Category: Health & Wellness
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Valarie Kaur: See No Stranger: Building Beloved Community with Revolutionary Love
Join civil rights leader, author, filmmaker, and Sikh American Valarie Kaur for a book signing and the first lecture of the BeAJEDI program. Kaur reframes the present moment in history as one of transition and calls on us to show up in the labor of birthing a beloved community.
Registration required. Register HERE.
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Meditation with the National Museum of African American History & Culture
Explore meditation as a practice in liberation. This 40-minute mindfulness meditation features the soundscape of the “Spirit in the Dark” exhibition (more information HERE) and contemplation of the journey of Black Americans toward liberation.
Register here (FREE!) for access via Zoom.
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Highland High School Shot Clinic
Get your Covid and flu vaccinations for free at this annual shot clinic in the Highland High School cafeteria.
This event is open to the public and other schools! Includes all school-required immunizations. Covid home tests also available while supplies last.
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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day at UNM
Join UNM African American Student Services and Truman as we honor the Black folk impacted by HIV/ AIDS.
Free Confidential Testing available in the SUB. Win a gift card for groceries for learning your status.
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Purple Service Event – Vaccinations and Free Movie Screening
The Albuquerque Alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. and the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. Omega Alpha Zeta chapter cordially invite you to a two-part “Purple Service Event”!
At Part 1, receive complimentary covid and flu vaccinations, and give back by donating sanitary products to address Period Poverty. The first 100 participants at Part 1 will receive FREE tickets to a private screening of the 2023 version of The Color Purple at 7:35 on December 30. Location of film will be shared following participation in Part 1.
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NM 45th Annual Conference on Aging
Are you an older adult in New Mexico? Don’t miss this lively event featuring activities like cooking and birding, museum tours, and classes in art, smart shopping, technology, and more… Plus a social dance!
Speakers include Barbara “Mother” Hubbard, Valerie Tsosie, and NM government luminaries. Just $10 for two full days!
Register HERE.
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Kitchen Creations Diabetes Education series
Join Kitchen Creations for a four-part series, Wednesdays October 11 to November 1! All are welcome, including spouses and family members involved in care! FREE once every 3 years to anyone with diabetes, pre-diabetes, or who is caring for a loved one with diabetes.
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. Cook and eat tasty dishes from the Soul Food Cookbook and the New Mexico cookbook!
Please sign up at kitchencreations.nmsu.edu or call 575-202-5065 to sign up.
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8th Annual Recovery Celebration
Celebrate National Recovery Month with a party on Civic Plaza! There will be 50+ tables at the event from treatment organizations around the Albuquerque area, as well as live music and entertainment.
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Black Lives, Black Lungs film screening
Join NMACT for a free screening of the film Black Lives, Black Lungs: Journey of a Stolen Leaf. The film will be followed by a panel discussion on racism in tobacco marketing and public health.
“Black Lives, Black Lungs: The Journey of a Stolen Leaf unravels the tobacco industry’s forward-looking strategy of protecting profits, subverting regulations, and maintaining influence through the promotion of e-cigarettes to hook a new generation to nicotine. The panel discussion will feature topics of racism within commercial tobacco marketing, the lasting health and economic impacts on communities, and discussion of policy initiatives working to address health equity in New Mexico.”
