NHCC Book Club
2019-04-25 | History and Literary Arts Building
5:30 pm
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for April: Sudden Death (2013) by Alvaro Enrigue.
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.

Semana Cervantina: “Flamenco Concert: Poetry as Music”
2019-04-24 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
7 pm
Place: Wells Fargo Auditorium
Fernando Barros (cantaor) presents “The Metamorphics” with Tito Rios, Brian Nelson & Juan Aniceto. This concert extrapolates on Leonard Cohen’s musical compositions, along with classics, to receive the texts or poems written by Spanish authors of the past, such as Miguel de Cervantes and Federico Garcia Lorca.
Free and open to the public; donations welcome

Semana Cervantina: Lecture and Discussion “Spain and the Independence of the United States” by Tom Chavez
2019-04-23 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
7 pm
Organized by Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center and the Spanish Resource Center to commemorate the “International Day of the Book” and the “Day of the Spanish Language.”
“Spain and the Independence of the United States” is a Lecture and discussion group. Historian Dr. Tom Chavez will discuss the making of early U.S. history from Spanish resources, the language of Cervantes.
Dr. Chavez will give a 45-minute lecture and there will be a group discussion to talk in detail about his research and further opportunities for researching in Cervantes’ language. Assistants will need to sign up for the discussion group limited to 20. Contact adx2abq@cervantes.es to register.
Book signing – bring your own book.
Free and open to the public; donations welcome

¡Baile! Rueda de Casino (Cuban Salsa) Dance Class
2019-04-23, 2019-04-16, 2019-04-09, 2019-04-02 | 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 Group who was just in Cuba Rueda con Ritmo with Jorge Luna Roque in Holguín.
Click Here.
There is no need to pre-register. Just show up in comfortable clothes ready to dance! For more information, contact elsa.menendez@state.nm.us or 505-246-2261 ext.34744
$5 – $10 per class (pay what you can)

Mundos de Mestizaje
2019-04-20, 2019-04-13 - 2019-04-14, 2019-04-06 - 2019-04-07, 2019-03-30 - 2019-03-31 | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, 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 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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Free

Colcha Community Stitch-Along
2019-04-19 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
April’s Colcha Community Stitch-Along is cancelled! Please join us in May
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

La Canoa: Valerie Rangel "Environmental Policies, Planning, and Cultural Connections of Nuevo México"
2019-04-13 | History and Literary Arts Building
2 pm
Please join Valerie Rangel, community planner and environmental planning consultant, as she shares historical research, land use planning, and policy frameworks that shed light on issues of environmental contamination and public health while uplifting the voices of immigrant farm workers, tribal members, environmental and social activists from the communities of Nuevo México. She will focus on the history and contributions of the communities of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Pueblo of Isleta as well as sacred sites, the Gila River and Rio Grande.
Valerie Rangel earned a Master’s Degree in Community Regional Planning with an emphasis in environmental and natural resource management, indigenous planning and public health. Her education involved environmental science, southwest history, Native American studies and cultural anthropology. Having taught college science courses, she presently works as an environmental planning and public health assessment consultant and community program manager for the New Mexico Community Foundation (NMCF) and volunteers as a river steward and social justice activist.
This event is free and open to the public

4 Guys Named José and una mujer named María!
2019-04-11 - 2019-04-14 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
Please note that all performances of this show will take place at the NHCC in the Bank of America Theatre.
7:30 pm—Thursday-Saturday
2 pm—Sunday
An Off-Broadway smash hit, never before presented in Albuquerque, this musical comedy celebrates the rich and vibrant musical history of Latin America. Emphasizing both the diversity and the commonality of Latino cultures, it features a show-within-a-show as the “4 Guys Named José”—one Puerto Rican, one Mexican, one Cuban, and one Dominican—design a musical revue that will showcase the music they grew up with and project a positive image to counteract Latino stereotypes. They have never put on a show before, and their attempts to get through the night without fighting or forgetting their cues are both comic and heartfelt—a journey through love, loss, and nostalgia for one’s homeland. Written by Dolores Prida, 4 Guys Named José and una mujer named maría is directed by Valli Marie Rivera.
$22 w/ $2 discount for students, seniors and NHCC members; $10 Thursday show only
Thank you to our Performing Arts Season Sponsors Heritage Hotels and Resorts, the Albuquerque Journal and Southwest Airlines!

