New Mexico Black Leadership Council

Tag: #Community

  • 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.)

  • 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.

  • AfroMundo Social Justice Series: Lead Me Home

    AfroMundo Social Justice Series: Lead Me Home

    Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of Lead Me Home, a documentary about homelessness in America. 7:00 pm film screening, with panel and community discussion immediately following.

    “More than 500,000 people experience homelessness every night in America. Lead Me Home is a documentary short that tells a few of these real-life stories giving the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope, and diversity of what it means to be unsheltered today while calling into question uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies.”

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

  • Open Wide Our Hearts webinar: Healing Racism Through Faith

    Open Wide Our Hearts webinar: Healing Racism Through Faith

    Join two powerful presenters, NMBLC founder and director Cathryn McGill and Asante Award honoree Adolphe Pierre-Louis, for a webinar responding to the Open Wide Our Hearts pastoral letter against racism. They will explore healing racism in the church and community.

    Pre-registration is required. Click HERE to register and receive the Zoom link. (Link on flyer is not functional.)

  • It Takes a Village

    It Takes a Village

    Learn more about the accomplishments of esteemed African Americans in Albuquerque through the work of 10 Albuquerque youth! Let’s celebrate these achievements together.

    RSVP for your free tickets HERE

  • Santa Fe Soul Festival: Soul Rhythms

    Santa Fe Soul Festival: Soul Rhythms

    Join DOUGLAS CARDWELL, Principal Timpani Chair with the New Mexico Philharmonic, for a FREE demonstration and percussion jam session. Bring a drum or other percussion instrument. $100 cash prize for the most creative drum!

     

  • WESST Fest Pop-Up Shop

    WESST Fest Pop-Up Shop

    Join the Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency Team and AAGACC for a pop-up shopping experience featuring one-of-a-kind handmade goods! Two dozen vendors will offer everything from crochet to soap to baked goods.

    Founded by three women in 1989, WESST proudly targets its services to women, people of color and low-wealth New Mexicans. Pop-up shops allow vendors to engage with customers and see what they are responding to, and for the Albuquerque community to come out and support local entrepreneurs and small businesses. Come on out and be part of the fun!

    Vendors will include:

    3BlindMiceCrochet
    Airy Sky Boutique
    Behempful
    Belgian ceramics
    Clay by Ej
    Crossed Paws Pottery
    Desert Flower Baking Co.
    Dovetail Community Workshop
    Enchanting Soap Collections by Roberta
    Erin Leigh Designs
    ETKIE
    HoonArts Fair Trade
    JMohr
    K and C Naturals LLC
    Kesha’s Space LLC
    Kokopelli Design Studio
    LadyJennD
    Mobius Theory
    Moxie Sorbet Designs
    NM Metal Art
    Rio Refills
    TAYORi Bath & Body
    Trista Victoria Design Studio
    Two Pups Boutique
    Worthington Farms

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