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  • Stitch Night

    HLA Conference Room

    5:00 – 7:00 pm NHCC | HLA Conference Room Stitch socially with us on the second Wednesday of the month! Bring whatever knitting, crocheting, weaving, or cross stitch, or fiber art projects you’re working on, and join the conversation with your fellow crafters for an informal craft get-together. If you would like to learn the basics of a particular stitching technique, please bring supplies with you, though we will always have basic crochet and knitting materials on hand for an impromptu demonstration! Meetings will be in the Conference (more...)

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  • Escribir | Escuchar Latine Author Series: A. Gabriel Melendez Reading

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    6:30 pm Reception and Book Signing 7:00 pm Reading NHCC | Salón Ortega Join us as we celebrate the launch of a new book by author A. Gabriel Melendez, Citizens by Treaty/Ciudadanos por tratado, with a reading and reception on Thursday, Sept. 11. Melendez’s book gathers works produced by Spanish-speaking people of Mexican descent who became US citizens by virtue of the Treaty of Guadalup Hidalgo (1948) and whose ancestors had resided in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Texas, and Colorado for hundreds of years. This anthology of (more...)

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  • Escribir | Escuchar Latine Author Series: A. Gabriel Melendez Workshop

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    10:00 am NHCC | Salón Ortega Join us as we celebrate the launch of a new book by author A. Gabriel Melendez, Citizens by Treaty/Ciudadanos por tratado, with a writing workshop on Saturday, Sept. 13. Melendez’s book gathers works produced by Spanish-speaking people of Mexican descent who became US citizens by virtue of the Treaty of Guadalup Hidalgo (1948) and whose ancestors had resided in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Texas, and Colorado for hundreds of years. This anthology of songs, poems, speeches, and journalism shows the persistence (more...)

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  • Speaker Series: Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of NM: The Santa Fe New Mexican

    Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    10:30 am – 12:30 pm The Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of NM presents the 2025 Speaker Series. The H.G.R.C. of N.M. will host Inez Russell-Gomez a past Editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper. The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper, under extraordinary times, has survived 175 years! Inez Russell-Gomez will cover a historic timeline of stories in shifting times and of the newspaper business that is determined to survive. She will share with us her insightful thoughts on an amazing history, while celebrating the 175 Anniversary & Years of (more...)

  • Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime

    NHCC Library 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    10:00 am NHCC | HLA Library Stories come to life through art, movement, and more! For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers. Bilingual Storytime is designed for children ages 3 to 5 and their caregivers. For school, childcare, or homeschool groups; please reach out to NHCC Librarian Amy Padilla at amy.padilla@dca.nm.gov or the NHCC HLA Interim Program Manager Robin Moses at robin.moses@dca.nm.gov to find out about group options and available dates. We are unable to accommodate these groups during the Bilingual Storytime on third Tuesdays. Free community event, generously supported by (more...)

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  • NHCC Book Club: The Last Cuentista/La Ultima Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

    HLA Conference Room

    6:00 pm – 7:30 pm NHCC | HLA Conference Room The NHCC invites lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. The Last Cuentista/La Ultima Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera is September's book: A girl named Petra Peña wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's (more...)

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  • Genealogy Workshops

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    1:30 pm – 3:30 pm NHCC | Salón Ortega Explore your cultural heritage at the NHCC with a free genealogy workshop as part of our Siempre Creativo program! These workshops will provide participating seniors with an opportunity to learn about the descendants of a person, their family, or their connection to an ancestor. Join us as we discover where we came from, where we have been and the complex interrelating parts of our familial ancestral lines. This workshop will feature a presentation from the Hispanic Genealogical Research (more...)

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  • Reading: Yolanda Nava

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    6:30 pm NHCC | Salón Ortega Join us for a two-day reading and workshop event featuring author Yolanda Nava, in celebration of her book Through The Dark. Through the Dark tells the remarkable true story of Nava's fight with a mysterious illness that nearly claimed her life – eventually diagnosed as a rare autoimmune disease. Inspiring, uplifting, and transcendent in purpose, Through The Dark reads like a gripping thriller as Nava conducts an investigation into her own life.  On October 4, the Center will host a workshop with Yolanda Nava (more...)

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  • Stitch Night

    HLA Conference Room

    5:00 – 7:00 pm NHCC | HLA Conference Room Stitch socially with us on the second Wednesday of the month! Bring whatever knitting, crocheting, weaving, or cross stitch, or fiber art projects you’re working on, and join the conversation with your fellow crafters for an informal craft get-together. If you would like to learn the basics of a particular stitching technique, please bring supplies with you, though we will always have basic crochet and knitting materials on hand for an impromptu demonstration! Meetings will be in the Conference (more...)

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  • NHCC Book Club: Street of Too Many Stories, by Denise Chavez

    HLA Conference Room

    6:00 pm – 7:30 pm NHCC | HLA Conference Room The NHCC invites lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the history and vast the array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. Street of Too Many Stories by Denise Chávez is a novel of magical realism about four families on Encantada Street in a New Mexican town, exploring themes of love, pain, dysfunction, hope, (more...)

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