Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime: Comiendo el Arcoíris
2023-06-20 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
10:00 am
Our next Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime features Patricia Barrera Boyer’s colorful story Comiendo el Arcoíris/Eating the Rainbow! Join us as we enjoy fruit smoothies and participate in family-friendly rainbow crafts.
Free community event. For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Summer Salsa for Seniors
2023-06-21, 2023-06-28 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
1:30-3:30 pm
Looking for a way to beat the heat? Join us at the Center every Wednesday in June for four weeks of salsa and tango lessons. This new series is part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program, which provides a free multidisciplinary arts program for seniors.
Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP New Mexico. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
2023-06-22, 2023-06-23, 2023-06-29, 2023-06-30, 2023-07-06, 2023-07-07, 2023-07-13, 2023-07-14 | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
11:00 am (MST)
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity.
Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited.
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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El Arte de la Palabra Reading: The Corazón Collective
2023-06-22 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
6:00 pm: Reception & Book-signing
6:30 pm: Readings begin

Join us for a reading and book-signing event featuring members of the Corazón Collective! The Corazón Collective is a collective of female and nonbinary writers, poets, and educators from Texas and California who will be offering workshops and readings in El Paso and New Mexico this June. This event is part of the NHCC’s El Arte de la Palabra program.
Free Community Event. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
This program is generously supported by AARP New Mexico.
Carmen Calatayud is a poet and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in print and online. She is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow.
ire’ne lara silva is the author of four poetry books among other publications, and the recipient of a NALAC grant, the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, and the Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction, among other accolades.
jo reyes-boitel l is a poet and playwright whose hybrid opera was chosen as a finalist for Guerilla Opera’s 2022 annual virtual festival. Along with their two books, their work has appeared in numerous publications.
Angelina Sáenz is an award-winning author and poet whose debut book of poetry was recently published. Her poems have been published in many journals and she is a Macondo Writer’s Workshop Fellow.
Jen Yáñez-Alaniz is a poet, scholar, educator, activist, and Pushcart Prize nominee for her poetry. She is currently working on a critical biography of Carmen Tafolla and her poems have appeared in a variety of publications.

Animal Humane New Mexico: Feline Film Festival 2023
2023-06-23 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Pet Adoptions
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm VIP Reception
6:15 pm to 7:45 pm Film Screening
7:45 pm to 8:00 pm Film Awards/Winner Celebration
Your mission if you choose to accept it… Join us for the epic return of Animal Humane’s Feline Film Festival! Hosted by the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and sponsored by Garcia Subaru, this cat-tastic event will feature an incredible collection of cat-inspired cinema from around the world, food trucks, pet adoptions & MORE. Only the film screening & VIP event are ticketed, meeting adoptable pets from around the state is priceless!
$30 w/ discounts for seniors, members, and students. VIP Ticketing includes access to the VIP Reception from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

4:00pm-6:30pm: Local animal welfare organizations will be hosting information tables & cat adoptions. Participating Organizations: Animal Humane New Mexico, Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department, Bernalillo County Animal Care and Resource Center, Española Humane and June’s Senior Cat Rescue. Two food trucks on site: Mi Taco Su Taco and Pop Pop’s Italian Ice.
5:00pm-6:00pm: VIP Reception Presented by Hill’s Pet Nutrition. Tickets are $75.00 and will include appetizers, an array of beverages and a commemorative wine glass along with entrance to the screening.
6:15pm-7:45pm: Film screening consisting of 32 cat-centric films from all over the world. The theme of this year’s film is MISSION IMPAWSSIBLE!
7:45pm-8:00pm: Winners announced, and awards given out. Categories include: Top 3 Films, Fan Favorite and Best in Theme.

The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. 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.

