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  • La Canoa: Patriots From the Barrio

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    2 pm Please join us and author Dave Gutierrez for a presentation of his book Patriots from the Barrio. Mr. Gutierrez will relate the true story of Company E 141st Infantry, the only all Mexican American U.S. Army unit in WWII. In September of 2017, Hollywood actor/producer Wilmer Valderrama obtained the film rights to the book. Dave Gutierrez is a professional researcher, historical presenter, and writer. His articles have appeared in publications including American Legion and War History Online. Recognized by both the Texas Military Forces Museum (more...)

  • La Canoa: The Nuclear Option: Perpetuating the Myth of New Mexico as Wasteland

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    2 pm Please join UNM Assistant Professor Myrriah Gómez for a presentation on New Mexico and the nuclear option. Long before the nuclear industrial complex began in here in 1942, New Mexico was depicted by outsiders as a “wasteland.” In an effort to combat that historical portrayal, the New Mexico Bureau of Immigration issued Aztlán: The History, Resources and Attractions of New Mexico in 1885, a book that was used to recruit Anglos to New Mexico in an effort to shift the racial and ethnic demographics so as to earn statehood. Building on (more...)

  • Eric J. Garcia: Presentation & Book Signing

    September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes

    6-8 pm Known for mixing history with contemporary themes, Eric J. Garcia always tries to create art that is much more than just aesthetics. Born and raised in Albuquerque's South Valley, Garcia received his BFA with a minor in Chicano studies from the University of New Mexico, then went on to complete his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has shown in numerous national exhibitions and his artwork can be found in the collections of The National Hispanic Cultural Center, National Museum (more...)

  • Mayor Tim Keller’s State of the City Celebration

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

    12 pm – 2 pm Albuquerque’s Mayor Tim Keller’s State of the City Celebration—a #OneAlbuquerque Community Celebration with Mayor Tim Keller, with food trucks, live music, local art, and more! The celebration begins at noon, with the State of the City Address at 1 pm. Please note that the live event in the NHCC’s Domenici Education Building has sold out; because of the incredible response for this event, we have added an On-Site Watch Party in the Albuquerque Journal Theatre. The Watch Party includes full participation in (more...)

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  • La Canoa: Outside the Recipes: the Sustenance of Story

    2 pm Querencia as defined by Nuevomexicano scholar Juan Estevan Arellano is "love of place.”  Please join Dr. Patricia Perea as she presents a talk on the articulation of querencia to speak directly with the writings and experiences discussed in this lecture. These writings include Fabiola Cabeza de Baca’s The Good Life: New Mexico Traditions and Food (2005), Denise Chávez’s A Taco Testimony (2006) and The Pueblo Food Experience: Whole Food of Our Ancestors (2016).  Each of these works connect the texture of food, the complex ties (more...)

  • La Canoa: Daniel Webb “The Power and Place of the Apachería in Colonial New Mexico”

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm Please join Daniel Webb as he examines the history of the diverse population of Athapaskan-speaking peoples identified as Apache (Ndé) in the colonial archives of northern New Spain. He will trace the different stages of their migration and territorial expansion across the vast geographical expanse known as the Apachería (the Apaches' ancestral homelands), illustrating their relations with other sovereign Indian nations and Hispano settlers, and the policies that Spain introduced in the eighteenth century to restrict their mobility. Through analysis of a wide range of (more...)

  • National Poetry Month

    History and Literary Arts Building

    Join the NHCC’s History and Literary Arts program for a month of events including widely distributed pocket-size poems (in English and Spanish), poetry readings and book signings (including those associated with the Children’s Bilingual Book Festival), displays, and other events celebrating Latinx poets.  In 2019, for the 100th birthday of Walt Whitman, we will pair several Whitman poems with poems by Latinx writers, creating a “conversation” between poets who never met, but who talk to each other across time. A Night of Poetry April 10, 6 pm (more...)

  • Cultural Responsive Teaching Workshop (Rental)

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

    Education Building - Classroom 122/124 10 am to 5 pm Cultural responsive teaching encourages educators to allow students to enter the classroom as their authentic selves. Rather than forcing students to code-switch, they are asked about where they come from and to relate that to the course material. The goal is to create an environment where all students, regardless of their physical/mental ability, racial/sexual/gender identity, feel safe. Safe to participate. Safe to engage. And therefore safe to learn. $63.93 or $84.91 for groups I am often the only (more...)

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  • La Canoa: Valerie Rangel “Environmental Policies, Planning, and Cultural Connections of Nuevo México”

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm Please join Valerie Rangel, community planner and environmental planning consultant, as she shares historical research, land use planning, and policy frameworks that shed light on issues of environmental contamination and public health while uplifting the voices of immigrant farm workers, tribal members, environmental and social activists from the communities of Nuevo México. She will focus on the history and contributions of the communities of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Pueblo of Isleta as well as sacred sites, the Gila River and Rio Grande. Valerie Rangel earned a (more...)

  • Semana Cervantina: Lecture and Discussion “Spain and the Independence of the United States” by Tom Chavez

    NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting

    7 pm Organized by Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center and the Spanish Resource Center to commemorate the “International Day of the Book” and the “Day of the Spanish Language." “Spain and the Independence of the United States” is a Lecture and discussion group. Historian Dr. Tom Chavez will discuss the making of early U.S. history from Spanish resources, the language of Cervantes. Dr. Chavez will give a 45-minute lecture and there will be a group discussion to talk in detail about (more...)