Events

Name: The Piano
Start: 2026-08-07T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-08-07T17:00:00-06:00
Location: Center for Contemporary Arts

4K Restoration

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Month

October 2025
Closer Looks: Freaks

October 23, 2025 @ 6:30 pm

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

Presented as part of CCA’s monthly series on re-examining and honoring classic cinema, Closer Looks. This month’s selection was made by...

$15
December 2025
Closer Looks: Eyes Wide Shut

December 9, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

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

Presented as part of CCA’s monthly series on re-examining and honoring classic cinema, Closer Looks. This month’s selection was made by...

$15
Yi Yi

December 12, 2025 - December 18, 2025

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

The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang,...
Sunset Boulevard

December 19, 2025 - December 24, 2025

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

I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille!” Director Billy Wilder created one of his most enduring masterpieces in this dark,...
Amplified: Stop Making Sense

December 28, 2025 - December 31, 2025

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

Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme...
January 2026
The Sealed Soil

January 9 - January 15

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

The earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman, Marva Nabili’s The Sealed Soil chronicles a young woman’s resistance...
February 2026
Killer of Sheep

February 6 - February 8

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

Charles Burnett's cinematic masterpiece Killer of Sheep, magnificently restored in 4K with sparkling picture and sound, is one of the crown...
Nadja

February 6 - February 12

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

Set in 1990s New York, Nadja is a moody, postmodern vampire tale where grief, identity, and immortality collide. Dreamlike black-and-white visuals especially...
April 2026
The Seduction of Mimi

April 24

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

Join us for this special 4K Restoration of Lina Wertmüller's second full length feature. This raucous sex comedy that brought...
August 2026
The Piano

August 7 @ 8:00 am

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

"Jane Campion’s “The Piano” is returning to the big screen in a new 4K restoration from Sony Pictures Classics, giving one...

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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