Speakers
AfroMundo Festival: Divinations: Ika, Ijekun, Obara – Visual Arts Chat/Slide Presentation
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting7:00 pm Afro Caribbean Cosmology is rooted in understanding how the ashé, the underlying power in all living things, manifests and connects to human beings. For souls to live in balance, it is essential to learn how to read nature’s inherent powers. It is by identifying with nature that one develops conscience, as well as the iwa pele, the “good character” that guarantees joy, a full life, and an ability to “see” and to understand the connection between all living things. Free community event “Divinations” are photosculpture (more...)
AfroMundo Festival: Angelica Screening & Panel Discussion
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:00 pm Free community event This Spanish w/English subtitles film takes an intimate look at racial issues within a Puerto Rican family and brings taboo discussions of racial politics to the foreground. “People talk about racism and sexism in the U.S.,” Film Director Gómez-Mouakad explains. “They may not do much, but in talking about it they are at least addressing the problem. In Puerto Rico — and across the Caribbean and Latin America — there is a lot of denial. If you do talk about the issues, (more...)
AfroMundo Festival: Jamaica y Tamarindo Screening & Panel Discussion
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:00 pm This Spanish w/English subtitles documentary explores Afro-Mexican identities via multiple perspectives. Panelists include Film Director Ebony Marie Bailey, Dr. Dora Careaga Coleman, Heather Smith, and Naomi Ambriz. Free community event AfroMundo Festival Shared Roots: A Celebration of Afro-Latinx Culture AfroMundo was born of a desire to counter alienation and marginalization by fostering civic engagement. It was therefore founded on the principles of convite—an age-old collaborative tradition that enables community members to pool their talents and scarce resources for rituals of life, socialization and mutual support, (more...)
AfroMundo Festival: Screening & Panel Discussion
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:00 pm This Spanish/w English subtitles documentary explores Spain’s slave owning & slave trafficking past that links its ports to one in Vera Cruz. It also depicts the influence of that shared slave past on Spanish and Mexican culture, particularly on Flamenco and Son Jarocho. Panelists Carolina “Caro” Acuña-Olvera, Rosalinda Rojas, and Yvonne B. Hamilton Gutierrez are members of the Black Flamenco Network, also known as FUAAD—Flamencos Unidos Africanos y Afro Descendientes. Free community event AfroMundo Festival Shared Roots: A Celebration of Afro-Latinx Culture AfroMundo was born (more...)
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States11:00 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 (more...)
Colcha Community Stitch A-long
Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM9:30 am (MST) on the second Tuesday of the Month Live via Zoom on February 8 and hybrid: on Zoom and onsite beginning March 8, 2022 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 (more...)
Escribir | Escuchar: Hispanic & Latine Writer Series Presents ire’ne lara silva
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-306:00 pm Reception | Lobby, Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts 7:00 pm Reading 8:00 pm Booksigning The National Hispanic Cultural Center presents award-winning author ire’ne lara silva. She is the author of four poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI/House of Song, and FirstPoems, two chapbooks, Enduring Azucares and Hibiscus Tacos, and a short story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. She and poet Dan Vera are also the co-editors of Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, a collection of poetry and essays. ire’ne is the recipient of a 2021 Tasajillo Writers (more...)
Escribir | Escuchar: Hispanic & Latine Writer Series Gritos Creative Writing Workshop with ire’ne lara silva
Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM10:00 am to 1:30 pm Gritos: On Finding the Sources of Our Voices… While gritos are most often associated with mariachi groups, el Grito de Dolores, or Mexican culture, we will be looking at gritos from another viewpoint—as a way of finding our own deepest personal voice, to ground the creative mind in our bodies, to root the voice in our hearts, and to both release and control emotion in the body and voice. There will be various visualization exercises, a lot of playing with physical stances, (more...)
Artist Chisme: Creative Conversations
September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes1:00 pm Join us for some Chisme and creative conversation in our Art Museum Sculpture Garden with artists from our current exhibition Tempo y Tiempo: 4 Photographers in New Mexico. This program provides participants the chance to engage in deep conversation, connect on a personal level with each other, NHCC Staff and guest artist(s). Program included with the price of Museum Admission (limited to 25 people) Please Book Your Spot Here!
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States11:00 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 (more...)