History & Literary Arts Library

Jugamos Juntos: Cuentos, Bilingual or Cultural Storytime

10:30 am — 12 pm The National Hispanic Cultural Center is pleased to offer children’s programming on Saturday mornings during June, July, and half of August, from 10:30 am to noon. Families can come to the Center for hands-on art activities, bilingual sing-alongs, outdoor activities in the bosque, and story times in the Center’s library. Cuentos on June 25th will be a children’s bilingual or cultural story time. Please join us in the HLA Library, located in the History & Literary Arts Building. For more information please call

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Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands Talk, Screenings, and Book Signing

2 pm to 4 pm The National Hispanic Cultural Center presents an afternoon talk, screenings, and book signing of “Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands.”  by A. Gabriel  Meléndez the  Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He has authored books on borderlands literature and film, serves on the board of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and is a general editor for the Pasó por aquí Series at UNM Press.  He has been a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at

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La Canoa Legacy Talks: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca: The Good Life

6 pm 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 provide a service to the community—these talks are meant to serve the community by presenting new or overlooked information about our region to interested audiences. We want them to transport us to new understandings of our

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Tour & Book Signing: Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys Across the Old Spanish Trail

4 pm to 6 pm Join artist and curator Janire Nájera for an exhibition tour and book signing of Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys Across the Old Spanish Trail, which explores Spanish heritage in the United States Southwest via the Old Spanish Trail, a route that linked the colonial outposts of New Mexico and California. The exhibition is presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center and SPAIN Arts and Culture, and supported by Wales Arts International.  This free event will take place at 4pm on April 2,

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Opening Reception: Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys Across the Old Spanish Trail

6 pm to 8 pm Join artist and curator Janire Nájera for the opening of her exhibition Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys Across the Old Spanish Trail, which explores Spanish heritage in the United States Southwest via the Old Spanish Trail, a route that linked the colonial outposts of New Mexico and California. The exhibition is presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center and SPAIN Arts and Culture, and supported by Wales Arts International.  This free event will take place at 6pm on April 1, 2016, at

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