Speakers
La Canoa: Taste, Place and Memory: Toward A Poetics of Chile Eating
History and Literary Arts Building2 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, NM9:30 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 Building2 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 Building2 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, NM9:30 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: Nuevomexicano Children’s Literature: Bilingual and Bicultural in Both Past and Present
History and Literary Arts Building2 pm to 4 pm Join panelists Amy Córdova, artist and illustrator; and Enrique L. Lamadrid, Gabriel Meléndez, Anna M. Nogar, and Michael Trujillo, from the University of New Mexico for a discussion on Nuevomexicano children’s literature. Recent studies of popular cultural production often center on forms intended for adults. This roundtable will consider a genre designed for children that involves adult interlocutors and mentors. The panelist discussion will center on bilingual, culturally informed children’s books that treat topics relating to New Mexican history, oral literature and (more...)
First Friday: Docent Education and Conversation
Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM9:30 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
International Women’s Day Celebration
Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7 pm to 9 pm In celebration of International Women's Day, 19 different voices will perform poetry. The event will feature, Ebony Isis Booth, Alysia Coriz, Mercedes Holtry, Mary Oishi, Brenda Morales, Sarita Gonzalez, Merimee Moffitt, Ana Lopez, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, Brooke Von Blomberg, Eva Crespin, Arlaina Ash, Jules Nyquist, Liza Wolff-Francis, Yasmeen Najmi, Mikki Aronoff, Tina Carlson, Amy Beveridge, and Valerie Martinez. Free public event
Workshop with Cynthia Cook
Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM5:30 pm to 7:30 pm The National Hispanic Cultural Center, in conjunction with Albuquerque’s annual Women and Creativity series celebrating women’s creativity across the disciplines, invites you to observe Women’s History Month with artist Cynthia Cook. This hands-on workshop will be led by Cook and inspired by her work and personal techniques, which are featured in the NHCC Art Museum’s exhibition Fantasía Fantástica: Imaginative Spaces and Other-Worldly Collage. Please register using the link below (so we know how many materials to prepare) https://goo.gl/forms/yALP5QDJlO1F5oJx1 For more information please (more...)
Reading & Booksigning: Celia López-Chávez, Epics of Empire and Frontier
History and Literary Arts Building2 pm to 4 pm Join author Celia López-Chávez for a reading from her new book Epics of Empire and Frontier: Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers. Epics of Empire and Frontier reveals new ways of thinking about the themes of empire and frontier from the muse of the epic poems La Araucana by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla and Historia de la Nueva México by Gaspar de Villagrá, Mexican-born captain under Juan de Oñate in New Mexico, both of which (more...)