Lecture
La Canoa: Valerie Rangel “Environmental Policies, Planning, and Cultural Connections of Nuevo México”
History and Literary Arts Building2 pm Please join Valerie Rangel, community planner and environmental planning consultant, as she shares historical research, land use planning, and policy frameworks that shed light on issues of environmental contamination and public health while uplifting the voices of immigrant farm workers, tribal members, environmental and social activists from the communities of Nuevo México. She will focus on the history and contributions of the communities of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Pueblo of Isleta as well as sacred sites, the Gila River and Rio Grande. Valerie Rangel earned a (more...)
Semana Cervantina: Lecture and Discussion “Spain and the Independence of the United States” by Tom Chavez
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting7 pm Organized by Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center and the Spanish Resource Center to commemorate the “International Day of the Book” and the “Day of the Spanish Language." “Spain and the Independence of the United States” is a Lecture and discussion group. Historian Dr. Tom Chavez will discuss the making of early U.S. history from Spanish resources, the language of Cervantes. Dr. Chavez will give a 45-minute lecture and there will be a group discussion to talk in detail about (more...)
La Canoa: John Mraz “The Braceros Program and the Hermanos Mayo”
NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-72 pm Please join us as Dr. Mraz examines the Hermanos Mayo, Spanish-Mexican photojournalists whose images of the braceros make up the current NHCC exhibit, Braceros: Photographed by the Hermanos Mayo. The photojournalist collective knew what it meant to emigrate, as their story began during one of the modern world’s great conflagrations: the Spanish Civil War. With the defeat of the Republic in 1939, the Mayo came to Mexico where they worked for more than 40 periodicals, creating an enormous archive of some five million negatives. The (more...)
Migrantes, Mexico and the United States: Lessons from History and Current Challenges
NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-72 pm Millions of Mexicans have migrated to the United States over the past 120 years—several million without documents and subject to deportation since the 1970s, and over two million agricultural workers known as braceros in the years after World War II. But net Mexican migration has virtually stopped since the great recession of 2008, and has been replaced by Central Americans fleeing political violence migrating through Mexico and across the border into the United States. At the same time, the United States has adopted a much (more...)
Lecture and Presentation with Marta Turok
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting2:30 pm You are invited to a special lecture and presentation! Speaker: Marta Turok Title: Huipiles and Mexican Indigenous Textiles: Technique and Evolution Suggested donation of $5.00 goes to help support programs like this at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum! Please join the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum in welcoming Marta Turok, renown expert in Mexican textiles to Albuquerque. Marta Turok lives in Mexico and has worked in government agencies and non-governmental organizations such as the National Indigenous Institute, the Department of Popular Cultures, (more...)
Día de Los Muertos: Lecture and Book Signing with Ann Murdy
Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM1:30 - 3:00 pm Free You are invited to a special lecture and book signing! Join artist and author, Ann Murdy, for a discussion of her book, On the Path of Marigolds: Living Traditions of Mexico's Day of the Dead / En el camino de los cempasúchitles: Tradiciones vivas del Día de Los Muertos de México with Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn, Director of the NHCC Art Museum. The discussion will be followed by a book signing with the author. About the Author Ann Murdy is an award-winning photographer (more...)
Lecture by Vincent Valdez
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting6 pm Vincent Valdez, a visual artist based in Houston, Texas, received his B.F.A. at The Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 2000. He has had solo exhibitions and participated in group shows at venues, such as, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin; David Shelton Gallery, Houston, Texas; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; MASS MoCA; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. His work is found in numerous collections, including the Ford Foundation; Museum (more...)
La Canoa – Giving Baque: On Hemispheric Indigeneities and the Southern Border of New Mexico
NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-72 pm - 4 pm Building on and departing from the work of interethnic thought-leaders in New Mexico, Dr. Gregorio Gonzales will consider how competing logics of settler-statecraft and Native American nationhood operate in a place of both Native- and nuevomexicanx-led struggles for political autonomy and religious liberty. The current humanitarian crisis along New Mexico’s southern border demonstrates the urgency of Indigenous transnational existences as they transit and transgress the political integrities of settlerstates and tribal nations alike. Dr. Gonzales will discuss the significance of New Mexico (more...)
La Canoa – Nina Otero-Warren: New Mexican 20th Century Mujerota
NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-72 pm - 4 pm In celebration of the 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial, please join Dr. Anna Nogar as she explores the many facets of Nina Otero Warren. Early 20th century nuevomexicana Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren ran for national office as a Republican candidate to Congress from New Mexico in 1922, shortly after women gained the right to vote. An advocate of suffrage, Otero-Warren achieved political prominence for her promotion of Spanish/English education, and involvement in educational and health efforts supporting Indo-Hispano nuevomexicanos. Otero-Warren authored Old Spain in (more...)
Inside Opera Series: Il Postino
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-246-7:30 pm Tuesdays, January 21, 28, and February 4 Join us for our second year of “Inside Opera”—a workshop series presented by the NHCC in partnership with Opera Southwest. This year the opera is “Il Postino” and each workshop will focus on a different element of the performance (see below). Those who attend any one of the three workshops will receive a 15% discounted ticket to the show. Sign up for the workshops here: https://nhccnm.wufoo.com/forms/inside-opera-workshop-series-il-postino/ Inside Opera: The Three Versions of Il Postino Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 (more...)