NHCC Book Club: The Taste of Sugar

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…)

NHCC Book Club: The Five Wounds

5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family’s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as “legitimate masterpieces” (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.” – Goodreads Free community event

NHCC Book Club: The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez

5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “In the 1950s, tensions remain high in the border town of La Frontera. Penny loafers and sneakers clash with boots and huaraches. Bowling shirts and leather jackets compete with guayaberas. Convertibles fend with motorcycles. Yet amidst the discord, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist’s daughter. But as they’ll soon find out, their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they (more…)

NHCC Book Club: Queen of America

5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea’s bestselling The Hummingbird’s Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and “Saint of Cabora,” with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America. Teresita’s passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis, (more…)

Tenth Annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest: U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

THIS EVENT HAS GIVEN AWAY ALL OF THE TICKETS. IT IS SOLD OUT. COVID PROTOCOLS: This event will require either a proof of vaccination completed at least 14 days prior to the event or a negative COVID test administered by a health care professional within 72 hours of the event. Originals or photos of documents with a matching ID will be accepted. Masks are also required while inside the NHCC. 7 pm (MST) Free and open to the public. Tickets will be available on Friday, September 3rd (more…)

2021 Winter ABQ Virtual Jewish Film Fest: The House on Wannsee Street

Screening—Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 7 pm (MST) * Available for 72 hours * Zoom Conversation—Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 12 pm (MST) Individual tickets are $8 and household tickets are $15; ticket prices include the film and the Zoom conversation. Purchase tickets HERE The House on Wannsee Street is the story of generations of family secrets that are uncovered in this sweeping international story that begins with the Second World War and concludes with an emotional twenty-first-century revelation. When award-winning Argentinean filmmaker Poli Martínez Kaplun decided (more…)

Virtual Screening & Discussion: Con Alma

7 pm (MST) This event can be viewed AMP Concerts website HERE Con Alma: Exploring the Creative Process with Paola Prestini & Magos Herrera Screening of videos from the Con Alma project, including a world premiere video, La Creación de las Aves (The Creation of the Birds), followed by a live on-line discussion and open Q&A session with Paola Prestini and Magos Herrera, moderated by Cristina Baccin from KUNM’s Raices program. The discussion will be hosted by the National Hispanic Cultural Center via Zoom, in collaboration with (more…)

Summer Institutes Performances: Voces 2021

6 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register here: https://nhccnm.wufoo.com/forms/z3dvsn21pljdpg/. This reading and performance is the culminating event for the VOCES Summer Writing Institute for Teens, a free, four week intensive that inspires young writers to create new and original works of poetry, prose and dramatic writing. For additional information email HLA.Admin@state.nm.us

NHCC Book Club: Afterlife—Julia Alvarez

5:30 pm (MDT) Live via Zoom To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us “Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves—lines from her favorite authors play (more…)

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