NHCC Summer Reading Program Applications Due April 5
2019-04-05
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

¡Baile! Rueda de Casino (Cuban Salsa) Dance Class
2019-04-02, 2019-03-26, 2019-03-19, 2019-03-12 | 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)

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
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.

Mundos de Mestizaje
2019-03-30 - 2019-03-31, 2019-03-23 - 2019-03-24, 2019-03-16 - 2019-03-17 | 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

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
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.

Revolutions International Theatre Festival: Migrant Songs
2019-03-28 - 2019-03-29
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Friday, March 29, 2019
7:15 pm both days
Produced by Tricklock Company, the Revolutions International Theatre Festival welcomes performance companies from all over the globe to perform and connect across cultures and communities. For the 19th annual festival, Tricklock and the NHCC present Migrant Songs.
Migrant Songs is a choral performance art piece that combines stories and songs from human and non-human migrants. This experimental visual and sound performance incorporates interviews with migrants living in the city of Albuquerque who come from many parts of the world, including Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, Costa Rica, The Philippines, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, and Vietnam, to name a few. These stories of human migration are woven together with bird songs from the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico to explore how we think about migration, our sense of home and dislocation, as well as the biological role of song in both humans and non-humans.
Free and open to the public

Thank you to our Performing Arts Season Sponsors Heritage Hotels and Resorts, the Albuquerque Journal and Southwest Airlines! And a special thank you to the Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque for their support of this show!

Film: La Nana/The Maid
2019-03-28 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
The NHCC’s Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts has postponed the March 28th film screening until further notice. For questions about tickets, please contact the NHCC Box Office at 505-383-4771. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.
6 pm

Please note that a pre-screening conversation about the film, led by Dr. Elizabeth Hutchison, will begin at this time. The film will be shown at 7 pm
Raquel has worked as a live-in, uniformed maid for a well-to-do family in Santiago, Chile for over 20 years. Now 41, she is part of the family in some ways, as emotional attachments—both positive and negative—attest, but in others remains apart, even expendable.
When her employers decide that she needs help and hire an additional maid, Raquel feels that she must fight for her place in the household. Her “guerrilla war” against a series of newcomers reaches increasingly audacious heights, until someone quite different turns up and Raquel’s world begins, very gently, to expand. La Nana, described as a “microcosm of Latin social hierarchy,” also focuses on one woman’s journey to free herself from a mental servitude of her own making. Presented in partnership with Women’s International Study Center (WISC) as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series. Dr. Elizabeth Hutchison, WISC Fellow-in-Residence, will introduce the film and lead a discussion with representatives of other community organizations, beginning at 6 PM, prior to the screening. Please join us for refreshments and further conversation in the lobby afterwards!
2009; Sebastián Silva; Spanish with English subtitles; 135 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

NHCC Book Club
2019-03-28 | 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 March: The Neighborhood (2016) by Mario Vargas Llosa.
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.

Revolutions International Theatre Festival: Where Did We Sit On The Bus?
2019-03-27 - 2019-03-29 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Friday, March 29, 2019
7 pm on Wednesday & 8 pm on Friday
Produced by Tricklock Company, the Revolutions International Theatre Festival welcomes performance companies from all over the globe to perform and connect across cultures and communities. For the 19th annual festival, Tricklock and the NHCC present Where Did We Sit On The Bus?.
Where Did We Sit on the Bus? is an electric one-man show pulsing with Latin rhythms, rap, hip-hop, spoken word, and live looping. During a third grade lesson on the Civil Rights movement and Rosa Parks, a Latino boy raises his hand to ask, “Where did we sit on the bus?” and his teacher can’t answer the question. This thrilling autobiographical production examines what it means to be Latino through the eyes of a child, turned teenager, turned adult.
Tickets: $15-$27
Thank you to our Performing Arts Season Sponsors Heritage Hotels and Resorts, the Albuquerque Journal and Southwest Airlines!

