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SUMMARY:Siempre Creativo: Latin Dance for Seniors
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 1\, 2026\n1:30 – 3:30 pm \nNHCC | HLA Salon Ortega \nLatin Dance for Seniors will feature 4 weeks of Latin dance lessons taught by instructor Carlota Silva. Classes run for four consecutive Wednesdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. No prior experience necessary. These classes are part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program\, which provides free multidisciplinary arts programs for seniors. \nPlease pre-register. Free to attend. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nGenerously sponsored by AARP New Mexico
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/siempre-creativo-latin-dance-for-seniors-4/
LOCATION:Salón Ortega\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
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SUMMARY:Happy Arte Hour
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 2\, 2026\n6:00 pm \nNHCC | Pete V. Domenici Education Building \nNHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a relaxed social setting. 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. Drinks and snacks will be available to purchase from La Fonda del Bosque/City Treats. \nElena Baca will lead a hands-on monotype workshop. This printmaking workshop will use Gelli plates\, watercolor paint and ink pads to create one-of-a-kind prints. \nPlease pre-register with the link below (so we know how many materials to prepare). Registration for the following month is available the day after the current program month. For more information\, please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or elenad.baca@dca.nm.gov. \nFree Community Event. $5+ donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/happy-arte-hour-22/
LOCATION:NHCC | Education Building: Grand Hall\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading: Dr. Irene Blea
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 4\, 2026\n12:30 – 2:00 pm \nNHCC | Salon Ortega \nJoin the NHCC for National Poetry Month! We are honored to once again host award-winning author Dr Irene Blea. She will be reading from her book of poems\, Dragonfly\, along with brand-new poetry material. \nRESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE! \nIn this collection of fifty years of her poetry\, Dr. Irene I. Blea brazenly relates her efforts to understand what she thought was wrong with her. She came to an understanding of social and historical factors that misinformed her colonized mind. Decolonization demanded evaluating her mind\, body\, and spirit. She portrays decolonization as a complex process involving the rejection and redefinition of the colonizer’s language\, embracing her own tri-cultural history\, and commitment to ongoing learning and growth. This is a process that requires dedication and struggle to create a more just and equitable world. Irene Blea shares her transformation from the prescription of traditional female roles riddled by confusion and conflict to guide us to peace\, and understanding of the physical\, psychological\, and spiritual process that brought her to what it means to be a female human in a sometimes-hostile world. \nThe author writes: “On January 1\, 2024\, I opened my eyes and asked into the crispness of my bedroom if I would die that year. I have been obsessed with my death for decades and wrote about it in my autobiography\, Erené with Wolf Medicine. The room responded with\, ‘I don’t know.’ I decided to rise and make some coffee. I have outlived most of my friends\, and several seniors of my extended family. I do not want to die at home on a sweltering summer afternoon when everyone is working and not be found for a week bloated and smelling on the bathroom or kitchen floor. If I must leave this world\, it should be after viewing the golden firefly that visits me in my yard each year one more time. \n“I am not okay living to a hundred\, but do not want to die before I inform you that throughout my life\, I wrote much poetry and that I was one of few women at the forefront of Chicano literature. This type of poetry was an important literary movement. Chicano and Chicana poetry was rooted in resistance to class discrimination\, racism\, and sexism. Early poets of the time created a genre that added to American literature another category. We had unique philosophical\, topical\, and aesthetic features different from the divisions of genres of the time. This literary movement provided language for comparing\, contrasting\, and discussing literary words and works\, and served as an introduction to the formation of curricula and anthologies.” \nFree community event. \nReading: Irene Blea | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/reading-dr-irene-blea-2/
LOCATION:Salón Ortega\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
CATEGORIES:History and Literary Arts
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SUMMARY:Siempre Creativo: Latin Dance for Seniors
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 8\, 2026\n1:30 – 3:30 pm \nNHCC | HLA Salon Ortega \nLatin Dance for Seniors will feature 4 weeks of Latin dance lessons taught by instructor Carlota Silva. Classes run for four consecutive Wednesdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. No prior experience necessary. These classes are part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program\, which provides free multidisciplinary arts programs for seniors. \nPlease pre-register. Free to attend. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nGenerously sponsored by AARP New Mexico
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/siempre-creativo-latin-dance-for-seniors/
LOCATION:Salón Ortega\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
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SUMMARY:Escribir Escuchar – Hispanic & Latine Writer Series: Roberto Duran
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 11\, 2026\n2:00 – 4:00 pm \nNHCC | Salon Ortega \nCelebrate National Poetry Month with the NHCC! Join us for a combined reading and writing workshop event with prominent Chicano poet\, Roberto Tinoco Duran. Duran is a poet\, vocalist\, and visual artist from San Jose\, CA and we are honored to have him share his new book\, The Vulcanic Poet: New and Selected Works 1973 – 2023. This event will begin with a reading and book signing\, immediately followed by a writing workshop. \nFree community event \nRESERVE YOUR TICKET HERE! \nThis event is generously supported by AARP.
