Special Event Listings

These ACVB partners produce a wide range of exciting annual events. Be sure to also check out our Featured Events list or search our entire calendar of events for happenings that interest you.


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ABQ Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Pride
Location: Citywide
PO Box 80506
Albuquerque, NM 87198-0506
Phone: (505) 873-8084
Fax: (505) 262-9046
Days Open: Call
Hours of Operation: Call
 Handicap Accessible: Limited
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ABQ Pride celebrated their 30th Anniversary in 2006 with 10,000 attendees.
Admission: Yes
Credit Cards: Accepted
Concessions: Yes
Miles To Airport: 9

Plans are already underway for June 13-14, 2008 with Pridefest on Friday evening at EXPO NM to include the pet parade & Pride Idol competition. The 8th Annual Pride Art Show will add a non-juried, as well as amateur & professional categories.

The Pride Parade on Saturday, June 14, 2008 begins at 10:30am & then another full day at Pridefest. Pride's annual meeting will be August 13, 2007. So stop by the office, call or send an email to get involved now. Check out the website for all the details.


Albuquerque Folk Festival
Location: Uptown
300 San Pedro, NE
Expo New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87108
Phone: (505) 710-9641
Fax: (505) 856-2566
Days Open: June 21, 2008
Hours of Operation: 10am-11pm
 Handicap Accessible: Full
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Saturday June 21, 2008, EXPO New Mexico (State Fairgrounds) 9:30am-11:00pm. Folk music, dance, storytelling and crafts from the Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo traditions and the contemporary multicultural roots of New Mexico.
Admission: Yes
Motorcoach/RV Parking: Yes
Concessions: Yes

8 non-stop hours of performances, jam sessions, workshops, and demonstrations, plus 3 evening dances featuring contra, square, western swing and African dance.

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A unique participatory exposition of the Folk Arts of the southwest held on tree-shaded grounds and amid historic old adobe buildings.

Day Events - The best in southwestern regional and national Main Stage folk acts plus 17 venues offering hourly instruction, demonstrations, exhibits, and jam sessions on a vast array of folk arts, at all levels from beginner to expert.

Evening Dances - Live music and instruction.

In nine years this Festival has become a destination for professional and amateur musicians, dancers, storytellers and crafts people as well as the uninitiated, to experience first hand the culture and traditions of the southwest. Info - abqfolkfest.org


Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Presented by Wells Fargo
Location: Balloon Fiesta Park/N I-25
4401 Alameda NE
Albuquerque, NM 87113
Phone: (505) 821-1000
Toll Free: (888) 422-7277
Fax: (505) 828-2887
Days Open: Oct 4-12, 2008 & Oct 3-11, 2009
 Handicap Accessible: Limited
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October 6-14, 2007.
Admission: Yes
Credit Cards: Accepted
Motorcoach/RV Parking: Yes
Concessions: Yes
Miles To Airport: 12

Welcome to the wonderful world of ballooning! From a modest beginning in 1972 of 13 balloons launching from a shopping mall parking lot, Balloon Fiesta has grown to 700 balloons & hundreds of thousands of guests, all on the lush, 365-acre Balloon Fiesta Park. Balloon Fiesta is the largest ballooning event on earth, the most photographed event on earth & the largest annual international event held in North America. In an era of overblown hype, Balloon Fiesta is the genuine article: unique, inimitable, lastingly memorable.


Art in the Park - Corrales Society of Artists
Location: Neighboring Communities: Rio Rancho
La Entrada Park
Corner of Corrales & La Entrada Rds
Corrales, NM 87048
Phone: (505) 892-9217
Days Open: 3rd Sunday of every month (May-Oct)
Hours of Operation: 10am-4pm
 Handicap Accessible: Full
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The Corrales Society of Artists is a group located in scenic Corrales, New Mexico that promotes the artwork of it's members and the general promotion of artists in New Mexico.
Miles To Airport: 25

The 3rd Sunday of each month they stage an art show in Corrales from 10AM to 4M. It is located in beautiful La Entrada Park in Corrales. In this shaded, park-like setting you can view and purchase the artwork of members working in mediums ranging from oils and watercolors to colored pencil and jewelry. Free children's workshops are also held at these events.


Closet Cinema
Location: Downtown
Phone: (505) 243-1870
 Reservations: Yes  Handicap Accessible: Full
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Sept 28-Oct 4, 2007. Annual event. Producers of the Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
Credit Cards: Accepted

Each annual event location to be announced.


Corrales Harvest Festival
Location: North Valley / Los Ranchos / Corrales
P.O. Box 603
Corrales, NM 87048
Phone: (505) 792-8912
Days Open: Sept 27-28, 2008
Hours of Operation: 9-5
 Handicap Accessible: Limited
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September 27-28, 2008: 9am-5pm. Corrales Harvest Festival. Saturday 9 am, Pet Parade. Sunday 8 am, Run. Crafts, Food, Kid't events, live music, Old Church, Casa San Ysidro, Wagner's Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch & lots more.
Admission: Yes
Credit Cards: Accepted
Concessions: Yes
Miles To Airport: 29

Come celebrate--Pet Parade Sat 9am, Growers Market, Food Court, Live Entertainment at many locations, juried art show, hay rides, corn maze, Mercado Antiquo, animal exhibits & more at Casa San Ysidro. Farm tour, Corrida de Corrales Run Sun 8am.

Admission $2.00. 9am-5pm daily. Free parking.


Corrales Visual Arts Council of the Corrales Historical Society
Location: North Valley / Los Ranchos / Corrales
P.O. Box 2753
Corrales, NM 87048
Phone: (505) 897-3942
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All events held at Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales, NM.

2007-2008

June 7-8, 2008--16th Annual Carnival of Arts Multi-Media Show, 10am-5pm.

September 27-28, 2008 - Mercado Antiguo Hispanic Arts & Crafts, 10am-4pm during Harvest Festival.

October 4-12, 2008--20th Annual Fine Arts Show--11am-5pm Daily.

December 5-7, 2008 --20th Annual Fine Arts Show 10am-5pm Daily.


Cowboys & Indians Antiques (Nob Hill)
Location: Historic Nob Hill
300 San Pedro, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
Phone: (505) 255-4054
Days Open: Mon-Sun
Hours of Operation: 10-6
 Handicap Accessible: Full
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Aug. 8-10, 2008. The Great Southwestern Antique Show, the premiere antique event of New Mexico is celebrating its 10th year, it is one of the Southwest’s largest antique events.
Credit Cards: Accepted
Motorcoach/RV Parking: Yes
Miles To Airport: 4

This annual event, proudly sponsored by Cowboys & Indians Antiques, located in Nob Hill, Albuquerque’s vintage shopping district, takes place early August each year and features the collections of over 200 of the finest Antique & Folk Art, American Indian & Western, and Ethnographic Arts dealers in the United States.


DG Comedy Productions/Southwest FunnyFest
Albuquerque, NM 
Phone: (505) 977-2857
Toll Free: (866) 729-2622
Fax: (866) 792-2622
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Southwest FunnyFest, an all-female comedy showcase, March 7, 2008 at the KiMo Theatre.

End of Trail Wild West Jubilee
Location: Neighboring Communities: East Mountains
1144 Juan Tomas Rd
Edgewood, NM 87015
Phone: (714) 694-1800
Toll Free: (877) 411-7277
Fax: (714) 694-1813
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June 19-22, 2008--27th Annual SASS End of Trail Wild West Jubilee.

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