History & Literary Arts Library
Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime
NHCC Library 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM10:00 am NHCC | HLA Library Stories come to life through art, movement, and more! For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers. Bilingual 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 Moses at robin.moses@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. Free community event, generously supported by (more...)
NHCC Book Club: The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
HLA Conference Room6:00 pm – 7:30 pm NHCC | HLA Conference Room The NHCC invites lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the history and vast the array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. For the month of July, we will be reading Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Seventh Veil of Salome. In 1950s Hollywood, when an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome, a star-making role (more...)
Stitch Night
HLA Conference Room5:00 – 7:00 pm NHCC | HLA Conference Room Stitch socially with us on the second Wednesday of the month! Bring 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! Meetings will be in the Conference (more...)
NHCC Book Club: Nuclear Nuevomexico by Myrriah Gomez
HLA Conference Room6:00 pm – 7:30 pm NHCC | HLA Conference Room The NHCC invites lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the history and vast the array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. This month, will be the rescheduled reading of Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos by Myrriah Gomez. This book tells the story of the Manhattan (more...)
Stitch Night
HLA Conference Room5:00 – 7:00 pm NHCC | HLA Conference Room Stitch socially with us on the second Wednesday of the month! Bring 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! Meetings will be in the Conference (more...)
Escribir | Escuchar Latine Author Series: A. Gabriel Melendez Reading
Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM6:30 pm Reception and Book Signing 7:00 pm Reading NHCC | Salón Ortega Join us as we celebrate the launch of a new book by author A. Gabriel Melendez, Citizens by Treaty/Ciudadanos por tratado, with a reading and reception on Thursday, Sept. 11. Melendez’s book gathers works produced by Spanish-speaking people of Mexican descent who became US citizens by virtue of the Treaty of Guadalup Hidalgo (1948) and whose ancestors had resided in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Texas, and Colorado for hundreds of years. This anthology of (more...)
Escribir | Escuchar Latine Author Series: A. Gabriel Melendez Workshop
Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM10:00 am NHCC | Salón Ortega Join us as we celebrate the launch of a new book by author A. Gabriel Melendez, Citizens by Treaty/Ciudadanos por tratado, with a writing workshop on Saturday, Sept. 13. Melendez’s book gathers works produced by Spanish-speaking people of Mexican descent who became US citizens by virtue of the Treaty of Guadalup Hidalgo (1948) and whose ancestors had resided in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Texas, and Colorado for hundreds of years. This anthology of songs, poems, speeches, and journalism shows the persistence (more...)
Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime
NHCC Library 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM10:00 am NHCC | HLA Library Stories come to life through art, movement, and more! For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers. Bilingual 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 Moses at robin.moses@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. Free community event, generously supported by (more...)
NHCC Book Club
HLA Conference Room6:00 pm – 7:30 pm NHCC | HLA Conference Room The NHCC invites lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.
Genealogy Workshops
Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM1:30 pm – 3:30 pm NHCC | Salón Ortega Explore your cultural heritage at the NHCC with a free genealogy workshop as part of our Siempre Creativo program! These workshops will provide participating seniors with an opportunity to learn about the descendants of a person, their family, or their connection to an ancestor. Join us as we discover where we came from, where we have been and the complex interrelating parts of our familial ancestral lines. This workshop will feature a presentation from the Hispanic Genealogical Research (more...)