Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2022-07-07, 2022-07-08, 2022-07-14, 2022-07-15, 2022-07-21, 2022-07-22, 2022-07-28, 2022-07-29 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

¡Cine Magnifico! The Last Movie (USA)
2022-09-13 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.- Film Screening
6:45 p.m. Talk with journalist Fietta Jarque
Dennis Hopper’s second feature film after making his directorial debut with Easy Rider. The Last Movie (1971) was shot in Peru and edited at the artist’s home in Taos (New Mexico).
Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopper and Rebel Without a Cause screenwriter Stewart Stern. The Last Movie follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, Hopper, as the baleful stuntman Kansas, remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production – with Kansas as their sacrificial lamb.
1971; 108 min; Color; English, Rated R
Free Community Event
Note: Tickets for this and other Cine Magnifico showings will be available at the door one hour prior to the screening.
Among the most storied productions of the New Hollywood Era, Hopper was given carte blanche by Universal for his next directorial feature after the tremendous commercial success of Easy Rider. The writer-director-star took the money and ran – literally – staging The Last Movie in Peru at farthest remove from the Hollywood machine, with an on-screen entourage in tow that included Kris Kristofferson, Julie Adams, Stella Garcia, Peter Fonda, Dean Stockwell, Toni Basil, Russ Tamblyn, Michelle Phillips and director Samuel Fuller.
After the movie, talk with the Peruvian journalist and writer based in Spain, Fietta Jarque, author of the book “Where Dennis Hopper lost his poncho”, which tells the story behind The Last Movie.
Jarque began working in cultural journalism at Oiga magazine and El Observador newspaper. She has lived in Spain since 1984 and in the same year she was hired as editor of the Culture pages of the newspaper El País, where she remained until 2013. She has published the books Entrevista con los ángeles (1995), co-authored with journalist Rosa Rivas; the novel Yo me perdono (1998); and the interview book Cómo piensan los artistas (2015).

¡Globalquerque!
2022-09-23 - 2022-09-24 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:00 pm gates open
¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s Annual Celebration of World Music and Culture, has become a premiere festival in the Southwest since its inception in 2005. The purpose of this annual music and culture festival is to highlight cultures of the world alongside the traditional cultures of New Mexico. The event utilizes multiple stages at the NHCC, including the Plaza Mayor, the Albuquerque Journal Theatre, and the History and Literary Arts courtyard (the Fountain Stage), and features a Global Village of Craft, Culture, and Cuisine and a variety of workshops, demonstrations, and other family activities, along with two nights of performances from around the globe. The festival has featured numerous artists from Spain and Latin American countries, as well as Hispanic artists from New Mexico. Some of these artists have performed at the NHCC at other events comprising part of the Performing Arts program’s seasonal programming.
Learn more at www.Globalquerque.org
Click here for the Globalquerque Line up

Early Bird special (April 8 to June 19):
ONE DAY (September 23 OR 24): $35 adults, $18 ages 13-17, $25 with valid student ID for one day
TWO DAY (September 23 and 24): $50 adults, $25 ages 13-17, $35 with valid student ID for two days, non-transferable;
children 12 and under free.
Advance tickets (June 19 to September 23):
ONE DAY (September 23 OR 24): $40 adults, $20 ages 13-17, $30 with valid student ID
TWO DAY: (September 23 and 24): $60 adults, $30 ages 13-17 for two days, $45 with valid student ID, non-transferable; children 12 and under free.
Day of show (September 23 OR 24):
ONE DAY (September 23 OR 24): $50 adults, $20 ages 13-17, $40 with valid student
TWO DAY: (September 23 and 24): $70 adults, $30 ages 13-17, $60 with valid student ID for two days, non-transferable; Children 12 and under free.
After 9 pm: $20 per day
PLEASE NOTE: A 2-day pass is for one person for two days and may NOT be shared.
