• 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 […]

  • Perspectivas Modernas: Brazilian Rap and the Grammar of the Black Existence

    Live via Zoom or in-person

    6 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Paulo Dutra, UNM Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, examines the most famous Brazilian rap group Racionais Mc’s artistic production in order to explore their poetically crafted understanding of how people of African descent experience and negotiate their existence in Brazil. Paulo Dutra is the author of […]

  • 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 […]

  • Public Reading: Enduring Querencias

    1 pm (MST) Live via Zoom: Register HERE Presented by the NHCC/History and Literary Arts program and the Gutiérrez-Hubbell House History and Cultural Center/Bernalillo County Open Space. From December 2020- January 2021, ten writers created original works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction inspired by the theme of “querencia” and readings from the anthology, Querencia: Reflections […]

  • Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Michelle Otero, Bosque

    3 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Nestled in the heart of Albuquerque is a vibrant cottonwood forest that has flourished for centuries along the Río Grande—providing a home for porcupines, migratory birds, coyotes, and other wildlife as well as a sanctuary for its city residents. In her debut poetry collection, Bosque, Michelle Otero […]

  • Perspectivas Modernas: Trans-American Detritus: A Study in Trans-Femicide  

    6 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE This presentation focuses on the photography series, En la Pista (2016) by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. I focus on Margolles' use of portraiture to capture a snapshot of the lives of transwomen in Juarez, Mexico, and the transitions of the border. Margolles' work visually disrupts narratives of […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • NHCC Book Club: Mexican Gothic—Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic is a thoroughly enjoyable, thought-provoking novel. The main character, Noémi, receives a strange letter from her cousin, Catalina, who begs for help. She claims her new husband Virgil Doyle is poisoning her, that ‘fleshless things’ and ghosts trouble her, that ‘they […]