Mundos de Mestizaje
2019-02-02 - 2019-02-03, 2019-02-09 - 2019-02-10, 2019-02-16 - 2019-02-17, 2019-02-23 - 2019-02-24 | 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.(It may take a moment to load. Microsoft Internet Explorer is NOT recommended. Best experienced with Safari, Firefox or Chrome.)Free

Poetry Writing Workshop
2019-02-04 | History and Literary Arts Building
February 13 – April 10, 2019
Eight weeks, Wednesdays, 6 pm to 8 pm
Poetry Writing Workshop for intermediate-advance poets. Do you crave a community of fellow poets? Do you want to be inspired to write new work? This eight week poetry workshop, for intermediate-advanced poets, is writing-intensive. You will be inspired by readings of Latinx poets as well as by helpful and supportive workshops and discussions. The workshop culminates with a public reading at the NHCC where you share your new work.
Instructor: Valerie Martínez is an award-winning poet whose book-length poem, Each and Her, won the Arizona Book Award, received Honorable Mention in the International Latino Book Awards, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Critics Circle Award,and The Ron Ridenhour Prize (among other awards). Her work has been widely published in journals, magazines and anthologies. Martínez was the Poet Laureate of Santa Fe from 2008-2010. She is also the Director of History and Literary Arts at the NHCC. Learn more: www.valeriemartinez.net
Deadline to register: Monday, February 4, 2019
Workshop Fee: $250, about $30 per class
Limit: 12 poets so please register early
Three Scholarships are available for $125, first-come, first-served
Register and pay HERE
Info/Contact: valerie.martinez@state.nm.us

¡Baile! Rueda de Casino (Cuban Salsa) Dance Class
2019-02-05, 2019-02-12, 2019-02-19, 2019-02-26 | 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)

Writing Workshop: Fiction (All Genres)
2019-02-06, 2019-02-13, 2019-02-20, 2019-02-27 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | History and Literary Arts Building
6 pm, Wednesdays (eight weeks between January 16 and March 6)
The NHCC is committed to cultivating local writers and celebrating their work. In this workshop, writers read excerpts from books by Latinx authors, engage in a variety of writing exercises that build skills and generate new writing,. Each class gives a public reading as a culminating event. Instructor: Brenna Gomez (UNM).
Deadline to register: Monday, January 14, 2019.
Workshop Fee: $250 (about $30 per class). Limit: 12 writers so register early!
Three Scholarships are available for $125 —first come-first served.
Register and pay here.
All fees must be paid prior to January 16th.

Inside Opera: María de Buenos Aires
2019-02-06 | History and Literary Arts Building
5:30-7 pm
NHCC Library, History and Literary Arts Building
Opera novices and aficionados are invited to three free interactive presentations about “María de Buenos Aires,” Astor Piazzola’s extraordinary tango-opera. Over three Wednesday evenings, poet Valerie Martínez and conductor Oliver Prezant will lead you on a magical journey through the story, the libretto, the music, and the staging of this evocative work, which tells the story of María, a prostitute born in a poor suburb of Buenos Aires, who sleepwalks through life, death, the afterlife, and is reborn into “innocence.” The music, by tango legend Ástor Piazzolla, is based on “nuevo tango,” a genre that Piazzolla revolutionized by infusing Argentine tango with elements of jazz and classical music. Those who attend all three sessions will receive a 50% discount on tickets to a performance of the show, which runs from February 17-24 in the Journal Theater.
Dates and Topics:
January 23: Story, Text, and Context, with Valerie Martínez

Maria’s Argentina: old tango bars, duende, crafting the libretto, signs and symbols, magical realism.

January 30: The Music, with Oliver Prezant

Astor Piazzola and Tango Nuevo, singing the story-setting the text, the music of character and situation.

February 6: Maria on Stage – “Operita” or Opera? with Oliver Prezant

Director’s choice: blocking, lighting, sets, costumes. Maria in the land of musical theater and opera.

