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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August 2026
AFTERIMAGE

July 1 - August 29

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

AFTERIMAGEA Group Exhibition at Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe Featuring Artists from Strata Gallery's 2021-2026 HistoryExhibition Dates: July 1...
Reading Lolita In Tehran

August 7 - August 14

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

READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN Acclaimed filmmaker Eran Riklis returns with Reading Lolita in Tehran, a powerful and deeply moving adaptation of...
The Samurai and the Prisoner

August 14 - August 20

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

When Lord Murashige rises up against the tyrannical Oda, he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle....
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez

August 14 - August 20

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

Against political resistance and industry skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from the fields to the film screen with Zoot...
September 2026
Black Cinema Series: Earth Mama

September 4 - September 10

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

The Black Cinema Series is graciously curated by guest programmer Anpa’o Locke. A devastating and evocative portrait of motherhood refracted...
Pre-Code Classics: I’m No Angel

September 10 @ 11:00 am

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

Mae West plays a circus sideshow entertainer and part-time lion tamer, in what is widely considered her best film. She...
October 2026
Black Cinema Series: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

October 2 - October 8

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

"Visually lush and sweeping in scope, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a poignant and richly sensorial portrait of a Black...
Pre-Code Classics: The Story of Temple Drake

October 8 @ 11:00 am

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

One of the darkest and most shocking of the Pre-Code films, The Story of Temple Drake was based on William Faulkner’s pulp...
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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