Stories of Barelas
2019-04-11 | History and Literary Arts Building
6 pm
Bareleños completing a 5-week series of writing workshops share their stories about the neighborhood. Workshops were led by Barelas residents/playwrights Leonard Madrid, Raúl Garza and Mónica Sánchez. These stories and others will inspire a trilogy of plays by Madrid, Garza and Sánchez. Join us to remember the past and imagine the future of one of Albuquerque’s oldest neighborhoods. Presented by the NHCC in partnership with Artful Life and Homewise/B. Ruppe.
Free and open to the public

Film: The Way
2019-04-11 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
7 pm
Tom, an irascible American doctor, comes to France to deal with the tragic loss of his son. Rather than return home, he decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage El Camino de Santiago (“The Way of Saint James”) to honor his son’s desire to finish the journey. What Tom doesn’t plan on is the profound impact this trip will have on him, as, through unexpected and oftentimes amusing experiences along “The Way,” he discovers the difference between “the life we live and the life we choose.” Written and directed by Emilio Estevez and starring his father, Martin Sheen, The Way was filmed entirely in France and Spain along El Camino de Santiago. Presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2010; Emilio Estevez; English; 123 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

The Camino de Santiago (“Way of St. James”) is a large network of ancient pilgrimage routes that stretch across Europe and come together at the tomb of the apostle St. James (Santiago) in Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. Since the beginning of the 9th century, when the tomb was discovered, Santiago de Compostela has been a pan-European place of peregrination. The city’s Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985, and the European Union declared the Camino de Santiago to be the first European Cultural Itinerary in 1987. According to Catholic tradition, completing a pilgrimage on the Camino, some 500 miles along the major routes, assures forgiveness of one’s sins. The walk now attracts people of all faiths and backgrounds, and over 200,000 contemporary pilgrims embark on the journey each year.
The April films, as well as the first May film, in the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series, presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes and the Spanish Resource Center, have been selected for their insights into different elements of the Way, capturing the spiritual significance and the rich history of this iconic pilgrimage.

A Night of Poetry
2019-04-10 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
6 pm
Join us to celebrate new poetry by writers completing an 8-week workshop at the NHCC. In 2018 the NHCC launched a series of community writing workshops in memoir, fiction and poetry. Each culminates with a reading of new work created by local authors.
Authors: Mikki Aronoff, Bonnie Basan, Amy Beveridge, Das Lanzilotti, Sherrisse Noelle, Michelle Otero, Sylvia Ramos Cruz, Elaine Soto
This event is free and open to the public

Art Making: Try this at home!
2019-04-06 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
In April 2019, we made lemonade out of lemons in the Art Museum. Not real lemonade, because food and drink aren’t allowed in the Museum!
We were expecting construction, and to keep the art safe, it had to be put in storage. We took the families participating in our Saturday program, Vamos al Museo into the Museum to look at blank walls. Crazy right?! It turned in to one of our favorite art making experiences during this program. Our source for art making inspiration were the wall labels that accompany the art, written by our curators which often include statements from the artists. Art makers from age 2 – 80 years old participated.

Click HERE and find three wall labels from popular art pieces in the museum. What clues do these labels give you about the art?
We hope artists of all ages will participate by creating art inspired by this text. Please use what ever you have at home. Post your art and tag us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @nhccnm #nhccnmart or snap a pic and email to elenad.baca@state.nm.us Include the name and age of the artist. All ages, experience and styles are encouraged.
We will repost your creations on our social media platforms and reveal what the pieces in the collection look like soon, so check back! No google searches, only imagination required!
#newmexicoculture #nhccnmart #nhccnm #make #createathome #artisforeveryone

Cultural Responsive Teaching Workshop (Rental)
2019-04-06 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Education Building – Classroom 122/124
10 am to 5 pm
Cultural responsive teaching encourages educators to allow students to enter the classroom as their authentic selves. Rather than forcing students to code-switch, they are asked about where they come from and to relate that to the course material. The goal is to create an environment where all students, regardless of their physical/mental ability, racial/sexual/gender identity, feel safe. Safe to participate. Safe to engage. And therefore safe to learn.
$63.93 or $84.91 for groups

