Events

Events

Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!

6:30 pm (MST) Live on Zoom Register in advance HERE We are back! Coming to you through zoom! Happy Arte Hour is an adult only at making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm (MST) February – December. Please register and prior to the class you will receive an email with the zoom link and items/art supplies  to gather from around your house.  Please do not (more...)

Perspectivas Modernas: The Art and Craft of Oaxacan Mezcal

6 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Ronda Brulotte, The Art and Craft of Oaxacan Mezcal Not only is mezcal Oaxaca, Mexico’s fastest-growing rural industry, it connects the region to producers, brokers, and consumers across the U.S.- Mexico border and throughout the world. In this presentation, Dr. Ronda Brulotte discusses the rise of mezcal as a global commodity within the artisanal food movement, as well as how this transformation has impacted rural producer communities in southern Mexico. Free community event Dr. Ronda Brulotte is Associate Professor (more...)

Perspectivas Modernas: The Art and Craft of Oaxacan Mezcal

6 m (MTS) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Ronda Brulotte, The Art and Craft of Oaxacan Mezcal Not only is mezcal Oaxaca, Mexico’s fastest-growing rural industry, it connects the region to producers, brokers, and consumers across the US-Mexico border and throughout the world. In this presentation, Dr. Ronda Brulotte discusses the rise of mezcal as a global commodity within the artisanal food movement, as well as how this transformation has impacted rural producer communities in southern Mexico. Free community event Dr. Ronda Brulotte is Associate Professor of (more...)

National Council for History Education (NCHE) Conference Virtual Field Trip

2 pm (MTS) Live online. To attend Register HERE El Voto Femenino: The Remarkable Lives of Latina Suffragists Worldwide Join the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) for a journey into the remarkable lives and accomplishments of Latina suffragists instrumental in women’s suffrage worldwide. In 2020 the NHCC produced a landmark exhibit, “The Women’s Vote: Latina Suffragists Fighting for the Right to Vote/El voto femenino: sufragistas Latinas luchando por el derecho al voto,” in celebration of 100 years of the U.S. women’s vote. It features women from 27 (more...)

Colcha Community Stitch-Along

1 pm (MST) Live via Zoom Our Virtual Colcha Community Workshop is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting, wherever they may reside. 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. This workshop is for all levels of experience in an informal setting.  Annette will demonstrate as well as answer questions. We hope you will join (more...)

NHCC Children’s Bilingual Book Festival

9 am-5 pm (MST) Live online. Visit the festival website This annual festival is the only one of its kind in the U.S. that features children’s books in Spanish and English and Indigenous languages and English. The focus on Spanish, English, Indigenous languages books and authors makes this festival particularly meaningful and vibrant, reflecting the identities of many children in New Mexico, the American Southwest, and beyond. We want to encourage children to see themselves in contemporary children’s literature as well as introduce a bilingual body of (more...)

NHCC Book Club: Everyone Knows You Go Home—Natalia Sylvester

5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us Winner of an  International Latino Book Award. “The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already dead—an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar’s family—especially his wife, Elda—to let him redeem himself.” - Goodreads. Free community event

“NHCC Learning” Workshop for Educators

6:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom In this free workshop for educators, learn about and discuss NHCC Learning's educational resources and the AmeriCorps project, meet some of the NHCC's Visual Arts staff, and be entered in a raffle to win a special prize for attending!​ There are two opportunities to join this workshop: Thursday, April 22, 6:30 pm (MST) & Saturday, April 24, 10:00 am (MST). To register, click here!

Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: The Pen and The Sword: Literary Works of Colonial New Mexico

2 pm (MST) Live via Zoom, Register HERE Join State Historian Rob Martínez as he explores New Mexico's early literary tradition with influences from epic poems of the ancient Mediterranean, colonial Mexico, and the mystic poetic traditions of San Juan de la Cruz and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The talk will take you on a journey showing how these different styles are manifested in the works of authors like Villagrá, Benavides, Sigüenza y Góngora, and Quintana. Free community event Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque is presented by (more...)

“NHCC Learning” Workshop For Educators

10 am (MST) Live via Zoom In this free workshop for educators, learn about and discuss NHCC Learning's educational resources and the AmeriCorps project, meet some of the NHCC's Visual Arts staff, and be entered in a raffle to win a special prize for attending!​ There are two opportunities to join this workshop: Thursday, April 22, 6:30pm (MST) & Saturday, April 24, 10:00 am (MST). To register, click here!