New Mexico Latino Music All-Stars
2023-06-24 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm: Doors Open with beer and wine service in the lobby7:00 pm: Performance begins
This fun and vibrant Latin-based music will feature New Mexico Latin artists showcasing Latin jazz, R&B, Cumbias, Boleros, Rancheras and Cha Cha. This large ensemble of New Mexico’s musical talent will bring on a fun and live energy performance. Come celebrate the summer season, Father’s Day or just a great night of entertainment with your favorite people in one of New Mexico’s premier venues.
This music charity event is hosted by the National Latino Behavioral Health Association in partnership with the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This will benefit the NLBHA JTR Scholarship program for Latino college students pursing a college degree in behavioral health.
Special Price of $29

El Arte de la Palabra Creative Writing Workshop featuring the Corazón Collective!
2023-06-24 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
10:00 am – 1:30 pm
Hone your creative writing skills at this free writing workshop featuring members of the Corazón Collective! The Corazón Collective is a collective of female and nonbinary writers, poets, and educators from Texas and California who will be offering workshops and readings in El Paso and New Mexico this June. This event will feature five mini workshops centered on the heart. This event is free and open to all skill levels and genres. Lunch will be provided. This event is part of the NHCC’s El Arte de la Palabra program.
Free Community Event. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
This program is generously supported by AARP New Mexico.

Carmen Calatayud is a poet and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in print and online. She is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow.
ire’ne lara silva is the author of four poetry books among other publications, and the recipient of a NALAC grant, the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, and the Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction, among other accolades.
jo reyes-boitel is a poet and playwright whose hybrid opera was chosen as a finalist for Guerilla Opera’s 2022 annual virtual festival. Along with their two books, their work has appeared in numerous publications.
Angelina Sáenz is an award-winning author and poet whose debut book of poetry was recently published. Her poems have been published in many journals and she is a Macondo Writer’s Workshop Fellow.
Jen Yáñez-Alaniz is a poet, scholar, educator, activist, and Pushcart Prize nominee for her poetry. She is currently working on a critical biography of Carmen Tafolla and her poems have appeared in a variety of publications.

Voces de Latinidad: Joanna Keane Lopez
2023-06-24 | Off Campus: Hubbell House (6029 Isleta Blvd SW)
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Join us at the Hubbell House in the South Valley for the third Community Listening Session in a series of 6 for our Voces de Latinidad documentary film project, featuring Joanna Keane Lopez. Each gathering in this series will focus on a different cultural aspect of the question: “Who or what is Latinidad?” Voces de Latinidad aims to feature unique voices from our community culminating in a short documentary and digital archive celebrating the rich diversity of our lived experiences.
On June 24, we invite all people of Hispanic, Latina/o/e/x, Chicana/o/e/x, Indigenous, and New Mexican heritage from the communities of Barelas, Atrisco, the greater South Valley, and surrounding neighborhoods to come and share how you identify culturally and how this shapes your reality and lived experiences.
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Speaker: Joanna Keane Lopez is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is informed through adobe, paper, clay, wood, textiles and song. She inherited the practice of working with adobe, a mixture of mud and straw, from her family who constructed, maintained, and lived in earthen homes. She is also informed by the teachings of enjarradoras and adoberas, women who specialize in the traditional craft of earthen architecture who continue the practice today in the complex cultural landscape of New Mexico.
*Note: Community Sessions will be filmed and some individuals may be selected for interviews. The start time for this event has been updated to 3:00 pm.
The Voces de Latinidad project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Democracy Demands Wisdom.

Colcha Community Stitch A-long
2023-06-27 | Live via Zoom or in-person
9:30 am on the 4th Tuesday of each month
Our Colcha community Workshop is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting. This workshop is instructed by Annette Gutierrez-Turk. Annette has taught this art form to groups internationally and at the NHCC for many years. She is also an award-winning artist, most recently recognized in 2019 at Santa Fe Spanish Market. Annette will demonstrate as well as answer questions. We hope you will join us every month on the fourth Tuesday, on zoom or in person. Everyone will have a chance to share what they are working on.
Please register here every month and we will email the zoom link to you. Questions: Please email Elena at ElenaD.baca@dca.nm.gov or call 505-220-7928.
Free Community Event. Thank you to the Sandia Mountains-EGA for their continued support of this program.

For more on Colcha, please watch this video: Colcha Circle Video
Here is the pattern used in the beginner colcha kit. Click the thumbnail below to enlarge.

