Book Club
Entre Palabras Online Book Club
Live via Zoom5:30 pm Join us for the first installment of our Entre Palabras Online Book Club, featuring the New Mexico classic Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya. NHCC’s Entre Palabras Online Book Club explores diverse themes and topics within the Hispanic/Latine diaspora including identity, place, borders, nationality, race, gender, and language. The book club highlights pieces centered on New Mexico and the Southwest as well as Hispanic/Latine/Latin American works from both the United States and a variety of countries throughout the Hispanic world. Únase al primer evento de nuestro (more...)
Book Club
History and Literary Arts Building5:00 - 7:00 pm In a world that has felt ever more disconnected, the Center is thrilled to announce that we will be reconnecting in-person with lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the far reaches of Latinidad. In March, we will be reading The Queen of the Cicadas, by V. Castro. Some 2024 Book Club selections are meant to enrich our everyday lives, some to give escape from our everyday troubles; a few give us all a glimpse of (more...)
NHCC Book Club
HLA Conference Room 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM5:00 pm – 7:00 pm The NHCC is thrilled to announce that we will be reconnecting in person with lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the far reaches of Latinidad. We will meet on the last Wednesday of every month in the Center's HLA Conference Room. In April, we will be reading Afterlife, by Julia Alvarez. Afterlife tells the story of an immigrant writer, reeling from her beloved husband's sudden death in the wake of her retirement, whose life is further (more...)
An Evening with Jimmy Santiago Baca
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM30th Anniversary of Blood In, Blood Out Featuring Special Guest Melina Martinez 6:30 pm: Reception and Book Signing 7:30 pm: Readings Join us for an evening with Jimmy Santiago Baca in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Blood In, Blood Out on Saturday, April 27 at 6:30 pm. Located in the Bank of America Theatre, this event will feature a reception and book signing for the Blood In, Blood Out Coffee Table Book from 6:30 – 7:30 pm as well as readings featuring Melina Martinez and Jimmy (more...)
NHCC Book Club
HLA Conference Room 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM6:00 pm – 7:30 pm The NHCC is thrilled to announce that we will be reconnecting in person with lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the far reaches of Latinidad. We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. In May, we will be reading When I sing, Mountains Dance, by Irene Sola. This novel tells the story of Domnec, who is struck and killed by lightning in a village high in (more...)
NHCC Book Club
HLA Conference Room 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM6:00 pm – 7:30 pm The NHCC is thrilled to announce that we will be reconnecting in person with lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the far reaches of Latinidad. We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. In June, we will be reading The Hacienda, by Isabel Canas. The Hacienda tells the story of a woman, Beatriz, who accepts Don Rodolfo Solorzano's proposal of marriage in the aftermath of the (more...)
NHCC Book Club
HLA Conference Room 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM6:00 pm – 7:30 pm The NHCC is thrilled to announce that we will be reconnecting in person with lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the far reaches of Latinidad. We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. In August, we will be reading Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility, by Patricia Santana. This powerful coming-of-age novel, winner of the 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest, tells the story of a fourteen-year-old girl (more...)
NHCC Book Club
HLA Conference Room 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM6:00 pm – 7:30 pm The NHCC is thrilled to announce that we will be reconnecting in person with lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the far reaches of Latinidad. We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. In September, we will be reading Familia by Lauren E. Rico. Familia explores the story of two young women who are brought together by a genealogy test and a haunting question that shakes their understanding (more...)
NHCC Book Club: Featuring Special Guest Ramón Gutiérrez, Historian and Author
Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM6:00 pm: Reception and Book Signing 7:00 pm: Author’s Talk followed by Q&A Join us for a special Book Club event featuring a book-signing and author's talk led by author Ramon Gutiérrez! In October, we will be reading New Mexico's Moses: Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, by Ramon Gutierrez. In New Mexico's Moses, Gutiérrez dives deeply into López Tijerina's religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s. An Assemblies of God evangelist turned Pentecostal itinerant preacher, Tijerina used his (more...)
NHCC Book Club
HLA Conference Room6:00 pm – 7:30 pm NHCC | HLA Conference Room The NHCC invites lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the history and vast the array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. This month, we will be reading Solito: A Memoir. In this gripping memoir, a young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at (more...)