Want to visit Cuba?

Visit Cuba from June 28 to July 14, 2002. The focus of this trip is to connect with Afro-Cubans and see for ourselves how their cultural life of visual arts, music, dance, spiritual practices and literature (oral and written) have been influenced by traditional African religion. Through this licensed cultural exchange, primarily with African diaspora community workers, artists, priest and priestess and other cultural workers across generations, we will engage in a people to people dialogue about our experiences and look at ways in which they are connected. The trip is scheduled for 15 days. During this time we  will visit Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba and Havana. If you are seriously interested in this trip, contact me for more infomation: T. Menelik Van Der Meer: Tmenelik@yahoo.com

Little  girl in Santiago de Cuba

Poet Askia Toure, one of the Architects of the 1960's Black Arts Movement with Nicolas H, Guillen, grandson of Cuba's National Poet Nicolas Guillen in Santiago de Cuba.

Cuban flag and picture of Cuba's revolutionary hero Che Guevara In Havana.

Rumba dancers at the Gran Palenque in Hanvana.

Two Grandmothers in Santiago de Cuba.

Black Arts Movement (BAM) Roundtable Spring 2002 Delegation Members in front of a mural at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Havana.