Día de Familia: Pinturas, Palabras, y Paletas
2022-06-11 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
11:00 am–3:00 pm
Día de Familia: Pinturas, Palabras y Paletas!
Bilingual children’s book reading by Dr. Tafolla, a storywalk, and fun activities.
Join us for a lively family day featuring celebrated children’s author Dr. Carmen Tafolla, who will read from her children’s books. Participate in a bilingual storywalk, paint watercolor paletas, and make a book for writing your own story. Pete V. Dominici Education Building
Free, registration recommended
This program generously supported through a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant.

Colcha Community Stitch A-long
2022-06-14 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
9:30 am (MST) on the second Tuesday of the Month
Live via Zoom on February 8 and hybrid: on Zoom and onsite beginning March 8, 2022
Our Colcha community Workshop is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting. This workshop is instructed by Annette Gutierrez-Turk. Annette has taught this art form to groups internationally and at the NHCC for many years. She is also an award winning artist, most recently recognized in 2019 at Santa Fe Spanish Market. Annette will demonstrate as well as answer questions. We hope you will join us every month on the second Tuesday, for this virtual stitch-a-long. Everyone will have a chance to share what they are working on.

Please register here every month and we will email the zoom link to you
Questions: Please email Elena at ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us or call 505-220-7928
Thank you to the Sandia Mountains-EGA for their continued support of this program.
This is a free community event
Colcha Community Stitch-A-Long dates:
February 8th, March 8th, April 12th, May 10th, June 14th, 2022
For more on Colcha, please watch this video.
Colcha Circle Video
Here is the pattern used in the beginner colcha kit. Click thumbnail to enlarge.

Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2022-06-17, 2022-06-23, 2022-06-24, 2022-06-30, 2022-07-01, 2022-07-07, 2022-07-08, 2022-07-14 and 15 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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Explorar Las Artes: Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime—Gazpacho for Nacho
2022-07-19 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
10:00 am
Listen to the rollicking story, Gazpacho for Nacho and then use your five senses to explore the tasty ingredients of gazpacho! By Tracey Kyle (Author) and Carolina Farías (Illustrator). Our gazpacho will be made with cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, garlic, onion, olive oil, pepper, salt, vinegar.
For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers
Free. Register below.
This program generously supported through a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant.

Explorar las Artes: Hora de Cuentos Preescolares Bilingüe: Green is a Chile Pepper
2022-08-16 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
10:00 am
Story by Roseanne Greenfield Thong (Author) and John Parra (Illustrator).
Explorar las Artes is a free, bi-monthly 45-minute program for children ages 3-5 years old and caregivers that cultivates creativity and self-expression through the exploration of Hispanic/Latine arts and culture. Participants explore the NHCC museum and engage in artmaking, music, movement, dance, drama, and bilingual story time. NHCC instructors model age-appropriate arts techniques that celebrate self-expression, build vocabulary, and strengthen both fine-motor and gross-motor skills in a fun environment.
This program generously supported through a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant.

Online Book Reading with Leticia Urieta
2022-08-18 | NM
7:00 pm
Registrants will be sent an email with the webinar link and password. Please check your junk email if you do not receive this email, or contact Dr. Carson Morris at carson.morris@state.nm.us.
Leticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin, TX. She is a freelance writer, a teaching artist in the greater Austin community, and the Regional Program Manager of Austin Bat Cave, a literary community serving students in the Austin area. She also serves the Director of Barrio Writers, a free college level youth writers workshop in Austin. Leticia is a graduate of Agnes Scott College with a BA in English/Creative Writing and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University.
Free community event. Tickets are no longer available online for this event. Please contact Dr. Carson Morris at carson.morris@state.nm.us if you need additional assistance.

Her fiction explores the intersections of Latinx identity with the folklore, traditional stories, and the supernatural or speculative. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Cleaver, Chicon Street Poets, Lumina, The Offing, Kweli Journal, Medium, Electric Lit and others. Her chapbook, The Monster, was published in 2018 from LibroMobile Press and her hybrid collection, Las Criaturas, is out now from FlowerSong Press. Las Criaturas is a hybrid collection that blends poetic and speculative narrative forms to tell stories of untold women, playing with traditional storytelling forms and tales to explore the monstrous, unruly, vulnerable, strength, and beauty in the feminine and seek to reclaim people’s power in powerless situations.
The book is broken into three sections to show the multifaceted nature of the word “criatura.” In the story “The Monster,” a child in a migrant detention center is haunted by a monster made of her own fear. In “La Mujer Alacran,” a woman who is sexually assaulted transforms into a literal “scorpion woman” in order to protect herself. In “The In between Mother,” a daughter attempts to reunite her selkie mother with her true form. https://leticiaaurieta.com/
Generously supported by: United Way

Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2022-08-19 | NM

Emma Pérez Book Reading: "From History to the Future, Mapping Dystopia"
2022-09-08 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
6:00 pm reception
7:00 pm reading
The reception and the reading have been moved into the HLA Salon Ortega
Join us for a reading featuring author Dr. Emma Pérez, the latest author in the NHCC’s historia, idioma, e identidad Series!
Dr. Pérez will be reading from her historical novel Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (2009), as well as Chronicle of a Shifter (2023), a forthcoming novela about a future dystopia in which sex/gender shifters, and Brown, Black, Indigenous people are held in detention camps because they rebel against the corrupt Global World Order.
Free community event. Please register here.

Dr. Pérez earned a PhD in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2017, she joined the University of Arizona as a Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center and a Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Pérez has published fiction, essays, and the history monograph, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999). Pérez’s first novel, Gulf Dreams, was published in 1996 and is considered one of the first Chicanx queer/lesbian novels in print. Her second novel, Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (2009) earned awards including the Isherwood Writing Grant (2009). Her novel, Electra’s Complex (2015), is a mystery set in a college with a history professor as protagonist. A collection of previously published essays and poems, Queering the Border, is forthcoming in December 2022 and Chronicle of a Shifter is forthcoming in 2023.
Generously supported by: United Way
