Book Club
NHCC Book Club: The Five Wounds
Live via Zoom or in-person5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us "From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family’s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as “legitimate masterpieces” (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save." - Goodreads Free community event
Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Jessica Helen Lopez, The Blood Poems
Live via Zoom or in-person3 pm (MST) Live Via Zoom. Register HERE The Blood Poems is one part bloodletting, one part healing, and one part sensuous celebration as Jessica Helen Lopez lays out what it means to be a strong brown woman, a single mother, and the kickass bard that the twenty-first century needs. Lopez openly faces a damaging childhood, sex, divorce, and racial injustice in these poems. She proves that love is as complicated as lovemaking -- messy and lusty, raucous and powerful, capable of amazing highs and abysmal lows. (more...)
NHCC Book Club: The Taste of Sugar
Live via Zoom or in-person5:30 pm (MDT) Live via Zoom To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us "It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the (more...)
NHCC Book Club: The Wind That Lays Waste
Live via Zoom or in-person5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us "The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca. As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy (more...)
NHCC Book Club: Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
Live via Zoom or in-person5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us "In Once I Was You, Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago and documenting the existential wasteland of immigration detention camps for news outlets that often challenged her work. In these pages, she offers a personal and eye-opening account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also enabled willful negligence and profiteering at (more...)
Día de Familia: Pinturas, Palabras, y Paletas
Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM11:00 am–3:00 pm Día de Familia: Pinturas, Palabras y Paletas! Bilingual children’s book reading by Dr. Tafolla, a storywalk, and fun activities. Join us for a lively family day featuring celebrated children’s author Dr. Carmen Tafolla, who will read from her children’s books. Participate in a bilingual storywalk, paint watercolor paletas, and make a book for writing your own story. Pete V. Dominici Education Building Free, registration recommended This program generously supported through a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant.
Entre Palabras Online Book Club
Live via Zoom5:30 pm Join us for the first installment of our Entre Palabras Online Book Club, featuring the New Mexico classic Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya. NHCC’s Entre Palabras Online Book Club explores diverse themes and topics within the Hispanic/Latine diaspora including identity, place, borders, nationality, race, gender, and language. The book club highlights pieces centered on New Mexico and the Southwest as well as Hispanic/Latine/Latin American works from both the United States and a variety of countries throughout the Hispanic world. Únase al primer evento de nuestro (more...)
Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime: Si Quisqueya Fuera Un Color
NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-710:00 am Get ready for our next Bilingual Storytime, featuring the children's book Si Quisqueya Fuera Un Color. Join us on Tuesday, Feb. 21 as we listen to the story and explore colors and movement! Free community event. For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance. This program is generously supported by Bank of Albuquerque.
Entre Palabras Online Book Club: The Poet X
Live via ZoomThe Online Book Club for The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo has been cancelled. We will be rescheduling for a later date and will post the new date as soon as possible. Thanks for your continued support of the NHCC and HLA Program. 5:30 pm MST NHCC’s Entre Palabras Online Book Club explores diverse themes and topics within the Hispanic/Latine diaspora including identity, place, borders, nationality, race, gender, and language. The book club highlights pieces centered on New Mexico and the Southwest as well as Hispanic/Latine/Latin American (more...)
Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime: Vámonos
10:00 am Get ready for our next Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime, featuring the children’s book Vámonos, by Cynthia Weill. Listen to the story and create art with wheels! Free community event. For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance. This program is generously supported by Bank of Albuquerque. ¡Evento Gratuito! Explorar las Artes: Hora Bilingüe de Cuentos Preescolares El martes, 21 de marzo, 2023 10:00 am | Biblioteca de NHCC ¡Escuchen el cuento Vámonos por Cynthia Weill y hagan arte (more...)