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  • Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: From Sea To Sand: Holy Week Traditions of Spain, New Mexico and the Philippines

    2 pm (MST) Live via Zoom Register in advance HERE This presentation will discuss various traditions of Semana Santa (Holy Week) beginning with its origins in Spain and how those traditions spread to the Americas and beyond.The early traditions in Spain and how they are celebrated today will be explored along with how those traditions left Spain and traveled to new lands and cultures, where they took root and are still celebrated today. Free community event The lecture will concentrate on two former colonies of Spain, the (more...)

  • 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 will not let me go.’ Noémi — self-assured, chic and stubborn — leaves the glamor of 1950s Mexico City for the countryside, still depressed after a mining bust and fecund with secrets, (more...)

  • Money for Writers Workshop: Grant Writing for Latinx Writers

    11 am (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Writing a Compelling Proposal and Creating a Budget This workshop will share strategies for searching for literary grants and other financial resources, developing key elements of a successful grant proposal, and developing a grant budget. There will be time for Q & A at the end of this session. This workshop is a response to the requests for grant writing workshops expressed by Latinx writers at the National Latinx Writers Gathering in October of 2020. Presenters TBA. Workshop fee: $20.

  • Perspectivas Modernas: The Art and Craft of Oaxacan Mezcal

    6 m (MTS) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Ronda Brulotte, The Art and Craft of Oaxacan Mezcal Not only is mezcal Oaxaca, Mexico’s fastest-growing rural industry, it connects the region to producers, brokers, and consumers across the US-Mexico border and throughout the world. In this presentation, Dr. Ronda Brulotte discusses the rise of mezcal as a global commodity within the artisanal food movement, as well as how this transformation has impacted rural producer communities in southern Mexico. Free community event Dr. Ronda Brulotte is Associate Professor of (more...)

  • National Council for History Education (NCHE) Conference Virtual Field Trip

    2 pm (MTS) Live online. To attend Register HERE El Voto Femenino: The Remarkable Lives of Latina Suffragists Worldwide Join the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) for a journey into the remarkable lives and accomplishments of Latina suffragists instrumental in women’s suffrage worldwide. In 2020 the NHCC produced a landmark exhibit, “The Women’s Vote: Latina Suffragists Fighting for the Right to Vote/El voto femenino: sufragistas Latinas luchando por el derecho al voto,” in celebration of 100 years of the U.S. women’s vote. It features women from 27 (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

  • 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...)

  • 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...)