Tequila en El Torreón
2023-06-29 | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
6:00 pm
The National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation is hosting a Tequila Tasting Event on June 29th, 2023 at 6:00 pm at the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Torreón. This includes tastings of five different tequilas, led by Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits Director of Mixology Michael Trujillo and a five-course food pairing by Chef Marcus Montoya. The funds raised from this event will be used to support the presentation of the Aliento a Tequila y el Arte de Agave (or The Spirit of Tequila and the Art of Agave) exhibition at the NHCC Art Museum.
$150

The Aliento a Tequila y el Arte de Agave (or The Spirit of Tequila and the Art of Agave) exhibition explores and celebrates the landscape, culture, and traditions that gave birth to tequila, Mexico’s national drink. In this series, photographer Joel Salcido includes the original distilleries that founded the industry, as well as several artisanal tequileras committed to the ancestral ways of making tequila from harvest to bottle. Objects and paintings related to the theme of agave will be on display from the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum Permanent Collection as well as loans from various institutions and artist Hailey Marmolejo.

New Mexico Shakespeare Festival: Comedy of Errors
2023-06-29
7:30 pm
Bringing Shakespeare to Life in New Mexico! The New Mexico Shakespeare Festival believes that Shakespeare is for everyone – whether you’ve seen dozens of plays or none at all. You are invited to join them on the National Hispanic Cultural Center Plaza Mayor to enjoy a wonderful performance!
Comedy of Errors | Directed by Paul Ford
Free community event. Tickets will be available at the event one hour prior to the performance.

Director’s Note: It could be argued that Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors has no socially redeeming value. A very young William Shakespeare cobbled together his own take on several ancient Roman comedies – zapped it with a modern sensibility – wrote in better jokes – added more plot twists – and included a dash of his growing romantic brilliance – and voilà. It’s all that and it is more. It is filled with mad-dash playful action interrupted by stand-up routines – mistaken identities and their hilarious consequences – melodramatic longing and joyous reunions.
At its heart, is a play about the exuberance of youth. The Comedy of Errors does not shed new light on the human condition or plumb the depths of the human psyche. It throws a brilliant and playful spotlight on the simple follies of humble humans. It is a play about us. How nice of Shakespeare to send us this giggling love letter 400 years ago. He knew we would open it with glee.

The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. 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.

Film Screening: The Motorcycle Diaries
2023-06-30 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm: Food Trucks | Cash Bar | Pop Fizz | Motorcycle Show (ends 6:00 pm)
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Live Capoeira Performance
6:30 pm: Pre-Film Talk
7:00 pm: The Motorcycle Diaries Screening
On a break before his last semester of medical school, Ernesto “Che” Guevara (Gael García Bernal) travels with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) from Brazil to Peru by motorcycle. The two men soon witness the great disparities in South America, encountering poor peasants and observing the exploitation of labor by wealthy industrialists. When they reach a leper colony in Peru, Ernesto’s values have changed so much that he sides with the sufferers, forgetting his own comfort.
Director Walter Salles | 2004 | 126 minutes | Spanish with English subtitles | Rated R (social drinking, strong language, and discussions of a sexual nature)
Generously supported by Bank of America.

On Point Dance Studio: PIXAR Paradise
2023-06-30 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
On Point Dance Studio presents their 2023 Summer Recital! Students will perform routines they have learned during our spring semester, a combination of folklorico, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, tumbling and contemporary. National competitive teams’ routines will also be showcased as a special surprise.
$25, $30 & $35

The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. 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.

Visual Arts Museum: First Sunday Free Admission
2023-07-02 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
On the first Sunday of every month, the Visual Arts Museum is free to all New Mexico residents!

Ozomatli with special guests Nosotros & Baracutanga
2023-07-03
This event has reached capacity and is sold out.
IMPORTANT: ALL RESERVATIONS WILL EXPIRE AT 6:30 pm AND WE WILL OPEN SPACE FOR PEOPLE WAITING IN LINE. If you have not checked in by 6:30 pm your reservation will be released, and it will be 1st come 1st serve after that until we reach capacity!
Gates open at 4:30pm. Music starts at 5:30
Join us for a special performance on NHCC’s Plaza Mayor, featuring Ozomatli with special guests Nosotros & Baracutanga! This free performance of powerhouse Latin musicians is presented by Lensic 360, NM Music Commission and the NHCC.
This outdoor event will occur regardless of the weather, so dress accordingly. Blankets, lawn chairs, and low-style camping chairs are welcome. There will be food vendors and free water refill stations available, but outside food is prohibited. There will be a designated ADA-compliant area with chairs available.
Rain or Shine | Bags Subject To Search | Lawn and Low Profile Camping Style Chairs Welcome | Blankets Welcome | Free Water Refill Stations (Bring your own reusable bottles) | Food Vendors Will Be On Site | No Outside Food | ADA Area with Chairs Available | Only Clear Bags Allowed on Campus | No Weapons of Any Kind Allowed | No Fireworks Allowed on Campus