Register for the workshops HERE.
Valerie Martínez is currently the Director of History and Literary Arts at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Santa Fe’s second Poet Laureate, Valerie taught poetry and literature at the college/university level for 23 years. As a core artist and Executive Director of Littleglobe, Valerie worked in collaboration with the Santa Fe Opera Community Engagement Program to co-create two community-based operas: Memorylines: Voces de Nuestras Jornadas (2008) and the Santa Fe Bus Opera (2010).
Oliver Prezant has presented lectures and education programs for The Santa Fe Opera and Opera Southwest. He is the Music Director and conductor of the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, and the Artistic Advisor to the ArtWorks Program, which provides arts education workshops for Santa Fe Public Schools students and teachers. He was on the faculty of the Contemporary Music Program at the College of Santa Fe and Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

¡HAH! Happy Arte Hour
2019-02-07 | 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.
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

Noche Flamenca Gala Fundraiser
2019-02-08 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
7 pm
Join Mayor Keller of Albuquerque, NCCP, and ArtPlace America for this extraordinary event! Enjoy a tapas dinner from La Fonda del Bosque, paired with wine from the award-winning Casa Rondeńa Winery, in an intimate setting at the beautiful National Hispanic Cultural Center. Experience flamenco at its most passionate, as internationally-renown cantaor Vicente Griego and his group REVÓZO, with dancers featuring Marisol Encinias of the National Institute of Flamenco, as they reach for duende in a stripped-downtablao performance.

Special thanks to the City of Albuquerque, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Vicente Griego, Casa Rondeńa Winery, and Chuy Martinez for donating time and space to make this special event possible.
Proceeds for this event will go towards supporting CPL Summit Scholarships.
The Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits are important for the development of ideas, relationships, and projects in the field, and all around the country. They allow people from all disciplines and geographies to meet with peers, get ideas and make connections that will benefit the entire field for years to come. But we can’t, in good conscience, invite only those who can afford it. We risk continuing the echo chambers we so often see in our news and social media. When creating a diverse and dynamic conversation around building communities through arts and cultural programming, it’s critical to have better, and deliberate representation. People from rural areas, poor and working class people, LGBTQ folks and people of color are currently underrepresented at our summits and we want everyone’s voice at the table. Help us get them there. Everyone needs more artists in their lives. They provide not only hands-on knowledge of tools and techniques, but a creative outlook on processes and collaboration. Grassroots advocates and leaders of tomorrow voice the challenges and opportunities of communities. People of color, native, and immigrant communities support the diversity of stories that are the very foundation for the field of creative placemaking.
More information at cpcommunities.org/support.

Call for Photos for Qué Chola Photo Board (Deadline: March 8)
2019-02-13 - 2019-03-08 | NM
Qué Chola is an art exhibition at the NHCC Art Museum in Albuquerque, N.M., that features cholas and homegirls in art and pop culture. The artworks celebrate her and her unique style as symbols of strength, power, and resilience. The exhibition opens on March 8, 2019 and runs through August 4, 2019.
Many people within our communities have friends and family donned the Chola look and maybe we did ourselves. The Qué Chola photo board is an opportunity to honor the Cholas in our lives, past and present, by sharing photos of homegirls showing off their style and pride.
If you have a photo you’d like included on the photo board, please:

Scan and email them to: quecholaphotos@gmail.com
Photocopy and mail them to: Jadira Gurulé, National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, 1701 4th St. SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102

Photos that arrive before March 8, 2019 will be on display for the opening reception but we will continue to accept photos throughout the exhibit.
All photos must be scanned or photo copied as they will not be returned at the close of the exhibition. Photos will be displayed at the discretion of museum staff and may be rotated out to accommodate other photos. Your submission of a photo implies consent for the NHCC to display the photo in the museum and on social media as well as our website. Additionally, the public will be allowed to photograph the photo display.

