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  • Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde

    11 am (MST) Instituto Cervantes YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/cervantesabq This series of on-line talks highlights the work of women who have paved the way in investigating new artistic languages in disciplines such as electronic music, video creation, or photography. It features New Mexico artists such as filmmaker Sally Kewayosh, Spanish-speaking artists living in the United States such as photographer and filmmaker Jose Girl, and Spanish artists such as musician Niet! and video artist Regina Álvarez. Free community event In March, this programming will be complemented by “Pioneers of (more...)

  • NHCC Book Club: Atop the Windmill: I Could See Forever—Maria Dolores Gonzales

    5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “In this memoir a series of vignettes features Dolores, the fourth-born daughter in a family of five girls, growing up in rural, northeastern New Mexico. Atop the Windmill appeals to both adult and young readers who have an interest in the rich Nuevomexicano linguistic and cultural heritage of New Mexico.”—Bilingual Strategies. Free and open to the public

  • 2021 Winter ABQ Virtual Jewish Film Fest:  The House on Wannsee Street

    Screening—Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 7 pm (MST) * Available for 72 hours * Zoom Conversation—Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 12 pm (MST) Individual tickets are $8 and household tickets are $15; ticket prices include the film and the Zoom conversation. Purchase tickets HERE The House on Wannsee Street is the story of generations of family secrets that are uncovered in this sweeping international story that begins with the Second World War and concludes with an emotional twenty-first-century revelation. When award-winning Argentinean filmmaker Poli Martínez Kaplun decided (more...)

  • Film: Ciclo Ángela Molina, Las cosas del querer

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Jaime Chávarrri’s Las cosas del querer follows the trajectory of a song-and-dance duo and their piano player in the 1940s, with a look into their backstage lives and an evocation of the popular music of their times. As the group’s rise to fame and fortune parallels Franco’s consolidation of power in collusion with the Spanish aristocracy, their return to Madrid marks the most difficult  moments of their careers. Lavishly produced and vibrantly entertaining as a musical, (more...)

  • Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Michelle Otero, Bosque

    3 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Nestled in the heart of Albuquerque is a vibrant cottonwood forest that has flourished for centuries along the Río Grande—providing a home for porcupines, migratory birds, coyotes, and other wildlife as well as a sanctuary for its city residents. In her debut poetry collection, Bosque, Michelle Otero celebrates the importance of water and the bosque to the people of Albuquerque. Free community event “Michelle Otero reveals the palette of The Color Brown throughout the magnificent collection of poetry...A must (more...)

  • 2021 Winter ABQ Virtual Jewish Film Fest: The House on Wannsee Street

    Screening—Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 7 pm (MST) * Available for 72 hours * Zoom Conversation—Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 12 pm (MST) Individual tickets are $8 and household tickets are $15; ticket prices include the film and the Zoom conversation. Purchase tickets HERE The House on Wannsee Street is the story of generations of family secrets that are uncovered in this sweeping international story that begins with the Second World War and concludes with an emotional twenty-first-century revelation. When award-winning Argentinean filmmaker Poli Martínez Kaplun decided (more...)

  • Film: La Guerra Civil Española por nosotras/Female Views of the Spanish Civil War

    12 am (MST) Available through 11:59 pm (MST) March 7 Place: All titles will be available on the Mujeres de Cine VOD platform HERE Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque, in collaboration with Mujeres de Cine (Women of Cinema), presents the on-line film series La Guerra Civil española por nosotras (Female views of the Spanish Civil War), bringing together the views of three Spanish female directors on this conflict. The cycle comprises three full-length films: La buena nueva, by Helena Taberna, El gran vuelo, by Carolina Astudillo Muñoz, and El (more...)

  • Perspectivas Modernas: Trans-American Detritus: A Study in Trans-Femicide  

    6 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE This presentation focuses on the photography series, En la Pista (2016) by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. I focus on Margolles' use of portraiture to capture a snapshot of the lives of transwomen in Juarez, Mexico, and the transitions of the border. Margolles' work visually disrupts narratives of femicide and slows the frantic pace of life on the border within the boundaries of the frame of the photographs. Free and open to the public Francisco Galarte is an assistant professor (more...)

  • 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...)

  • Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Manuel González, Duende de Burque: Alburquerque Poems and Musings

    3 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE A virtual event partnership with the University of New Mexico Press and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Manuel González will read and be in conversation with Valerie Martinez, Director of History and Literary Arts at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. At its center, Manuel Gonzalez’s Duende de Burque is a love letter to Alburquerque and its surroundings—the Sandia Mountains, the Rio Grande Bosque, and all the people whose spirits fill these spaces.  Manuel González was the City of Albuquerque’s (more...)