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NHCC Book Club: The Taste of Sugar

Live via Zoom or in-person

5:30 pm (MDT) Live via Zoom To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us "It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the (more...)

Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Stephen Graham Jones, Memorial Ride

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6 pm (MST) Live Via Zoom. Register HERE Memorial Ride is a high-speed, ragtag chase across the American Southwest. Cooper Town, an American Indian soldier, has returned from the Middle East to attend hi father's funeral, make some quick cash off his father's old Harley, and spend a whirlwind weekend with his girlfriend, Sheri Mun. However, when Coop runs afoul of the violent John Wayne gang, he and Sheri Mun have no choice but to twist the throttle back on that storied chopper and make tracks. In (more...)

NHCC Book Club: The Wind That Lays Waste

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5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us "The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca. As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy (more...)

NHCC Book Club: Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

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5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us "In Once I Was You, Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago and documenting the existential wasteland of immigration detention camps for news outlets that often challenged her work. In these pages, she offers a personal and eye-opening account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also enabled willful negligence and profiteering at (more...)

Ana Castillo at the NHCC

Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

7 pm Connect with your favorite Hispanic and Latine writers. For the inaugural program of the Escribir | Escuchar: Hispanic and Latine Writer Series, the National Hispanic Cultural presents award-winning and best-selling author Dr. Ana Castillo. Her notable works include the novels So Far from God, The Guardians, and Peel My Love like an Onion, in addition to her poetry collection I Ask the Impossible. The celebrated and distinguished New Mexico escritora will be at NHCC’s Albuquerque Journal Theatre on April 7, 2022. During this free event, Dr. Castillo will be reading from her latest (more...)

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Explorar las Artes: Hora de Cuentos Preescolares Bilingüe: Green is a Chile Pepper

NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

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 children 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 (more...)

Entre Palabras Online Book Club

Live via Zoom

5:30 pm Join us for the first installment of our Entre Palabras Online Book Club, featuring the New Mexico classic Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya. NHCC’s Entre Palabras Online Book Club explores diverse themes and topics within the Hispanic/Latine diaspora including identity, place, borders, nationality, race, gender, and language. The book club highlights pieces centered on New Mexico and the Southwest as well as Hispanic/Latine/Latin American works from both the United States and a variety of countries throughout the Hispanic world. Únase al primer evento de nuestro (more...)

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History and Literary Arts Building

5:00 - 7:00 pm In a world that has felt ever more disconnected, the Center is thrilled to announce that we will be reconnecting in-person with lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the far reaches of Latinidad. In March, we will be reading The Queen of the Cicadas, by V. Castro. Some 2024 Book Club selections are meant to enrich our everyday lives, some to give escape from our everyday troubles; a few give us all a glimpse of (more...)

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NHCC Book Club

HLA Conference Room 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm The NHCC is thrilled to announce that we will be reconnecting in person with lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the far reaches of Latinidad. We will meet on the last Wednesday of every month in the Center's HLA Conference Room. In April, we will be reading Afterlife, by Julia Alvarez. Afterlife tells the story of an immigrant writer, reeling from her beloved husband's sudden death in the wake of her retirement, whose life is further (more...)

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An Evening with Jimmy Santiago Baca

Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, United States

30th Anniversary of Blood In, Blood Out Featuring Special Guest Melina Martinez 6:30 pm: Reception and Book Signing 7:30 pm: Readings Join us for an evening with Jimmy Santiago Baca in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Blood In, Blood Out on Saturday, April 27 at 6:30 pm. Located in the Bank of America Theatre, this event will feature a reception and book signing for the Blood In, Blood Out Coffee Table Book from 6:30 – 7:30 pm as well as readings featuring Melina Martinez and Jimmy (more...)

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