NHCC Book Club: Everyone Knows You Go Home—Natalia Sylvester
2021-04-22 | NM
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
Winner of an International Latino Book Award. “The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already dead—an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar’s family—especially his wife, Elda—to let him redeem himself.” – Goodreads.
Free community event

"NHCC Learning" Workshop for Educators
2021-04-22 | NM
6:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
In this free workshop for educators, learn about and discuss NHCC Learning‘s educational resources and the AmeriCorps project, meet some of the NHCC’s Visual Arts staff, and be entered in a raffle to win a special prize for attending!​
There are two opportunities to join this workshop: Thursday, April 22, 6:30 pm (MST) & Saturday, April 24, 10:00 am (MST).
To register, click here!

Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: The Pen and The Sword: Literary Works of Colonial New Mexico
2021-04-24 | NM
2 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom, Register HERE
Join State Historian Rob Martínez as he explores New Mexico’s early literary tradition with influences from epic poems of the ancient Mediterranean, colonial Mexico, and the mystic poetic traditions of San Juan de la Cruz and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The talk will take you on a journey showing how these different styles are manifested in the works of authors like Villagrá, Benavides, Sigüenza y Góngora, and Quintana.
Free community event

Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque is presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center in collaboration with the Office of the New Mexico State Historian.

"NHCC Learning" Workshop For Educators
2021-04-24 | NM
10 am (MST)
Live via Zoom
In this free workshop for educators, learn about and discuss NHCC Learning‘s educational resources and the AmeriCorps project, meet some of the NHCC’s Visual Arts staff, and be entered in a raffle to win a special prize for attending!​
There are two opportunities to join this workshop: Thursday, April 22, 6:30pm (MST) & Saturday, April 24, 10:00 am (MST).
To register, click here!

Perspectivas Modernas: Seeking Refuge: The Role of Expert Witnesses in Latin American Asylum Cases
2021-05-04 | NM
6 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom. Register HERE
As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America, and Central America in particular, has grown in the last decade, scholars, as expert witnesses, have supported women and LGBTQ persons who have experienced gender-based, sexual, and gang violence in their home countries. This presentation offers a description of the asylum system and the role of expert witnesses, focusing on the specific challenges faced by women and LGBTQ persons seeking refuge in the U.S.
Free and open to the public

Kimberly Gauderman is a faculty member in the University of New Mexico History Department since 1998, served as the Director of the UNM Latin American Studies Program for three years (2005-2008), and is a Faculty Affiliate of the UNM School of Law. Since 2010, she has served as an expert witness in Latin American asylum cases, focusing on gender-based, sexual, and gang violence. She is the recipient of a Scholars & Society Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, for the 2019/2020 academic year

Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!
2021-05-06 | NM
6:30 pm (MST)
Live on Zoom
Register in advance HERE
We are back! Coming to you through zoom!
Happy Arte Hour is an adult only at making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm (MST) February – December.
Monotype with Elena:
Use supplies from around the house to explore Printmaking! You will need: Ziploc or plastic bag, tape, acrylic paint, brushes of your choice, paper or fabric to print on. Optional: old credit or gift card, pencil, leaves, fruit, stuff to make interesting marks.
Please register and prior to the class you will receive an email with the zoom link. Please do not pass out the link, we will let you in to the zoom room from your registration, thank you!
Free community event

We will have simple project demos and suggestions for at home art making. We will have breakout rooms to bring back our roundtable small group discussions.
Virtual Happy Arte Hour is a chance for us to reconnect with our regular participants and for new people near and far to join us for a creative night of fun!
#NewMexicoCulture #HappyArteHour #NHCC #Make #MuseumatHome

Money for Writers Workshop: Grant Writing for Latinx Writers
2021-05-08 | NM
11 am (MST)
Live via Zoom. Register HERE
Tips from Successful Grantees
This workshop features three Latinx writers who were awarded literary grants. What does a successful literary grant application look like? Our presenters will share sections of their successful grant applications and talk about how strategies for writing compelling grant applications. There will be time for Q & A at the end of this hour and a half session. This workshop is a response to the requests for grant writing workshops expressed by Latinx writers at the National Latinx Writers Gathering in October of 2020. Presenters TBA.
Workshop fee: $20.

