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  • Film: Zonazine documental, El cuarto reino: El reino de los plásticos

    12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE El cuarto reino: El reino de los plásticos, by Adán Aliaga and Álex Lora, is set in a can collection and recycling center in a New York City neighborhood. At “Sure We Can,” founded by Basque nun Ana Martínez, homeless people can come to exchange recyclables that they have collected for a few dollars. Through René, an undocumented worker from Mexico who works and sleeps at the center, and the relationships he establishes with his (more...)

  • Money for Writers Workshop: Grant Writing for Latinx Writers

    11 am (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Tips from Successful Grantees This workshop features three Latinx writers who were awarded literary grants. What does a successful literary grant application look like? Our presenters will share sections of their successful grant applications and talk about how strategies for writing compelling grant applications. There will be time for Q & A at the end of this hour and a half session. This workshop is a response to the requests for grant writing workshops expressed by Latinx writers at (more...)

  • Exhibit Opening: Mira Mira On the Wall: Reflecting on 20 Years of NHCC Exhibitions

    September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes

    Tuesdays through Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm The National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) turned twenty years old in 2020 and the museum now has twenty years of exhibitions to reflect on and learn from. Mira Mira On the Wall: Reflecting on 20 Years of NHCC Exhibitions recounts a selection of exhibits that have been presented over the last two decades. It examines their impact on the permanent collection, the importance of the stories that have been told, and celebrates the artists that have participated in (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...)

  • Film: Zonazine documental, Para la guerra

    12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Francisco Marise’s Para la guerra explores the combat memories of “Mandarria,” a former Cuban soldier who is searching for the comrades who served in his last command. As Mandarriagoes through a series of exercises from a military manual, the director’s observation of his body and his gestures offers insight into his memories, his solitary life, and the invisible wound he still carries with him, 30 years after his final mission. Cuba/Spain/Argentina; 2018; Spanish with English (more...)

  • Film: Zonazine documental, Baracoa

    12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Baracoa, by Pablo Briones and The Moving Picture Boys (Sean Clark and Jace Freeman), documents the lifelong friendship between nine-year-old Leonel and thirteen-year-old Antúan, two boys who live in Pueblo Textil, a small village in the Cuban countryside. During the hot summer holidays, the boys explore the isolated areas surrounding the town, bonding through games, fights, and simple pleasures, as well as conversations about everyday life and existential questions. But just as Cuban society is (more...)

  • Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: Roosevelt’s New Deal in New Mexico

    2 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE The lecture will explore the effect of the Work Progress Administration on New Mexico, specifically focusing on the programs and social impact in and around Santa Fe. Jana Gottshalk is the Assistant Curator at the New Mexico Museum of Art, specializing in modern and contemporary. Jana has worked at such institution as Las Golondrinas, The Denver Art Museum, and the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. Free community Event Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque is presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center (more...)

  • Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Richard Flint & Shirley Cushing Flint, Overhaul

    1 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE In Overhaul, A Social History of the Albuquerque Locomotive Repair Shops, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque’s locomotive repair shops, the driving force behind the city’s economy for more than seventy years. In the course of their study they also document the thousands of skilled workers who kept the locomotives in operation, many of whom were part of the growing Hispano and Native American middle class. Free community event Their critical work (more...)

  • NHCC Book Club: Children of the Land: A Memoir—Marcelo Hernandez-Castillo

    5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “Honest and unsparing, this book offers a detailed look at the dehumanizing immigration system that shattered the author’s family while offering a glimpse into his own deeply conflicted sense of what it means to live the so-called American dream. A heartfelt and haunting memoir just right for the current political and social climate.” -Kirkus Reviews. Free community event

  • Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour

    NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

    11 am (MST) The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil twice a week, Thursdays and Fridays at 11 am. 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 online here. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is (more...)