Tag: #free
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Junior Foodies Kids’ Cooking Club: Pumpkins
Join in a fresh new activity at the International District Library! Kids and families will learn about a different locally grown food, then join in a tasting or prepare the food themselves!
October’s theme is pumpkins! This Month’s Book: Pumpkins by Ken Robbins. This Month’s Recipe: Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Registration is limited! Just a few seats available. Register HERE to snag your spot!
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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.
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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.
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Encanto watch party
Come see Disney’s Encanto at the San Pedro Library! Snacks provided. Stay after for a craft party!
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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.
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Blues Night on Civic Plaza
Join the good times on Albuquerque’s Civic Plaza for a FREE night of blues! Dance to Toni Morgan & Soulful Sounds, Cameron Kimbrough, and Charlie Musselwhite while enjoying eats from local food trucks like Bing Tea, The Supper Truck, Menchies Frozen Yogurt, and Kimo’s Hawaiian BBQ!
6 p.m. Toni Morgan & Soulful Sounds; 7:10 Cameron Kimbrough; 8:15 p.m. Charlie Musselwhite
(Blues singer-songwriter Cameron Kimbrough is replacing original booking GA-20, who had to cancel several tour dates.)
More info HERE
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Hispanic Heritage Celebration
Have a blast at a FREE all-ages event featuring music, storytelling, carnival performers, free paletas, activities and more! Son Como Son, Michelle Adams,a nd the NM Marimba Band perform.
Click HERE for more info and free registration.
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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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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.
