Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2023-08-10, 2023-08-11, 2023-08-17, 2023-08-18, 2023-08-24, 2023-08-25, 2023-08-31, 2023-09-01 and 4 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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Film: Agave is Life
2023-08-10 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm: Cash bar and food trucks
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: UNM Mariachi Ensemble
7:00 pm: Film screening
Note: This screening will now be held in the Bank of America Theatre.
Agave is Life is an exploration of the history of the agave plant in the cultures of Mexico and the American Southwest. Starting thousands of years ago when hunter-gatherers viewed the hardy desert succulent with its myriad uses as a gift from the gods, agave’s story is told through the lens of archaeological, ethnographic, and modern-day vignettes, closing with concerns about threats to the plant’s future.
Directed by Meredith L. Dreiss & Davi Brown | Documentary | 2014 | 70 minutes | English | TVPG
Free community event. Please let us know how many will be attending below.
Generously supported by Bank of America.

Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime: The Very Hungry Caterpillar/La Oruga Muy Hambrienta
2023-08-15 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
10:00 am
Head to the Center for our next Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime, featuring The Very Hungry Caterpillar/La Oruga Muy Hambrienta, by Eric Carle! This much-loved children’s book tells the story of a tiny caterpillar who is born hungry and eats everything in sight over the course of a week.
Free community event. For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
This program is generously supported by Bank of Albuquerque.

Siempre Creativo: Printmaking Workshops for Seniors
2023-08-16 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Please join us for 3 consecutive weeks exploring a variety of printmaking processes with artist Carol Sanchez. We will look for creative inspiration in the NHCC Art Museum printmaking exhibition, Nexo Entre Raíces, and experiment with a different printmaking technique in the Education Building. Please wear comfortable shoes for exploring the art museum. Participating seniors may sign up for one, two, or three workshops. Each workshop will begin and end in the Creative Classroom of the Pete V. Domenici Education Building. This week’s workshop will focus on Monotype printmaking.
Free Community Event. Space is limited, please register below.

Printmaking Workshops for Seniors are part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program, which provides free multidisciplinary arts program for seniors. No previous printmaking experience required.
This program is generously sponsored by AARP of Albuquerque

Afro Mundo: Sister Doula
2023-08-16 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow.
Black babies die at 5 times the rate of white babies. SISTER DOULA is the story of Hakima Payne, a nurse in Kansas City who tackles this crisis head-on, fighting to save Black babies by offering alternatives to the US healthcare system that surveils, criminalizes, and harms Black families. Mama Hakima is equal parts unapologetic truth-teller and wise-compassionate mentor. This is the story of the birth doulas she has mentored, who advocate for Black birthing people and work toward building a future.
Free Community Event

Hand and Machine 2023 Interactive Mural Showcase
2023-08-17 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
4:00pm – 6:00pm: Reception
6:00pm – 7:00pm: Remarks by Alyshia Bustos, Nanibah Chacon, Leah Buechley, and Student Artists.
Join us for the showcase of Hand and Machine’s 2023 Interactive Mural!
A collaborative project between Alyshia Bustos and Leah Buechley from UNM’s Department of Computer Science, artist Nanibah Chacon, Student Artists from Working Classroom, and the NHCC Art Museum, the Interactive Mural creates shifting soundscapes in response to touch.
This is a free community event.

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.

Antigravity Films & Red on the Side: Cinema Rendezvous
2023-08-18 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm: Doors open
7:00 pm: Film Screening
Antigravity Films & Red on the Side present CINEMA RENDEZVOUS. Join us for an evening of local short films and stay for the world premiere of the fan film Star Wars: Rendezvous, followed by a Q&A with our featured local filmmakers. Hosted by Brent Peterson of Antigravity Films, and Crystal Thomas of Red on the Side Productions.
Mix & Mingle with Star Wars Characters at 6:00 pm; screening begins at 7:00 pm, followed immediately by the Q&A. Seats are limited. Tickets are free, though donations to help cover the theater rental are greatly appreciated. Concessions will be available for purchase.
Free Community Event
#starwarsrendezvous #cinemarendezvous

Runtime: 90 minutes

The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Colcha Community Stitch A-long
2023-08-22 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
9:30 am (MST) 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.

Siempre Creativo: Printmaking Workshops for Seniors
2023-08-23 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Please join us for 3 consecutive weeks exploring a variety of printmaking processes with artist Carol Sanchez. We will look for creative inspiration in the NHCC Art Museum printmaking exhibition, Nexo Entre Raíces, and experiment with a different printmaking technique in the Education Building. Please wear comfortable shoes for exploring the art museum. Participating seniors may sign up for one, two, or three workshops. Each workshop will begin and end in the Creative Classroom of the Pete V. Domenici Education Building. This week’s workshop will focus on Linoleum printmaking.
Free Community Event. Space is limited, please register below.

Printmaking Workshops for Seniors are part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program, which provides free multidisciplinary arts program for seniors. No previous printmaking experience required.
This program is generously sponsored by AARP of Albuquerque

Film: Pan’s Labyrinth
2023-08-25 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm: Cash bar and food trucks
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Musical Performance: WillaJay
7:00 pm: Film screening
It’s 1944 and the Allies have invaded Nazi-held Europe. In Spain, a troop of soldiers are sent to a remote forest to flush out the rebels. They are led by Capitan Vidal, a murdering sadist, and with him are his new wife Carmen and her daughter from a previous marriage, 11-year-old Ofelia. Ofelia witnesses her stepfather’s sadistic brutality and is drawn into Pan’s Labyrinth, a magical world of mythical beings.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro | 2006 | 118 minutes | Spanish with English subtitles | Rated R
Free community event. Please let us know how many will be attending below.
Generously supported by Bank of America.

