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NHCC Book Club: The Five Wounds
Live via Zoom or in-person5:30 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
Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Live via Zoom or in-person6 pm Live Via Zoom. Register HERE The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers—even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed, leaving them with more (more...)
NHCC Book Club: The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez
Live via Zoom or in-person5:30 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...)
Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Hakim Bellamy, Commissions y Corridos
Live via Zoom or in-person6 pm (MST) Live Via Zoom. Register HERE Hakim Bellamy’s latest collection rings with the same power and grace as the people he lauds within its pages, including Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King Jr. He celebrates Albuquerque and New Mexico, taking the good with the bad, and reminds Bur-queños that any day when you wake up along the Río Grande is a good day. As Bellamy celebrates the power of creativity and community within the city and the nation, he also demands that we face our society’s faults, (more...)
Virtual Book Reading and Discussion: Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Mona at Sea
Live via Zoom or in-person6 pm (MST) Live Via Zoom. Register HERE Mona is a Millennial perfectionist who fails upwards in the midst of the 2008 economic crisis. Despite her potential, and her top-of-her-class college degree, Mona finds herself unemployed, living with her parents, and adrift in life and love. Mona's the sort who says exactly the right thing at absolutely the wrong moments, seeing the world through a cynic's eyes. In the financial and social malaise of the early 2000s, Mona walks a knife's edge as she faces down unemployment, (more...)
NHCC Book Club: Queen of America
Live via Zoom or in-person5:30 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...)
NHCC Book Club: Afterlife—Julia Alvarez
Live via Zoom or in-person5:30 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...)
Perspectivas Modernas: Brazilian Rap and the Grammar of the Black Existence
Live via Zoom or in-person6 pm (MST) Live via Zoom. Register HERE Paulo Dutra, UNM Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, examines the most famous Brazilian rap group Racionais Mc’s artistic production in order to explore their poetically crafted understanding of how people of African descent experience and negotiate their existence in Brazil. Paulo Dutra is the author of a short story collection Aversão oficial: resumida (2018) and of a poetry collection ablliterações (2019, semifinalist in the 2020 Oceanos Prize). Free and open to the public He specializes in the intersections (more...)
Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: Illuminating New Mexico: A History of Luminarias and Farolitos
Live via Zoom or in-person2 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, (more...)
Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!
Live via Zoom or in-person6:30 pm Live via Zoom Please use this link to register HERE Happy Arte Hour is an adult only art making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us for our first virtual Happy Arte Hour. We will have some simple project demos and suggestions for at home art making. This virtual Happy Arte hour is a chance for us to reconnect with our regular participants and for new people near and far to join us for (more...)