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  • Unveiling of Rudolfo Anaya Bust

    History and Literary Arts Building

    6 pm Join the National Hispanic Cultural Center for an unveiling and dedication of Reynaldo “Sonny” Rivera’s sculptural bust of Rudolfo Anaya in the Center’s History and Literary Arts Library from 6 to 7 pm, in advance of the Center’s presentation of Mr. Anaya’s work The Season of La Llorona in the Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. Generously donated by Mr. Anaya, the sculpture was accepted as a (more...)

  • Our Space is Your Space

    Plaza Mayor

    This is a call to bring together the people of our community. People of all backgrounds and ideologies, and for many different reasons, have expressed fears of losing their place in our nation. This is our offer to you, as important individuals within our community, to use our space to express your hopes, fears and dreams. At the National Hispanic Cultural Center, we celebrate and strengthen the beauty, depth and resilience of the human spirit as told through the lens of Hispanic cultures. In this effort, we expand (more...)

  • La Canoa: Los Matachines de Bernalillo, New Mexico

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm to 4 pm Joseph Moreno, PhD candidate in Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies/Education, University of New Mexico - Los Matachines de Bernalillo, New Mexico Join Joseph Moreno, University of New Mexico PhD candidate in Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies/Education, and dancer in Los Matachines for the past 16 years, for a presentation on Los Matachines de Bernalillo, New Mexico. The talk will be held in the History and Literary Arts Building-Library on Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 2pm. This La Canoa: Legacy Talks presentation will (more...)

  • First Friday: Docent Education and Conversation

    Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    9:30 am – 12 pm On the first Friday of each month, NHCC docents and core volunteers meet for coffee and conversation along with monthly presentations on topics that build the knowledge and skills of the docent core to give tours, educate the NHCC visitors and share the NHCC mission and programs. For more information on the NHCC Docent and Volunteer program, Please call David Torrez at 505-246-2261 or email him at DavidM.Torres@state.nm.us for more information. Free event

  • Only the Road/Solo El Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry

    History and Literary Arts Building

    Join poet and author Margaret Randall on Dec. 3 for a presentation, reading and book signing of ONLY THE ROAD/SOLO EL CAMINO: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry. This book, featuring the work of more than 50 poets born between 1902 and 1981, paints a full and dynamic picture of modern Cuban life and poetry, highlighting unique features and idiosyncrasies; changes across generations; and the ebbs and flows between repression and freedom following the 1959 Revolution. It is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership.

  • La Canoa: Taste, Place and Memory: Toward A Poetics of Chile Eating

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm to 4 pm Join Dr. Victor Valle, an Emeritus professor of Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in exploring the life-world of his childhood chile memories to understand a particular family’s idea of chile eating and what it tells us about where and who they were. Dr. Valle's lecture reveals a critical framework for interpreting the poetics of “taste, place, and memory” and takes its title from the first chapter of his forthcoming book, The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile-Eating (more...)

  • First Friday: Docent Education and Conversation

    Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    9:30 am – 12 pm On the first Friday of each month, NHCC docents and core volunteers meet for coffee and conversation along with monthly presentations on topics that build the knowledge and skills of the docent core to give tours, educate the NHCC visitors and share the NHCC mission and programs. For more information on the NHCC Docent and Volunteer program, Please call Annette Lujan at 505-383-4783 or email her at Annette.Lujan@state.nm.us for more information. Free event

  • La Canoa: Latinos in the Public Media and the Popular Imagination

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm to 4 pm Join Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston law professor and native New Mexican, as he looks at this topic through several lenses, including depictions in the popular press; film and television industries; and music. He will show how the widespread and relentlessly negative characterizations of Latinos have serious consequences in all areas of the public imagination and the polity. New Mexico has a long and significant history of music, movies, and literature that have contributed to the historical record, and he will (more...)

  • Give Me Life: Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm to 4 pm Join author Holly Barnet-Sanchez for a presentation and book signing as she offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced. Leading experts on mural art, Barnet-Sanchez and her co-author Tim Drescher use a distinctive methodology, analyzing the art from aesthetic, political, and cultural perspectives to show how murals and graffiti reflected and influenced the Chicano civil rights movement. This free event, generously sponsored by The Bank of Albuquerque, will take place (more...)

  • First Friday: Docent Education and Conversation

    Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    9:30 am – 12 pm On the first Friday of each month, NHCC docents and core volunteers meet for coffee and conversation along with monthly presentations on topics that build the knowledge and skills of the docent core to give tours, educate the NHCC visitors and share the NHCC mission and programs. For more information on the NHCC Docent and Volunteer program, Please call Annette Lujan at 505-383-4783 or email her at Annette.Lujan@state.nm.us for more information. Free event