Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2023-06-08, 2023-06-09, 2023-06-15, 2023-06-16, 2023-06-22, 2023-06-23, 2023-06-29, 2023-06-30 and 13 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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Voces de Latinidad: Gregorio Gonzales
2023-06-15 | Indian Pueblo Cultural Center , 2401 12th Street NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, United States
6:00 pm
Join us at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center for the second Community Listening Session in a series of 6 for our Voces de Latinidad documentary film project. Each gathering in this series will focus on a different cultural aspect of the question: “Who or what is Latinidad?” Voces de Latinidad aims to feature unique voices from our community culminating in a short documentary and digital archive celebrating the rich diversity of our lived experiences.
On June 15, we invite all people of Hispanic, Latina/o/e/x, Chicana/o/e/x, Indigenous, and New Mexican heritage from the communities of Barelas, Atrisco, the greater South Valley, and surrounding neighborhoods to come and share how you identify culturally and how this shapes your reality and lived experiences.
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Speaker: Hailing from the New Mexico borderlands, Gregorio Gonzales identifies as Comanche & Genízaro. He is a tribal cultural empowerment professional, NDN músico, and Tribal Liaison with the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (NMDCA). Gregorio works with American Indian tribal governments, NMDCA divisions, and urban Indigenous community stakeholders to preserving New Mexico tribal cultures. Dr. Gonzales is also an active collaborator with Americans for Indian Opportunity.
*Note: Community Sessions will be filmed and some individuals may be selected for interviews.
The Voces de Latinidad project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Democracy Demands Wisdom.

Artist Talk and Book Signing: Joel Salcido
2023-06-16 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
7:00 pm
Salon Ortega
Join us for an artist talk with Joel Salcido from Aliento a Tequila y el Arte de Agave (or The Spirit of Tequila and the Art of Agave). Joel will do a reading from his book, The Spirit of Tequila and guests from the audience will have an opportunity for a Q&A followed by a book signing.
The Aliento a Tequila y el Arte de Agave (or The Spirit of Tequila and the Art of Agave) exhibition explores and celebrates the landscape, culture, and traditions that gave birth to tequila, Mexico’s national drink. In this series, photographer Joel Salcido includes the original distilleries that literally founded the industry, as well as several artisanal tequileras committed to the ancestral ways of making tequila from harvest to bottle. Objects and paintings related to the theme of agave will be on display from the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum Permanent Collection and loans from various institutions and artist Hailey Marmolejo.

El Arte de la Palabra Reading: The Corazón Collective
2023-06-22 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
6:00 pm: Reception & Book-signing
6:30 pm: Readings begin

Join us for a reading and book-signing event featuring members of the Corazón Collective! The Corazón Collective is a collective of female and nonbinary writers, poets, and educators from Texas and California who will be offering workshops and readings in El Paso and New Mexico this June. This event is part of the NHCC’s El Arte de la Palabra program.
Free Community Event. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
This program is generously supported by AARP New Mexico.
Carmen Calatayud is a poet and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in print and online. She is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow.
ire’ne lara silva is the author of four poetry books among other publications, and the recipient of a NALAC grant, the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, and the Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction, among other accolades.
jo reyes-boitel l is a poet and playwright whose hybrid opera was chosen as a finalist for Guerilla Opera’s 2022 annual virtual festival. Along with their two books, their work has appeared in numerous publications.
Angelina Sáenz is an award-winning author and poet whose debut book of poetry was recently published. Her poems have been published in many journals and she is a Macondo Writer’s Workshop Fellow.
Jen Yáñez-Alaniz is a poet, scholar, educator, activist, and Pushcart Prize nominee for her poetry. She is currently working on a critical biography of Carmen Tafolla and her poems have appeared in a variety of publications.

Voces de Latinidad: Joanna Keane Lopez
2023-06-24 | Off Campus: Hubbell House (6029 Isleta Blvd SW)
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Join us at the Hubbell House in the South Valley for the third Community Listening Session in a series of 6 for our Voces de Latinidad documentary film project, featuring Joanna Keane Lopez. Each gathering in this series will focus on a different cultural aspect of the question: “Who or what is Latinidad?” Voces de Latinidad aims to feature unique voices from our community culminating in a short documentary and digital archive celebrating the rich diversity of our lived experiences.
On June 24, we invite all people of Hispanic, Latina/o/e/x, Chicana/o/e/x, Indigenous, and New Mexican heritage from the communities of Barelas, Atrisco, the greater South Valley, and surrounding neighborhoods to come and share how you identify culturally and how this shapes your reality and lived experiences.
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Speaker: Joanna Keane Lopez is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is informed through adobe, paper, clay, wood, textiles and song. She inherited the practice of working with adobe, a mixture of mud and straw, from her family who constructed, maintained, and lived in earthen homes. She is also informed by the teachings of enjarradoras and adoberas, women who specialize in the traditional craft of earthen architecture who continue the practice today in the complex cultural landscape of New Mexico.
*Note: Community Sessions will be filmed and some individuals may be selected for interviews. The start time for this event has been updated to 3:00 pm.
The Voces de Latinidad project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Democracy Demands Wisdom.

Colcha Community Stitch A-long
2023-06-27 | Live via Zoom or in-person
9:30 am on the 4th Tuesday of each month
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 fourth Tuesday, on zoom or in person. 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@dca.nm.gov or call 505-220-7928.
Free Community Event. Thank you to the Sandia Mountains-EGA for their continued support of this program.

For more on Colcha, please watch this video: Colcha Circle Video
Here is the pattern used in the beginner colcha kit. Click the thumbnail below to enlarge.

Voces de Latinidad: Community Session featuring Mónica Sanchez
2023-07-11 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Join us in Salón Ortega for the fourth Community Listening Session in a series of 6 for our Voces de Latinidad documentary film project. Each gathering in this series will focus on a different cultural aspect of the question: “Who or what is Latinidad?” Voces de Latinidad aims to feature unique voices from our community culminating in a short documentary and digital archive celebrating the rich diversity of our lived experiences.
On July 11, we invite all people of Hispanic, Latina/o/e/x, Chicana/o/e/x, Indigenous, and New Mexican heritage from the communities of Barelas, Atrisco, the greater South Valley, and surrounding neighborhoods to come and share how you identify culturally and how this shapes your reality and lived experiences.
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Speaker: Mónica Sánchez holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of New Mexico. She has followed her bliss throughout a life in the theatre and the theatre of life. Over 30 years she has honed her craft as a professional actor, written and devised work collaboratively and independently for the stage, directed a handful of productions small and large, and enjoyed a myriad of assignments as a teaching artist and community engagement facilitator with diverse and intergenerational communities.
*Note: Community Sessions will be filmed and some individuals may be selected for interviews.
The Voces de Latinidad project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Democracy Demands Wisdom.

FIFA Women's World Cup: USA v Vietnam
2023-07-21 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
Doors open at 6:00 pm with food trucks and breweries on the NHCC Campus
GAME 1 of the FIFA Women’s World Cup hosted at the National Hispanic Cultural Center begins! This is the ninth Women’s World Cup, and it will be the biggest yet with 32 teams competing across 64 games. Come join us for the pregame festivities and kickoff. Game 1 features Team USA beginning its quest to defend the 2019 World Cup title against Vietnam.
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.
Rain or Shine | Bags Subject To Search | Lawn and Low Profile Camping Style Chairs Welcome | Blankets Welcome | Food Vendors Will Be On Site | ADA Area with Chairs Available | Only Clear Bags Allowed on Campus | No Weapons of Any Kind Allowed | No Fireworks Allowed on Campus

Voces de Latinidad: Community Session featuring Maritza Perez
2023-08-08 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join us in Salón Ortega for the fifth Community Listening Session in a series of 6 for our Voces de Latinidad documentary film project. Each gathering in this series will focus on a different cultural aspect of the question: “Who or what is Latinidad?” Voces de Latinidad aims to feature unique voices from our community culminating in a short documentary and digital archive celebrating the rich diversity of our lived experiences.
On July 8, we invite all people of Hispanic, Latina/o/e/x, Chicana/o/e/x, Indigenous, and New Mexican heritage from the communities of Barelas, Atrisco, the greater South Valley, and surrounding neighborhoods to come and share how you identify culturally and how this shapes your reality and lived experiences.
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Speaker: A native of the Dominican Republic, Loida Maritza Pérez is an independent scholar, cultural activist and author of Geographies of Home, a novel published in the United States and abroad. Her upcoming book, Beyond the Pale, won a PEN America 2019 Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History. Her work has appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Latina, MaComere, Meridians, Edinburgh Review, Bomb, Callaloo and Best of Callaloo.
*Note: Community Sessions will be filmed and some individuals may be selected for interviews.
The Voces de Latinidad project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Democracy Demands Wisdom.

Voces de Latinidad: Community Session featuring Antoinette Rael
2023-08-17 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Head to the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Salón Ortega for the final Community Listening Session in our Voces de Latinidad documentary film project, featuring speaker Antoinette Rael. Each gathering in this series focuses on a different cultural aspect of the question: “Who or what is Latinidad?” This unique project features unique voices from our community culminating in a short documentary and digital archive celebrating the rich diversity of our lived experiences.
On August 17, we invite people of Hispanic, Latina/o/e/x, Chicana/o/e/x, Indigenous, and New Mexican heritage from the communities of Barelas, Atrisco, the greater South Valley, and surrounding neighborhoods to come and share how they identify culturally and how this shapes their reality and lived experiences.
This is a free community event, made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Democracy Demands Wisdom.

Note: Community Sessions will be filmed and some individuals may be selected for interviews.
About the Speaker: Antoinette Rael was born in Albuquerque’s North Valley and raised in the beautiful Pecos Valley of Northern New Mexico. She takes pride in her heritage, experiences, and expression of traditions. She owes it all to her parents, where she learned to appreciate the value of family, work, and culture, and being a strong Chicana. She is the Department Administrator for UNM’s Chicana and Chicano Studies department.