Please follow the attached guidance for parking during this event: Ozo Parking Map Zoom out, Ozomatli & Friends Parking Map for the Monday July 3rd concert on the Plaza Mayor at the NHCC
About the performers:
OZOMATLIOzomatli’s collaborative, energetic blend of multi-cultural music and activism has earned them three GRAMMYs®, four Hollywood Bowl shows, a TED Talk and much more. Since forming in 1995,the Los Angeles-bred lineup has inspired and energized listeners as far away as Burma and Mongolia: Ozo’s messages and music, sung in both Spanish and English, need no translation.
In 2022, Ozo’s new songs, stronger-than-ever brotherhood and creativity culminated in Marching On. Produced by David Garza (Fiona Apple, Sparta) at El Paso’s Sonic Ranch, the LP’s 11 songs are a unified blend of the members’ influences and ideas. Guests include J.J. Fad and Lisa Lisa on “Fellas,” while “Mi Destino,” sung in both English and Spanish, features Cypress Hill’s B-Real and Guatemalan singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno, who also lends her vocals to the title track “Marching On.”
NOSOTROSNosotros is one of the most recognizable Latin bands, in the Southwest United States. They have twice been featured on NPR’s Alt Latino, twice been named winners in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Competition, been awarded 13 NM Music Awards and have shared the stage with some of the biggest names in music.This Latin music powerhouse, seamlessly combines Latin rhythms with elements of Rock, Salsa, Jazz and Cumbia creating an original sound that is unmistakably Nosotros. But M.E. Schenck of Hyperactive Music Magazine may have interpreted their sound best by saying “Nosotros’ music is not to be explained, it is to be felt in the pit of our souls.”
BARACUTANGABaracutanga is a seven-piece band, representing four different countries (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, USA), that blends South American ancestral traditions with a modern sensibility, whose exciting and distinct Latin flavor keeps crowds dancing and always wanting more. Baracutanga creates songs that cross linguistic and cultural barriers, building bridges between the south and the north, overcoming the barriers of discrimination and promoting intercultural experiences that empower Latinos and all people with a positive message of self-affirmation.

Cervantes Film Series: Azaletik azalera
2023-07-04
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
With this award-winning short film, Mel Arranz has managed to place himself within the interesting panorama of animation made in the Basque Country. His piece, colored in various shades of black and white, began to take shape during his artistic stay in Mexico and is a visual experiment: his short film manages to demonstrate a bodily intimacy through the detail shots of the touching of skins, hardly representable in live-action cinema.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez y Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

New Mexico Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night's Dream
2023-07-06
7:30 pm
Bringing Shakespeare to Life in New Mexico! The New Mexico Shakespeare Festival believes that Shakespeare is for everyone – whether you’ve seen dozens of plays or none at all. You are invited to join them on the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Plaza Mayor and enjoy a wonderful performance!
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Directed by Julia Thudium
Free community event. Tickets will be available at the event one hour prior to the performance.

Director’s Note: ​If Samhain or Halloween is the night, where the veils between the living and the dead are thin, in many cultures, Midsummer is the night that the Faeries come out and play, the night when you dance around the bonfire in the forest, only to realize you are not dancing alone and when you open your eyes the next morning, you’re not sure if what you experienced was real or simply a vision.
This performance is set in the magical moment between waking and sleeping – the slow surfacing from the depths of your dreamscape – the liminal space on the threshold of beginning. In order to have a beginning you need to have a before-time. It’s here where we find our Midsummer. The Italians have a word for this before-time: Dormiveglia, the space that stretches between sleeping and waking. Not many people know this, but it is in this place that the Faeries rule. Everything is possible in the moments you dwell here; the sweet, the sad, the irreverent and the ridiculous. If you know me, you know I prefer the ridiculous over just about anything.
Last year when I took on As You Like It, I coined it the “Party Show” of the Festival. This year is something a little different. This year we are THE HEART show. I invite you to let yourself sink here in this moment in the no-time. Let yourself be enchanted and pause in the mystic doorway with us.

The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. 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.

