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February 2021
Online Writing Workshop for Latinx Teens: “The Songs That Made You”
12 pm (MST)
Online via Zoom: Register HERE
Deadline to Register, Friday, January 22, 2021
Fee: $10. Workshop Limit: 15. Financial scholarships are available.
For writers ages 15-19 anywhere in the U.S. Writers of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and drama are welcome. In this workshop, young Latinx writers will create a playlist of 10 songs that reflect an important moment and/or experience in their lives. What memory or feeling do these particular songs evoke? Why have you chosen these songs and not others? Is there a theme to your playlist (i.e. summer songs, winter songs, heartbreak, home)?
Public Reading: Enduring Querencias
1 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom: Register HERE
Presented by the NHCC/History and Literary Arts program and the Gutiérrez-Hubbell House History and Cultural Center/Bernalillo County Open Space.
From December 2020- January 2021, ten writers created original works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction inspired by the theme of “querencia” and readings from the anthology, Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland, edited by Levi Romero, Vanessa Fonseca-Chavez and Spencer Herrera (UNM Press 2020). Join us for a free public reading of works by Bonnie Bassan, Margo Chavez, Esther Garcia, Helena Omana-Zapata, Beva Sanchez-Padilla, Elaine Soto, Leeanna Torres, Shelli Rottschafer, and Lucia Trujillo. Learn more about the Enduring Querencias: Lost and Reclaimed Expressions of Home exhibit at the Gutiérrez-Hubbell House here.
Free community event
NHCC Book Club: Atop the Windmill: I Could See Forever—Maria Dolores Gonzales
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“In this memoir a series of vignettes features Dolores, the fourth-born daughter in a family of five girls, growing up in rural, northeastern New Mexico. Atop the Windmill appeals to both adult and young readers who have an interest in the rich Nuevomexicano linguistic and cultural heritage of New Mexico.”—Bilingual Strategies.
Free and open to the public
Online Writing Workshop for Latinx Teens: “The Songs That Made You”
12 pm (MST)
Online via Zoom: Register HERE
Deadline to Register, Friday, January 22, 2021
Fee: $10. Workshop Limit: 15. Financial scholarships are available.
For writers ages 15-19 anywhere in the U.S. Writers of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and drama are welcome. In this workshop, young Latinx writers will create a playlist of 10 songs that reflect an important moment and/or experience in their lives. What memory or feeling do these particular songs evoke? Why have you chosen these songs and not others? Is there a theme to your playlist (i.e. summer songs, winter songs, heartbreak, home)?
Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Michelle Otero, Bosque
3 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom. Register HERE
Nestled in the heart of Albuquerque is a vibrant cottonwood forest that has flourished for centuries along the Río Grande—providing a home for porcupines, migratory birds, coyotes, and other wildlife as well as a sanctuary for its city residents. In her debut poetry collection, Bosque, Michelle Otero celebrates the importance of water and the bosque to the people of Albuquerque.
Free community event
March 2021
Perspectivas Modernas: Trans-American Detritus: A Study in Trans-Femicide
6 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom. Register HERE
This presentation focuses on the photography series, En la Pista (2016) by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. I focus on Margolles’ use of portraiture to capture a snapshot of the lives of transwomen in Juarez, Mexico, and the transitions of the border. Margolles’ work visually disrupts narratives of femicide and slows the frantic pace of life on the border within the boundaries of the frame of the photographs.
Free and open to the public
Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!
6:30 pm (MST)
Live on Zoom
We are back! Coming to you through zoom!
Happy Arte Hour is an adult only at making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm (MST) February – December.
Please register and prior to the class you will receive an email with the zoom link and items/art supplies to gather from around your house. Please do not pass out the link, we will let you in to the zoom room from your registration, thank you!
Free community event
Online Writing Workshop for Latinx Teens: “The Songs That Made You”
12 pm (MST)
Online via Zoom: Register HERE
Deadline to Register, Friday, January 22, 2021
Fee: $10. Workshop Limit: 15. Financial scholarships are available.
For writers ages 15-19 anywhere in the U.S. Writers of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and drama are welcome. In this workshop, young Latinx writers will create a playlist of 10 songs that reflect an important moment and/or experience in their lives. What memory or feeling do these particular songs evoke? Why have you chosen these songs and not others? Is there a theme to your playlist (i.e. summer songs, winter songs, heartbreak, home)?
Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Manuel González, Duende de Burque: Alburquerque Poems and Musings
3 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom. Register HERE
A virtual event partnership with the University of New Mexico Press and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Michelle Otero will read and be in conversation with Valerie Martinez, Director of History and Literary Arts at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
At its center, Manuel Gonzalez’s Duende de Burque is a love letter to Alburquerque and its surroundings—the Sandia Mountains, the Rio Grande Bosque, and all the people whose spirits fill these spaces. Manuel González was the City of Albuquerque’s third poet laureate (2016-2018). González is a performance poet who began his career in the poetry slam.
Free community event
Colcha Community Stitch-Along
1 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
Our Virtual Colcha Community Workshop is open to all levels of experience in an informal setting, 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 second 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