Film: La boda de Valentina/Valentina’s Wedding
2019-02-14 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Valentina has the perfect life in New York, with a perfect job and a perfect boyfriend, Jason—far away from the family in Mexico City that she has been keeping a secret. Her two worlds collide in chaos when Jason proposes marriage and wants to meet her family—the most scandal-plagued, surreal political dynasty in the history of Mexico.
Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2018; Marco Polo Constandse; English; 107 minutes; rated R.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

DNAWORKS and the NHCC Present The Real James Bond...Was Dominican
2019-02-14 - 2019-02-17 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
7:30 pm—Thursday-Saturday
2 pm—Sunday
What happens when a James Bond-obsessed Dominican boy in Queens (who won’t go anywhere without his nerf gun), finds out that the real James Bond was Dominican?
This is a true story about Porfirio Rubirosa, Ian Fleming’s inspiration for Bond, and a young Dominican actor-to-be – whose discovery of “Rubi” shakes his very foundation. Set to a live percussion score and immersive projections, The Real James Bond…Was Dominican is a young man’s guide to love, sex, color, code-switching, white-washing, success, fake-it-till-you-make-it, and the roller coaster of finding one’s true self.
The original play, written and performed by Christopher Rivas, was developed with and directed by Daniel Banks, with original score and percussion by Wilson Torres, projection design by Alexandra Kelly Colburn and Kate Freer, and lighting design by Driscoll Otto.
$25 adults; $20 NHCC members; $12 students, seniors, unemployed persons, & artists
Mature subject matter and language; may not be suitable for all audiences.
Thank you to our Performing Arts Season Sponsors Heritage Hotels and Resorts, the Albuquerque Journal and Southwest Airlines!

Colcha Community Stitch-Along
2019-02-15 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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

Opera Southwest Presents Astor Piazzolla’s María de Buenos Aires
2019-02-17 - 2019-02-24 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
February 17, 20, 22 & 24, 2019
2 pm — Sundays
7:30 pm—Wednesday & Friday
Opera Southwest presents Astor Piazzolla’s María de Buenos Aires, a fully-staged opera with orchestra, sung in Spanish with both English and Spanish translation supertitles, and presented in two acts with one intermission.
OSW is thrilled to present Piazzolla’s only opera in partnership with the National Hispanic Cultural Center. The story goes that his surrealist depiction of the titular Maria’s sleepwalk through violence, death, the afterlife, and rebirth was composed entirely on the bandoneón. The opera effortlessly weaves classical contrapuntal techniques together with milongas, cabarets, and mid-century jazz for a thrilling dance through the underbelly of Buenos Aires. Anthony Barrese conducts.
$15, $29, $45, $59, $75, $89; discounts for groups of ten or more, patrons 30 and younger, and those who attend all three “Inside Opera” workshops between Jan. 23 and Feb. 5, 2019.
Thank you to our Performing Arts Season Sponsors Heritage Hotels and Resorts, the Albuquerque Journal and Southwest Airlines!

La Canoa: David Garcia "Acequia Resolanas: Mutuality, Social Praxis and the New Mexico Acequia Movement in the New Millennia"
2019-02-23 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
2 pm
Dr. David Garcia is a Ph.D. Visiting Scholar in the University of New Mexico’s Center for Regional Studies as well as a Part-Time Instructor in the Department of Chicana/Chicano Studies. Dr. Garcia is with the Anthropology Department at the University of Texas at Austin.
Please join Dr. David Garcia as he presents a talk on the role Resolana plays within New Mexico acequia communities. In the last decade, Resolana has functioned as a traditional gathering space, a place of governance, and as an emergent metaphor for social organizing. This talk details how the Resolana is being used by the New Mexico Acequia Association as a central theory which functions as a mode of engagement from acequia canals to the halls of state legislature. Building on the work of La Academia de la Nueva Raza, a 1970s organization based in Embudo, New Mexico, this mode of engagement has continued on as a form of movement-building. The creation of La Escuelita de Las Acequias, within the New Mexico Acequia Association, demonstrates this. In addition, Dr. Garcia will discuss the significance of language performance and space within the resolana and the significant role the resolana plays as a customary infrastructure for the local ethnopoetics of acequia governance in New Mexico.
This event is free and open to the public

Last Out - Elegy of a Green Beret (Rental)
2019-02-23 - 2019-02-24 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
Saturday at 2 pm & 7 pm
Sunday at 2 pm
Army Green Beret Danny Patton is a modern-day warrior fighting battles that range from tribal Afghanistan to his own living room. As the corrosive gears of war rip apart his family, his integrity, and his soul, Danny is thrust into his final, eternal mission. On the other side, with Valhalla beckoning, he discovers that combat can be fueled by vengeance or by love… it just depends which price you are willing to pay.
You’ve heard the war stories of the “first in.” This play is the untold story of the “last out.”
$30

