THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION A GRAND VISION 450 Years of Cuba Art & Architecture Havaa, Matazas & Cardeas February 22 to March 1, 2014
THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION Dear Members ad Frieds of Royal Oak, I am delighted to ivite you o a week-log exploratio of 450 years of Cuba art ad architecture, from the coloial to the post-revolutioary period, with privileged access to the coutry s arts commuity. Immerse yourself i Cuba s fasciatig history ad delight i its warm hospitality, with may opportuities to meet artists, museum professioals, ad those leadig efforts to preserve Cuba s distictive heritage o this people-to-people program. Our tour will begi i the vibrat capital of Havaa, where our base will be the elegat Hotel Saratoga o the historic Paseo del Prado, with stuig views of the moumetal Capitol buildig. Throughout the week, we will experiece Cuba i partership with leadig artists, architects, scholars ad museum professioals. Our first morig starts with a expert-guided walk through Old Havaa s mai squares, lied with Baroque ad eoclassical buildigs. We will tour the Natioal Museum of Fie Arts with a curator ad see Havaa s Art Deco treasures with Alejadro Aloso, author of Art Deco Havaa. The Swiss Ambassador has ivited us to visit her private garde, desiged by Brazilia ladscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. We will travel outside the city to visit Erest Hemigway s home, Fica La Vigía, i the hilltop village of Sa Fracisco de Paula ad cotiue o a overight excursio to explore the rich Afro- Cuba heritage of Matazas, kow as the Athes of Cuba. A short jourey further alog the coast will brig us to Xaadu, the former DuPot masio ear Varadero, where we will ejoy luch o the terrace. Please joi us for this exceptioal opportuity to explore four ceturies of art ad architecture i Cuba. Sicerely, Photo by advecap. Sea E. Sawyer, Ph.D. Executive Director The Royal Oak Foudatio Street musicias i Havaa. NOTE: Throughout the program we have ivited special guests to joi the group. Architects, museum directors ad studets, as well as performig ad visual artists will be joiig us for visits, at meals ad idividual / group discussios. You are ecouraged to actively egage these idividuals i coversatio. Iterpreters are always available o request.
A GRAND VISION 450 Years of Cuba Art & Architecture February 22 to March 1, 2014 Photos by Bria Selso (left). Sculptures i frot of the Natioal Museum of Fie Arts (left) ad a coco taxi i the Plaza de la Revolució (right), Havaa. February 22 Saturday February 23 Suday February 24 Moday MIAMI / Meet at Miami Iteratioal Airport i the early morig for a regularly scheduled chartered flight to Havaa. Upo arrival at the José Martí Airport, trasfer to the Hotel Saratoga for luch ad check-i. I the early eveig, atted a lecture o Cuba s curret social, ecoomic ad political reality by a former ambassador ad deputy miister for foreig affairs, followed by our welcome dier. Joi a architectural historia for a morig lecture, followed by a walkig tour of Old Havaa, focusig o the four mai squares: the Plaza de Armas, Plaza de Sa Fracisco de Asís, Plaza Vieja ad Plaza de la Catedral. Pedig cofirmatio, we may have the opportuity to meet with the City Historia at his office i Old Havaa. Coclude with luch ear the cathedral. Afteroo visits are arraged i the homes ad studios of some of Havaa s leadig artists, where there may be a opportuity to purchase paitigs ad drawigs. Dier ad the eveig are at leisure. Arragemets ca be made for idividuals or small groups to die at a paladar, a restaurat i a private home that operates with the special permissio of the Cuba govermet. This morig joi Alejadro Aloso, the Director of the Ceramics Museum ad author of Art Deco Havaa, o a art deco architectural tour, icludig the Decorative Arts Museum. Luch is at leisure. I the late afteroo, we have bee ivited to a private after-hours visit ad receptio at the Ceramics Museum, followed by dier at a local restaurat.
