Code Classics: Love Me Tonight

November 5 @ 11:00 am

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

This racy, upscale 1932 musical was directed by the legendary Rouben Mamoulian and stars the always-dapper Maurice Chevalier and a...

The Board of Directors for the Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe (CCA) has voted to close the organization after serving the Santa Fe and northern New Mexico community on its forty-fourth year of operation. The decision was reached after careful consideration of options presented during its current strategic planning initiative.

“Closing a cherished, community organization like CCA is one of the most difficult decisions a board can make,” said David Muck, CCA Board Chair. “However, we simply couldn’t secure the level of individual donations required to achieve the high quality of programming and exhibitions envisioned by CCA’s professional staff and board of directors,” he continued.

Many nonprofits in the U.S. were hit hard by Covid and CCA is a good example. The CCA Cinema closed during Covid, and attendance was slow to resume, reflecting national downward trends in moviegoing post-Covid as reported in multiple news outlets, such as IndieWire and others. In 2023, the organization forecast the cinema to perform at only 50% of pre-Covid levels, resulting in monthly losses. Though grants and individual donations to the organization were up significantly in 2022 and 2023, they simply weren’t enough to make up the difference in the annual budget and cover both current and planned exhibitions and operations.

“This tough decision did not come lightly,” said Danyelle Means, CCA Executive Director and Head Curator. “For a nonprofit institution that operates independently of state support, the annual donations needed to sustainably continue operating was not enough, especially in the wake of challenges from pandemic closures and reduced attendance,” Means continued.

CCA did have its share of recent successes: CCA Executive Director Danyelle Means had secured a three-year grant of $100,000 per year from the Ford Foundation, with an option to renew for another three-year period. The organization was also the recipient of a $50,000 inaugural grant from Ruth Arts Foundation, as well as other granting organizations. Self-Determined, a 2022 CCA exhibition, was listed as one of the world’s Top 50 Exhibitions of 2022 by Hyperallergic magazine and CCA’s new monthly Closer Looks cinema series was a hit with film enthusiasts.

The CCA board of directors considered closing the organization in December of 2021, but voted to remain open in 2022 in hopes of a recovery post-Covid. However, despite the hard work of CCA staff and the accomplishments like the ones mentioned above, the shuttered period during which the cinema was closed proved too challenging to overcome. CCA Cinema’s final day of public operations is Thursday, April 6, and all upcoming CCA gallery exhibitions and public programs are cancelled.

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