Pathway to Prosperity: Shattering Illusions about Economic Progress
2023-08-26 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
This event has been canceled.
2:00 pm

Are New Mexicans doomed to live in poverty? What is the economic impact of the issues that are important to us, like education, criminal justice, immigration, and veteran’s care? How can we overcome the polarization that divides us so that we can collaborate and solve these problems in ways only New Mexicans can?
Keynote Speaker: Per Bylund, author of How to Think About the Economy: A Primer. Special Guest Performance: Doc Dixon, Comedic Magician. Other Speakers: Jonathan Olivas, Lucas Gauthier, Kiran Hill, Burly Cain, and Kerry Baldwin.
Join us, on the Pathway to Prosperity, as we shatter the illusions to economic progress for all New Mexicans. Doors open 1:00pm. Event begins 2:00pm. Meet & Greet 5:00pm. Doors close 6:00pm.
Free Community Event

The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Siempre Creativo: Printmaking Workshops for Seniors
2023-08-30 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Please join us for 3 consecutive weeks exploring a variety of printmaking processes with artist Carol Sanchez. We will look for creative inspiration in the NHCC Art Museum printmaking exhibition, Nexo Entre Raíces, and experiment with a different printmaking technique in the Education Building. Please wear comfortable shoes for exploring the art museum. Participating seniors may sign up for one, two, or three workshops. Each workshop will begin and end in the Creative Classroom of the Pete V. Domenici Education Building. This week’s workshop will focus on Drypoint printmaking.
Free Community Event. Space is limited, please register below.

Printmaking Workshops for Seniors are part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program, which provides free multidisciplinary arts program for seniors. No previous printmaking experience required.
This program is generously sponsored by AARP of Albuquerque

Visual Arts Museum: First Sunday Free Admission
2023-09-03 | Visual Art Museum, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
On the first Sunday of every month, the Visual Arts Museum is free to all New Mexico residents!

Arte Poquito
2023-09-05 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:00 am
Arte Poquito is a free, monthly, 45-minute program for babies and toddlers ages 0 months to 4 years and their caregivers that cultivates creativity and self-expression through the exploration of Hispanic/Latine arts and culture. Participants explore the NHCC Museum and Performing Arts Center, and engage in artmaking, music, movement, dance, drama, and bilingual story time. NHCC instructors model age-appropriate arts techniques that celebrate self-expression, build vocabulary, and strengthen both fine-motor and gross-motor skills in a fun environment.
Free Community Event. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
This program is generously supported by Bank of Albuquerque.

Poetry Reading and Reception with Olivia Romo
2023-09-07 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Join us at the Center for a reading and reception featuring New Mexico poet Olivia Romo! Olivia Romo is a farmer, poet, and water rights activist from Taos. She earned her duel Bachelor’s degrees in English and Chicano/a Studies from the University of New Mexico in 2015. Olivia is also a recognized spoken word artist and storyteller. In 2011, she was titled the New Mexico State Slam Poetry Champion. She was also nominated as a “Remarkable Woman of Taos” and “A Woman to Watch” for the 2013 community-wide celebration honoring outstanding Taoseñas.
Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP Albuquerque. Snacks will be included as part of the reception. This event is part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program.

Writing Workshop and Reading with Olivia Romo
2023-09-09 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Community Reading
Please join Olivia Romo for an ekphrastic poetry workshop and community reading that will breathe new life and interpretations into the works of art at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This workshop will guide writers on their own journey of home, exploring the joyful, sorrowful, and painful histories of past and present New Mexico. We will approach the page like a canvas and reimagine our unique histories and personal stories by interpreting works of visual art. Through experimental usage of form, this workshop will assist writers in developing their craft.
After the workshop, a community reading will be held to provide a brave space for participants to explore how the visual arts impact them in maintaining and reclaiming New Mexico as home.
Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP Albuquerque. Boxed lunches will be provided. This event is part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program.
About the author: Olivia Romo is a farmer, poet, and water rights activist from Taos. She earned her duel Bachelor’s degrees in English and Chicano/a Studies from the University of New Mexico in 2015. Olivia is also a recognized spoken word artist and storyteller. In 2011, she was titled the New Mexico State Slam Poetry Champion. She was also nominated as a “Remarkable Woman of Taos” and “A Woman to Watch” for the 2013 community-wide celebration honoring outstanding Taoseñas.

Nuestra Herencia: Genealogy Workshop for Seniors
2023-09-14 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
1:30 pm
Explore your cultural heritage at the NHCC with free genealogy workshop as part of our Nuestra Herencia program! Nuestra Herencia will provide participating seniors with the opportunity to participate in interactive tours of the NHCC Art Museum and Torreón, paired with genealogy workshops and coffee socials.
This event is part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program.
Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP New Mexico. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Día de Familia: Fiesta de Cultura
2023-09-16 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
11:00 am – 3:00 pm
11:30 am – 12:45 pm: Dance and Movement – Salon Ortega
1:00 – 1:45 pm: Performance by Mad About Music from UNM String Lab – Fountain Courtyard
2:00 – 3:00 pm: Dance and Movement – Salon Ortega
Join us at the Center as we kick off Hispanic Heritage Month with a day of activities for the entire family! Our Fiesta de Cultura features a family-friendly celebration of independence and creative expression through the arts inspired by Hispanic culture. Activities include a scavenger hunt, a story walk, music from UNM String Lab’s Mad About Music, and mask-making based on the Center’s new mascot!
Free Community Event, generously sponsored by NM Gas. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
