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  • ¡Baile! Rueda de Casino (Cuban Salsa) Dance Class

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24

    6 pm to 7 pm Beginning and Intermediate - This class is geared for teenagers and adults. Come learn footwork, partner skills and choreography. No experience necessary. 7 pm to 8 pm Intermediate and Advanced - In order to participate in this class, dancers must know how to keep time, closed position calls, dame, enchufla, and outside turn. Dance classes taught by Sarita Streng, Nick Babic, Adam "El Caballo" Metcalf, Larry Heard, and Rueda 505 Friends. In the meantime, a fun video from Rueda Con Ritmo Dance (more...)

  • ¡Salud y Sabor! Greens and Sprouts/Verduras y Brotes

    5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Salud y Sabor, a partnership between the Agri-cultura Network, Street Food Institute, and the NHCC, is a free evening of food, art, and entertainment aimed at providing families with an opportunity to connect around nutrition, cooking, healthy lifestyles, and culture. Once a month, community members gather for cooking demonstrations using fresh, locally grown ingredients, as well as fun art activities for kids and adults, health screenings, and live entertainment. An emphasis is placed on exploring traditional Hispanic dishes, providing basic information/free screenings (more...)

  • Film: Ella Es el Matador

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7 pm There is a long and surprising history of women fighting in the Spanish bullring—and fighting to have the chance to do so. Maripaz Vega, a Spaniard, is currently the world's only professional female matador and is on the verge of achieving top ranking. Eva Florencia, a young runaway from Italy, is a neophyte driven by a childhood dream. Both women must deal with the legacies of sexism in Spanish bullfighting, yet the passions that propel them are similar to those of male bullfighters—a drive to (more...)

  • Revolutions International Theatre Festival Presents: Teatro Perro Muerto’s Pinochet, la obra censurada en dictadura

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM

    8 pm A liberal and harsh reconstruction of a 1986 play that depicts four influential characters from the Pinochet dictatorship imagining the future of Chile. Using satire and dark humor, they ask themselves what the transition, a process full of uncertainty and fear, will mean for them. The play talks about power and the dreams of a dominant class as it imagines its place in the future of Chile, comparing the vision for the country 30 years ago with what Chile is today. With a vertiginous pace (more...)

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  • Colcha Community Stitch-Along

    Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    9:30 am – 12 pm Join our monthly gathering for colcheras of all skill levels led by Annette Gutierrez Turk. If you are beginning or advanced in the traditional New Mexican style of embroidery, bring your current colcha project along and enjoy these monthly, informal, community work sessions to share ideas, resources and encouragement! For more information, call Elena at 505-246-2261 or e-mailing elenad.baca@state.nm.us. Free event Facilitated by Sandia Mountains Chapter-EGA

  • Jenny and the Mexicats St. Patrick’s Day Dance Party

    Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    7:30 pm Education Building Grand Hall NHCC and Pop Fizz invite you to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a night of dancing and fun with the world-renowned Jenny and The Mexicats. Known for their infectious style of genre-bending music that borrows from pop, flamenco, reggae, mariachi, jazz, folk and cumbia this band will knock your socks off and keep you moving all night.  Pop Fizz will have food, paletas, beer and alcohol for sale.  This concert is a part of the Revolutions Festival and supported by AMP (more...)

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  • La Canoa Legacy Talks: Genízaro Ethnogenesis, Emergence, and Futurism

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm – 4 pm In collaboration with UNM Center for Regional Studies Join Associate Professor Moises Gonzales, from the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning, as he relates the emerging story of the history, identity, and cultural evolution of the genízaro people of New Mexico during the March La Canoa Legacy Talk. As defined by Fray Angelico Chavez, genízaro was the designation given to North American Indians of mixed tribal derivation living among the Hispanic population in Spanish fashion: that is, having Spanish (more...)

  • Mundos de Mestizaje

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

    12 pm to 5 pm 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 (more...)

  • ¡Baile! Rueda de Casino (Cuban Salsa) Dance Class

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24

    6 pm to 7 pm Beginning and Intermediate - This class is geared for teenagers and adults. Come learn footwork, partner skills and choreography. No experience necessary. 7 pm to 8 pm Intermediate and Advanced - In order to participate in this class, dancers must know how to keep time, closed position calls, dame, enchufla, and outside turn. Dance classes taught by Sarita Streng, Nick Babic, Adam "El Caballo" Metcalf, Larry Heard, and Rueda 505 Friends. In the meantime, a fun video from Rueda Con Ritmo Dance (more...)

  • Film: Dolores

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7 pm One of the most important, yet least known activists of our time, Dolores Huerta was an equal partner in founding the first farmworkers’ union with César Chávez. Tirelessly leading the fight for racial and labor justice, Huerta evolved into one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century—and she continues the fight to this day, in her late 80s. Dolores chronicles Huerta’s life from her childhood in Stockton, California to her early years with the United Farm Workers, from her work with the headline-making (more...)