I am often the only black girl in the room, going to school, that was my identity. After 16 years of schooling I have yet to have 1 black teacher. I can name on one hand how often I was assigned readings by people who identified as black. This is more than implicit bias, this is racism. This is rooted in the historically oppressive idea that, education is meant to assimilate. It communicates to our students that we do not value them, or their culture. It says, once they learn how to speak and act like nonmarginalized group members do they have anything to offer the world.
Schedule:
10 am – Key terms and Current Events. Do we say underprivileged? Disadvantaged? Marginalized? POC? Women or womxn? Let’s discuss.
11 am – Designing your syllabus to be Culturally Responsive. What policies do you have listed that build in disadvantages for already marginalized students?
12 pm – How to embrace Open Educational Resources. Learn how How to create your own free textbook and curriculum which is more reflective of your student body.
1 pm-2 pm – Break for Lunch
2 pm – What material should be off-limits? We should embrace pop culture and works of fiction, yet where is the line between education and problematic?
3 pm – Engaging students of color, what’s offensive? The one day my teachers would bring up African Americans was during Black History Month. They would then turn to me, the student, to educate the class simply because of the amount of melanin in my skin. The teachers thought they were being inclusive but clearly that wasn’t the case. Let’s talk about intentions and how they can produce a very different impact.
4 pm – When we say, “I’m just preparing them for the real world, what are we actually saying?” The word we use to vocalize our motivations often reveal our own implicit biases, how do we reconcile that?
4:30 pm-5 pm – Networking and Problem Solving: I will hand out case studies so you can workshop ideas and strategies with your fellow educators. Also, please take this time to get to know your fellow faculty around the state.

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.

Monthly Speakers Program for the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of NM (Rental)
2019-04-06 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
10:30 am
Join Dr. Joseph Sanchez author, historian and former Director of the Petroglyph National Monument as he presents six consecutive lectures on New Mexico History entitled “Historical Dialogues: New Mexicans and the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, 1598-1692.”
The second lecture in this series is listed below.
La Ruta de Oñate, 1598-1609 and the Establishment of New Mexico

The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, las Leyes de Indias y otros reglamentos
Migration, Trade, Governance, and Culture
Oñate’s Contracts, 1595 to 1598 and their implications for early New Mexico history
Documentary Perspectives: The Battle of Acoma (1599) and the Jumano War (1599-1601)

Internationally recognized, Dr. Sanchez was awarded the Medalla de Acero al Merito Historico Capitan Alonso de Leon by the Sociedad Nuevoleonesa de Historia, Geografia y Estadistica, Monterrey, Mexico in 2000. In 2005 he was inducted into the prestigious knighthood order of the Orden de Isabel la Catolica by King Juan Carlos of Spain.

Noah's Ark Children's Foundation is Hosting the "Children First" 5K Fun Run and Family Event (Rental)
2019-04-06 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
9:00 am-12:00 pm
NHCC Multi-Purpose Room and Parking Lot
We cordially invite you to participate in the Children First 5K Fun Run and Family Event! Noah’s Ark Children’s Academy is a 5 Star rated children’s program that cares for children 6 weeks-12 years of age. Not only do we provide daily care, but we also take great pride in providing our children with curriculum that will help jumpstart their educational career. Since we are an all-inclusive school, we do not turn any children away. We care for children with special needs, children in the foster care system and children from all walks of life. Our goal is more than providing daily care, but to fuel families with the resources they need to succeed. Noah’s Ark Children’s Foundation is a program that partners with Noah’s Ark Children’s Academy.
By registering, you will be a huge part of impacting the next generation in New Mexico!
Register below!
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/noahs-ark-childrens-academy-18646220228

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.

¡Vamos al Museo!
2019-04-06 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:30 am to 12 pm
A great morning of art-making for children of all ages and families of all sizes. A visit to the museum is included in this artist-led workshop. We will meet in the Creative Classroom in the Pete V. Domenici Building.
This month, join Jocelyn Salas and Elena in a slight museum takeover. We were anticipating construction and a section of the museum does not have artwork. We will search for clues and use our imaginations to recreate the missing artwork.
Please pre-register HERE (so we know how many materials to prepare)
For more information please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies

NHCC Summer Reading Program Applications Due April 5
2019-04-05 | NM
In 2019, the National Hispanic Cultural Center will launch its first summer reading program for students in grades 3 and 4 who need help with reading. This program is part of the Bilingual Children’s Book Festival
Students will read with trained tutors on a weekly basis in the NHCC library during the summer months, June-August, 2019. The NHCC library includes a collection of bilingual children’s books (Spanish and English) as well as age-appropriate books in English that are focused on Hispanic/Latino culture.
Students must have transportation to the NHCC or live close enough to walk or bike to the center.
The NHCC is looking for 20 students who want to participate in the program. These students will also receive scholarships to the April 27 Children’s Bilingual Book Festival, where they will be matched with a summer tutor as well as receive a free festival t-shirt, poster and swag.
PARENTS: please apply here: https://tinyurl.com/y3ygwsna.
Eligible applicants will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis. Applications close Friday, April 5, 2019.
For more information, contact Valerie Martínez, Director of History and Literary Arts, NHCC: valerie.martinez@state.nm.us, 505-383-4724.

First Friday: Volunteer Education and Conversation
2019-04-05 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
9:00 am – 11 am
On the first Friday of each month, NHCC docents and core volunteers meet for coffee and conversation along with monthly presentations on topics that build the knowledge and skills of the docent core to give tours, educate the NHCC visitors and share the NHCC mission and programs.
For location and more information on the NHCC Docent and Volunteer program, Please call Annette Lujan at 505-383-4783 or email her at Annette.Lujan@state.nm.us for more information.
Free event

¡HAH! Happy Arte Hour
2019-04-04 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
On the first Thursday of the month, NHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a relaxed social setting, which includes snacks, refreshments, and beer & wine for sale from Pop Fizz. This is a great opportunity for friends to hang out, a unique date night option, or a place to come solo and connect with fellow art enthusiasts.
This month, work with artist Jocelyn Salas and make a small painting, explore patterns, and learn how to work with gold leaf.
Please pre-register using the link HERE (so we know how many materials to prepare)
For more information please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies

National Poetry Month
2019-04-01 - 2019-04-30 | History and Literary Arts Building
Join the NHCC’s History and Literary Arts program for a month of events including widely distributed pocket-size poems (in English and Spanish), poetry readings and book signings (including those associated with the Children’s Bilingual Book Festival), displays, and other events celebrating Latinx poets. In 2019, for the 100th birthday of Walt Whitman, we will pair several Whitman poems with poems by Latinx writers, creating a “conversation” between poets who never met, but who talk to each other across time.

A Night of Poetry
April 10, 6 pm
NHCC Library | Free
Join us to celebrate new poetry by writers completing an 8-week workshop at the NHCC. In 2018 the NHCC launched a series of community writing workshops in memoir, fiction and poetry. Each culminates with a reading of new work created by local authors.
NHCC Children’s Bilingual Book Festival
April 27, 9 am – 5 pm
NHCC Campus |FREE ($5 suggested donation)
This free festival will celebrate children’s books written in Spanish and English and Native languages and English. The festival will emphasize books for readers in grades K-6, though there are activities for kids of all ages, including families.
Featured authors include Pat Mora (keynote), Nancy Bo Flood, Native Realities authors/artists, Nasario Garcia, Kathleen Contreras, Ana Baca, Anna Nogar, Paul and Carlos Meyer, Enrique Lamadrid, student storytellers Deja, Diego, Isabela and Gabriela (Diné, Spanish, Enlish), Poesía eres tú winners, and more. Look here for the full schedule. There will also be a full-day Book Fair/Emporium, workshops for teachers and parents, and kids’ art/creative activities throughout the day. All events take place at the NHCC.
We are grateful to the City of Albuquerque, BNSF Railway Foundation, French’s Funerals and Cremations, and Artful Life for funding this exciting new initiative. Festival partners include Children’s Day/Book Day, ABQ Reads, Bookworks, Native Realities, Duende District, the UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute, and UNM Press.
Info/Contact:
valerie.martinez@state.nm.us

Fuerza: A Collaborative Student Exhibit
2019-03-31 - 2019-05-05 | NM
As a final celebration of Women’s History month and in connection with the NHCC’s current exhibition “Qué Chola,” high school students across the Albuquerque area were invited to submit visual work they had created. Artists were asked to think critically and broadly while examining the experiences of women and the role of gender identity in today’s society. The works in this exhibition celebrate feminine strength, resilience, and empowerment through an intersectional lens, examining gender identity alongside race, ethnicity, class, age, etc. Reflected in the students’ work are deep explorations of identity and what that means to these students.
ARTISTS FEATURED: Joslyne Martínez, Erika Romero, Paloma Lee-Mock, Brittney Juancho, Alejandra Casimiro, Mariza Sandoval, Alexis Shack, Rebecca Martínez, Etienne Erickson, Amelia Dunn, Juliette Garlick, D’Shawn Smith, Jaileen De La Cruz, Emily Bolton, Alexis Rodriguez, Juan Hernandez, Jade Baldonado, Mercy Mummert, Victoria López, Olivia Sim, Janeth Llamas, Tessa Rasmussen.

Opera Southwest Presents Wagner’s Lohengrin--RELOCATED
2019-03-31 - 2019-04-07 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Due to facilities issues in the Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts at the NHCC, this performance will not take place at the NHCC. To learn more about the new dates and location, please visit https://www.operasouthwest.org/operas/lohengrin.
Opera Southwest presents Wagner’s Lohengrin, a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in German with English translation supertitles and presented in three acts with two intermissions. This will be the New Mexico premiere of Wagner’s bel canto masterpiece.
Our pioneering reconstruction of the lost orchestration from the 1850 Weimar premiere of Lohengrin, conducted by Franz Liszt, will revisit the intimate and historically accurate masterpiece for an epic close to this season. Maestro Anthony Barrese conducts.
$15, $29, $45, $59, $75, $89; discounts for groups of ten or more and patrons 30 and younger

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.

Barelas Stories: Four Workshops
2019-03-30 | HLA Conference Room, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Residents of Barelas are invited to a series of workshops that will result in a trilogy of plays about the neighborhood. The dates are March 9, 16, 23 and 30. Do you have stories, images, characters or incidents about the neighborhood that you’d like to see in a play? In this series of four sessions we will play with words and techniques that reveal our stories and our styles. The workshops will culminate with a public sharing of stories, anecdotes and scenes at the NHCC. Workshops will be led by Barelas residents/playwrights Leonard Madrid, Raúl Garza and Mónica Sánchez. Presented by the NHCC in partnership with Artful Life. Register here.
Raul Garza is a playwright who tells stories that resound with culture identity and sense of place. His full-length play Fantasmaville received the National Latino Playwriting Award. When not writing, Raul explores kundalini yoga, devours pop culture, and travels beyond his means.
Leonard Madrid is an Albuquerque area theatre maker. He has been awarded the Kennedy Center’s Latinx award for playwriting three times.
Mónica Sánchez has followed her bliss towards a life in the theatre and the theatre of life. She has been a professional theatre maker for the last three decades and happily resides in Barelas. dramatista.com
FREE and open to residents of Barelas

26th Annual César Chávez Day March & Fiesta
2019-03-30 | NM
March—10:30 am
Fiesta—12 noon-3:30 pm
Civil rights and labor leader César Chávez was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma, AZ. Every year since his untimely death in 1993, the Recuerda a César Chávez Committee has commemorated the birth of this humble civil rights leader by marching in his honor and celebrating his life with music, dancing, poetry and enjoyable, culturally enriched activities for children. Our event is designed to educate the entire family about César Chávez and the farm worker movement. The Recuerda a César Chávez Committee is made up of organizations and individual volunteers who want to see Chávez’s legacy of peaceful activism continue for generations to come. Our mission is to educate our youth and communities about the legacy, life and work of this great civil rights leader—César Chávez.
Free public event

March for Justice: 10:30 am-12 pm
In the tradition of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, we will take to the streets of the South Valley and Barelas neighborhood in honor of the farm worker movement. The March for Justice (or “la marcha de justicia”) will step off at 10:40 a.m. from the north parking lot of the NHCC, moving north on 4th Street. Come march alongside Dolores Huerta as the Aztec dancers lead the way. Chants from the Chicano and farm worker movement will echo through the streets as our community volunteers and leaders march. The pace for la marcha will be slow so that everyone can participate. We will complete the two-mile loop by around noon…returning south from 8th Street where we join the Fiesta on the NHCC’s beautiful Plaza Mayor.
Fiesta: 12 pm-3:30 pm
César Chávez believed that community connections were best strengthened through personal relationships . That meant sharing a meal, having fun and including the whole family. So it is our mission every year to celebrate the life and legacy of our beloved civil rights leader with a fiesta combining food, music, dancing, information tables, and activities for children in our Kid’s Corner. New Mexico native and cofounder of the United Farm Workers Union Dolores Huerta will once again honor our event as Keynote Speaker. Señora Huerta continues to be a civil rights icon worldwide to this day. We are also honored to host accomplished actor, musician, and composer Daniel Valdez. Additionally, our event will honor ¡Sí Se Puede! awardees and community leaders Dr. Adelamar Alcantara and Michael Casaus, and local acts Baracutanga and La Tropa Felizz will provide musical entertainment.
