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Emma Pérez Book Reading: “From History to the Future, Mapping Dystopia”
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-246:00 pm reception 7:00 pm reading The reception and the reading have been moved into the HLA Salon Ortega Join us for a reading featuring author Dr. Emma Pérez, the latest author in the NHCC's historia, idioma, e identidad Series! Dr. Pérez will be reading from her historical novel Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (2009), as well as Chronicle of a Shifter (2023), a forthcoming novela about a future dystopia in which sex/gender shifters, and Brown, Black, Indigenous people are held in detention camps because they (more...)
Writing Workshop by Emma Pérez: “Emotional Truths: A Queer Chicanx Approach”
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-2410:00 a.m. Join us for a writing workshop led by author Emma Pérez: “Emotional Truths: A Queer Chicanx Approach” You have an idea for a story. How do you begin? What can you use from your own life experiences to tell your story and bring your character to life? In this workshop, we will experiment with scenes that tap into your emotional truths to write your story. Touching, sincere honesty provides readers with feelings they may link to their own lives even if the story is unfamiliar. (more...)
¡Cine Magnifico! The Last Movie (USA)
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.- Film Screening 6:45 p.m. Talk with journalist Fietta Jarque Dennis Hopper's second feature film after making his directorial debut with Easy Rider. The Last Movie (1971) was shot in Peru and edited at the artist's home in Taos (New Mexico). Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopper and Rebel Without a Cause screenwriter Stewart Stern. The Last Movie follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, Hopper, as the baleful stuntman (more...)
¡Cine Magnifico! Canción Sin Nombre (Peru)
6:00 p.m. Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980’s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story. 2019; directed by Melina León; Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles; Not Rated Free Community Event Note: Tickets for this and other Cine (more...)
¡Cine Magnifico! Pizarro (Colombia)
8:00 p.m. This is a story about the burden of family heritage. It begins when María José, in exile in Barcelona, realizes that - no matter how far she runs - she cannot escape the ghost of her father, Carlos Pizarro, an M-19 commander assassinated on April 26, 1990 after signing a successful peace treaty with the Colombian government. Pizarro is an iconic figure of war and peace in Colombia. Twenty years after his assassination, she returns to her country to understand the causes that led to (more...)
Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime: Don Gato
NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-710:00 am El Romance de Don Gato y Otros Cuentos Populares de America Latina By Lucia M. Gonzalez (Author), Lulu Delacre (Illustrator) The poem and traditional song "Don Gato" comes to life in this program! Children and caregivers will have the chance to explore the story through acting out the characters, singing the traditional song, making a cat mask, and meeting the Don Gato puppet. Free community event. For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers. This program generously supported through a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico Healthy (more...)
¡Cine Magnifico! & ¡Globalquerque!: ¡NYICFF Kid Flicks!
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-3011:00 a.m. ¡NYICFF Kid Flicks! celebrates the best Spanish-language short films from around the globe. This program includes seven short films for children. Free Community Event Presented as part of the free ¡Globalquerque! Global Fiesta and International Cinema Series Note: Tickets for this and other Cine Magnifico showings will be available at the door one hour prior to the screening. 11:40 (Argentina) When Damián gets a watch for his birthday, he and his little brother Matias can’t stop checking it, anxiously waiting for 11:40 to arrive. 2018; Live Action, directed (more...)
Explorar las Artes: Baila Conmigo
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-2410:00 am Children 18 months to 4 years and their caregivers will have the chance to explore arts through traditional New Mexico dance and other dance forms using ribbon sticks, rhythm instruments, and even flamenco. Explorar las Artes is a free, bi-monthly 45-minute program for toddlers ages 18 months to 4 years and caregivers that cultivates creativity and self-expression through the exploration of Hispanic/Latine arts and culture. Participants explore the NHCC museum and engage in artmaking, music, movement, dance, drama, and bilingual story time. NHCC instructors model (more...)
2022 Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest, featuring Erika L. Sánchez
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM"CANCELLED: We regret to inform you that the 2022 Anaya Lecture has been cancelled upon the request of the speaker. Please join us for a film screening of Carl Franklin's Bless Me, Ultima at the NHCC on Sept. 30 with a pre-lecture introduction by Dr. Gabriel Meléndez. Reception at 6pm, pre-lecture introduction at 6:30, and film screening at 7pm. The film screening is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima. Free ticketed event; visit https://nhccdev.wpengine.com/event/film-bless-me-ultima/.” 7:00 pm Join us for the the 2022 Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture (more...)
Erika L. Sánchez Poetry Workshop: “Negative Capability and the Imagination”
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24"CANCELLED: We regret to inform you that the 2022 Anaya Lecture has been cancelled upon the request of the speaker. Please join us for a film screening of Carl Franklin's Bless Me, Ultima at the NHCC on Sept. 30 with a pre-lecture introduction by Dr. Gabriel Meléndez. Reception at 6pm, pre-lecture introduction at 6:30, and film screening at 7pm. The film screening is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima. Free ticketed event; visit https://nhccdev.wpengine.com/event/film-bless-me-ultima/.” 11:00 am Following Erika L. Sánchez's reading, head back to the Center for (more...)