February 25 Tuesday February 26 Wedesday February 27 Thursday February 28 Friday March 1 Saturday Begi the morig at Istituto Superior de Arte (ISA), for a guided visit of Cuba s leadig art school. There will also be a chace to view the studets artwork. Followig luch, we have bee ivited to the Swiss Ambassador s Residece for a persoal tour of the residece s garde, desiged by Roberto Burle Marx. I the eveig drive to the Ludwig Foudatio for the Arts where we will have a presetatio o Cuba art ad a chace to discuss the arts with ivited local guests. The Foudatio Presidet will host a cocktail receptio ad buffet dier o the pethouse terrace. / CARDENAS / VARADERO Depart for the small, hilltop village of Sa Fracisco de Paula to visit Fica La Vigía, the house where Erest Hemigway lived for 20 years. View the rooms of the house through ope widows ad see his fishig boat, the Pilar. Cotiue to Varadero, stoppig e route at the Bacuayagua Bridge, the highest i Cuba, with paoramic views of the earby valley. Ejoy luch at the historic Xaadu, the masio built i the late 1920s by the Frech America millioaire Iréée Dupot de Nemours. This afteroo visit local artists homes ad studios i earby Cárdeas. The check i at the hotel Melia Paradisus for dier ad a overight stay. VARADERO / MATANZAS / Drive to Matazas to visit Edicioes Vigía, where hadmade books are created. Cotiue to the perfectly preserved, 19th-cetury Pharmacy Museum. After luch, a private performace is arraged i a hilltop chapel before returig to Havaa where the eveig is at leisure. Atted a iformal morig rehearsal of the Cotemporary Dace Compay of Cuba at the Teatro Nacioal, adjacet to the Plaza de la Revolució. The visit the Natioal Museum of Fie Arts for a curatorial tour focusig o the Cuba art collectio. Luch is at leisure. Ejoy a private performace early this eveig prior to our farewell dier. / MIAMI Trasfer to the airport for the late-morig flight to Miami. Photos by Josef Willems (left) ad Chas Miller (right). Colorful buildigs i Havaa (left) ad Fica La Vigía (right). Please ote that this prelimiary itierary is subject to chage.
TERMS & CONDITIONS PROGRAM RATE $4,995 per perso, double occupacy SINGLE SUPPLEMENT $575 (limited availability) Rate Icludes Roud-trip airfare via regularly scheduled chartered flights: Miami / Havaa / Miami Seve ights hotel accommodatios, double occupacy, as per itierary Buffet breakfast daily, five luches ad five diers. Bottled water, local beer / soft driks ad coffee / tea with all meals; wie at welcome ad farewell diers Trasportatio via private motorcoach as per itierary, icludig services of biligual atioal guide Airport / hotel group trasfers Taxes, service ad porterage; gratuities to local guides ad drivers Cuba Visa fee (excludig Cuba-bor travelers), Cuba Departure tax ad limited Cuba health isurace policy (for travelers uder age 80) Cuba Departure tax Pre-departure material, icludig readig list Not Icluded i Rate Airfare betwee hometow ad Miami; hotel i Miami; alcoholic beverages other tha those metioed i the Program Cost iclusios; persoal items ad expeses; trip cacellatio isurace; excess baggage ad ay other items ot specifically metioed as icluded. AIRFARE Roudtrip air travel betwee Miami ad Havaa is via regularly scheduled chartered flight. Busiess Class is ot available. Passegers should make their ow travel arragemets to/from Miami. Alteratively, Academic Arragemets Abroad (AAA) will assist o a idividual basis ad paymet ca be made by credit card oly. Airfare from your home city to Miami Iteratioal Airport will be quoted o a idividual basis ad a service fee of $40 per perso will be charged. Frequet flyer mileage caot be accepted i cojuctio with this program. PAYMENT SCHEDULE $4,995 per perso, payable by check to Academic Arragemets Abroad, of which $500 is o-refudable for admiistrative fees, is required with the reservatio applicatio. HEALTH This is a active program ad all participats must be i good health. This program ivolves extesive walkig over ueve surfaces, climbig stairs without hadrails at locatios that are ot hadicapped accessible. Ay coditio that may require assistace or special medical attetio must be reported at the time of your reservatio. INSURANCE TRIP CANCELLATION / EMERGENCY MEDICAL EVACUATION / BAGGAGE / ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE PROTECTION IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. CANCELLATION PENALTIES ARE STRICTLY ENFORCED. AAA will sed a isurace applicatio upo receipt of reservatio ad deposit, although you may select ay isurer of your choice. CHANGES IN ITINERARY & COSTS The itierary is subject to chage at the discretio of The Royal Oak Foudatio (ROF) ad AAA. All prices quoted are based o prevailig fuel prices, airfares ad currecy exchage rates i effect at time of brochure pritig ad are subject to chage without otice. Deviatios from the scheduled itierary are ot permitted. RESPONSIBILITY CLAUSE The participatio of ROF is limited to educatioal sposorship of the program described i this brochure (The Program). AAA acts oly as a aget for the participat with respect to trasportatio, accommodatios ad all other services, relatig to The Program. AAA, ROF ad/or their agets assume o resposibility or liability for ay act, error or omissio, or for ay ijury, loss, accidet, delay or irregularity that may be occasioed by reaso of ay defect i ay aircraft, ship, trai, bus or other carrier, or through eglect or default of ay subcotractor or other third party, which may be used wholly or i part i the performace of their duty to the participats of The Program. The passage ticket issued by the carrier is the sole cotract betwee the participat ad the carrier. