Classes
Colcha Community Stitch-Along
1 pm (MST) Live via Zoom Our Virtual Colcha Community Workshop is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting, wherever they may reside. 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. This workshop is for all levels of experience in an informal setting. Annette will demonstrate as well as answer questions. We hope you will join (more...)
NHCC Children’s Bilingual Book Festival
9 am-5 pm (MST) Live online. Visit the festival website This annual festival is the only one of its kind in the U.S. that features children’s books in Spanish and English and Indigenous languages and English. The focus on Spanish, English, Indigenous languages books and authors makes this festival particularly meaningful and vibrant, reflecting the identities of many children in New Mexico, the American Southwest, and beyond. We want to encourage children to see themselves in contemporary children’s literature as well as introduce a bilingual body of (more...)
NHCC Book Club: Everyone Knows You Go Home—Natalia Sylvester
5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us Winner of an International Latino Book Award. “The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already dead—an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar’s family—especially his wife, Elda—to let him redeem himself.” - Goodreads. Free community event
“NHCC Learning” Workshop for Educators
6:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom In this free workshop for educators, learn about and discuss NHCC Learning's educational resources and the AmeriCorps project, meet some of the NHCC's Visual Arts staff, and be entered in a raffle to win a special prize for attending! There are two opportunities to join this workshop: Thursday, April 22, 6:30 pm (MST) & Saturday, April 24, 10:00 am (MST). To register, click here!
Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: The Pen and The Sword: Literary Works of Colonial New Mexico
2 pm (MST) Live via Zoom, Register HERE Join State Historian Rob Martínez as he explores New Mexico's early literary tradition with influences from epic poems of the ancient Mediterranean, colonial Mexico, and the mystic poetic traditions of San Juan de la Cruz and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The talk will take you on a journey showing how these different styles are manifested in the works of authors like Villagrá, Benavides, Sigüenza y Góngora, and Quintana. Free community event Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque is presented by (more...)
Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Craig Harris, Crossing Borders: My Journey in Music, Max Baca
3 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Max Baca’s music grew out of the harsh life of the borderland, and the duality of borderland music—its keening beauty—remains a recurring theme in everything he does. Craig Harris and Baca have collaborated on this book which tells the story of Max Baca’s extraordinary career. Free community event Born and raised in Albuquerque, Baca founded the conjunto band, Los Texmaniacs, in 1997, which incorporated elements from genres such as rock and roll and jazz while still honoring the roots (more...)
AARP Brain Health Webinar: Conjunto Blues
2 pm (MST) Live via Zoom with suggested donation. Click here to donate. You may also email marmijo@nhccfoundation.org to register for any of these events. We will send you the link to the performance. Conjunto Blues, performance sponsor, AARP will offer a live webinar on brain health and the arts, including the intrinsic connection between music and memory, the lasting effects of music on the brain, and tools to assist in boosting brain health and wellness. In Conjunto Blues, playwright, actor, and musician Nicolás Valdez explores the social and historical (more...)
Perspectivas Modernas: Seeking Refuge: The Role of Expert Witnesses in Latin American Asylum Cases
6 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America, and Central America in particular, has grown in the last decade, scholars, as expert witnesses, have supported women and LGBTQ persons who have experienced gender-based, sexual, and gang violence in their home countries. This presentation offers a description of the asylum system and the role of expert witnesses, focusing on the specific challenges faced by women and LGBTQ persons seeking refuge in the U.S. Free and open to the (more...)
Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!
6:30 pm (MST) Live on Zoom Register in advance HERE We are back! Coming to you through zoom! Happy Arte Hour is an adult only at making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm (MST) February – December. Monotype with Elena: Use supplies from around the house to explore Printmaking! You will need: Ziploc or plastic bag, tape, acrylic paint, brushes of your choice, paper or (more...)
Money for Writers Workshop: Grant Writing for Latinx Writers
11 am (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Tips from Successful Grantees This workshop features three Latinx writers who were awarded literary grants. What does a successful literary grant application look like? Our presenters will share sections of their successful grant applications and talk about how strategies for writing compelling grant applications. There will be time for Q & A at the end of this hour and a half session. This workshop is a response to the requests for grant writing workshops expressed by Latinx writers at (more...)