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Chatter: Become Ocean

3:00 pm Chatter presents its first full orchestral concert in partnership with the Albuquerque Youth Symphony. The program features Become Ocean by John Luther Adams, a Pulitzer Prize– and Grammy Award–winning composition known for its vast, immersive soundscape that evokes the rising sea. Paired with it is John Coolidge Adams’ Son of Chamber Symphony, a kinetic and rhythmically charged work originally commissioned for the San Francisco Ballet. David Felberg conducts this side-by-side performance uniting professional and student musicians in a bold and ambitious musical collaboration. This is a reserved (more…)

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Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico

This is an exhibition 7 years in the making that features a group of New Mexican artists who were among the earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. All 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, were students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in Las Vegas in the early 1970s when Chicano scholar Pedro Rodríguez was hired as the inaugural Director of Chicano Studies at NMHU. It was at NMHU that these young men and women became politically activated and proceeded to paint

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NHCC Volunteer Clean Up Day

Shift 1: 8:30 – 11:30 am Shift 2: 1:30 – 3:00 pm The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs is proud to play our role in keeping New Mexico enchantingly clean as four of our museums and Historic Sites offer a volunteer clean-up day on Friday, October 18. Volunteers will meet at the NHCC Welcome Center at 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102. Those interested in volunteering can contact Philip Baca at Philip.Baca@dca.nm.gov or by phone at 505-895-0093.

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