Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2021-08-05 | 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 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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Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2021-08-06, 2021-08-12, 2021-08-13, 2021-08-19, 2021-08-20, 2021-08-26, 2021-08-27, 2021-09-02 and 13 more dates | 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 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.
(It may take a moment to load. Microsoft Internet Explorer is NOT recommended. Best experienced with Safari, Firefox or Chrome.

Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Mona at Sea
2021-08-18 | Live via Zoom or in-person
6 pm (MST)
Live Via Zoom. Register HERE
Mona is a Millennial perfectionist who fails upwards in the midst of the 2008 economic crisis. Despite her potential, and her top-of-her-class college degree, Mona finds herself unemployed, living with her parents, and adrift in life and love. Mona’s the sort who says exactly the right thing at absolutely the wrong moments, seeing the world through a cynic’s eyes. In the financial and social malaise of the early 2000s, Mona walks a knife’s edge as she faces down unemployment, underemployment, the complexities of adult relationships, and the downward spiral of her parents’ shattering marriage. The more Mona craves perfection and order, the more she is forced to see that it is never attainable. Mona’s journey asks the question: When we find what gives our life meaning, will we be ready for it?
Free community event
Book: $15.95

Presented by Bookworks and History and Literary Arts Program/NHCC.

Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Hakim Bellamy, Commissions y Corridos
2021-08-25 | Live via Zoom or in-person
6 pm (MST)
Live Via Zoom. Register HERE
Hakim Bellamy’s latest collection rings with the same power and grace as the people he lauds within its pages, including Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King Jr. He celebrates Albuquerque and New Mexico, taking the good with the bad, and reminds Bur-queños that any day when you wake up along the Río Grande is a good day. As Bellamy celebrates the power of creativity and community within the city and the nation, he also demands that we face our society’s faults, especially those of racism, racial profiling, and law-enforcement violence. The poems collected here insist that with the power to do right, people also have a responsibility to themselves, their loved ones, and complete strangers to be better and strive harder. Undoubtedly Bellamy is leading this charge, lighting the way for anyone ready to listen.
Free community event
Book: $18.95

Presented by Bookworks, History and Literary Arts Program/NHCC and UNM Press.

NHCC Book Club: The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez
2021-08-26 | Live via Zoom or in-person
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“In the 1950s, tensions remain high in the border town of La Frontera. Penny loafers and sneakers clash with boots and huaraches. Bowling shirts and leather jackets compete with guayaberas. Convertibles fend with motorcycles. Yet amidst the discord, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist’s daughter. But as they’ll soon find out, their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they could have known.

Thirty years after their first fateful encounter, Fulgencio Ramirez, RPh, is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his cramped pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting, Fulgencio sees the news he’s been hoping for: his nemesis, the husband of Carolina Mendelssohn, has died.
A work of magical realism, The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez weaves together the past and present as Fulgencio strives to succeed in America, break a mystical family curse, and win back Carolina’s love after their doomed youthful romance. Through enchanting language and meditations about the porous nature of borders–cultural, geographic, and otherworldly–The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez offers a vision of how the past has divided us, and how the future could unite us. ” – Goodreads.
Free community event

Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
2021-09-09 | Live via Zoom or in-person
6 pm
Live Via Zoom. Register HERE
The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers—even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed, leaving them with more questions than answers.
Free community event
Book: $27.00

Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in different ways for Marimar, Rey, and Tatinelly’s daughter, Rhiannon, granting them unexpected blessings. But soon, a hidden figure begins to tear through their family tree, picking them off one by one as it seeks to destroy Orquídea’s line. Determined to save what’s left of their family and uncover the truth behind their inheritance, the four descendants travel to Ecuador—to the place where Orquídea buried her secrets and broken promises and never looked back.
Alternating between Orquídea’s past and her descendants’ present, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina is an enchanting novel about what we knowingly and unknowingly inherit from our ancestors, the ties that bind, and reclaiming your power.

Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2021-09-10 | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
The NHCC Torreon is closed today (9/10) for maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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 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.
(It may take a moment to load. Microsoft Internet Explorer is NOT recommended. Best experienced with Safari, Firefox or Chrome.

Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Dariel Suarez and Jenn de Leon: Writers on Writing About Migration and Latinx Identity
2021-09-15 | NM
6 pm (MT)
Live via Zoom. Register here
Join us for a conversation between Dariel Suarez and Jennifer de Leon on writing about migration and Latinx identity, in addition to readings from their latest books: Suarez’s debut novel, The Playwright’s House and de Leon’s White Space, an essay collection on culture, race, and writing.
Free community event

Dariel Suarez was born and raised in Havana, Cuba, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1997 at age fourteen. He is the author of the novel The Playwright’s House (Red Hen Press) and the story collection A Kind of Solitude (Willow Springs Books), winner of the 2017 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction and the 2019 International Latino Book Award for Best Collection of Short Stories. More about him can be found at www.darielsuarez.com. Jennifer De Leon is author of the YA novel Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From (Simon & Schuster) and the essay collection White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing (UMass Press), which is the recipient of the Juniper Prize. She is also the editor of the anthology Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education (University of Nebraska Press). Connect with her @jdeleonwriter on Instagram and Twitter or at her website:www.jenniferdeleonauthor.com.
Presented by Bookworks and the National Hispanic Cultural Center
Jennifer de Leon(Photo by {photog})
Dariel Suarez

NHCC Book Club: The Five Wounds
2021-09-23 | Live via Zoom or in-person
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family’s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice.
The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as “legitimate masterpieces” (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.” – Goodreads
Free community event

Tenth Annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest: U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
2021-10-05 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
THIS EVENT HAS GIVEN AWAY ALL OF THE TICKETS. IT IS SOLD OUT.
COVID PROTOCOLS:
This event will require either a proof of vaccination completed at least 14 days prior to the event or a negative COVID test administered by a health care professional within 72 hours of the event. Originals or photos of documents with a matching ID will be accepted. Masks are also required while inside the NHCC.
7 pm (MST)
Free and open to the public. Tickets will be available on Friday, September 3rd at 10 am
The National Hispanic Cultural Center’s History and Literary Arts Program and the University of New Mexico’s Department of English present a reading, performance, and talk by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo as the Tenth Annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harjo attended the Santa Fe Indian School and was a faculty member at the University of New Mexico. She is a member of the Myskoke/Creek Nation, and an award-winning writer, performer, and saxophone player. Harjo’s numerous publications include nine books of poetry, a memoir, a young adult novel, a children’s book, and five CDs featuring her poetry and music. She recently released her sixth CD, I Pray for My Enemies.

In 2019, Harjo was named the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate—the nation’s first Native American to receive such an honor. She was reappointed to a second term in April, 2020, and a third term in November, 2020. Her other prestigious awards include the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, a PEN U.S. Literary Award for Nonfiction, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Harjo is Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and Chair of the Board of Directors for the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and currently holds a Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
