New Mexico Black Leadership Council

Category: Community Event

  • Indigenous Peoples’ Day

    Indigenous Peoples’ Day

    Join Americans for Indian Opportunity for an Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration! Everyone is welcome! Enjoy vendors, youth activities, a raffle, and voter registration, plus a Meet & Greet with TikTok creators Nicole Sam and Jeff Bryant, and live music by Sage Bond and Emmet Yepa.

    This event is support by the City’s Office of Native American Affairs and Native Leadership Collective of Albuquerque.

  • Anita Dolce Vita, DapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion

    Anita Dolce Vita, DapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion

    Join queer style writer Anita Dolce Vita for a release party for their book DapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion. They will be joined by a panel of LGBTQIA+ activists, artists, and performers – including Marshall Martinez, Executive Director of Equality NM, and drag model/performance artist Avery Martini – for what promises to be a lively panel discussion.

     Anita Dolce Vita is editor-in-chief of leading queer style magazine dapperQ, which has provided a platform to transcend oppressive fashion rules and inspired people to rethink queer fashion and beauty. In their book, Vita demonstrates that, regardless of gender identity, race, body size, ability, age, or style, queer fashion is for everyone.

     

  • NMBLA’s Raymond Hamilton Backyard Bash

    NMBLA’s Raymond Hamilton Backyard Bash

    Head down to NMBLA’s Raymond Hamilton Backyard Bash! Our traditional Poolside Brunch will be catered by Bobbi’s Homestyle Catering with dessert from Q’s Cakes.

    Tickets are $50 each and support NMBLA’s charitable endeavors. Purchase by mailing a check made payable to “NMBLA” to P.O. Box 26431, Albuquerque, NM 87125. Or use the link below ($2.24 processing fee for each ticket). With each ticket purchase, you receive entry into a raffle for $500.

  • Spooky Fall Crafts

    Spooky Fall Crafts

    Make fun, spooky fall crafts at the San Pedro Library!

  • Coco movie watch party

    Coco movie watch party

    Celebrate Dia de los Muertos at the San Pedro Library! Watch Disney’s Coco and eat yummy snacks!

  • Make Papel Picados and Marigolds

    Make Papel Picados and Marigolds

    Come make colorful Mexican paper flags and marigolds with tissue paper for Dia de los Muertos or for the community ofrenda in the library. Tissue paper and supplies provided.

  • Calavera (Sugar Skull) painting party

    Calavera (Sugar Skull) painting party

    Paint your own calavera (sugar skull) for Dia de los Muertos or for the community ofrenda in the library. Paints and calaveras will be provided.

  • Community Ofrenda for Dias de los Muertos

    Community Ofrenda for Dias de los Muertos

    The San Pedro branch will host a community ofrenda all month long honoring the memory of our ancestors. Celebrate Dias de los Muertos by bringing photographs of lost loved ones for the ofrenda.

    (Please no real food items; clay and plastic food items are okay.)

  • Crane Festival

    Crane Festival

    Join AMP concerts for an all-ages, FREE family-friendly festival with live music, storytelling, nature-themed carnivale performers, hands-on activities, free paletas, and more!

    Start the morning with outdoor yoga and Tai Chi, and stay to learn about cranes, shop at vendors, and experience live performances from Latin Grammy-winning duo 123 Andrés and famous Alaskan Inuit band Pamyua.

    Check out https://ampconcerts.org/event/421721/crane-festival- for schedule and more information.

  • CANCELLED AfroMundo Social Justice Series: American Revolutionary

    CANCELLED AfroMundo Social Justice Series: American Revolutionary

    CANCELLED: Replaced by https://nmblc.org/events/afromundo-social-justice-series-fernandez/

    Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of American Revolutionary, a film about the evolution of 98-year-old Chinese American activist Grace Lee Boggs. 7:00 pm film screening, with panel and community discussion immediately following.

    “What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution will surprise you. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America’s past and its potentially radical future. The documentary film, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, plunges us into Boggs’s lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs’s constantly evolving strategy—her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her—drives the story forward..”

    More info and trailer HERE. Register HERE. UpLift Chronicles article on the film series HERE.

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