Join us for an illuminating discussion on the Arts and Culture in Cuba
Led by an esteemed panel:
Magda Resik Aguirre, MSc., Director of Communications and Habana Radio at Havana City Historian’s Office. Master of Heritage Management. She is presenter for the Cuban television show Among Books. She regularly contribute to several Cuban magazines and periodicals such as La Jiribilla, Juventud Rebelde (“Rebel Youth”), Cine cubano (“Cuban Cinema”), and La gaceta de Cuba (“The Cuban Gazette”).
Sarah Shellow has been practicing yoga for eighteen years and teaching for ten. She writes about the confluence of yoga and culture in Cuba. She is deeply indebted to the yoga practitioners in Cuba for inspiring her to become a yoga teacher. Currently, she is working with several members of the yoga community in Cuba to continue to build a bridge between people of the United States and Cuba through yoga and meditation. She received her MSEd from Bank Street College and her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She is a school teacher by trade, and is honored to have spent three years training D.C. public school teachers how to teach literacy through Center for Inspired Teaching's Inspired Teacher Certification Program. Some of her writing about yoga in Cuba can be found at www.sarahshellow.blogspot.com.
Miles Jackson Founder & Executive Director of Cuba Skate. Miles Jackson spent his last semester of college studying abroad in Havana at Casa de las Américas, through a University of Michigan Anthropology program. Later in 2010, he and fellow classmate, Lauren Bradley, started Cuba Skate as a DC-based non profit initiative to support and grow skateboarding in Cuba. In 2012 Miles was recognized by GOOD Magazine as a member of their Good 100, and he has been back and forth to Cuba 10 times in five years. In January, Miles was on WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi show discussing how the policy changes will affect Cuba Skate and more importantly, the skaters in Cuba. Miles and Cuba Skate are using skateboarding to build diplomacy between our countries. Cuba Skate's focus in 2015 will be working with California Skateparks, in compliance with Cuban and American governments, to construct what will be Latin America's biggest skatepark in Havana, Cuba.
Januwa Moja was born in Baltimore, Maryland and earned a BFA in Design and Fiber Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Ms. Moja’s work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History in New York City, and numerous other arts and educational institutions across the world. She has traveled extensively in Africa, and has exhibited her works in Brazil, Senegal and London.
Through her work Januwa has been known as a fiber artist for the past thirty-three years, and over the last ten years she has emerged as a glass assemblage and mosaic artist. Ms. Moja has created art and programs that seek to affirm the intrinsic values of culture. It is her desire to continue to create inspirational and healing powers through the arts and its ability to affect social change.
Jorge Luna Roque Director of the All Stars from Santiago de Cuba.
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