CUBA A PHOTO ESSAY by Morris Bibliowicz

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CUBA A PHOTO ESSAYby Morris Bibliowicz

• SUMMER 2004
• STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM
• CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO

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• Varadero

• Trinidad

CCSF Group Visits Havana, San Antonio de los
Baños, Pinar del Rio, Matanzas, Varadero,
Trinidad and Cienfuegos.
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Landing in Cuba
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La Havana First Impressions
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La Havana Vieja
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Rooftops View from Palacio O Farrill Hotel
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Palacio OFarrill Hotel
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Water delivered by truck to residents due to
drought
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1937 replica of Spanish castle used as police
station, La Havana Vieja
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La Havana Vieja Unesco Recognized Site
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Ample restoration work is under progress headed
by the office of the Historian of Havana,
Eusebio Leal. Plaza Vieja one of several plazas
in Havana Vieja has been nearly completed
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Restoration work being done at Palacio de las
Ursulinas
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Streets of Old Havana
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La Bodeguita del MedioOne of Hemingway's old
Hangouts
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Entrance to a church, La Havana
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Dancing at Plaza de la Catedral
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Enrique Saya delivers a lecture to CCSF group
about El Son Cubano and the History of Cuban
Music. Professor Greg Landau translates.
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CCSF group visits ICAIC, the Cuban film
institute. Alex Fleites delivers a lecture on the
history of Cuban film, assisted by Dagmara who
translated for Alex. The lecture was followed by
a screening of the award winning Cuban film
Strawberries and Chocolate (Director Tomas
Gutierrez Zalea)
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CCSF visits the Havana cementery. Ada
Villavicencio y Torre who formerly worked at the
cementery poses for the camera
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Roberto Surralo (right) and Alex Busides (left),
vice presidents of UNEAC (Cuban writers
association) deliver a lecture to CCSF group.
UNEAC promotes literature in Cuba and has 2800
members. Professor Landau (center) translates for
the group.
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Hotel Nacional, Havana Icon
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CCSF Group Visits Barrio Chino
Dónde vas con mantón de Manila, Dónde vas con
vestido chinés, Voy al parque a bailar la verbena
Y a meterme a la cama después.
Vieja habanera
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Casa de las Americas
CCSF group attends a lecture on types of Cuban
music at Casa de las Americas Generos de de la
musica cubana Professor Landau translates for the
group
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El TRES Pivotal instrument of Cuban music
MÚsica Campesina Troba Cubana Son Rumba
Bolero Charanga Salsa GuaguancÓ CanciÓn
Proteta Rap Cubano ReguetÓn Pop
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Estrellas Cubanas
A series of concerts sponsored by UNEAC ( UniÓn
de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba) This group
Estrellas de Cuba has been playing for 45
years.
Troba sin Traba
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Before the concert starts, UNEAC opens a space to
young and upcoming artist. In this picture
Mayansa sings for the public
The entrance to the house where the concert took
place
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CCSF Visits FundaciÓn Fernando Ortiz

• Founder and well known author Miguel Barnet Lanza
  delivers a lecture on Afro-Cuban religions,
  syncretism and transculturation.
• Greg Landau translates for the group. To the
  right of Barnet, one of his students who has
  studied extensively the Arab influence in Cuba,
  hence his nickname Arabe

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Callejón de Hamel
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Callejón de Hamel
A side street in Havana painted by Salvador
Gonzalez where the painter promotes and sells his
paintings
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Museo de la Revolución
Painting above the entrance door of the museum.
This is a world class fine arts museum where a
visitor can get lost for days. Our group was
fortunate to have a marvelously knowledgeable
guide who walked us through several periods of
Cuban painting. A highlight of the trip.
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Visit to Guanabacoa
A museum dedicated to Afro-Cuban Culture with
emphasis on Santeria
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Havana Quinta Avenida
This part of Havana is where embassies and
foreign companies locate.
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La Havana, Rio Almendares
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El Faro del Morro, El MalecÓn
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Visit to San Antonio de los BañosRio Ariuanao
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Our bus driver Rene, improvises with a local
group playing drums and percussion on the streets
of San Antonio de los Baños
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CCSF group takes a refreshing pause drinking
coconut milk
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Pinar Del Rio
Palma Barrigona Pot Belly Palm Tree
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Visit to Tobacco Farm
Tobacco leaves drying CCSFs Laura Tran
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Viñales
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Viñales, view from Hotel Los Jasmines
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Casa de la Cultura, Matanzas
Ms. Nora AsunciÓn Hndez Gonzáles, specialist in
Cuban folkloric dance and choreographer, explains
to CCSF group differences in dance steps, types
of dance, movements and cultural nuances.
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Santeria Drums and Ceremony
A group of young children are being trained by a
master santero to carry on with tradition and
customs
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Varadero Beach
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Trinidad Colonial Town, UNESCO Site
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CCSF group listens to Lizette, our tour guide,
as she talks about the architecture and history
of Trinidad
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Cienfuegos
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Sugar mill landlord and slave owners house.
Built in the style of the Alhambra. The house
was bought by dictator Fulgencio Batista in the
1950s to set up a casino next to the Hotel Jagua
where CCSF group stayed in Cienfuegos. It is now
a restaurant.
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José Garc?a Montebravo Painter in Cienfuegos
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A freed slave woman, on her 90th birthday, has
her picture taken with shackles on, as testimony
to her former status. Circa 1900. CCSF Group
visits Museo Benny More, the house where Benny
More, El Bárbaro del Ritmo was
born Santa Isabel de Las Lajas
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CCSF Group visits painter Juan Manuel Casanova
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Casanova uses mixed media to convey his message
on the canvas
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Clasicos de Cuba
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