Events

Name: Opus Cope: An Algorithmic Opera- A Special Q&A with the Director – Presented by SFI
Start: 2026-10-03T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-10-03T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Center for Contemporary Arts

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October 2025
American Skyjacker

October 24, 2025 - October 30, 2025

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

Join us October 24th at 7pm at CCA for a special opening night screening and director/producer Q&A! The story of...
November 2025
Baristas vs Billionaires

November 14, 2025 - November 27, 2025

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

Please join us November 14th - 16th for special evening Q&A screenings with Baristas vs. Billionaires Producer and Two-Time Academy...
There Was, There Was Not

November 21, 2025 - November 27, 2025

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

Please join us at CCA November 21st for an opening night screening + Pre-Recorded Q&A of There Was, There Was...
April 2026
Free Leonard Peltier: Friends of Indian Art Screening

April 11 @ 2:00 pm

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

"Free Leonard Peltier" is a 2025 American documentary film, directed by Jesse Short Bull and David France. The film profiles Leonard...
A Photographic Memory Q+A With Director and Editor!

April 12 @ 6:00 pm

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

Please join us for a special one night screening of A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY with a Q+A to follow directly after...
May 2026
Rising Hope – With Director Q&A

May 7 @ 6:30 pm

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

Join us for a special evening event screening of RISING HOPE, with a Q&A with director Theo Avgerinos following the...
Amplified: REDEMPTION TIME

May 22 @ 7:00 pm

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

Join us for a very special presentation of REDEMPTION TIME. Q&A and performance with Jimmy Santiago Bacca, Christian Howes and director...
June 2026
Women’s Rebel Voices Concert: The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane

June 4 @ 6:00 pm

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

Please join us at on Thursday, June 4, 6:00pm , at CCA's Munoz Waxman Gallery. The evening starts with a "Women's...
The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane With Filmmaker Q&A

June 5 @ 6:00 pm

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

This Opening Night film event will include a Q&A with the director of the film, MAUREEN GOSLING. Barbara Dane: Pete...
September 2026
Memory of Princess Mumbi Special Q&A Event with the Director

September 4 @ 6:00 pm

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

Join us for a very special Q&A event with director Damien Hauser at CCA for our opening night of THE...
October 2026
Opus Cope: An Algorithmic Opera- A Special Q&A with the Director – Presented by SFI

October 3 @ 6:00 pm

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

Join us for a very special evening collaboration with SFI in partnership with CCA in a presentation of Opus Cope:...

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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