Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2022-10-14, 2022-10-20, 2022-10-21, 2022-10-27, 2022-10-28, 2022-11-03, 2022-11-04, 2022-11-10 and 14 more dates | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
11:00 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 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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Lecture: Indigenous Influences on Spanish Language- Guarani and Nahuatl
2022-11-10 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
7:00 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 Language and Literature from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to obtain a Masters degree in Linguistics, also at UNM. Being born and raised in a highly bilingual country such as Paraguay sparked Josefina’s interest in bilingualism and language contact phenomena. Josefina’s current research focuses on the morphosyntactic influences between Spanish and Guaraní, in particular those involving argument structure.

Oralidad Festival: Opening ceremony & Inaugural Talk featuring Enrique Lamadrid and Demetria Martínez
2022-11-18 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
5:00 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 University of New Mexico professor Enrique Lamadrid to pay tribute to her grandfather, the poet Luis S. Martínez. The presentation is designed to help explore the work of this traditional poet who has great cultural and political influence in Albuquerque, while making a literary recovery of corridos and oral poetry.
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 artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Oralidad Festival: Francisco Carrillo Martín
2022-11-18 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
6:15 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 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 artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Build Your Artist Tool Kit: Applying to the New Mexico Art in Public Places Program with Meredith Doborski
2022-11-19 | Live via Zoom or in-person
10:30 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 in Public Places Program?
AIPP Purchase Initiatives
Purchase Program Site-Specific Commission Program
How to Participate
How to Successfully Apply as an Artist & Tips and Tricks

This is a free community event. Please register here and before the event you will be sent the ZOOM link to attend.

As the State of New Mexico Public Arts Program Director, Meredith Doborski works with local and regional artists to enrich New Mexico communities through the purchase and commission of innovative and diverse public art. Committed to strengthening the arts in New Mexico, Meredith has dedicated her career to community-based and nonprofit work. With a background as a visual artist, arts educator, and graphic designer Meredith continues to utilize her skillset to make the arts more accessible to all New Mexicans. Meredith holds a BFA in Print Media from the Alberta University of the Arts (formally Alberta College of Art + Design) and an MA in Art Education from University of NM.
New Mexico Arts is a State Arts Agency and a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, New Mexico Arts facilitates a number of state and federally funded programs in all 33 counties including: Art in Public Places (AIPP), Cultural Investment (Grants), Arts and the Military, Folk Arts, Arts Education, Poetry Out Loud, Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts, and more! The Art in Public Places program started when the Art in Public Places act was signed into law in 1986. In short, this statute states that any public building (such as libraries, schools, community centers, universities, etc.) that is allocated Capital Outlay funding by the state legislature, 1% of those total funds must be set aside for the acquisition of public art for that site. The AIPP team connect local artists with sites through the acquisition process to secure diverse/permanent/public art utilizing these funds.
Save the date for the continuations of our Build Your Artist Toolkit series coming on February 11, 2023!

Oralidad Festival: Songs and Stories from the Native American Performing Arts Program
2022-11-19 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
11:00 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 the Oralidad Festival. Oralidad is born with two essential purposes: to promote the oral tradition of storytelling and to establish a collaboration between artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

John Williams teaches Albuquerque Public Schools’ Native American Studies program. John is a member of the Dakota Sioux Tribe and has worked at APS for over 25 years. His program sponsors annual events such as Winter Storytelling, Native American Fashion Shows, and Music Appreciation.
This program also features: Kaylee Bahe, Isabella Gonzales, Paisleigh Orneales, Kaniece Sandoval, Roma Vigilante, Kayleigh Stevens and Jay Baldwin.

Oralidad Festival: Enrique Lamadrid & Susana Rivera
2022-11-19 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
4:00 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. Oralidad is born with two essential purposes: to promote the oral tradition of storytelling and to establish a collaboration between artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Oralidad Festival: Andrea Cote Botero
2022-11-19 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
6:00 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 artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2022-12-08 | NM
