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  • La Canoa: The Women of Local 890 and the Empire Mine Strike

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    2 pm Please join Professor Kells as she examines "embodied rhetoric" in the Local 890 chapter of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers of Hanover, New Mexico, who staged one of the nation’s most effective groundbreaking strikes near Silver City from October 1950 to January 1952. The grievances of the Empire Zinc workers included racial discrimination in job duties and pay, toxic work environments, and inequitable power sharing between labor and management. The dramatic showdown, resulting in incarceration of forty-five women, seventeen children, and (more...)

  • Reading & Booksigning and Walk Along the Bosque with Michelle Otero, Albuquerque Poet Laureate

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24

    6 pm: Walk Along the Bosque 7 pm: Poetry Reading Please join us for a reading by Albuquerque’s fourth (and newest) Poet Laureate, Michelle Otero. In addition, Michelle is coordinating a series of walks along the Rio Grande Bosque, “Walking with Poets,” hosted by local poets, highlighting the work of poets we love,  and raising awareness of the need to conserve and preserve our beloved Rio. The walks will lead to a bosque  poetry anthology, to be edited by Otero. "Walking With Poets" takes place on the (more...)

  • Dia de Los Muertos Art Show: “Lost Places”

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Join us for a special Dia de los Muertos art show. New Mexico artists were invited to create 8” x 8” works of art with poetry or text that honor a place whose absence they mourn—whether a lost region of the Amazon, Chaco Canyon, or an abuela’s kitchen. Proceeds from sales of the works support the artists and NHCC History and Literary Arts programming. Free Thank you to our Día de los Muertos presenting sponsor Western Sky Community Care and to our supporting partners Nusenda (more...)

  • Sundays in the Museum: Exhibition tour with Brandee Caoba

    September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes

    2 pm Join us for a tour of the exhibition, Because It’s Time, led by Brandee Caoba. About her artwork, Spiritus Mundi, Brandee writes, “Approaching this project from a universal perspective, I have come to recognize that we are all living under the same sky. We share an almost identical genetic code--regardless of skin color, hair texture, the color of our eyes, gender, sexual orientation, education, socio-economic background and ethnic or cultural identity. Not only does our genetic coding link us to each other, but it also (more...)

  • La Canoa: Patriots From the Barrio

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    2 pm Please join us and author Dave Gutierrez for a presentation of his book Patriots from the Barrio. Mr. Gutierrez will relate the true story of Company E 141st Infantry, the only all Mexican American U.S. Army unit in WWII. In September of 2017, Hollywood actor/producer Wilmer Valderrama obtained the film rights to the book. Dave Gutierrez is a professional researcher, historical presenter, and writer. His articles have appeared in publications including American Legion and War History Online. Recognized by both the Texas Military Forces Museum (more...)

  • La Canoa: The Nuclear Option: Perpetuating the Myth of New Mexico as Wasteland

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    2 pm Please join UNM Assistant Professor Myrriah Gómez for a presentation on New Mexico and the nuclear option. Long before the nuclear industrial complex began in here in 1942, New Mexico was depicted by outsiders as a “wasteland.” In an effort to combat that historical portrayal, the New Mexico Bureau of Immigration issued Aztlán: The History, Resources and Attractions of New Mexico in 1885, a book that was used to recruit Anglos to New Mexico in an effort to shift the racial and ethnic demographics so as to earn statehood. Building on (more...)

  • Eric J. Garcia: Presentation & Book Signing

    September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes

    6-8 pm Known for mixing history with contemporary themes, Eric J. Garcia always tries to create art that is much more than just aesthetics. Born and raised in Albuquerque's South Valley, Garcia received his BFA with a minor in Chicano studies from the University of New Mexico, then went on to complete his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has shown in numerous national exhibitions and his artwork can be found in the collections of The National Hispanic Cultural Center, National Museum (more...)

  • Mayor Tim Keller’s State of the City Celebration

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

    12 pm – 2 pm Albuquerque’s Mayor Tim Keller’s State of the City Celebration—a #OneAlbuquerque Community Celebration with Mayor Tim Keller, with food trucks, live music, local art, and more! The celebration begins at noon, with the State of the City Address at 1 pm. Please note that the live event in the NHCC’s Domenici Education Building has sold out; because of the incredible response for this event, we have added an On-Site Watch Party in the Albuquerque Journal Theatre. The Watch Party includes full participation in (more...)

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  • La Canoa: Outside the Recipes: the Sustenance of Story

    2 pm Querencia as defined by Nuevomexicano scholar Juan Estevan Arellano is "love of place.”  Please join Dr. Patricia Perea as she presents a talk on the articulation of querencia to speak directly with the writings and experiences discussed in this lecture. These writings include Fabiola Cabeza de Baca’s The Good Life: New Mexico Traditions and Food (2005), Denise Chávez’s A Taco Testimony (2006) and The Pueblo Food Experience: Whole Food of Our Ancestors (2016).  Each of these works connect the texture of food, the complex ties (more...)

  • La Canoa: Daniel Webb “The Power and Place of the Apachería in Colonial New Mexico”

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm Please join Daniel Webb as he examines the history of the diverse population of Athapaskan-speaking peoples identified as Apache (Ndé) in the colonial archives of northern New Spain. He will trace the different stages of their migration and territorial expansion across the vast geographical expanse known as the Apachería (the Apaches' ancestral homelands), illustrating their relations with other sovereign Indian nations and Hispano settlers, and the policies that Spain introduced in the eighteenth century to restrict their mobility. Through analysis of a wide range of (more...)