Colcha Community Stitch-Along
2021-05-14 | NM
1 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
Our Virtual Colcha Community Workshop is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting, wherever they may reside. This workshop is instructed by Annette Gutierrez-Turk. Annette has taught this art form to groups internationally and at the NHCC for many years. She is also an award winning artist, most recently recognized in 2019 at Santa Fe Spanish Market. This workshop is for all levels of experience in an informal setting. Annette will demonstrate as well as answer questions. We hope you will join us every month on the second Friday, for this virtual stitch-a-long. Everyone will have a chance to share what they are working on.
Please register here every month and we will email the zoom link to you.
Questions: Please email Elena at ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us or call 505-220-7928
Thank you to the Sandia Mountains- EGA for their continued support of this program.
This is a free community event

For more information on Colcha, please watch this video.
Colcha Circle Video
Here is the pattern used in the beginner colcha kit. Click on thumbnail to enlarge.

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Materials needed: Fabric, wool yarn, needle (recommended needle, chenille #18 ,sharp point, large eye) marking materials, sewing or embroidery scissors and copy of pattern piece.
Sources for Materials:
3-ply wool embroidery yarn Is available at Yarn Store at Nob Hill, 120 Amherst, NE, Albuquerque NM 87106
or
Single ply needlework wool at Twisted Stitches, 1011 Juan Tabo Bl NE, Albuquerque NM 87112
Osnaburg utility fabric as base cloth can be purchased at JoAnn Stores, usually found in upholstery department; 2 stores in Albuquerque.
Recommended needle, chenille #18 (sharp point, large eye), also found at Jo Ann Stores in needlework department.
Quilter’s blue marking pen or Sharpie also available at Jo Ann Stores.

Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: Roosevelt’s New Deal in New Mexico
2021-05-22 | NM
2 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom. Register HERE
The lecture will explore the effect of the Work Progress Administration on New Mexico, specifically focusing on the programs and social impact in and around Santa Fe.
Jana Gottshalk is the Assistant Curator at the New Mexico Museum of Art, specializing in modern and contemporary. Jana has worked at such institution as Las Golondrinas, The Denver Art Museum, and the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art.
Free community Event

Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque is presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center in collaboration with the Office of the New Mexico State Historian.

Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Richard Flint & Shirley Cushing Flint, Overhaul
2021-05-23 | NM
1 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom. Register HERE
In Overhaul, A Social History of the Albuquerque Locomotive Repair Shops, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque’s locomotive repair shops, the driving force behind the city’s economy for more than seventy years. In the course of their study they also document the thousands of skilled workers who kept the locomotives in operation, many of whom were part of the growing Hispano and Native American middle class.
Free community event

Their critical work kept the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe’s steam trains running and established and maintained Albuquerque’s unique character in the region. Including a generous selection of historic photographs, Overhaul provides a glimpse into the people, places, culture, and special history found in Albuquerque’s locomotive shops during the boom of steam railroading. The Flints provide an engaging and informative account of how these shops and workers played a crucial role in the formation and development of Albuquerque, the “Duke City.”
Presented by Bookworks, History and Literary Arts Program/NHCC, and UNM Press.

NHCC Book Club: Children of the Land: A Memoir—Marcelo Hernandez-Castillo
2021-05-27 | NM
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“Honest and unsparing, this book offers a detailed look at the dehumanizing immigration system that shattered the author’s family while offering a glimpse into his own deeply conflicted sense of what it means to live the so-called American dream. A heartfelt and haunting memoir just right for the current political and social climate.” -Kirkus Reviews.
Free community event

Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2021-05-27, 2021-05-28 | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
11 am (MST)
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil twice a week, Thursdays and Fridays at 11 am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity.
Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase online here. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited.

VOCES Summer Writing Institute for Teens
2021-05-31 - 2021-06-24 | NM
9:30 am – 4 pm (MST)
Weekdays, Monday – Friday
Registration link coming soon.
Limited to 15 teens
(Apply early to get in! First come, first served)
Voces is a FREE, month-long writing institute for high school writers. Teens (rising 9th graders through graduating seniors) are inspired to write prose, poetry and monologues through a wide range of experiential activities. The program culminates with chapbooks and a public reading/performance. This free institute is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for teens to experience the equivalent of a writing intensive, with guest writers and artists and a wide range of field trips that inspire writing, at no cost.
Free community event

Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!
2021-06-03 | NM
Thank you for your interest in Happy Arte Hour. Unfortunately, tonight’s program has been canceled. We appreciate your interest in NHCC programs and hope you will join us in August for the next Happy Arte Hour!
6:30 pm (MST)
Live on Zoom
Register in advance HERE
We are back! Coming to you through zoom!
Happy Arte Hour is an adult only at making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm (MST) February – December.
Please register and prior to the class you will receive an email with the zoom link and items/art supplies to gather from around your house. Please do not pass out the link, we will let you in to the zoom room from your registration, thank you!
Free community event

We will have simple project demos and suggestions for at home art making. We will have breakout rooms to bring back our roundtable small group discussions.
Virtual Happy Arte Hour is a chance for us to reconnect with our regular participants and for new people near and far to join us for a creative night of fun!
#NewMexicoCulture #HappyArteHour #NHCC #Make #MuseumatHome

Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2021-06-03, 2021-06-04, 2021-06-10, 2021-06-11, 2021-06-17, 2021-06-18, 2021-06-24, 2021-06-25 | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
11 am (MST)
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil twice a week, Thursdays and Fridays at 11 am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity.
Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase online here. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited.

A Vision of History through Fresco…
Mundos de Mestizaje by Frederico Vigil is a mural housed in the Torreón on the campus of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This monumental fresco depicts thousands of years of Hispanic history highlighting diverse cultural connections between people and places from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The 4,000 square foot painting is one of the largest frescos in North America.
The digitized imagery of the painting ensures that this culturally significant work can be a sharing and learning experience for students and families anywhere. We invite you to explore the imagery, history and complexities of the Mundos de Mestizaje mural.
Discover on your own by clicking the link HERE.
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Colcha Community Stitch-Along
2021-06-11 | NM
1 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
Our Virtual Colcha Community Workshop is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting, wherever they may reside. This workshop is instructed by Annette Gutierrez-Turk. Annette has taught this art form to groups internationally and at the NHCC for many years. She is also an award winning artist, most recently recognized in 2019 at Santa Fe Spanish Market. This workshop is for all levels of experience in an informal setting. Annette will demonstrate as well as answer questions. We hope you will join us every month on the second Friday, for this virtual stitch-a-long. Everyone will have a chance to share what they are working on.
Please register here every month and we will email the zoom link to you.
Questions: Please email Elena at ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us or call 505-220-7928
Thank you to the Sandia Mountains- EGA for their continued support of this program.
This is a free community event

For more information on Colcha, please watch this video.
Colcha Circle Video
Here is the pattern used in the beginner colcha kit. Click on thumbnail to enlarge.

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Materials needed: Fabric, wool yarn, needle (recommended needle, chenille #18 ,sharp point, large eye) marking materials, sewing or embroidery scissors and copy of pattern piece.
Sources for Materials:
3-ply wool embroidery yarn Is available at Yarn Store at Nob Hill, 120 Amherst, NE, Albuquerque NM 87106
or
Single ply needlework wool at Twisted Stitches, 1011 Juan Tabo Bl NE, Albuquerque NM 87112
Osnaburg utility fabric as base cloth can be purchased at JoAnn Stores, usually found in upholstery department; 2 stores in Albuquerque.
Recommended needle, chenille #18 (sharp point, large eye), also found at Jo Ann Stores in needlework department.
Quilter’s blue marking pen or Sharpie also available at Jo Ann Stores.

Money for Writers Workshop: Grant Writing for Latinx Writers
2021-06-12 | NM
11 am (MST)
Live via Zoom. Register HERE
“Beyond Teaching: Out-of-the-Box Writing Gigs and Getting Them Funded”
This workshop features three Latinx writers who generate income outside of teaching. They collaborate with other writers and artists, work in journalism, provide professional writing services, and create innovative projects that support their careers as writers. These gigs are financially supported by foundations, municipal agencies, and other funders. Join us to learn more. There will be time for Q & A at the end of this session. This workshop is a response to the requests for workshops expressed by Latinx writers at the National Latinx Writers Gathering in October of 2020. Presenters: Néstor David Pastor, Valerie Martínez, and Raul A. Reyes.
Workshop fee: $20.

