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Invitation: The Art of Manuel Mendive

April 2, 2013 | Posted by FundacionAmistad on Announcements | 0 comments

Fundación Amistad invites you, in collaboration with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the California African American Museum and the Frost Museum of Miami, Florida, and Mendive Estudio, to a multi-faceted exhibition that explores the visual and performance work of Manuel Mendive. Click Here to Download Invitation ...

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Fundación Amistad Launches New Website!

February 22, 2013 | Posted by FundacionAmistad on Announcements | 0 comments

Fundación Amistad launches its new English website with the spanish version of the site slated to launch within the next few days.

Fundación Amistad Releases Latest Video

February 19, 2013 | Posted by FundacionAmistad on Announcements | 0 comments

Art and architecture. . . Fundación Amistad’s “People to People Exchange” at the 10th Annual Biennial in Havana.

Cuba Symposium Tackled Tough Issues

April 8, 2011 | Posted by FundacionAmistad on In the News | 0 comments

By Dawn Gable HAVANA TIMES, April 8 — Last week hundreds of scholars gathered at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center to share their Cuba related research and projects; to discuss the island’s current affairs, history and future; and to enjoy each other’s anecdotes about their travels to the country where most US citizens are still forbidden to go. The more than 50 panels covered ...

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Reflections on the US NGO’s in Cuba: Challenges, Realities and Promise panel discussion, as part of the Bildner Center’s Cuba Conference

April 8, 2011 | Posted by FundacionAmistad on From Fundación Amistad | 0 comments

By Fundación Amistad Board Member, Lana Mullen — Cuba Futures: Past and Present is an international and interdisciplinary symposium hosted yearly by the Bildner Center at CUNY. The 2011 symposium featured a fascinating array of presenters, from veteran thinkers on Cuban policy to young scholars offering fresh perspectives on issues that have proven intractable over the past 50 years. The presentations ranged from informative status updates to ...

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Going beyond politics to help Cubans now

May 30, 2010 | Posted by FundacionAmistad on In the News | 0 comments

BY MIRTA OJITO May 30, 2010 MIAMI HERALD — There are people you talk to who are so inspiring, so full of life, so driven and so enthusiastic, that you feel the urge to drop everything and run to join them. Talking to Carmen Vallejo was just like that. Only I couldn’t run to her. She lives in Cuba and I’m in New York, but we are ...

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Caribbean Houses: History, Style, and Architecture

September 23, 2009 | Posted by FundacionAmistad on Announcements | 0 comments

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by Dr. Michael Connors — Fundación Amistad is happy to highlight Dr. Connors’ latest book. A truly wonderful look at the historic architecture and decorative arts of the island residences is presented with glorious color photos and informative text in CARIBBEAN HOUSES by Michael Connors. I have a few of his other books, and knew what to expect from this former antiques dealer turned author. It does ...

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Havana Biennial, in Which Chelsea Takes a Field Trip to Cuba

March 31, 2009 | Posted by FundacionAmistad on In the News | 0 comments

by Ian Urbina — New York Times  HAVANA — About 10 minutes after arriving at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes to show her work at the biggest exhibition by American art galleries in Cuba since the 1959 revolution, Delia Brown whispered, only half joking, to her Cuban assistant that the gallery was too hot and that she planned to head back to her hotel.   “I ...

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NY Art Exhibit Takes Chelsea to Havana

March 23, 2009 | Posted by FundacionAmistad on In the News | 0 comments

Associated Press

Chelsea artists, galleries are being featured in an exhibit in Havana. The organizers hope this is a step toward improving relations between the United States and Cuba.

Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub

February 1, 2007 | Posted by FundacionAmistad on Announcements | 0 comments

by Rosa Lowinger and Ofelia Fox This wonderful book was co-written by Rosa Lowinger, another of Fundación Amistad’s board members. “Journalist Rosa Lowinger and Ofelia Fox, widow of Tropicana’s last owner, vividly portray the cultural richness and roiling social problems of pre-Revolutionary Cuba and take the reader on an intimate insider’s tour of one of the world’s most glamorous venues at its ...

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Cuban Elegance

April 1, 2004 | Posted by FundacionAmistad on Announcements | 0 comments

by Dr. Michael Connors, Photography by Bruce Buck — Fundación Amistad board member Dr. Michael Connors is the author of this beautiful book. “Cuban Elegance is an astonishing work. That Michael Connors and Bruce Buck were able to navigate the bureaucracies to get to Cuba and to the subjects of the book; astonishing that with an admitted paucity of research material they were able to craft ...

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