Shine Conference 2019 (Rental)
2019-03-23 | Domenici Education Building – Grand Hall
9 am to 12 pm
What does it look like to serve our communities in a way that makes a lasting impact? Are some methods more effective? How do we ensure that the time and energy we spend makes a difference?
If you believe that successful schools are a vital part of a thriving community and are interested in learning how you can be a part, we invite you to Shine Conference 2019.
WHAT IS SHINE CONFERENCE?
Shine Conference is a one-day event where Shine Partner Churches, APS faculty, guest speakers, and our team come together to give you the best resources on on developing your community through the local public school. We take a church beyond just donating material goods to building transformational relationships.
We provide high-quality content and an open view into the impact that Shine Partnerships are having in Albuquerque.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
We understand that you have a busy schedule and it can be very difficult to take time away on a weekend. We try to pack as much as possible into a short amount of time and give you the best experience we can offer.

8:30AM – Check-In
9:00AM – Gathering & Introduction
9:30AM – Break
9:40AM – Session 1
10:25AM – Break
10:35AM – Session 2
11:35AM – Break
11:45AM – Closing

CONFERENCE SPEAKER

Jesse Harden
Jesse is a church planter and pastor of New Creation Albuquerque, located in the international district. Jesse has studied at Baylor University, Hillsdale College, and George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He is a gifted communicator and is passionate reimagining charity in ways that will transform lives and restore communities.

WHY SHOULD I ATTEND SHINE CONFERENCE 2019?
Shine Conference is an opportunity to engage with framework-shifting ideas, meet like-minded people, and dream with us for a better tomorrow. Our conference is absolutely free to attend and only happens once a year.
Whether you volunteer with a Shine Partnership already, attend a partner church, or are a member of our community, if you believe in loving our city for a better tomorrow, this conference is for you.
Free Event With RSVP

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
2019-03-23, 2019-03-16 | HLA Conference Room

What Is It, Then, Between Us? Poetry & Democracy
2019-03-22 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
A reading by visiting poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico and Albuquerque Poet Laureate Michelle Otero
5:00 pm bosque walk with the poets, starting at NW corner of NHCC parking lot
6:30 pm poetry reading, Salon Ortega
A partnership between the NHCC, Letras Latinas (Notre Dame) and the Academy of American Poets Poetry Coalition, this reading and book signing links poetry with the concept of democracy and features Natalie Scenters-Zapico and Albuquerque Poet Laureate Michelle Otero. “What is it then, between us” is a quote from Walt Whitman— the father of free verse, Bard of Brooklyn, the voice of Democracy — who was born 200 years ago, in 1819.

Poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico is a fronteriza from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, U.S.A., and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Her first book The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing 2015) won the PEN American/Joyce Osterweil Award, Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award, NACCS Foco Book Prize, and the Utah Book Award. She has won fellowships from the Lannan Foundation (2017), CantoMundo (2015), and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation (2018). Her poems have appeared in a wide range of anthologies and literary magazines including Best American Poetry 2015, POETRY, Tin House, Kenyon Review, and more.

Michelle Otero, Albuquerque’s fourth Poet Laureate, is the author of Malinche’s Daughter, an essay collection based on her work with women survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Oaxaca, Mexico as a Fulbright Fellow. She works with fellow artists and local farmers to implement the Community Table project, which combines art, local agriculture, and economic development as a platform for neighborhood revitalization.