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/escribir-escuchar-hispanic-latine-writer-series-roberto-duran/
LOCATION:Salón Ortega\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
CATEGORIES:History and Literary Arts
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SUMMARY:AfroMundo Festival: “Narratives of Power: Myth\, History\, and the Stories that Shape Us”
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, April 12\, 2026\n7:00 pm \nNHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium \n2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”\nFeatured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico\, Virgin Islands\, Guam\, American Samoa\, Mariana Islands \nLiterary Reading with Samoan storyteller Gabby Langkilde; Puerto Rican poet\, Dr. Eleuterio Santiago-Diaz; and Virgin Islands’ author\, Tiphanie Yanique. Followed by panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace\, Director of UNM’s Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program. \nThe 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films\, concerts\, literature\, oral traditions\, panel discussions\, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nPanel discussion with:\nGabby Langkilde is a Samoan storyteller and the founder and executive editor of Pasefika Presence. Born and raised on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa\, her love for storytelling was cultivated early in life —listening to ancient Samoan legends shared by her grandfather and later crafting her own tales for cousins\, friends\, and family to enjoy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies from Harvard College\, where she wrote ‘Pasefika Presence\,’ one of the first recurring columns in The Harvard Crimson to center Pacific Islander perspectives and issues. After graduating\, she returned home to American Samoa and worked as an eighth-grade social studies teacher\, and in 2023\, she founded Pasefika Presence as an online\, submission-based magazine uplifting Pacific Islander stories and art. Rooted in the same commitment to centering Pacific Islander perspectives as her original column\, Pasefika Presence began as a way to engage her students in Pacific storytelling and has since grown into an international platform that has published two issues and received hundreds of submissions from creatives across the Pacific and its diasporas. Gabby went on to be awarded a Fulbright U.S. Graduate Award to pursue research in Auckland\, New Zealand\, and received an East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship to complete her master’s degree in Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Today\, she continues to guide Pasefika Presence while using storytelling\, education\, and research to empower Pacific communities and expand space for Pasefika voices.\nhttps://www.pasefikapresence.org \nDr. Eleuterio Santiago Diaz is a poet\, professor\, and literary critic. Upon graduation from the University of Puerto Rico\, Santiago-Díaz worked as a teacher of Spanish\, physical education and industrial arts\, and as a librarian in Puerto Rican elementary schools. He earned a Master’s degree in Spanish from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University\, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. His teaching and research center on Afro-Caribbean and Caribbean literature examined in light of theories of race\, writing and modernity; Latino-Caribbean literature in the United States; and Modern Latin American poetry. Before joining UNM\, he taught language and literature in the departments of Spanish and Portuguese and African and Diaspora Studies at Tulane University\, at Cambridge Community College and at St. Cloud State University. Santiago-Díaz is the author of the poetry books Árbol de plaza talado en su novena edad (Ciudad de México\, Ediciones del Lirio\, 2021) and Breaths (Albuquerque\, NM: University of New Mexico Press\, 2012)\, the scholarly book Escritura afropuertorriqueña y modernidad (Pittsburgh\, PA: IILI/University of Pittsburgh\, 2007)\, and articles published in academic journals and anthologies such as Revista Iberoamericana\, Confluencia\, Bilingual Review\, Revista de Literatura\, História e Memória\, and Marvels of the African World: Cultural Patrimony\, New World Connections\, and Identities (Trenton\, NJ: Africa World Press\, 2003). Pending publication\, he has several creative projects: the poetry books Kernel and The Mollusk and the Thumb\, and a collection of short stories titled El Circo. \nTiphanie Yanique is the author of the novel\, Monster in the Middle\, which was published in 2021 and on numerous best of the year lists.  Monster in the Middle was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and is a finalist for the Townsend Prize. Tiphanie is also the author of the poetry collection\, Wife\, which won the Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the United Kingdom’s Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection\, the novel\, Land of Love and Drowning\, which won the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction\, the Phillis Wheatley Award for Pan-African Literature\, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. Land of Love and Drowning was also a finalist for the Orion Award in Environmental Literature and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. She is the author of a collection of stories\, How to Escape from a Leper Colony\, which won her a listing as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5Under35 and the Bocas Prize in Fiction. Her writing has won the Boston Review Prize in Fiction\, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, an Academy of American Poet’s Prize and two Fulbright Scholarships. Tiphanie is also an outspoken activist on behalf of the Caribbean\, having appeared on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman\, and published an op-ed in The New York Times on the US response to hurricanes in the Caribbean. Tiphanie is from the Virgin Islands and is Professor at Emory University. \nMODERATOR: Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace\, Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Director of the Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program at the University of New Mexico. She teaches classes and conducts research on Global Black Speculative Fiction\, with an emphasis on Afrofuturism and Caribbean speculative literature. Her essays have appeared in a number of journals\, including Small Axe\, Cultural Dynamix\, and Radical Teacher and in several anthologies\, including the forthcoming book\, The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Visions\, where she contributed a chapter that explores the intersections between Caribbean-speculative fiction and Latinx-futurism. Presently\, she is editing a book on power\, gender\, and teaching speculative fiction in the college classroom. Belinda’s edited collection will be published in early 2027. \nAfroMundo Festival: Literary Reading: “Narratives of Power: Myth\, History\, and the Stories that Shape Us” | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/afromundo-festival-literary-readingnarratives-of-power-myth-history-and-the-stories-that-shape-us/
LOCATION:Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
CATEGORIES:Education,Speakers,Workshops
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SUMMARY:AfroMundo Festival: “The Future is Now”
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 13\, 2026\n7:00 pm \nNHCC | Bank of America Theatre \n2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”\nFeatured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico\, Virgin Islands\, Guam\, American Samoa\, Mariana Islands \nScreening of documentary “The Fight to Preserve & Revitalize the Chamorro Language.” Directed by Brian Muna. 2025. 13m. Followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include Ashby Combahee\, Library and Archives Program Manager at the Highlander Research and Education Center; Darlene T. Gomez\, attorney for Medicine Wheel Ride; Gabby Langkilde\, founder of Pasefika Presence; and Akilah Martinez\, award-winning Diné creative technologist and cultural bearer. Moderated by CHamoru filmmaker Brian Muna. \nThe 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films\, concerts\, literature\, oral traditions\, panel discussions\, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nPanel discussion with:\nAshby Combahee is the Library and Archives Program Manager at the Highlander Research and Education Center. Their work focuses on the documentation and preservation of southern grassroots liberation movements in United States. They are a co-founder of Georgia Dusk: a southern liberation oral history. Ashby started the Southern Memory Workers Institute at the Highlander Center\, which is a 5-day popular education workshop sharing skills in public history\, archival preservation\, documentary arts\, and political strategy. They are also a research fellow with the Folk Education Association of America\, focused on resourcing Black craftspeople and Black-led folk schools. \nDarlene T. Gomez is a lifelong native of Northern New Mexico\, having been born and raised in Lumberton where her ancestors homesteaded before New Mexico was incorporated into the United States. She has been practicing law for over 19 years and specializes in Indian Law\, Complex Family Law\, and advocating on behalf of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives (MMIWR). Darlene attended the University of New Mexico School of Law where she first began her pro bono work fighting for clean water in her hometown of Lumberton. She was the inaugural recipient of the Carlos Vigil Scholarship\, among numerous other awards while in school. Darlene is tirelessly passionate about giving a voice to the voiceless through her pro bono work. She has been a fierce advocate for primary and secondary victims of the MMIWR crisis since 2001 and spends much of her time organizing rallies\, mentoring and advocating for secondary victims\, preparing and distributing press releases\, and serving as the attorney for 15 families of MMIWR victims. She is a founding member of the New Mexico MMIW Task Force and serves as the general counsel for the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Medicine Wheel Ride. She