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August 2022
Visual Arts Museum: First Sunday Free Admission
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
The first Sunday of every month the Visual Arts Museum is free to all New Mexico residents. During this time, visitors are encouraged to explore the NHCC’s Visual Arts Museum art exhibitions such as Aquí Estamos: New Selections from the Permanent Collection, Tempo y Tiempo: 4 Photographers in New Mexico, and Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond.
Día de Familia: Visiones del Futuro
11:00 am to 3:00 pm
Celebrate your dreams of the future through the arts! Make a futuristic costume piece with artists Mike Moreno and Ehren Kee Natay. Explore creative dramatic movement and get inspired with a special presentation by Ehren Kee Natay for this family-friendly free event.
Families can also visit the NHCC art museum for free and learn more about exhibits. Pencils, crayons, erasers, and colored pencils will be given away to start off the school year with a splash of color!
Free family event. Register in advance here.
This program generously supported through a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant.
Colcha Community Stitch A-long
9:30 am (MST) on the second Tuesday of the Month
On Zoom and onsite
Our Colcha community Workshop is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting. 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. Annette will demonstrate as well as answer questions. We hope you will join us every month on the second Tuesday, for this virtual stitch-a-long. Everyone will have a chance to share what they are working on.
This is a free community event. Register in advance here.
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
11:00 am (MST)
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity.
Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. (more…)
Arte Poquito: Música de Bebé
10:00 am
Explore New Mexico music, rhyme, and movement for children between the ages of 0 and 18 months, family members, and their caregivers. Have fun with instruments for toddlers at this family-friendly event!
Arte Poquito is a free, monthly, 45-minute program for infants ages 0 to 18 months and caregivers that nurtures creativity and provides bilingual introductory arts experiences balanced with social interaction. Each program focuses on different aspects of Hispanic/Latine arts, including music, dance, and storytelling. NHCC instructors model the introduction of core arts concepts to infants and caregivers in a supportive environment.
This program generously supported through a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant.
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
11:00 am (MST)
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity.
Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. (more…)
Film: Violeta Went to Heaven (Chile)
5:30 pm to 6:15 pm – Chilean folkloric music performed live
6:15 pm to 6:45 pm – “Violeta Parra in context” historical presentation by Dr. Carson Morris
7:00 pm – Film Screening
Andrés Wood’s Violeta Went to Heaven tells the story of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, tracing her evolution from impoverished child to international sensation and Chile’s national hero, and interweaving key set pieces from Parra’s life to capture the swirling intensity of her inner contradictions, fallibilities, and passions. Loosely based on Ángel Parra’s memoirs of his mother, the film offers a multi-faceted and lyrical portrayal of an influential figure in world music and complex cultural icon of Chile’s history. Violeta Parra’s revival of Chilean traditional music galvanized a socially and politically committed pan-Latin American folk music movement—“nueva canción“—and became a reference for other Latin American artists committed to their national legacies.
2011; Spanish with English subtitles; 110 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
The Bank of America provides generous support for this film series
Explorar las Artes: Hora de Cuentos Preescolares Bilingüe: Green is a Chile Pepper
10:00 am
Story by Roseanne Greenfield Thong (Author) and John Parra (Illustrator).
Explorar las Artes is a free, bi-monthly 45-minute program for toddlers ages 3-5 years old and caregivers that cultivates creativity and self-expression through the exploration of Hispanic/Latine arts and culture. Participants explore the NHCC museum and engage in artmaking, music, movement, dance, drama, and bilingual story time. NHCC instructors model age-appropriate arts techniques that celebrate self-expression, build vocabulary, and strengthen both fine-motor and gross-motor skills in a fun environment.
This program generously supported through a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant.
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
11:00 am (MST)
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco created by artist Frederico Vigil. Tours of the fresco are offered Thursdays and Fridays at 11am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity.
Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. (more…)
Online Book Reading with Leticia Urieta
7:00 pm
Registrants will be sent an email with the webinar link and password. Please check your junk email if you do not receive this email, or contact Dr. Carson Morris at carson.morris@state.nm.us.
Leticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin, TX. She is a freelance writer, a teaching artist in the greater Austin community, and the Regional Program Manager of Austin Bat Cave, a literary community serving students in the Austin area. She also serves the Director of Barrio Writers, a free college level youth writers workshop in Austin. Leticia is a graduate of Agnes Scott College with a BA in English/Creative Writing and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University.
Free community event. Please register here.