Thursdays, July 7, 14 & 21, 2016 5:30 pm — 7 pm Join us for 3 weeks of reading and discussing the seminal work by author Sandra Cisneros. Your registration includes one copy of the book which will be mailed to you or can be picked up after June 6. Registration required. Limited to 25 participants. Please pre-register HERE. $15
Photo credit: Miguel A. Gandert: Violines volando / Violins in Flight, from Hotel Mariachi, University of New Mexico Press
Thursdays, July 7, 14 & 21, 2016 5:30 pm — 7 pm Join us for 3 weeks of reading and discussing the seminal work by author Sandra Cisneros. Your registration includes one copy of the book which will be mailed to you or can be picked up after June 6. Registration required. Limited to 25 participants. Please pre-register HERE. $15
Thursdays, July 7, 14 & 21, 2016 5:30 pm -- 7 pm Join us for 3 weeks of reading and discussing the seminal work by author Sandra Cisneros. Your registration includes one copy of the book which will be mailed to you or can be picked up after June 6. Registration required. Limited to 25 participants. Please pre-register HERE. $15
The National Hispanic Cultural Center offers a variety of field trip opportunities for students of all ages and abilities. We include home school, public, charter, private schools, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Senior Centers and other organizations. We offer local and international, culturally engaging theatre, music, dance, and art making experiences that provide a rich fieldtrip experience. We can make available a Spanish speaking educator or docent upon request. All programs are free unless noted. For a PDF with all of the education opportunities please click HERE. If (more...)
6 pm to 8 pm Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of Chicago Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of American History and the College -Reies Tijerina, the Alianza, and the Apocalypse: The Biblical Sources of His Political Thought- The La Canoa Legacy Series features talks by Hispanic/Latino academic and community researchers with long-standing and distinguished records of research and teaching about New Mexico and the region. Like la canoa—referring in New Mexican Spanish to several utilitarian objects used to receive and transport people and resources and thus (more...)
2 pm to 4 pm Join us for a book reading and signing with celebrated artist and author Marie Romero Cash as she reads from "The Mariachi Murder", the fourth murder mystery in her series featuring forensic psychologist Jemimah Hodge. The novel offers readers the pleasures we have come to expect from the Jemimah Hodge series: a vivid physical and cultural landscape populated with true-to-life characters in a fast-paced story. Set in New Mexico, in and around Santa Fe, the familiar—Cash’s family has lived here for generations—meets (more...)
2 pm to 4 pm Arturo Madrid, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Trinity University -In The Country of Empty Crosses: The Story of a Hispano Protestant Family in Catholic New Mexico Join Dr. Arturo Madrid, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University for a talk on “In The Country of Empty Crosses: The Story of a Hispano Protestant Family in Catholic New Mexico”. This La Canoa: Legacy Talks presentation will explore Dr. Madrid’s remembrances of his Hispano Protestant family in Catholic New Mexico, and the themes (more...)
2 pm to 4 pm Join author Don Usner, and collaborators Kate Ware and Daniel Kosharek, for a presentation and book signing of ¡Órale! Lowrider: Custom Made in New Mexico, a beautiful photography book that pays homage to an enduring but evolving, cultural tradition with a fascinating compilation of four decades of lowriding, including photographs by New Mexico's most renowned documentarians with cultural studies of lowriders in their communities. In addition, Levi Romero will read his poem "Wheels" which is featured in the book. Lowriding is a (more...)
6 pm Join the National Hispanic Cultural Center for an unveiling and dedication of Reynaldo “Sonny” Rivera’s sculptural bust of Rudolfo Anaya in the Center’s History and Literary Arts Library from 6 to 7 pm, in advance of the Center’s presentation of Mr. Anaya’s work The Season of La Llorona in the Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. Generously donated by Mr. Anaya, the sculpture was accepted as a (more...)
