New Mexico Black Leadership Council

Category: Community Event

  • Kitchen Creations Diabetes Education Class

    Kitchen Creations Diabetes Education Class

    Join us at Kitchen Creations for a four-part series April 5, 12, 19, and 26th! FREE once every 3 years to anyone with diabetes, pre-diabetes, or who is caring for a loved one with diabetes. Spouses, family members involved in their care, all are welcome!

    We will discuss the ins and outs of Diabetes and how it affects you, including how to use the diabetes plate, and other nutritional and dietary tools. Together we will cook and eat tasty dishes from the Soul Food Cookbook and the New Mexico cookbook! Not to be missed!!!

    Please sign up at kitchencreations.nmsu.edu or call 575-202-5065 Tuesday, April 4th to sign up! 

  • International District Pop-Up Market

    International District Pop-Up Market

    Enjoy a pop-up market in the new Harvest Market community area on Kathryn and San Mateo! There will be music, food, and a kids’ play area. April 8 from 11 to 3.

     

  • Dope-Ass Brunch at Salt Yard

    Dope-Ass Brunch at Salt Yard

    Come to the dopest cannabis-friendly brunch & day party!

    $40 includes Caribbean Soul Food Buffet ft. Frank’s Famous Chicken & Waffles. $25 for entry only. See ticket page for cabana and skybox pricing.

    21-plus event.

  • Retaining Black Farming Practices to Cultivate a Better Future

    Retaining Black Farming Practices to Cultivate a Better Future

  • Raising Mental Health Awareness in the African American Community with C. Guy Robinson

    Raising Mental Health Awareness in the African American Community with C. Guy Robinson

    Help bring awareness to African American mental health during mental health month with Dr. Robinson, who  has conducted extensive research and workshops in mental health theology formation,
    biblical counseling, and paradigms for healthy partnerships between pastoral and mental health professionals.

  • Aftershock film screening for Black Maternal Health Week

    Aftershock film screening for Black Maternal Health Week

    Following the preventable deaths of loved ones due to childbirth complications, two families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises of our time – the US maternal health crisis.

    To RSVP, please click here.

  • Warriors of Afro-Peruvian Music (AfroMundo Festival event)

    Two Grammy nominees — Charo Goyonehe, appointed Meritorious Person of Afro Peruvian Culture, and Rosa Guzmán, champion of Peru’s criolla music — fly in from Peru for a legendary concert with Freddy “Huevito” Lobatón, Master of of Afro Peruvian percussive instruments, and Yuri Juárez, Master of Afro-Peruvian folk guitar.

    Charo Goyonehe and Rosa Guzmán are Cultural Activists who through songs preserve Afro-Peruvian traditions and combat racism, sexism and marginalization.

    Free, but tickets required.

  • Migrations: Transmitting Traditions & Knowledge through Dance (AfroMundo)

    Come learn of the significance of Afro Brazilian communal dances Samba de Roda & Samba de Caboclo. Bridge cultures, build community, and join in this dance that is a feat of resistance and perseverance and whose steps are a call to unity and strength. At the  Valle del Oro National Wildlife Refuge—a gem of a bird sanctuary and communal gathering space tucked in Bernalillo’s South Valley, minutes away from Albuquerque.

    With visiting Brazilian tradition-bearers Viviam Caroline de Jesus Queirós and Marcus Gonçalves da Silva aka Guellwaar Adún. Samba de Roda is an endangered Masterpiece of Humanity’s Oral and Intangible Heritage.

  • Inclusive Narratives: “Rising Voices” film screening (AfroMundo Festival event)

    This short (18-min) documentary explores the importance of investing in and sharing stories created by Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers and storytellers.

    Panelists include: Mel Adún, Writer and Cofounder of Editora Ogums Publishing Collective; Ausettua AmorAmenkum, founder of New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center Resident Group, The Gradates—a performance group comprised of former members of the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women; and Josie Lopez, PhD, Head Curator at the Albuquerque Museum.

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