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Afro-Cuban Voices - Casa de las Américas & Pedro Pérez Sarduy, May 24 to 31, 2014Havana & Matanzas, Cuba
Qualifying for the Program Matanzas, San Severino Castle and the Museum of the Slave Trade. Jovellanos, where families trace their ancestry in Beinin, Angola, Congo. Neighborhoods of Havana: Santos Suárez, La Vibora, El Cerro, Marianao, Cubanacan, Miramar, El Vedado, Centro Habana, and Old Havana, outlining the history of the city and of African settlement and presence in the city. Travel by ferry to Regla, a working
class town built around the Church of the Black Virgin, shrineto
Yemayá. After visiting the church, visit the studio of the late
artist Canet and meet with the Historian of Regla, Pedro Cosme
Baños. From there walk to the Museo de Regla where you will be received by the important local
Afro-Cuban group Nsila Cheche. Afro-Cuban Experience, the Next
Generation: Alzar la Voz, a group of rappers and graffiti artists
from the Havana suburb of Alamar. |
Simunye and FfRD have just 5 spots left on their June 15 trip to Cuba.
The program includes visits to Regla and the Church of the Black Virgin, San
Severino Castle in Matanzas, the Literacy Museum and School City in Havana,
visits to Casa Africa and Casa de las Américas,
meetings with Afro-Cuban historians and figures from the world of the arts,
visit to Cabildo Quisicuabo, to the Women's Federation and to Jaimanitas,
visit to the Castellano Psicopedagogical Project, and much more.
Can you make a quick decision? If so you are invited to join them.
Simunye -- Zulu for "we are one" -- is a non profit organization in Florida.
Mostly teachers, they consider themselves both ordinary folk and
philanthropists, and as Simunye each summer for the past 15 years they
travel to different countries as well as to a number of impoverished areas
of our own country with gifts of school supplies for teachers and students
for the coming year.
This year, thanks to the gracious collaboration of the Fund for
Reconciliation and Development, the group will travel to Cuba, June 15 to
22. There are 5 slots left on the trip and they asked us to open the trip to
others who might be interested.
Cost of the trip is $2800, including airfare Miami/Havana, hotel, breakfast
and several other meals, transportation, guide, program, speaker fees,
service fees, and visa
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Dear Friends, Next Program Scheduled - May 19-27, 2012Start in Santa Clara on May 19, 2012 |
These are people to people exchanges
trips and are open to a broader public. They are offered in
collaboration with the Obsidian
Arts Center. May 18 - May 26, 2012
July
6 - 13, 2012 |
Dear Friends, As Christmas and the New Year come upon us, we are sending to you news and an invitation to join a program in Cuba put together by Pedro Pérez Sarduy, Casa de las Américas, and Common Ground: The Black Women of Cuba from the 20th Century into the 21st, May 21 to 28, 2011. Working with Cary Tamayo Fernández at Casa, and a dozen of Pedro's good friends and colleagues, we've put together a program of presentations, interactions, happenings and
visits. Pedro Pérez Sarduy
is the author of The Maids of
Havana, available in English, French and Spanish. Eligibility for the trip May 21 to 28, 2011 |
Cost: $1975 in double occupancy; $2200 in single See Jazz in Cuba for more details. This trip overlaps with the Havana Jazz Festival. |
December 6th to 16th, 2002 For only $1,550.00 your trip
includes Common Ground and the Afrocuban Cultural Council are pleased to invite you to join Alan West Durán of Boston and Alberto Faya of Havana for an exciting trip to Cuba for the Havana Jazz Festival, December 6-16. It's an opportunity that we could not resist offering our friends and clients, even with such short planning notice, and an opportunity we know that few can resist. The cafes, streets, theaters and every corner of Havana will be bursting with music, from traditional Cuban tunes to the latest Jazz sounds from around the world. Alan West is professor of Latin American literature at Northeastern University and a leading Cuban American poet and expert on Cuban music. Alberto Faya is a well known Cuban musician, veteran of the Cuban New Music movement, musicologist of Casa de las Americas, and now TV music producer, book writer, and leader of the group Siete de Corazon. The dates of the trip are December 6 to 16, 2002. The cost of the trip is $1550 per person, double occupancy, with departure from Miami. The trip is sponsored by Common Ground in collaboration with Afrocuban Cultural Council under license from the U.S. Treasury Department.
*Some jazz festival activities may require additional ticket for entrance. Your hosts will assist you in purchasing these as necessary. Call us to sign up or for more information: 877-661-7653 (toll free) or 617-661-7653 (local). |
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