Revolutions International Theatre Festival: Words from the Walls
2019-03-21 - 2019-03-23 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Saturday, March 23, 2019
7 pm both days
Produced by Tricklock Company, the Revolutions International Theatre Festival welcomes performance companies from all over the globe to perform and connect across cultures and communities. For the 19th annual festival, Tricklock and the NHCC present Words from the Walls.
Created by world-renowned Colombian/US Nemcatacoa Words from the Walls is a site-specific performance that explores different points of view about walls that separate people. A non-conventional performance that mixes bilingual poetry, video projection, music, and physical theater on stilts. Words from the Walls creates an ambulatory theatre experience weaving an intertwined story connected by poetry and visual images that includes stilters, live music, and a poet to lead the audience on a journey through the NHCC campus as we investigate all walls, real and imagined.
$27 and $15 for students, seniors, veterans and NHCC members
Thank you to our Performing Arts Season Sponsors Heritage Hotels and Resorts, the Albuquerque Journal and Southwest Airlines!

Trinity Downwinders 2nd Annual Benefit (Rental)
2019-03-17
1 to 5 pm
Trinity Downwinders 2nd Annual Benefit being held to raise funds for members of the TBDC to travel to Washington, DC for further Congressional Hearings. There was a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on June 27, 2018, which was attended by over 12 members of the TBDC. Members of the TBDC are preparing to travel to Washington, DC for hearings on expanding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to include the people of New Mexico. Members will testify before Congress on the negative health effects suffered by the people of New Mexico due to the over exposure to radiation after the July 16, 1945, nuclear detonation (atomic bomb). Many people living in and around the Trinity Test Site (150 mile radius) have suffered and continue to suffer with health problems since the time of the test.

RECA was passed in 1990 by the US Government to provide health care coverage and compensation to downwinders from other parts of the country but has never included the people of New Mexico. The fund has paid out over 2.3 Billion Dollars in reparations to downwinders in parts of Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Arizona and Colorado but never to New Mexico downwinders. It also provides the best health care coverage available with no limits, deductibles, co-payments, etc.
The TBDC has the full support of the New Mexico Congressional delegation. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich are co-sponsors of the bill to amend RECA to include the people of New Mexico. Representative Ben Ray Lujan is the primary sponsor on the House side and both bills have bi-partisan support in the US Congress. Newly elected Governor Michelle Lujan-Grisham is also in support of the bills to amend RECA.
Musicians Featured: New Mexico 2018 Hall of Fame recipient Franc Chewiwie & the Latin Jazz AllStars and Paul Pino & The Tone Daddies and *Nosotros
Tickets: $20/person, $35/couple. Children under 12 free. Tickets can be purchased at door. Cash/Checks only payable to CCNS (Tax Deductible). Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS) is the fiscal nonprofit agent for the TBDC .
For information on TBDC go to www.trinitydownwinders.com
Gold Sponsor: Sandia Resort & Casino
In-Kind Sponsors: National Hispanic Cultural Center and Marketing Strategies, Inc.

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.

Yankwik Xiwitl/Aztec New Year
2019-03-17
10 am
Kalpulli Ehekatl, Kalpulli Izkalli, y Danza Mayahuel invita la conformidad de Danzas Aztecas de NM y la comunidad a celebrar Yankwik Xiwitl/Año Nuevo Azteca/Mexika Azteca New Year.
Join us for a Mexika (Aztec) New Year ceremony, ushering in Chikome Akatl/Año Siete Carrizo/Year Seven Reed. The schedule is as follows:
10 am—Arranging the tlamanalli/ofrenda/offering
12 pm– Mitotiliztli/Danza/Ceremonial dance
If you wish to donate flowers, please bring them to the NHCC before 10 am.
For more information call Kalpulli Izkalli at: 452-9208 or 804-4602.
Kalpulli Izkalli—“Celebrating 20 years of Cultura, Healing, and Justice.”
Free public event

