Category: Health & Wellness
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Heart of ABQ 6.6K Speedwalk and Celebration
Celebrate Route 66 and the International District with a speedwalk (starting at 10 AM) from Highland High School to Expo NM’s Villa Hispania! Once you’re there, enjoy a community wellbeing fair with music, resources, family fun, and more. Shuttle and parking are available. Check Out HEARTOFABQ.COM for walking route, registration, schedules and more!
Why Should You Come?
Because your presence matters.
Because our neighborhoods need our voices, our footsteps, and our pride.
Because healing and growth happen when we come together — through wellness, culture, music, and entrepreneurship.
Free event presented by True NM (a collaboration of NMBLC and NM Asian Family Center) and organized by Juneteenth Renaissance Institute.
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Health Equity Fair
Join the Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta for a Health Equity Fair, including free flu vaccines and 15-minute massages, raffle prizes, lunch catered by Flying star, grocery bags, and more!
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Together We Heal: A Community Healing Circle
This free session, led by the Sacred Spring Reiki Collective, will invite people to heal in community. We don’t have to face our fears or problems alone. Communally, we can overcome great challenges. Calm the mind through the practice of intentional breathing, gentle movement, and reiki energy healing, allowing you to tap into the deep well of ancestral wisdom we each carry within.
Brought to you as part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival. Register here for this event in NHCC’s Ortega Salon: https://my.nmculture.org/43366/43469
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NOMA NM Bosque Bike Ride
Join Ke Vaughn Harding, National Organization of Minority Architects NM’s 1st VP, on a monthly (2nd Sundays) bike ride through the Bosque! Meet Ke Vaughn at the NW corner of Copper Ave NW and 1st Street NW, downtown.
Bike ride will start at 10:00 am! All experience levels welcome.
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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Come together with the Black community for a special event to raise awareness and dispel stigma around HIV/AIDS. There’ll be speakers, interactive workshops, a panel discussion, performances, and a resource fair offering free HIV testing and support services.
Check out OAAA.com for details!
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Reclaiming Wellness: The Intersection of Art and Therapy
Explore the misconceptions around therapy with Black Men Flower Project’s Robert Washington-Vaughns and William C. Jenkins, a practicing therapist and one of the featured models in the Free Our Flowers series.
This conversation will use the lens of art to delve into the the pervasive idea that “therapy is only for crazy people” and address the barriers many men face in accessing mental health resources, including the mistrust bred by negative experiences with the healthcare system.
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Our Freedom Can’t Wait
What if we could …
🤲🏾 Gather together in a room with beautiful food and music?
🤲🏽 Share our stories with no pressure, fear, or judgment?
🤲🏻 Connect authentically, making space for strangers to become allies?
How healing would that be?
For the second year in a row, High Desert Playback and Explora Science Center’s X Studio come together in celebration of the National Day of Racial Healing. This initiative, launched in 2017 by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is “a time to contemplate our shared values and create the blueprint together for #HowWeHeal from the effects of racism.”
Our Freedom Can’t Wait: A Playback Theatre Gathering For Racial Healing
Thursday, January 23, 2024, 5-9PM
Explora Science Center, 1701 Mountain Rd NW, ABQ, NM
For Teens + Adults / FREELearn more and RSVP here.
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Herbal Support for Wintertime Wellness
Atava Garcia Swiecicki, clinical herbalist, will teach herbal medicine you can use to support yourself and your loved ones this winter season – including important herbs that help prevent and treat cold and flu. Learn easy recipes for common herbs like ginger and elderberry.
Reclaim Ancestral Latinx medicine and rituals for healing! Class time will include hands-on medicine making, including Fire Cider to take home. $60 fee includes materials.
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NMBLC Vaccine Clinic
Avoid the sniffles and sneezes, the aches and isolation – and worse! Stay healthy this winter with FREE Covid and flu vaccinations at NMBLC.
