Speakers
Virtual Reading and Discussion: Ray Gonzalez, Feel Puma: Poems
Live via Zoom or in-personWednesday, October 14, 2020 6 pm (MDT) Virtual Reading and Discussion: Ray Gonzalez, Feel Puma: Poems (University of New Mexico Press, 2020) RSVP for the online event HERE. Presented by Bookworks, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and the University of New Mexico Press. In Feel Puma, Ray Gonzalez traces his love of reading, philosophy, and learning with poems constantly in conversation—with each other, with texts by other writers and the writers themselves, with world history and his personal history and people he has encountered. Ray Gonzalez is (more...)
National Latinx Writers Gathering: A Virtual Event for Latinx Writers in All Genres
Live via Zoom or in-personFriday-Sunday, October 16-18, 2020 www.uslatinxlit.org The first National Latinx Writers Gathering, “Sembrando y Soñando,” will take place October 16-18, 2020. It is open to any Latinx writer working in any genre. As a result of the new coronavirus, all weekend events will be virtual. The first year of this unprecedented convening of Latinx writers emphasizes community-building, connection, and experiential collaboration--determined by a national survey of Latinx writers who expressed what they want from a first conference of this kind. The first event will also determine the shape (more...)
US Postal Service Release of Our Lady of Guápulo Stamp
9:30 am (MTS) A virtual first day of issue ceremony held on the Postal Service’s Facebook and Twitter pages: usps.com/guapulo, facebook.com/USPS, and twitter.com/USPS The United States Postal Service is partnering with the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) on the release of the Our Lady of Guápulo Christmas forever stamp. The event will include remarks from Postal Service Vice President for Retail and Post Office Operations Angela Curtis and NHCC Art Museum and Visual Arts Program Director and Chief Curator Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn, and entertainment will be (more...)
Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: Famous Suffragists and Hidden Figures
Live via Zoom or in-person2 pm (MTS) Live via Zoom Register in advance for this meeting HERE. The campaign for woman suffrage in New Mexico is rich and deep. The struggle took 46 years, from 1874 to 1920. As with other aspects of women’s lives, most of the stories—political, economic, social—are not found in history books. They are still being unearthed in family lore, memoirs, songs, newspapers, and a few scholarly works. Join us to learn about the famous protagonists in this story, such as Adelina Otero Warren and Octaviano A. (more...)
Virtual Lunch with Josefa Gonzalez Mariscal
12 pm (MTS) Live via Zoom Attendance is free with registration. Register HERE Josefa Gonzalez Mariscal, the executive director of the NHCC, will share her leadership story in a virtual lunch hosted by the Young Professionals of Albuquerque. In May 2020, the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) named Josefa Gonzalez Mariscal the executive director of the NHCC, and she has an incredible leadership story! She grew up and studied art history in Mexico City. She has dual citizenship (Mexican and American), and speaks several languages. (more...)
Virtual Reading and Discussion: Sergio Troncoso, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son
Live via Zoom or in-person2 pm (MTS) RSVP for this online event here. Virtual Reading and Discussion: Sergio Troncoso, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son (Cinco Punto Press, 2019) Presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center in collaboration with Bookworks. How does a Mexican-American, the son of poor immigrants, leave his border home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the worlds of wealth, elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern old-fashioned father who (more...)
Virtual Reading and Discussion: Rebecca Blum-Martínez and Mary Jean Habermann López, The Shoulders We Stand On
Live via Zoom or in-person6 pm (MDT) RSVP for the online event: Resister HERE Virtual Reading and Discussion: Rebecca Blum-Martínez and Mary Jean Habermann López, Editors, The Shoulders We Stand On: A History of Bilingual Education in New Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, 2020) Presented by Bookworks, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and the University of New Mexico Press. The Shoulders We Stand On traces the complex history of bilingual education in New Mexico, covering Spanish, Diné, and Pueblo languages. The book focuses on the formal establishment of bilingual education (more...)
Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: Masks On! Pandemics and Epidemics in New Mexico History
Live via Zoom or in-person2 pm (MTS) Live via Zoom Register in advance for this meeting HERE. State Historian Rob Martínez explores how viruses and disease shaped New Mexico history. Since the dawn of time, humans have had to face adversity to survive.Viruses and disease are, sadly, part of that history and integral to the human experience. Pandemics and epidemics are part of the historical landscape.As early as the ancient Greeks, a fever killed most of Athens; the plague of the 1300s killed off one third of the European population; and in 1918 (more...)
Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: Illuminating New Mexico: A History of Luminarias and Farolitos
Live via Zoom or in-person2 pm (MST) Live via Zoom Register in advance for this meeting HERE. State Historian Rob Martínez examines the fascinating origins of these uniquely New Mexican cultural expressions. Before there was a Christmas tree, mistletoe, egg nog or Santa Claus, there were luminarias and farolitos lighting the dark paths for ancient New Mexicans, commemorating that long ago tradition of High Mass at midnight. Like most New Mexican traditions, these lights, like Las Posadas, reach back deep into a rich Catholic tradition that is a blend of Spanish, Puebloan, (more...)
NHCC Book Club: Murmur of Bees—Sofia Segovia
5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the devastating influenza of 1918, The Murmur of Bees captures both the fate of a country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable.” - Goodreads. Free and open to the public