Celebrate 25 Years with NHCC

Looking to bring the kids to our 25th Anniversary Celebration in October? The National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NHCC is planning activities for all ages! Enjoy dance performances, crown-making, Muertos y Marigolds face-painting, and much more during our celebration on October 25!

National Hispanic Cultural Center Events

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH CALENDAR REMINDER:
September 20-22: Latinx Games Festival

September 20 (6-8pm)
September 21 (9am-4pm)
September 22 (9am-2pm)
September 26: Author Series with Michelle Otero
September 27: Bless me Ultima Screening
September 28: Writing workshop with Michelle Otero
October 4th (Morning): Latina Equal Pay Day Balloon Liftoff
October 5th (Daytime): Latina Equal Pay Day Events on campus
October 10th (Daytime): Poetry readings featuring Levi Romero and Michelle Otero
October 12th (Daytime): Poetry Workshop Sessions with Levi Romero and Michelle Otero
October 12 (Evening): Hispanic Heritage Away Game with NM United Streaming on the Plaza Mayor

NHCC Dia de Familia

https://www.nhccnm.org/event/dia-de-familia-dia-del-nino/

Prueba Gratuita de Coronavirus

Invitamos este sábado 13/junio a realizarte la prueba de detección de COVID-19, completamente gratis y sin bajar de tu coche/carro/automobil.

Ven al Consulado de 8:30-11:00 am. Recuerda que la prueba es clave para evitar la propagación de la enfermedad.

Lowriders

 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) Lowriders
Visitors will get a taste of New Mexico's rich culture right when they step off the plane. The airport's new art exhibit includes custom lowrider cars, motorcycles, and bikes located in the concourse.

The Sunport's art curator worked with the New Mexico History Museum to assemble the collection. Photographs dating back more than 40 years were also gathered.

Each lowrider was made right here in New Mexico. The city hopes to highlight lowrider culture beyond stigmas and stereotypes. "I think it exposes people to a chance to look at these amazing machines up close. Typically, the only time you see them is when they go zooming past you on the freeway," traveler Wes Hall said.

Officials say only the Smithsonian and the Louvre have hosted an exhibit like this before.

First Annual NHCC Children's Bilingual Book Festival

On Saturday, April 27, 2019, the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) in Albuquerque will host its first annual NHCC Children’s Bilingual Book Festival. Coinciding with National Poetry Month; Children’s Day, Book Day; Arbor Day; and Semana Cervantina/Poesía eres tu, this festival will celebrate children’s books written in Spanish and English and Native languages and English.

The focus on Spanish-English and Native Language-English books and authors makes this festival particularly meaningful and vibrant, reflecting the identities of many children in New Mexico and the Southwest. We want to encourage children to see themselves in contemporary children’s literature as well as introduce a bilingual body of work to a wider audience. The festival will emphasize books for readers in grades K-6, though there will be activities for kids of all ages, including families.
The festival will also launch a summer reading program at the NHCC–connecting children struggling with reading with free reading tutors who will provide one-on-one and group tutoring at the NHCC over the summer. 

New Mexico Latinas will read the Arbor Day proclamation and introduce the bilingual youth storytellers, Deja, Diego, Isabela and Gabriela.  FULL PROGRAM FOR THE FESTIVAL HERE

La Ultima Exhibición

Bless Me, Ultima: The Reading

October 14 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center from 9 am to 8 pm

The National Hispanic Cultural Center will present a beginning-to-end reading of Rudolfo Anaya’s acclaimed novel, Bless Me, Ultima. The reading will take place in the NHCC Art Museum where an exhibition, La Ultima Exhibición, enters its final month. Over 40 dignitaries, New Mexico authors, youth, adults and elders (including school students) will read, each for 15 minutes, between 9 am and 8 pm. The general public is invited to attend any part of the day-long reading as well as tour the exhibition before it concludes on November 11.

The reading is free and open to the public with museum entrance fee.

More about the exhibition:

The La Ultima Exhibición, curated by Augustine Romero, features visual interpretations of Rudolfo Anaya’s celebrated book, Bless Me, Ultima (1972)–a portrait of life in rural New Mexico as seen through the eyes of a young boy during World War II. Anaya tells of the spiritual healer, Ultima, as she guides young Antonio on a magical and moral journey in this novel that has inspired artists for decades. Romero curated a previous iteration of this exhibition in 2006 at the South Broadway Cultural Center and the NHCC Art Museum is thrilled to host the re-imagined version twelve years later. Featured artists include: Jesús “Cimi” Alvarado, George C’de Baca, Sylvia Ortiz Domney, Christian Michael Gallegos, Roberto Gallegos, Eric Garcia, Kristina Gonzales, Nacho Jaramillo, Al Na’ir Lara, Chisim Bernal Lujan, Oscar Lozoya, Chris Ray Melendez, El Moisés, Derrick Montez, Paloma Paz Nava, Gabriel Luis Powers, Chris Rivera, Rebecca H. Hernandez Rosser, and Catalina Salinas. Augustine Romero is an acclaimed visual artist and the curator of the South Broadway Cultural Center and the Kimo Theater for the City of Albuquerque.

Event Navigation

• « First Page to Last Page Reading of Bless Me, Ultima in the NHCC Art Museum

2018 JCLC in Albuquerque

JCLC 2018 – The 3rd National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color will be held September 26-30 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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The Joint Council of Librarians of Color (JCLC, Inc.) formed in June, 2015 as a nonprofit organization that advocates for and addresses the common needs of the American Library Association ethnic affiliates.

Zozobra in Santa Fe

Zozobra "Cast your troubles away"
Article from "Weekly Alibi" Albuquerque

Scanned article and "Burn, Baby, Burn!"