Join Cuba Educational Travel and Cuban-born American art conservator Rosa Lowinger on a very special tour of Cuba!
DECEMBER 08-12, 2014.
On this People to People trip to Cuba you will be exposed to its history, art and architecture as they have developed from pre-independence to today. Meet the people of Cuba and enjoy the art, music and culture of the island. This trip is open to all professional researchers with documented experience in the art and architectural world. It is also open to others with a genuine interest in arts and culture who could benefit by exposure to their practice in Cuba. This insightful visit to Cuba will allow Americans to understand the Cuban people and experience through the eyes of its built environment and the arts.
Art, architecture, music and the people of Cuba!
You will make new friends and build relationships with everyday Cubans. Additionally you will be exposed to colonial, Art Neauveau, Art Deco, Mid Century and Post Modern architecture, experience the country’s lively music and its deep rooted culture. We will discuss Cuban art. urbanism and culture with some of the island’s most articulate cultural thinkers. Cuba’s warm and welcoming people are waiting to engage with you and learn first-hand about Americans and our values. Literary Havana travelers will make new friends and build relationships with everyday Cubans from many walks of life.
Meet Rosa Lowinger!
Rosa Lowinger is an art conservator and writer with a specialty in art, architecture, and Cuban culture. The author of Tropicana Nights: the Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub, (Harcourt, 2005) a memoir and history of 1950s Havana, Rosa is a respected scholar and lecturer on Cuban art, architecture and modern heritage. She specializes in high end, in-depth art and architecture programming and has designed and spearheaded Cuba travel programs for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Museum of Arts and Design in NY, the Menil Museum, the Bronx Museum, Art in General, the Association for Preservation Technology, the Santa Monica Museum, and the American Institute for Conservation. Rosa guest curated the 2013 exhibitConcrete Paradise: Miami Marine Stadium at the Coral Gables Museum, and is presently guest curator for an exhibit on Cuba that will open in 2016 at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, FL. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation and was the 2008-2009 Rome Prize winner in conservation.
Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub
At Tropicana you could play the roulette wheel, dance to the latest mambo or rumba, or simply ogle the parading goddesses of the flesh. It was the brightest jewel in 1950s Cuban nightlife, and Nat “King” Cole, Liberace, Josephine Baker, and Carmen Miranda performed there before audiences that included Ernest Hemingway, Marlon Brando, and Joan Crawford.
In Tropicana Nights, Rosa Lowinger and Ofelia Fox, widow of Martin Fox, the club’s last owner, take us back to its glory years. Ofelia, the “first lady” of Tropicana, shares her memories, undimmed by decades of exile, with Rosa Lowinger, also a Cuban exile, whose parents frequented the club in its heyday. Together, Lowinger and Fox vividly portray the cultural richness and roiling social problems of pre-Revolutionary Cuba and take the reader on a tour of one of the world’s most glamorous venues at its most brilliant moment.
Cuba Educational Travel
Run by Collin Laverty, a leading expert on Cuba and U.S.-Cuba relations, Cuba Educational Travel organizes educational exchange programs and people-to-people travel for U.S. citizens and residents to Cuba. We believe our two countries have much to learn from each other and meaningful exchanges that foster dialogue can be highly beneficial to strengthening the artistic, environmental, medical, scientific, and social science communities in the U.S. and Cuba. Most importantly, increased travel and people-to-people contact will strengthen ties between ordinary Americans and Cubans.
Cuba Educational Travel's mission is to connect the people of the United States and Cuba. This is done through coordinating travel between both countries – in both directions – to facilitate two-way learning; as well as producing studies and publications about issues of mutual concern and organizing events in the United States that deal with issues related to Cuba and U.S.-Cuba relations.
People to People License Number: CT-2013-303986-1
Cuba Tours and Travel
Cuba Tours and Travel has over fifteen years of experience offering expert-driven cultural travel to Cuba. Our management and program-design team, working together with a team of superb Cuban travel associates in both Havana and Miami, are uniquely suited to offer you the finest in-depth travel program to the island. We are licensed by the US Treasury Department and are fully insured. Most importantly, we have an abiding love for Cuban art and culture and have strong connections to the cultural institutions on the island.
Cuba Tours and travel is a full-service agency licensed by the U.S. Government
TSP# CU-077926-b. CST number 2073790-40
We are located at
320 Pine Avenue, Suite 503.
Long Beach, California. 90802
For more information please write to customerservice@cubatoursandtravel.com
or call us at 888 225-6439
For more information on OFAC licensing please visit the following document:
http://www.treasury.gov/resourcecenter/sanctions/Programs/Documents/cuba_tr_app.pd