Presenters:
Néstor David Pastor is a writer, editor, and translator from Queens, NY. His past experience includes Radio Ambulante, Feet in 2 Worlds, and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, in addition to community-based work with the Afro-Latino Festival of NYC, Newtown Literary, and the Loisaida Festival. Currently, he works as an editorial assistant at the North American Congress on Latin America and managing editor of Intervenxions, a digital publication of the Latinx Project at New York University. He is also the founding editor of Huellas, a bilingual magazine of crónicas narrativas. He holds degrees in Spanish and English from Binghamton University, as well as an MA in Spanish from Queens College.
Raul A. Reyes is a journalist and television commentator in New York City. He has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Texas Monthly, and NBC Latino. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, PBS, NBC Nightly News and the Today Show. Graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School.
Raul A. Reyes Twitter: @RaulAReyes , IG: @raulareyes1.
Valerie Martínez is a poet, educator, arts administrator, and collaborative artist. She is the author of six books of poetry and her writing has appeared widely in U.S. journals and magazines. Since 2008, Valerie has been working collaboratively with artists in different disciplines on a range of writing, performance, and community arts projects. She is Founding Director of Artful Life which is dedicated to transforming communities through the beauty and power of collaborative art. She is also the Founding Director of EKCO (EKphrasis + COllaboration) a poetry performance ensemble which addresses issues of art and urgency to women. Valerie is the Director of History and Literary Arts at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

Circo Latino: ¡El Regreso!
2021-06-18 | NM
1 pm
Live on YouTube and Facebook:
Circo Latino YouTube page here
Circo Latino Facebook page here
Families and friends, we are proud to feature the culmination of our first (of two) Circo Latino 2021 summer sessions! LIVESTREAMING to your very homes and devices.
Join us to witness our explorations of the concept of returning to community after our extended time apart.

CIRCO LATINO MISSION STATEMENT
We are a community of circus artists of all ages who value passion and creative expression. We are curious, courageous, self-disciplined, determined, collaborative, and compassionate. We are committed to love, humor, and fun. Our goal is to build community with respect, to safely develop and deepen our skills, explore culture, create performance, and inspire a sense of wonder and magic.

Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition in New Mexico: A History
2021-06-19 | NM
2 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom. Register HERE
The Inquisition is one of the most famous and infamous of religious courts in history.The reviled institution even had a presence in New Mexico during the colonial period. State Historian Rob Martinez presents a fascinating look at the history of the Inquisition in Europe, Spain and the Americas, with a focus on Mexico and New Mexico. Cases of heretical behavior reveal much about the social and religious practices and activities of people in the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s.
Free community Event

State Historian Rob Martínez is a native New Mexican from Albuquerque. A graduate of the University of New Mexico with an M.A. in Latin American history, with an emphasis on New Mexico history. Rob was a research assistant at theVargas Project, learning research skills and paleography, abilities that would serve him well as a historian. Before becoming state historian in 2019, he was deputy state historian for six years at the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives.
Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque is presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center in collaboration with the Office of the New Mexico State Historian.

NHCC Book Club: Afterlife—Julia Alvarez
2021-06-24 | Live via Zoom or in-person
5:30 pm (MDT)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves—lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack—but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words.” – Goodreads.
Free community event

Summer Institutes Performances: Voces 2021
2021-06-25 | NM
6 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom. Register here: https://nhccnm.wufoo.com/forms/z3dvsn21pljdpg/.
This reading and performance is the culminating event for the VOCES Summer Writing Institute for Teens, a free, four week intensive that inspires young writers to create new and original works of poetry, prose and dramatic writing.
For additional information email HLA.Admin@state.nm.us

Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!
2021-07-01 | NM
Thank you for your interest in Happy Arte Hour. Unfortunately, the July program has been canceled. We appreciate your interest in NHCC programs and hope you will join us in August for the next Happy Arte Hour!
6:30 pm (MST)
Live on Zoom
Register in advance HERE
We are back! Coming to you through zoom!
Happy Arte Hour is an adult only at making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm (MST) February – December.
Please register and prior to the class you will receive an email with the zoom link and items/art supplies to gather from around your house. Please do not pass out the link, we will let you in to the zoom room from your registration, thank you!
Free community event

We will have simple project demos and suggestions for at home art making. We will have breakout rooms to bring back our roundtable small group discussions.
Virtual Happy Arte Hour is a chance for us to reconnect with our regular participants and for new people near and far to join us for a creative night of fun!
#NewMexicoCulture #HappyArteHour #NHCC #Make #MuseumatHome