is widely considered a leading expert in MMIWR throughout the US and her persistent efforts on behalf of victims have led to an increase in domestic as well as international media attention for the MMIWR Public Health Crisis \nGabby Langkilde is a Samoan storyteller and the founder and executive editor of Pasefika Presence. Born and raised on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa\, her love for storytelling was cultivated early in life —listening to ancient Samoan legends shared by her grandfather and later crafting her own tales for cousins\, friends\, and family to enjoy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies from Harvard College\, where she wrote “Pasefika Presence\,” one of the first recurring columns in The Harvard Crimson to center Pacific Islander perspectives and issues. After graduating\, she returned home to American Samoa and worked as an eighth-grade social studies teacher\, and in 2023\, she founded Pasefika Presence as an online\, submission-based magazine uplifting Pacific Islander stories and art. Rooted in the same commitment to centering Pacific Islander perspectives as her original column\, Pasefika Presence began as a way to engage her students in Pacific storytelling and has since grown into an international platform that has published two issues and received hundreds of submissions from creatives across the Pacific and its diasporas. Gabby went on to be awarded a Fulbright U.S. Graduate Award to pursue research in Auckland\, New Zealand\, and received an East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship to complete her master’s degree in Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Today\, she continues to guide Pasefika Presence while using storytelling\, education\, and research to empower Pacific communities and expand space for Pasefika voices. \nAkilah Martinez (Glittering World Girl) is an award-winning Diné creative technologist and cultural bearer from the Navajo Nation focusing on the creation of building an Indigenous-based circular economic ecosystem that cycles off of language & culture futurism through video art and XR technology. Akilah’s a 2024 New Mexico Women in Tech Emerging Leader Award\, a guest speaker at the MIT Reality Hack in Cambridge\, MA and Bridge Innovation Studio UCLA. Akilah’s team\, Inkovator\, won 1st place for the Snap track at Stanford XR Immerse The Bay 2024 and team\, Yeigo\, won two 1st place Gold Prizes at MIT Reality Hack 2025.\nhttps://www.glitteringworldgirl.com \nMODERATOR: Brian Muna is an established CHamoru filmmaker on the island of Guam with over 10 years of experience in the industry. His filmmaking credits also include commercial work for corporations on island and has also worked abroad for projects filmed in Japan\, Taiwan\, and had volunteered for a short-form documentary filmed in the Philippines (2017) aimed to support a non-profit organization to support funding for a children’s orphanage. Under his company\, Brian Muna Films\, he has directed\, written\, filmed and produced short films\, music videos\, and documentaries surrounding issues within the island and Pacific region. He has participated in numerous international film festivals\, namely the Guam International Film Festival\, where was awarded “Best Made in the Marianas” winner with one additional nomination for the films he directed: Luther (2015); Plastic Bag (2018); Madam (2015). In 2020\, he was the recipient of the “Best Cinematography” award for the film Bittersweet (2020) at the Mumbai International Cult Film Festival. In 2024 Brian won “Best Short Film” at the 2024 Hawai’i International Film Festival for his documentary “CHamoru A Lost Language.” \nAfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion—“The Future is Now” | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/afromundo-festival-documentary-screening-panel-discussion-the-future-is-now/
LOCATION:Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts,Speakers,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Arte para Chiquitos: Play\, Storytime & Art
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 14\, 2026\n10:00 am \nArte para Chiquitos: Play\, Storytime & Art | 6 months – 4 years old and their grown-ups\nNHCC | Pete V. Domenici Education Building \nArte para chiquitos is a free\, monthly program for toddlers and their caregivers. Participants explore and engage in play\, dance\, music and art. In celebration of Spring\, we will explore leaves and create art using ink and paint. Each session begins with music\, instruments and play.\n\nFree Community Event. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.\nThis program is generously supported by NM Gas. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/arte-para-chiquitos-play-storytime-art-2/
LOCATION:Domenici Education Building\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
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SUMMARY:Stitch Night
