Workshop

¡Salud y Sabor! Nopales and Blue Corn/Nopales y Maiz Azul

5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Salud y Sabor, a partnership between the Agri-cultura Network, Street Food Institute, and the NHCC, is a free evening of food, art, and entertainment aimed at providing families with an opportunity to connect around nutrition, cooking, healthy lifestyles, and culture. Once a month, community members gather for cooking demonstrations using fresh, locally grown ingredients, as well as fun art activities for kids and adults, health screenings, and live entertainment. An emphasis is placed on exploring traditional Hispanic dishes, providing basic information/free screenings (more…)

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¡Salud y Sabor! Greens and Sprouts/Verduras y Brotes

5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Salud y Sabor, a partnership between the Agri-cultura Network, Street Food Institute, and the NHCC, is a free evening of food, art, and entertainment aimed at providing families with an opportunity to connect around nutrition, cooking, healthy lifestyles, and culture. Once a month, community members gather for cooking demonstrations using fresh, locally grown ingredients, as well as fun art activities for kids and adults, health screenings, and live entertainment. An emphasis is placed on exploring traditional Hispanic dishes, providing basic information/free screenings

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¡Salud y Sabor! Beans and Rice /Frijoles y Arroz

5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Salud y Sabor, a partnership between the Agri-cultura Network, Street Food Institute, and the NHCC, is a free evening of food, art, and entertainment aimed at providing families with an opportunity to connect around nutrition, cooking, healthy lifestyles, and culture. Once a month, community members gather for cooking demonstrations using fresh, locally grown ingredients, as well as fun art activities for kids and adults, health screenings, and live entertainment. An emphasis is placed on exploring traditional Hispanic dishes, providing basic information/free screenings

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La Canoa: Legacy Talks: The Myth of Tri-Cultural Harmony: Ethnic/Sexual Personas in the Tri-Cultural Land of Enchantment

3:30 pm Join us for an examination of New Mexico’s public ideology of tri-culturalism, which holds that the state consists of three separate ethnic groups living together in harmony. Chris Wilson, Professor of Cultural Landscape Studies at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning will discuss the myth, developed in the 1880s as part of the campaign to make New Mexico a state, and crystalized in the early 20th century with the rise of mass tourism. The primary visual expression of this rhetoric—found in

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Celebrity tour of The Piñata Exhibit (Sure to be a Smash Hit!) with Lalo Alcaraz

6 pm to 7:30 pm Come enjoy a special tour of the NHCC Art Museum’s The Piñata Exhibit (Sure to be a Smash Hit!) conducted by Lalo Alcaraz on November 10, 2017 from 6-7:30 pm. Lalo is the author of the comic La Cucaracha, a nationally syndicated, politically themed Latino daily comic strip, and was a consulting producer and writer on the animated show Bordertown. In addition, Lalo served as a cultural consultant on the Disney/Pixar film Coco. Following the museum tour, Lalo will have prints available

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Reading & Booksigning, Borderless: The Art of Luis Tapia

2 pm to 4 pm Join us for a panel discussion and book signing celebrating Borderless: The Art of Luis Tapia, a new book that documents pioneering Chicano artist Luis Tapia’s 45-year career in art. The first full-length study of Tapia’s work, Borderless delves deep into his artistic legacy as a celebrated and influential figure in Chicano and New Mexican art, from the early 1970s to today. Leading art historians, curators, and literary figures consider Tapia’s refined craftsmanship and insightful commentary to be visual and social touchstones

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Film: Selections from New Mexico and The Vietnam War: Portrait of a Generation

7 pm Produced by New Mexico PBS, this series of short documentaries focuses on New Mexico’s diverse Vietnam War veterans, families, and refugees whose lives were changed by the war. These are dramatic first person accounts of duty, honor, courage, sacrifice, loss, understanding, and renewal. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Michael Kamins, executive producer, and Tom Baca, a veteran whose story is captured in the film. Presented in partnership with New Mexico PBS as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film

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Jugamos Juntos: ¡Vamos al Museo! With Jessica Chao

10:30 am to 12 pm The National Hispanic Cultural Center is pleased to offer free children’s programming during the summer. During June, July, and the first two Saturdays in August, families will be able to come to the Center on Saturday mornings for a new activity every week. A great morning of art-making for children of all ages and families of all sizes.  A visit to the museum is included in this workshop led by Jessica Chao, an artist from the NHCC Art Museum exhibit Because It’s Time:

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¡Vamos al Museo!

10:30 am to 12 pm A great morning of art-making for children of all ages and families of all sizes.   A visit to the museum is included in this workshop led by artist Zahra Marwan, whose work can be seen in the NHCC Art Musuem’s newest exhibit, Because It’s Time: Unraveling Race and Place in NM. We will meet in the Creative Classroom in the Pete V. Domenici Building.  Please pre-register using the link HERE so we can prepare materials. For more information please call or email

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