Cervantes Film Series: La mesa
2023-07-07
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
With a captivating work drawing on a black and white photographic image, director Adrian Garcia Gomez delves into memory to orient his imagination regarding identity and the past in the environment of the western and Mexican cinema of the 1940’s and 50’s. This short film follows its predecessor Mikveh (2016), and shares that film’s sensitive attunement regarding its formality and concerns, which the Californian creator will continue in his subsequent work, using a much more complex visual composition.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), de Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) de Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), de varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), de Paco Ramírez y Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), de Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), de Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), de Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), de Emilio Martí

Voces de Latinidad: Community Session featuring Mónica Sanchez
2023-07-11 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Join us in Salón Ortega for the fourth Community Listening Session in a series of 6 for our Voces de Latinidad documentary film project. Each gathering in this series will focus on a different cultural aspect of the question: “Who or what is Latinidad?” Voces de Latinidad aims to feature unique voices from our community culminating in a short documentary and digital archive celebrating the rich diversity of our lived experiences.
On July 11, we invite all people of Hispanic, Latina/o/e/x, Chicana/o/e/x, Indigenous, and New Mexican heritage from the communities of Barelas, Atrisco, the greater South Valley, and surrounding neighborhoods to come and share how you identify culturally and how this shapes your reality and lived experiences.
Free Community Event. Please register using the link below.

Speaker: Mónica Sánchez holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of New Mexico. She has followed her bliss throughout a life in the theatre and the theatre of life. Over 30 years she has honed her craft as a professional actor, written and devised work collaboratively and independently for the stage, directed a handful of productions small and large, and enjoyed a myriad of assignments as a teaching artist and community engagement facilitator with diverse and intergenerational communities.
*Note: Community Sessions will be filmed and some individuals may be selected for interviews.
The Voces de Latinidad project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Democracy Demands Wisdom.

Cervantes Film Series: Beti Bezperako Koplak
2023-07-11
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
The animators included in Ageda Kopla Taldea – a group of twenty artists coordinated by Bego Vicarioapproach– weave a fascinating story that starts from the tradition of the bertsolaris, the Basque poets who recite their improvised verses, to bring us closer to the history of cultural and popular traditions at a time when their meanings and contents are being redefined.
This work is part of the stream of collective animation works that have been performed in recent years in the field of Fine Arts in the Basque Country, such as Areka (2016) or Miraila (2017).
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to accompanying the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates with us its twenty years of existence with the presentation on our Vimeo channel of an animated film series whose films address this theme. Throughout four weeks, we will be able to see short films that show us stories of all kinds of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators made in Basque.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), de Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) de Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), de varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), de Paco Ramírez y Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), de Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), de Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), de Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), de Emilio Martí

Opening Reception: Nexo Entre Raíces / Nexus Between Roots
2023-07-14 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
NHCC Art Museum
Evento Comunitario Gratuito / Free Community Event!
4-7pm – Exhibition on view
4-5:30pm – Art Activities
6pm – Artist Panel Discussion
Nexo Entre Raíces / Nexus Between Roots is an exhibition of prints by artists living and working in both Mexico and the United States. Their work traverses themes of culture, tradition, identity, and place, connecting those with Mexican roots across borders. Organized by artist Marco Sánchez and multidisciplinary scholar Claudia Ley in collaboration with the NHCC Art Museum, the exhibition features 32 artworks exchanged for a print portfolio between the participating artists as well as additional pieces contextualizing the artists’ work.
Nexo Entre Raíces es una exposición de grabados de artistas viviendo y trabajando en ambos lugares de México y Estados Unidos. Sus obras atraviesan temas de cultura, tradición, identidad y lugar, que se conectan con sus raíces transfronterizas. Organizado por artista Marco Sánchez y erudita multidisciplinaria Claudia Ley en colaboración con el Museo de Arte del Centro Nacional de Cultura Hispana, la exposición muestra 32 obras de arte intercambiadas entre los artistas que resulta en una carpeta de grabados de los artistas participantes tanto como obras adicionales que contextualizan las obras de los artistas.
Generously sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Cervantes Film Series: Thara
2023-07-14
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
Planned as a mixed media work, Thara combines a documentary style with a narrative built through animation to achieve greater expressive freedom, only achievable through this technique. The short film shows the story of those transsexual people who are forced to work at night and reveals how difficult the lives of these women can be in Latin American countries.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí