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: This event has been rescheduled for the third Wednesday of the month in April. \n5:00 – 7:00 pm \nNHCC | HLA Conference Room \nBring whatever knitting\, crocheting\, weaving\, or cross stitch\, or fiber art projects you’re working on\, and join the conversation with your fellow crafters for an informal craft get-together. If you would like to learn the basics of a particular stitching technique\, please bring supplies with you\, though we will always have basic crochet and knitting materials on hand for an impromptu demonstration! \nMeetings will be in the Conference Room of The History and Literary Arts building from 5:00pm-7:00pm. For young adult and adult audiences. \nFree community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/stitch-night-22/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
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SUMMARY:Siempre Creativo: Latin Dance for Seniors
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 15\, 2026\n1:30 – 3:30 pm \nNHCC | HLA Salon Ortega \nLatin Dance for Seniors will feature 4 weeks of Latin dance lessons taught by instructor Carlota Silva. Classes run for four consecutive Wednesdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. No prior experience necessary. These classes are part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program\, which provides free multidisciplinary arts programs for seniors. \nPlease pre-register. Free to attend. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nGenerously sponsored by AARP New Mexico
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/siempre-creativo-latin-dance-for-seniors-2/
LOCATION:Salón Ortega\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
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SUMMARY:AfroMundo Festival: “Manifesting the Envisioned”
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 16\, 2026\n7:00 pm \nNHCC | Salón Ortega \n2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”\nFeatured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico\, Virgin Islands\, Guam\, American Samoa\, Mariana Islands \nArtistic presentation by Puerto Rico’s award-winning Las Nietas de Nonó. Followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include Las Nietas de Nonó; liberation strategist and fabulist c.j Davison; multidisciplinary CHamoru artist Dakota Camacho; and Alabama playwright\, performer and cultural worker David H. Parker. Moderated by artist AfroMundo Youth Council member\, Lauryn Mills-Bohannon. \nThe 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films\, concerts\, literature\, oral traditions\, panel discussions\, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nc.j Davison: c.j Davison (they/them) is a Black\, Southern\, and queer cultural organizer from Birmingham\, Alabama. At the root of their work; cj practices art as liberation strategy to fabulate\, investigate\, and document the world around us through a Black-queer paradigm. As a cultural organizer and artistic facilitator\, cj has raised over $2.5 million for artists and organizations led by and serving people living within the margins of the margins. Their work spans the stage and screen from producing and directing plays and musical across the country to creating short-form documentary and episodic projects that reimagine community\, care\, and liberation. \nDakota Camacho: Dakota Camacho comes from the Matao/CHamoru peoples of Låguas and comes from the villages of Tomhom\, Mongmong\, and Hagåtña\, and descends from the Che’ and Eging clans\, and they also have Ilokano lineage. Camacho was born in the lands of the Snohomish and raised in Snohomish\, Swinomish\, Duwamish\, Muckleshoot\, and Suquamish territories. They grew up in the Soufend of Seatle where they found their calling for poetry\, dancing\, and chanting. Amongst the Native peoples of that land\, Black\, Filipinx\, and other Peoples working towards justice on earth\, they learned of the transformative potential of culture. Camacho arrived in Guåhan\, Låguas (the Mariånas) in the year 2011\, to find Matao/CHamoru language and culture teachers. Camacho became friends with Jeremy Cepeda\, a fino’ håya language teacher\, and Jeremy guided Camacho on yo’ña (their) language learning journey. For many years\, Camacho traveled around the world sharing their dance and musical creations\, and cultivating relationships with Indigenous peoples in Aoteara\, Turtle Island (so-called “North/South America”)\, Hawai’i\, and momentarily so-called Australia and Africa. In 2019\, Camacho and Cepeda started the Gi Matan Guma’ collective to give life to their ancestral language and traditions in an attempt to walk the path of ináfa’maolek (peace and equity for all living beings). Camacho started the MALI’E’ project to try and find ways to activate Theory/Memory/Imagining of (Making) Matao [Creativity] through multi-disciplinary art.  Today\, Dakota is very happy to be working with Gi Matan Guma’ in Låguas and throughout the diaspora. \nLas Nietas de Nonó are the afro-diasporic siblings\, mulowayi and mapenzi. In their creative process\, they evoke ancestral memory through personal archives. Their practice incorporates performance\, found objects\, organic materials\, ecology\, fiction\, video and installation. In 2022\, their solo show\, Posibles Escenarios\, Vol. 1 LNN was presented at Artists Space\, New York a grouping of newly commissioned multimedia works that extend Las Nietas’s explorations of themes such as processes of expropriation and colonial violence against Black communities and the development of microhistories in relation to geopolitics. They created Ilustraciones de la Mecánica in 2016 – a multimedia installation that was later commissioned by the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018) and the 79th Whitney Biennial (2019). They have received the Latinx Artist Fellowship from the US Latinx Art Forum (2022)\, the Rome Prize in Visual Art from the American Academy in Rome (2022)\, the United States Artist Award (2018)\, The Art of Change from the Ford Foundation (2017)\, and the Global Arts Fund from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (2017 & 2020). Their art has been shown in Haiti\, Cuba\, the Dominican Republic\, Puerto Rico\, Ecuador\, England\, Germany\, Italy\, Norway\, Scotland\, and the United States. In 2019\, they co-founded Parceleras Afrocaribeñas\, an organization run by Black womxn\, where spaces for environmental and racial justice are created in the face of industrial developments that threaten their barrio of San Antón\, in Carolina\, Puerto Rico. \nDavid H. Parker (they/them) is a director\, producer\, screenwriter\, playwright\, performer\, and cultural worker from Birmingham\, AL. Intersectionality is at the core of their work\, with directing practices rooted in consent and wellness. They have been with the Birmingham Black Repertory Theatre Collective for almost 7 years and now serve as one of its Co-Artistic Directors. They earned their Master of Fine Arts from UCLA and their BA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. David is grateful to claim multilocality\, with roots and community in Texas\, South Florida\, Los Angeles\, Baltimore\, the Ozarks\, and New York. David has directed or collaborated with Emmy\, Grammy\, and Tony Award-winning artists. David has also worked on and Off-Broadway; had their work reviewed in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times; trained at the Highlander Center in the footsteps of cultural organizers like Rosa Parks and Angela Davis; and recently published an interview with André De Shields in Southern Theatre magazine. \nMODERATOR: Lauryn Mills Bohannon \nAfroMundo Festival: Visual Artist Presentation & Conversation “Manifesting the Envisioned” | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/afromundo-festival-visual-artist-presentation-conversation-manifesting-the-envisioned/
LOCATION:Salón Ortega\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts,Speakers,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Mundos de Mestizaje\, Torreón Tours
DESCRIPTION:Fridays & Saturdays\n11:00 am \nNHCC | Welcome Center and the NHCC Torreón \nAdmission to the Torreon tour is $2. Tickets are available for advance purchase below or can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center\, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nA Vision of History through Fresco…\nMundos 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. \nThe 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. \nDiscover 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.) \nMundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/mundos-de-mestizaje-torreon-tours-3/
LOCATION:NHCC Torreón\, 1701 4th street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,History and Literary Arts
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SUMMARY:AfroMundo Festival: “Together We Heal”
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 18\, 2026\n1:00 – 3:00 pm \nNHCC | Salón Ortega \n2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned”\nFeatured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico\, Virgin Islands\, Guam\, American Samoa\, Mariana Islands \nCommunal Healing and Talk Circle. Reiki Healers and Curanderas will be on hand to offer free\, healing services. \nThe 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films\, concerts\, literature\, oral traditions\, panel discussions\, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nSacred Spring Reiki Collective\nFreedom to Heal Program \nAfroMundo Festival: Spirit Rising: Healing & Talk Circle | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/afromundo-festival-spirit-rising-healing-talk-circle/
LOCATION:Salón Ortega\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
CATEGORIES:Education,Performing Arts,Speakers,Workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
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SUMMARY:Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime
DESCRIPTION:10:00 am \nNHCC | HLA Library \nStories come to life through art\, movement\, and more! For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers. \nBilingual Storytime is designed for children ages 3 to 5 and their caregivers. For school\, childcare\, or homeschool groups; please reach out to NHCC Librarian Amy Padilla at amy.padilla@dca.nm.gov or the NHCC HLA Interim Program Manager Robin Sánchez at robin.sanchez@dca.nm.gov to find out about group options and available dates. We are unable to accommodate these groups during the Bilingual Storytime on third Tuesdays. \nFree community event\, generously supported by NM Gas. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/early-childhood-bilingual-storytime-26/
