CUBA Update for the Center of Cuban Studies

Upcoming Cuba Update Tours

cubanartspace@gmail.com (Administrator) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:26:41 +0000

May 19th – 28th: Havana Biennial + Cubadisco 2012 $3,700 Sold out

May 25th – June 7th: CCS 40th Anniversary (with Sandra Levinson) $6,000 Sold Out

July 7th – 18th: Visual Arts $4,000 From Miami Limited Availability

July 10th - 18th: Visual Arts $4,000 From Los Angeles Limited Availability

July 13th - 27th Roughing it in Cuba $2,300 From Miami Limited Availability

July 24th – August 8th: History, Culture and Economy $4,000 From Miami

August 7th – 14th: Greening of Cuba $2,900 From Miami This is a co-sponsored trip with Global Exchange Reality Tours. Sign up here. For more information please call 415-255-7296

August 20th – September 2nd: Art and Architecture $4,000 From Miami

September 22nd – 29th: CCS 40th Anniversary $5,000

Single room supplements are available for $300 - $500

If you would like to reserve a spot or would like more information about the any of our upcoming CUBA Update Tours, please contact us at: traveltocubanow@gmail.com

We must receive your application 8 weeks prior to departure in order to guarantee you a place!

As of May 1st all trips require a deposit of $500

Prices and dates are subject to some fluctuation

CCS 40TH ANNIVERSARY TRIP! THE HAVANA BIENNIAL, ART AND ARCHITECTURE THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND, May 25-June 7.

cubanartspace@gmail.com (Administrator) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:44:12 +0000

Havana, Trinidad, Cienfuegos, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, from Miami. This will be an extraordinary way for you to help us celebrate our 40th anniversary in Cuba with the many friends we’ve made all over the island.

Starting in Havana at the height of the Biennial, we’ll explore all of the installation sites, talk to Cuban artists showing at the Biennial, visit dozens of home galleries and special shows put up in every possible venue to celebrate this incredible art experience.

Health Care for the Elder Population in Cuba

cubanartspace@gmail.com (Administrator) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:58:08 +0000

By Dr. Babette Becker
Psychotherapist, Geriatric Care Manager, Writer

Introduction

I visited Cuba for 18 days to learn about the physical and mental health care and the response to the social and familial needs of the elderly. As a practicing psychotherapist and geriatric care manager in New York City, this trip was to be a preliminary attempt to see what I could learn, with whom I might be able to talk, and what sites I would be given permission to visit.

I put together a list of questions that I hoped would be flexible enough to include the range of health care professionals I wanted to interview and/or the sites I hoped to visit. My next task was to find out whom I had to see to secure the permission(s). Once I started interviewing, I revised my list of questions a few times to more appropriately reflect the Cuban health care system as I learned more about it.

CONVIVENCIA/Living Together

cubanartspace@gmail.com (The Cuban Art Space) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:52:30 +0000

The Cuban Art Space presents

Convivencia/Living Together

William Pérez and Marlys Fuego new mixed media works

October 7th - November 19th, 2011

Reception with the artists: Thursday, October 6th, 7-9pm

CLICK HERE FOR ARTIST INTERVIEWS

DOWNTOWN EXPRESS ARTICLE

Famed septet gets visa for Bronx concert

cubanartspace@gmail.com (Renato Pérez Pizarro, Cuban Colada) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:11:18 +0000

Cuba's legendary Septeto Nacional was granted a visa by the State Department to perform next month in the Bronx, N.Y., The Associated Press reported Thursday.

The group will play Nov. 7 in the 900-seat auditorium of the Hostos Community College's Center for the Arts and Culture. The concert is called "¡Échale salsita!", the title of one of the group's biggest hits.

The ensemble – which consists of two guitars, bass, two percussionists, trumpet and singer – plays traditional Cuban music. Created in 1927 by singer-composer Ignacio Piñeiro, it was an instant hit throughout the island. It is now in its third generation.

For information from Hostos about the concert, click here.
–Renato Pérez Pizarro.

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CUBAN POSTER ART

cubanartspace@gmail.com (The Cuban Art Space) — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:24:23 +0000

The Center for Cuban Studies presents...

TRAVELING EXHIBITS: CUBAN POSTERS 1959 - PRESENT

For information on renting one of the Traveling Poster Exhibits, more details concerning a particular exhibit, or information on art for sale, please contact the Center's Director/Curator, Sandra Levinson Cubanartspace@gmail.com TEL 212 242 0559

World: Americas Hurricane Irene lashes Cuba

cubanartspace@gmail.com (BBC News) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:14:55 +0000

BBC LINK

More than 100,000 people in Cuba have been evacuated from low-lying areas as Hurricane Irene moves across the island.

The hurricane has been battering southern Cuba with heavy winds and rains but has switched direction to put the capital Havana at risk.

In the capital, home to 2 million of Cuba's 11 million inhabitants, there were reports that a number of buildings had collapsed in the sea-front zone and some roads were blocked by fallen trees and lamp-posts.

Untold Story of the Bay of Pigs

cubanartspace@gmail.com (The Center for Cuban Studies) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:30:12 +0000

CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE FROM THE DAILY BEAST

From a transport ship floating in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, CIA operative Grayston Lynch knew the U.S. mission to overthrow Fidel Castro was faltering. The Cuban exiles he had brought with him had abandoned their posts, so he grabbed the boat’s recoilless rifles and machine guns and began firing at the aircraft overhead.

On a day of chaos and infamy in April 1961, Lynch would soon understand the consequences of his shooting. He had fired on his agency’s own planes, which were trying to protect the U.S.-led Cuban exiles invading the island from being slaughtered by Castro’s forces. “We couldn’t tell them from the Castro planes,” Lynch later explained.

New guidelines from OFAC about licensed travel to Cuba

cubanartspace@gmail.com (Frances Robles, The Miami Herald) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:32:23 +0000

SOURCE: The Miami Herald

Under the official rules:

• Religious and educational groups can travel to Cuba for certain types of events or study without a specific license.

• “The commercial marketing, sales negotiation, accompanied delivery, or servicing in Cuba of telecommunications-related items that have been authorized for commercial export” can travel without a specific license.

• Americans can send up to $2,000 annually to Cuba. There will be a quarterly limit on the amount any American can send: $500 per quarter to “support private economic activity.” The Clinton administration had set that figure at $300 a quarter.

Cuba Devalues Peso, Pegs it to U.S. Dollar

cubanartspace@gmail.com (David Savona of Cigar Aficionado) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:41:02 +0000

Source: CIGAR AFICIONADO, Cuba Devalues Peso, Pegs it to U.S. Dollar by David Savona
Posted: March 15, 2011

Cuba cut the value of the Cuban Convertible Peso by 8 percent yesterday, returning it to equal value with the U.S. dollar. The change, effective immediately, is meant to boost the Cuban economy, which depends heavily on income from tourists.