Cuban Educational and Cultural Festival in Ashland, Oregon December 4-6, Southern Oregon University, Center for Visual Arts Complex
Featuring a Photographic Exhibit on the Return of the Cuban 5 to Cuba
December 17 will mark one year since the Presidents of Cuba and the United States agreed to begin a new path between the two countries after over 55 years of hostile relations. The Southern Oregon University United Nations Club in Ashland, Oregon is sponsoring an important 3 day series of events at the university to examine just how much progress has actually taken place between the two countries over the past year in this new era of possibilities. With so many misconceptions about the realities of Cuban society the scheduled programs promise to share a perspective not heard in the main stream media. The events are being co sponsored by the SOU International Studies Program, Peace House, Ashland Culture of Peace Commission, The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Friday, December 4
4:00 PM, The opening of a photographic exhibit entitled The Cuban 5 Return: An Entire Country Celebrates at the Boise Cascade Gallery will include refreshments. The exhibit is curated by social documentary photographer Bill Hackwell who will be present for the opening. The images include his work along with that of seven accomplished Cuban photographers and capture the immediate joy and emotion of the families of the Five and an entire nation upon their return. They represent the continuation of a long line of outstanding social documentary photographers that go back to the time of the Cuban Revolution.
4:45 PM, Meese Auditorium, SOU Art Building
Who are the Cuban 5? – A theatrical piece directed by James Donlon. Followed by U.S. – Cuba relations in the New Period – an interactive discussion on what has changed and what hasn’t led by Bill Hackwell
Saturday, December 5
12-8:00 PM, Meese Auditorium, SOU Art Building, Boise Cascade Gallery and Courtyard
12-1:00 PM – Student papers on aspects of Cuba
1:00 -3:00 PM – Ghost Town to Havana – a touching newly released documentary movie about a group of young baseball players from one of the poorest section of Oakland, California who go to Cuba to play against their peers.
3:30 – 5:00 PM – Words from a Cuban father – Alina Cenal
5:00 – 6:00 PM – Rueda Salsa Dancing
6:00- 8:00 PM – SOU faculty discussion
Sunday, December 6
12 – 4:00 PM SOU Center for Visual Arts (Courtyard, Boise Cascade Gallery) Fiesta with Cuban food, Afro Cuban Drumming and Dancing featuring Tony “Popeye” Stern’s Rumba Truhán
More information below or contact Paula Sohl, 541-261-8033 or
paulasohl@gmail.com
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