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  • Genealogy Workshops

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    1:30 - 3:30 pm NHCC | Salon 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 the opportunity to participate in interactive tours of the NHCC Art Museum and Torreón, paired with genealogy workshops and coffee socials. This event is part of the NHCC’s Siempre Creativo program. Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP.

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  • NHCC Book Club: Featuring Special Guest Ramón Gutiérrez, Historian and Author

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    6:00 pm: Reception and Book Signing 7:00 pm: Author’s Talk followed by Q&A Join us for a special Book Club event featuring a book-signing and author's talk led by author Ramon Gutiérrez! In October, we will be reading New Mexico's Moses: Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, by Ramon Gutierrez. In New Mexico's Moses, Gutiérrez dives deeply into López Tijerina's religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s. An Assemblies of God evangelist turned Pentecostal itinerant preacher, Tijerina used his (more...)

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  • Escribir | Escuchar Latine Author Series: Estella González Reading

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    NOTE: This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for Spring 2025. We apologize for any inconvenience. 6:00 pm Reception and Book Signing 7:00 pm Reading NHCC | Salón Ortega Join us for a literary evening as we celebrate the launch of Huizache Women, the latest novel by Estella González! Delve into a captivating narrative intertwining the lives of women navigating the complexities of identity, family, and resilience in González's evocative storytelling. Don't miss this opportunity to meet the author, engage in enriching discussion, and hear excerpts from (more...)

  • Escribir | Escuchar Latine Author Series: Estella Gonzalez Workshop

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    NOTE: This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for Spring 2025. We apologize for any inconvenience. 10:00 am – 12:00 pm NHCC | Salón Ortega This Saturday come and participate in an ancillary creative writing workshop led by Estella Gonzalez, offering a unique opportunity to explore your own narrative voice and craft. This workshop celebrates Huizache Women, the latest novel by Estella Gonzalez! Huizache Women delves into a captivating narrative intertwining the lives of women navigating the complexities of identity, family, and resilience in Gonzalez's evocative (more...)

  • Stitch Night

    HLA Conference Room 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    5:00 to 7:00 pm 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! In 2024, we will meet on March 13, April 10, May 8, June (more...)

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  • Booksigning & Reading: José Ángel Mañas: Guerrero. A Novel of Conquest and Resistance

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    6:00 pm NHCC | Salón Ortega Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque is organizing a double presentation in New Mexico and Texas of the latest novel by José Ángel Mañas: Guerrero, published in English by the University of New Mexico Press (UNM Press) and distributed nationally in the United States. After the publication of Conquistadores de lo imposible, one of the best novels ever written about the conquest of America, Mañas delves once again into the modern era and recreates, with this absolutely real story, what is perhaps the most singular (more...)

  • Early Childhood Bilingual Storytime

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    10:00 am NHCC | HLA Salon Ortega Stories come to life through art, movement, and more! For children ages 3 to 5 and caregivers. Free Community Event, generously supported by NM Gas. Bilingual Storytime is designed for children ages 3 to 5 and their caregivers. For school, childcare, or homeschool groups; please reach out to the NHCC Librarian at amy.padilla@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.

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  • NHCC Book Club (Postponed)

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    NOTE: This event has been postponed at the request of the author. A new date and time will be announced soon. We apologize for any inconvenience. 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, we will be reading Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the (more...)

  • Genealogy Workshops

    Salón Ortega 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    10:00 - 12:00 pm 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 evolution from 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. Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP New Mexico. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 (more...)

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  • NHCC Book Club

    HLA Conference Room

    6:00 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, we will be reading Solito: A Memoir. In this gripping memoir, a young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at (more...)

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