La Canoa: Daniel Webb "The Power and Place of the Apachería in Colonial New Mexico"
2019-03-16 | History and Literary Arts Building
2 pm
Please join Daniel Webb as he examines the history of the diverse population of Athapaskan-speaking peoples identified as Apache (Ndé) in the colonial archives of northern New Spain. He will trace the different stages of their migration and territorial expansion across the vast geographical expanse known as the Apachería (the Apaches’ ancestral homelands), illustrating their relations with other sovereign Indian nations and Hispano settlers, and the policies that Spain introduced in the eighteenth century to restrict their mobility. Through analysis of a wide range of historical materials, including sources from the Spanish Archives of New Mexico and the Archivo General de la Nación de México, Webb’s research highlights the cultural practices and the environmental conditions that allowed the diverse Apache bands, clans and family lineages to flourish in the periphery of colonial New Mexico. Paradoxically, this contributed to the decline of tribal sovereignty in the nineteenth century.
Daniel Webb (University of Chicago, Ph.D. 2017) is a Visiting Scholar at the University of New Mexico’s Center for Regional Studies. He is an early American historian with specializations in Native American, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and Latino/a history. His research has been supported by the John Carter Brown Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
This event is free and open to the public

National Institute of Flamenco and the NHCC Present Yjastros 34
2019-03-15 - 2019-03-16 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
The NHCC’s Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts is closed due to a facilities issues. As a result, this weekend’s performances of the National Institute of Flamenco’s performances of “Yjastros 34” at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, on March 15 and 16, are canceled. For questions about tickets, please contact the NHCC Box Office at 505-383-4771. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.
The National Institute of Flamenco have canceled their performance here at the NHCC and they will have another performance at the Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance at Carlisle Gym on the University of New Mexico Campus. Please call NIF at 505-242-7600 or visit nifnm.org for ticketing information/purchase to this new performance.

The National Institute of Flamenco and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, present Yjastros 34: The Rise of Flamenco. This stunning production features internationally acclaimed guest artists, dancers/choreographers Daniel Doña (Granada, Spain) and Cristian Martín (Ávila, Spain), and the Orchestra of New Spain (Dallas, Texas) under the direction of Grover Wilkins III. Yjastros 34: The Rise of Flamenco traces the profound lineage of the art of flamenco, beginning with early Spanish dance and music forms, such as fandangos, jácara, and toná, taking the audience on an artistic journey through the musical and gestural forms that become modern flamenco.
$30, $40, $50, $60 w/ $5 discount for students, seniors and NHCC members

Both Doña and Martín have garnered some of the most prestigious awards in flamenco and Spanish dance, including the Premio Ojo Crítico (Doña) and the Coreografía de Danza Española y Flamenco de Madrid (Martín). Their unique artistic vision brings the distant past into a dynamic relationship with the contemporary, immersing the audience in moving, unforgettable dance and music.
The Orchestra of New Spain, under the direction of Grover Wilkins III, draws its principal repertory from manuscripts found in the court, public, and cathedral archives of Spain. Ten guest musicians and vocalists will travel to Albuquerque, forming the awe-inspiring musical accompaniment to the performance, grounded in Spanish artistic heritage.
Yjastros will debut new choreography created and set by Doña and Martín, and take the stage with these brilliant guest dancers and musicians to manifest an aesthetic experience unlike any other.
Thank you to our Performing Arts Season Sponsors Heritage Hotels and Resorts, the Albuquerque Journal and Southwest Airlines!

Colcha Community Stitch-Along
2019-03-15 | 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

Film: Harvest Season
2019-03-14 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
The NHCC’s Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts is closed due to facilities issues. As a result, this film at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, on March 28 is postponed until further notice. For questions about tickets, please contact the NHCC Box Office at 505-383-4771. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.
7 pm
California’s Napa Valley is one of the premier wine growing regions in the world, celebrated for decades as a kind of “American Eden” and an idyllic, luxurious global destination.

Yet the vineyard workers and the small producers with roots in the fields are rarely credited for the valley’s famed bounty. Filmed over the course of one agricultural year, Harvest Season takes an “other side of the valley” approach, delving into the lives of people who are intimately connected to the winemaking process and bringing forward those who are often background characters in other narratives about wine. Presented in partnership with New Mexico PBS as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2019; Bernardo Ruiz; English; 90 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show
