• Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland, a Facebook live event

    NHCC Facebook

    1 pm Facebook Live Event Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland, a Facebook live event hosted by Bookworks in partnership with the University of New Mexico Press and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Join us for a conversation with editors of a new anthology, Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland, forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press (June 2020). Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez (ASU), Spencer R. Herrera (NMSU), and Levi Romero (UNM and New Mexico Poet Laureate) will read from the anthology and talk with moderator Valerie Martínez of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Hosted by Bookworks. This collection (more...)

  • NHCC Book Club

    5:30 pm - Online via Zoom The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book. Book for July: The Ladies of Managua, Eleni N. Gage. To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.

  • Art Project: Sombra

    NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

      Today we are inspired by three artists,Cristina González, Jacob Sisneros and Paula Castillo. These artists have created large metal sculptures that create beautiful shadows and can be found on the NHCC campus. We hope their use of shapes and the sun inspire you to create your own sombra art! Please share your art or shadow experiments with us! Tag us @nhccnm or make our staff really happy and email us some photos at ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us        

  • Instituto Cervantes Book Club – Registration

    Instituto Cervantes is launching a Spanish Book Club, for the time being, online. This is a club aimed at people interested in literature, both Spanish speakers and students of Spanish with a minimum level of B2 (Advanced Level). In this term we will read Tarta de almendras con amor by Angela Vallvey, Un mar violeta oscuro by Ayanta Barilli, Ni siquiera los muertos by Juan Gómez Bárcena and A flor de piel by Javier Moro. They will read and discuss the texts and talk with the authors, (more...)

  • An Evening for Latinx Youth with Authors Lynda Lopez and Natalia Sylvester

    Live via Zoom

    Live Zoom Event Thursday, August 13, 2020 7:30 PM EST/5:30 PM MST Register The National Hispanic Cultural Center, in collaboration with Duende District and Greenlight Bookstore, present Lynda Lopez, editor of AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Natalia Sylvester, author of Running, with special teen guests from the Latin American Youth Center and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. The evening event will highlight and celebrate Latinx youth civic engagement, featuring authors Lynda Lopez and Natalia Sylvester. Lopez’s book AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria (more...)

  • Virtual 2020 Bosque Chile Festival

    NHCC Facebook

    2 pm both days Bernalillo County and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the Virtual 2020 Bosque Chile Festival, a celebration of food, art, and culture on the Rio Grande. The public is invited to join in the celebration of the chile harvest on Saturday, August 15th and Sunday, August 16th, 2020. This year the festival will be presented virtually, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bosquechilefestival. The Bosque Chile Festival is a celebration of the art, culture, and food of New Mexico, developed to showcase and honor New Mexican and (more...)

  • Art Project: Straw Appliqué

    Make something! We are inspired by Straw Appliqué. This art form can be as simple or as complex as you want and it is always beautiful. We are presenting an activity that is a simple version that you can do en your casa. If you do this project, tag us @nhccnm or make our staff happy and email us photos @ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us

  • NHCC Book Club

    5:30 pm The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book. Book for August: A Long Petal of the Sea, Isabel Allende. To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.

  • Film: Contemporáneos en línea: La mano invisible/The Invisible Hand

    8 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel: https://vimeo.com/institutocervantes Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque presents Contemporáneos en línea, an online showcase of recent work by young, independent Spanish filmmakers. The program brings together two feature films and two documentaries, demonstrating the creative coexistence of these genres in contemporary cinematography. It is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series. In La mano invisible, set in a bare industrial warehouse, a group of workers, including a bricklayer, (more...)

  • A Tribute to Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    La Hilacha Podcast

    8 am La Hilacha Podcast Here Episode ten of History and Literary Arts’ popular new podcast, “La Hilacha,” is a tribute to Carlos Ruiz Zafón, one of the world’s most popular Spanish writers, who died this past June at the age of 55. Ruiz Zafón's works have been published in more than 40 countries and translated into more than 30 languages. Upon Ruiz Zafon’s passing Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, tweeted: “We have lost one of the world’s most read and most admired Spanish writers. Carlos Ruiz (more...)