Join us Friday, October 6, from 3:30 – 4:40 pm, as the Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque and the UNM Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies will feature singer and scholar Tomás Lozano at the Maxwell Museum's Hibben Center for Archeology Research. This event is in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month and is free and open to all. No tickets required, first come first served, but registration via the Maxwell's Eventbrite is appreciated.  

Lozano is a Hispanic artist who will showcase his latest project, “Presence and other poems of José Emilio Pacheco," a musicalization of Mexican poet José Emilio Pacheco’s select work. It was originally commissioned in 2021 by the Cervantes Institute of Chicago to honor Pacheco’s legacy. Lozano will sing in Spanish interspersed with reading in English by Rima Montoya, the translator and declaimer of the poems. 

Lozano is an artist with strong roots in New Mexico currently residing in Indiana. Known for his eclectic musicianship, Lozano’s performance of Spain’s traditional ballads stand out as iconic. Lozano also plays contemporary, popular and European folk music from France, Spain, Britain, the Middle East and Sepharad. 

This free event is made possible by the support of the Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque, the Mellon Foundation, and the following UNM entities: Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies; El Centro de la Raza; Latin American & Iberian Institute; Department of Spanish & Portuguese; NM Humanities Now!; and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology.