# Event Details

- **Event Name**: New Mexico's Holiday Traditions — Lights, Carols & Tamales
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 01:00 pm – Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a one-hour lecture and Q&A to learn about the holiday traditions of New Mexico.

For more than 400 years, New Mexico has celebrated the holiday season with traditions that reflect its deep Spanish and Mexican roots. Communities come alive with farolitos and luminarias lighting the streets, and with processions of Las Posadas reenacting Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter. Join artist and writer Christopher Gibson to explore festive customs like Pastorelas plays, piñatas and family gatherings with tamales and bizcochitos, the state’s beloved cookie. This lecture will highlight how towns from Taos to Las Cruces keep these enduring traditions vibrant today.

A viewing of the online lecture will be held in the Event Center at Abbot Public Library, followed by a discussion session.

Registration is required and limited to 35. Please register at tinyurl.com/New-Mexico-Holiday. Can't attend in person? Please register for the program or join the Wait List. Everyone who is registered will be sent the recording.

Christopher Gibson is an award-winning artist, writer and arts educator who makes his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work includes the Cuentos del Camino series on lower Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe and mixed-media installations at numerous museums in New Mexico and California. Over the years he has written several articles on Hispanic Arts and Culture for the magazines Tradición Revista and Imagen.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/marblehead/new-mexicos-holiday-traditions-—-lights-carols-and-tamales/200029354376010
- **Event Categories**: art, holiday, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Marblehead
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 235 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01945
- **lat**: 42.4964
- **long**: -70.86324
- **full address**: 235 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01945

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is New Mexico's Holiday Traditions — Lights, Carols & Tamales being held?
  - **A:** New Mexico's Holiday Traditions — Lights, Carols & Tamales takes place on Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 01:00 pm to Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 02:00 pm at 235 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01945.
- **Q**: Who is organizing New Mexico's Holiday Traditions — Lights, Carols & Tamales?
  - **A:** New Mexico's Holiday Traditions — Lights, Carols & Tamales is organized by Abbot Public Library.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** New Mexico's Holiday Traditions — Lights, Carols & Tamales is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Marblehead, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If New Mexico's Holiday Traditions — Lights, Carols & Tamales sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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