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Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States11:00 am (MST) The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. 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 below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. A (more...)
Lecture: Indigenous Influences on Spanish Language- Guarani and Nahuatl
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-247:00 pm Dr. Josefina Bittar, a professor at the Languages and Applied Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz, and Dr. Carson Morris, NHCC History and Literary Arts Program Manager, present lectures on the influences of Guarani and Nahuatl on the Spanish language. Please join us for a pre-talk reception beginning at 6:00 pm. Free Community Event, register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance. Dr. Bittar received her PhD in Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. After completing her Bachelor's degree in Spanish (more...)
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States11:00 am (MST) The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. 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 below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. A (more...)
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States11:00 am (MST) The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. 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 below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. A (more...)
Oralidad Festival: Opening ceremony & Inaugural Talk featuring Enrique Lamadrid and Demetria Martínez
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting5:00 pm Inauguration. Opening ceremony with the presence of the director of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque, Silvia Grijalba, and the Consul of Spain in Texas and New Mexico, Mrs. Julia Olmo. 5:05 pm Enrique Lamadrid and Demetria Martínez kick off the 20222 Oralidad Festival by leading a discussion titled "'The Voice of My Conscience:' Life, Times, and Talents of Luis S. Martínez (1898-1986): memories of a poet of the people and the rescue of his work." In this presentation, social activist, poet, journalist, and novelist Demetria Martínez joins (more...)
Oralidad Festival: Francisco Carrillo Martín
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting6:15 pm Join us as essayist and teacher Francisco Carrillo Martín gives a talk that delves into some of the ideas in his latest book, Fuera de foco: cinco derivas por la obra de Juan Rulfo, which was published at the end of 2021. Through the Mexican author's literature and photography, he will reflect on how the migratory process of the 1940s and 1950s to the main Latin American cities transformed the voices and landscapes of the rural tradition. Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic (more...)
Build Your Artist Tool Kit: Applying to the New Mexico Art in Public Places Program with Meredith Doborski
Live via Zoom or in-person10:30 am The NHCC is committed to helping visual artists strengthen their business skills and increase awareness of opportunities available for artists. As part of the NHCC's Business Basics for Visual Artists series, join us for this free workshop and learn about what it takes to submit a successful application and how your artwork can be selected for permanent display in a public building somewhere in NM! Topics that will be covered in this workshop include the following: What is New Mexico Arts? What is the Art (more...)
Oralidad Festival: Songs and Stories from the Native American Performing Arts Program
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting11:00 am Music, dance, and storytelling intermingle in a program that showcases Native American pride and culture. It is an intertribal presentation, directed by John Williams, that will be performed by students from Albuquerque Public Schools. The program will include two Native American songs, two winter stories accompanied by performances, and a Native American dance that allows for audience participation. This activity will also allow attendees to develop communication and life skills. Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of (more...)
Oralidad Festival: Enrique Lamadrid & Susana Rivera
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting4:00 pm Authors and University of New Mexico professors Dr. Enrique Lamadrid and Dr. Susana Rivera present the latest collection of poems by E.A. "Tony" Mares: Reflections through the Convex Mirror of Time: Poems in Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War. They will be joined at the event by the four poets who wrote the back cover texts for this volume: Levi Romero, Demetria Martinez, Gary Brower, and Michael Thomas. Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of the Oralidad Festival. (more...)
Oralidad Festival: Andrea Cote Botero
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting6:00 pm Colombian poet Andrea Cote Botero will read a selection of conversational poems from her books Puerto Calcinado and En las praderas del fin del mundo and will discuss with the public the role of the listener in the construction of a poetics of ruin in contemporary subjectivity. Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of the Oralidad Festival. Oralidad is born with two essential purposes: to promote the oral tradition of storytelling and to establish a collaboration between (more...)