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March 2020
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The National Hispanic Cultural Center is a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) with the State of New Mexico. In accordance with revised public health directives, the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs has temporarily closed its museums and historic sites to the public until further notice. The safety and well-being of our employees and visitors is the DCA’s foremost concern. We appreciate your ongoing support and understanding.
Please continue to visit this website for updates and to explore virtual visits, programs, and educational opportunities.
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December 2020
Film: Cortos en Femenino Film Series: Dúctiles
1 pm
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Free
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque presents, Cortos en Femenino film series, during the month of December, is part of the short film program with El día más corto (The shorter day). The inspiration of this program is the celebration of films directed by women. Designed by Trama, the coordinator of women’s festivals in Spain, this program presents four very different examples of today’s current short film productions, made up of two fictions, a documentary and a montage film.
Marisa Benito‘s Dúctiles is the story of the image of women that has been used and shaped to the taste of societies and historical events of each era, which has generated visual codes and stereotypes. These models of the ideal woman have been filtered in one way or another by sectors of male power, which have used them to attribute to women norms of ethical and moral conduct, and specific functions and spaces.
Film: Cortos en Femenino Film Series: Centrifugado
1 pm
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Free
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque presents, Cortos en Femenino film series, during the month of December, is part of the short film program with El día más corto (The shorter day). The inspiration of this program is the celebration of films directed by women. Designed by Trama, the coordinator of women’s festivals in Spain, this program presents four very different examples of today’s current short film productions, made up of two fictions, a documentary and a montage film.
Mireia Noguera‘s Centrifugado is the story of a young man who helps an old lady to carry the laundry up to her house. Once inside, the lady seems reluctant to let him go. The environment in which everyday life is structured has always its lights and shadows. And many times, appearances can be deceiving. In this story, starring the ill-fated Rikar Gil and Mireia Noguera’s first film, we witness a dazzling exercise in ellipsis and humanity.
Film: Cortos en Femenino Film Series: No me despertéis
1 pm
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Free
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque presents, Cortos en Femenino film series, during the month of December, is part of the short film program with El día más corto (The shorter day). The inspiration of this program is the celebration of films directed by women. Designed by Trama, the coordinator of women’s festivals in Spain, this program presents four very different examples of today’s current short film productions, made up of two fictions, a documentary and a montage film.
Sara Fantova‘s No me despertéis is the story of Jone who is a sixteen year old girl that lives in Bilbao (Basque Country) in 2009. In her high school you can feel the independents’ environment with demonstrations and strikes that are taking place between the students organizations. Her father starts to work in the Basque Government and with everything going on he has to go to work with body guards. This situation will change Jones life and she will have to learn to live between two worlds that she doesn’t understand yet, and to understand that not everything is black or white.
Film: Cortos en Femenino Film Series: Quand j’étais petit
1 pm
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Free
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque presents, Cortos en Femenino film series, during the month of December, is part of the short film program with El día más corto (The shorter day). The inspiration of this program is the celebration of films directed by women. Designed by Trama, the coordinator of women’s festivals in Spain, this program presents four very different examples of today’s current short film productions, made up of two fictions, a documentary and a montage film.
Elena Molina‘s Quand j’étais petit is a documentary of childhood in many African countries and the reality experienced by many other children on the planet. Violence and helplessness, often unavoidable despite families, can lead to horrible conditions. The story of Malone, the protagonist of this story, is a fable that illuminates the future, and it does so through the magic of the story, the ancient capacity of stories to teach us to live and grow.
NHCC Book Club
5:30 pm
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for December: Sabrina and Corina: Stories, Kali Fajardo-Anstine.
To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.
Instituto Cervantes Book Club
10-11:30 am
The Instituto Cervantes Book Club meets twice a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for December: A flor de piel by Javier Moro
Pre-registration for the Instituto Cervantes Book Club is required.
More information.
Colcha Community Stitch-Along
1 pm
Live via Zoom
Our Colcha Community Workshop is going virtual until we are able to meet in person, and is open to anyone wherever they may reside. This workshop is instructed by Annette Gutierrez-Turk. Annette has taught this art form to groups internationally and at the NHCC for many years. She is also an award winning artist, most recently recognized in 2019 at Santa Fe Spanish Market. This workshop is for all levels of experience in an informal setting. Annette will demonstrate as well as answer questions. We hope you will join us every month on the third Friday, for this virtual stitch-a-long. Everyone will have a chance to share what they are working on.
Please register here every month and we will email the zoom link to you.
Questions: Please email Elena at ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us or call 505-220-7928
Thank you to the Sandia Mountains- EGA for their continued support of this program.
This is a free community event
Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: Illuminating New Mexico: A History of Luminarias and Farolitos
2 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
Register in advance for this meeting HERE.
State Historian Rob Martínez examines the fascinating origins of these uniquely New Mexican cultural expressions. Before there was a Christmas tree, mistletoe, egg nog or Santa Claus, there were luminarias and farolitos lighting the dark paths for ancient New Mexicans, commemorating that long ago tradition of High Mass at midnight. Like most New Mexican traditions, these lights, like Las Posadas, reach back deep into a rich Catholic tradition that is a blend of Spanish, Puebloan, Mexican, and American influences that are still vibrant today. Add the contributions of Asians from places like China and you have a very unique New Mexico religious expression that illuminates New Mexico like no other tradition. State Historian Rob Martínez takes us on a journey to discover where these sacred lights came from.
Free, Registration Required
February 2021
Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: My Grandfather and Pancho Villa
2 pm (MST)
Live Via Zoom
For more than a century scholars have debated why Pancho Villa attacked the border town of Columbus, New Mexico on March 9, 1916—a deadly incursion and the only time in the 20th century that a major foreign army invaded the continental United States. For Stacey Ravel Abarbanel, the battle is the context for a family tale so spectacular that she always wondered if it was true: when Villa raided the village he was looking to kill her grandfather, Sam Ravel.