First Page to Last Page Reading of Bless Me, Ultima in the NHCC Art Museum
September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes9 am to 8 pm The National Hispanic Cultural Center will present a beginning-to-end reading of Rudolfo Anaya’s acclaimed novel, Bless Me, Ultima. The reading will take place in the NHCC Art Museum where an exhibition, La Ultima Exhibición, enters its final month. Over 40 dignitaries, New Mexico authors, youth, adults and elders (including school students) will read, each for 15 minutes, between 9 am and 8 pm. The general public is invited to attend any part of the day-long reading as well as tour the exhibition (more...)
Latin Hip Hop Dance Class With Carlota Silva
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-247:15 pm Super fun Latin hip-hop and body isolation dance class with Carlota Silva! No experience necessary and all ages welcome. Carlota began dancing at the age of 2. She currently teaches jazz, hip-hop, tap, and contemporary dance at Fishback studio of dance. She coached the Viking Vikettes and is the director and choreographer for local dance company Off Broadway. She is excited to share her love of dance with our community! $5 to $10 donation suggested. Please come and have a great time and invite your friends! Casino (Cuban (more...)
¡Salud y Sabor! Chocolate/Chocolate–Dia de los Muertos
Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Salud y Sabor, a partnership between the Agri-cultura Network, Street Food Institute, and the NHCC, is a free evening of food, art, and entertainment aimed at providing families with an opportunity to connect around nutrition, cooking, healthy lifestyles, and culture. Once a month, community members gather for cooking demonstrations using fresh, locally grown ingredients, as well as fun art activities for kids and adults, health screenings, and live entertainment. An emphasis is placed on exploring traditional Hispanic dishes, providing basic information/free screenings (more...)
Demetria Martinez, “Sanctuary: Readings & Recollections”
History and Literary Arts Building6 pm This talk is part of the educational programming related to People Powered: New Mexicans and Social Movements. Martinez will read from her novel, Mother Tongue, and talk about the 1988 conspiracy in connection with allegedly transporting two Salvadoran refugees into the United States. That historical moment speaks to conditions, today, in the struggle to stand with our immigrant brothers and sisters. Demetria Martinez has written poetry, essays, and novels. She co-authored a book on immigration reform with former Oklahoma Senator, Fred Harris. She was honored with an international Latino (more...)
Film: Coco (Spanish)
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm Beginning in October, the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series joins in the Center’s annual commemoration of Día de los Muertos, and thanks The Walt Disney Studios for permission to show the delightful Disney/Pixar musical fantasy film Coco, inspired by the Mexican celebration of that holiday, in both English and Spanish versions. A final Spanish screening is scheduled for November 1—the first day of Día de los Muertos, or All Saints Day. Tickets to the films are available at the Center one hour before each (more...)
Opening for Children’s Garden
Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM5 pm Join us and the U.S. Forrest Service for the grand opening of the Children’s Garden: A Certified Nature Explore Classroom located on the east side of the Pete V. Domenici Education Building. The Children’s Garden is designed to give urban kids hands-on, daily connections with nature and includes interactive elements such as instruments, garden areas and natural materials for building or creating art. The Children’s Garden will be open all hours that the NHCC campus is open.
Colcha Community Stitch-Along
Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM9:30 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
The Red Ribbon Youth Pageant (Rental)
Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NMDinner at 6 pm Pageant at 7 pm The Red Ribbon Youth Pageant is a community collaborative event celebrating National Latino HIV Awareness Day with an evening including a youth pageant and drag performances. Community organization from across New Mexico will be providing education, awareness and testing opportunities for the greater Albuquerque community. The show will be include well known community youth and adult performs from across the city and all hosted by Seliah DeLeon. This evening will also have free food, a live DJ and interactive (more...)
La Canoa: The Women of Local 890 and the Empire Mine Strike
NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-72 pm Please join Professor Kells as she examines "embodied rhetoric" in the Local 890 chapter of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers of Hanover, New Mexico, who staged one of the nation’s most effective groundbreaking strikes near Silver City from October 1950 to January 1952. The grievances of the Empire Zinc workers included racial discrimination in job duties and pay, toxic work environments, and inequitable power sharing between labor and management. The dramatic showdown, resulting in incarceration of forty-five women, seventeen children, and (more...)
Mundos de Mestizaje
12 pm to 5 pm A Vision of History through Fresco… Mundos de Mestizaje by Frederico Vigil is a mural housed in the Torreón on the campus of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This monumental fresco depicts thousands of years of Hispanic history highlighting diverse cultural connections between people and places from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The 4,000 square foot painting is one of the largest frescos in North America. The digitized imagery of the painting ensures that this culturally significant work can be a (more...)