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NHCC Book Club
2019-02-28 | NM
5:30 pm
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book. In February, the book will be Natalie Scenters-Zapico, The Verging Cities (poetry). Scenter-Zapico will also be reading at the NHCC on March 22, 2019.
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: Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program
2019-02-28 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
This historical documentary, shedding light on the current debate over immigration reform and the use of “guest workers” in American agriculture, examines what was known as the Bracero Program—a system put in place from 1942 to 1964 to recruit Mexican farm laborers for temporary work in the United States. The film features testimony from surviving braceros as well as these workers’ family members and descendants, along with commentary from featured experts and extensive archival material. Anna Uremovich, archivist for the NHCC’s History and Literary Arts (HLA) program, will introduce the film and give an overview of HLA’s ongoing Braceros exhibition, featuring black-and-white photographs of these workers taken by the photojournalist collective known as the Hermanos Mayo, together with narratives, video, and artifacts that tell the story of the Bracero Program. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2010; Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Vivian Price & Adrian Salinas; English; 58 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

First Friday: Volunteer Education and Conversation
2019-03-01 | 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

Carnaval 2019: with PANdemonium and Odara Dance Ensemble
2019-03-01 - 2019-03-02 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:30 pm
The NHCC’s annual celebration of Carnaval is a dazzling spectacle of vibrant dance, engaging music, and beautiful costumes, featuring the band PANdemonium and the Odara Dance Ensemble and showcasing the Carnaval celebrations of Cuba, Trinidad, Brazil and New Orleans.
Carnaval, the festive season occurring before Lent in many countries, including Latin American and Caribbean nations as well as parts of the United States, is one of the world’s most widespread celebrations and one of its biggest parties. Among the guidelines that the Performing Arts program has developed, refined, and utilized since 1999 to design its programming and curate its seasons is the provision of a variety of annual programming that is specific to seasons, holidays, and celebrations, as well as culture-specific. Carnaval was first celebrated at the NHCC in 2002, and has been part of the Center’s regular seasonal programming since 2006, with regular performances by presenting partners Frank Leto & PANdemonium and Pilar Leto & the Odara Dance Ensemble. This year’s Carnaval 2019 marks the 14th annual Carnaval Celebration at the NHCC’s Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts.
$17, $22, $27 w/ $2 off for students, seniors and NHCC members. Group rates available

Frank Leto, musical director and leader of the band PANdemonium, with which he has recorded three world music CDs, is a multitalented instrumentalist who plays Brazilian and Afro-Cuban percussion and Trinidadian steel drums. His love for rhythms has taken him to Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Cuba; while in Cuba, he studied soneros, tres, and batá, as reflected in his original compositions and performances. Pilar Leto, founder and artistic director of the Odara Dance Ensemble, is a dancer, choreographer, and producer who has performed and taught Brazilian, Caribbean, and Afro-Cuban dance for over 25 years. She also studied in Cuba, with premier dancers of the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional and Raíces Profundas. Other members of PANdemonium and the Odara Dance Ensemble also have extensive and impressive backgrounds in Latin percussion and dance.
Thank you to our Performing Arts Season Sponsors Heritage Hotels and Resorts, the Albuquerque Journal and Southwest Airlines!

¡Vamos al Museo!
2019-03-02 | 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, celebrate our upcoming exhibit, “Que Chola” as you explore identity portraits and patterns making art in black and white, through printmaking and collage Inspired by Nancy Camacho’s work.
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

Monthly Speakers Program for the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of NM (Rental)
2019-03-02 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
10:30 am
Join Dr. Joseph Sanchez author, historian and former Director of the Petro glyph 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 topic of the first lecture is “Prelude to Empire; The Development of Spanish and Mexican Archives. A. European Sovereignty, Migration, and Native American Territoriality. 1. Documentary Cartographical Collections and Bibliography of Spanish North America. 2. Cartography of Onate’s Exploration of the Great Plains and Miguel’s Map 1601. 3. The Archivo General de Indias and Early Exploration of the Tierra Adentro, 1540-1593.

Mundos de Mestizaje
2019-03-02 - 2019-03-03 | 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