LOCATION:NHCC Library\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
CATEGORIES:Education,History and Literary Arts,School and Youth Programs
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260425
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SUMMARY:Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque: Día del Libro
DESCRIPTION:Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque: Día del Libro\nSaturday\, April 25\, 2026\n10:00 am – 6:00 pm \nNHCC Campus \nInstituto Cervantes de Albuquerque celebrates International Book Day\, Día del Libro\, with an outdoor event open to the public\, featuring a variety of activities. The centerpiece of the event will be a fair featuring booth from independent Albuquerque bookstores offering books in both Spanish and English. The Center will present the first 50 attendees with a complimentary book and a rose. \nFree Community Event \nActivities Include: \nDía del Libro\nSaturday\, April 25\, 2026\n10:00 am – 6:00 pm \nNHCC Campus \nInstituto Cervantes de Albuquerque celebrates International Book Day\, Día del Libro\, with a free outdoor event that is open to the public featuring a variety of activities. The centerpiece of the event will be a fair featuring booths from independent Albuquerque bookstores offering books in both Spanish and English. The Center will present the first 50 attendees with a complimentary book and a rose. \nFree Community Event \nActivities to include:\n10:00 am: Opening ceremonies with Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller\, Guest of Honor; Patricia Pinzón\, Cónsul General of México in Albuquerque; Zack Quintero\, National Hispanic Cultural Center Executive Director; Carlos Madrid\, Director of Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque; Master of Ceremonies and former Poet Laureate of the City of Albuquerque\, Jessica Helen López. \n11:00 am: Peruvian Dance and Music performance by Peru-Dance Abq\, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Peru in Denver. Main Stage. \n11:00 am: Docent-guided tour of the NHCC’s Torreón fresco\, Mundos de Mestizaje. NHCC Welcome Center \n11:30 am: Free demonstration Spanish class\, honoring not only World Book Day but also Spanish Language Day—both celebrated on April 23. Instituto Cervantes\, Rm. 128 \n12:00 pm: Poesía on the Plaza\, a poetry session hosted by local group Chicharra Press\, featuring local poets Marcial Delgado\, Manuel González\, Kristin Patton\, Zach Kluckman\, Jessica López\, Marissa Prada\, and students from Native American Community Academy. Main Stage. \n1:00 pm: Film screening of the Spanish film\, El jugador de ajedrez (2017)\, which will feature a Q&A with producer Juan Antonio Casado—an event organized by the Spanish Resource Center of the Embassy of Spain in Washington. Bank of America Theatre\, Roy E. Disney Center for the Performing Arts. \n1:30 pm: Tablao flamenco\, sponsored by the National Institute of Flamenco. Main Stage. \n2:00 pm: Lecture. Cancionero Huehuetenango\, on sacred and secular music from the highlands of Guatemala\, with Jonatan Alvarado and Ariel Abramovich. Instituto Cervantes\, Rm. 128 \n2:30 pm: Reading with Mexico—an exciting literacy-promotion event with word games\, puzzles\, and a raffle of 10 bikes for children and teenagers\, with music by Mariachi de San José High School\, in collaboration with the Consulate General of México. Main Stage. \n3:00 pm: Guided tour of the NHCC’s History and Literary Arts Library with Amy Padilla\, NHCC Librarian. History & Literary Arts Bldg. \n4:00 pm: ¡Viva México!\, an unforgettable celebration of Hispanic culture and Mexican independence\, spotlighting the huapangos that embody Veracruz’s African and Andalusian roots\, with support from the Consulate General of México. Wells-Fargo Auditorium\, Roy E. Disney Center for the Performing Arts. \n4:00 pm: Music in Spanish. Main Stage. \nSpecial thank you to our sponsors and partners!
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/dia-del-libro/
LOCATION:NHCC Campus\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
CATEGORIES:Instituto Cervantes
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SUMMARY:Día Del Niño
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 25\, 2026\n11:00 am – 3:00 pm \nNHCC | Domenici Education Building \nJoin us for a day of celebrating the youth in our community during this free event for families of all ages and sizes! Enjoy music\, performances\, a petting zoo\, arts and crafts\, and a youth art market. \nFor more information\, please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or elenad.baca@dca.nm.gov. \nFree Community Event\, sponsored by New Mexico Gas. \nRegister for free here! 
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/dia-del-nino-2/
LOCATION:Domenici Education Building\, 1701 4th Street SW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87102
CATEGORIES:Education
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