2021 Children's Bilingual Book Festival

 

     National Hispanic Cultural Center
             2021 Children's Bilingual Book Festival 

THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

April 15 - 18, 2021

9am - 5pm (MDT) Via Zoom

Click Here to access the Zoom Sessions

No Registration Required

Thank you to the National Hispanic Cultural Center a division of Cultural Affairs for sponsoring the event.

Bilingual Book Festival @ Youth Storytelling

NHCC Children’s Bilingual Book Festival
April 15 – April 18

9 am-5 pm (MST)
Live online.

Visit the festival website

This annual festival is the only one of its kind in the U.S. that features children’s books in Spanish and English and Indigenous languages and English. The focus on Spanish, English, Indigenous languages books and authors makes this festival particularly meaningful and vibrant, reflecting the identities of many children in New Mexico, the American Southwest, and beyond. 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 four-day event features author readings, workshops, and interactive events for kids and families.

For additional information email HLA.Admin@state.nm.us
Image: Julianna Kirwin (used with permission).

Virtual Bosque Chile Festival & Latinx Youth with Authors

 

Virtual Bosque Chile Festival Facebook Live Event Saturday and Sunday, August 15 & 16 2 pm The Bosque Chile Festival is a celebration of the art, culture, and food of New Mexico, developed to showcase and honor New Mexican and Latino/Hispanic culture and agriculture in the middle Rio Grande Valley through performances, art, educational sessions, chef demonstrations, value-added products, and produce that pay homage to time-honored and celebrated New Mexican traditions, foods, and crafts.  This year the Bosque Chile Festival announces a home decorating contest, Chile Casas. Break out the ristras, piñatas, flags, banners, sidewalk chalk, chile lights, and green and red balloons to show your chile pride! Red, green, or Christmas, you decide! Visit the Bosque Chile Festival website to register and for decorating ideas!   Join us for the Bosque Chile Festival happening virtually Saturday and Sunday, August 15 and 16, beginning at 2 pm on the Bosque Chile Festival Facebook page.

An Evening for Latinx Youth with Authors Lynda Lopez and Natalia Sylvester Live Zoom Event Thursday, August 13 7:30 PM EST/5:30 PM MST Register Here The National Hispanic Cultural Center, in collaboration with Duende District and Greenlight Bookstore, present Natalia Sylvester, author of Running, and Lynda Lopez, editor of AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with special teen guests from the Latin American Youth Center and the National Hispanic Cultural Center.   The evening event will highlight and celebrate Latinx youth civic engagement, featuring authors Natalia Sylvester and Lynda Lopez. In Sylvester’s Running, fifteen-year-old Cuban-American Mariana Ruiz starts to see her father with new eyes when he runs for president. Lopez’s book AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, presents seventeen contributing writers’ points of view on a young Latina politician in the U.S. Congress. Just thirty, AOC represents her generation, the millennials, in many groundbreaking ways: proudly working class, of Puerto Rican descent, master of social media, a feminist—and a great dancer.

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

NHCC Children's Bilingual Book Festival

 Schedule for the Day
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.  
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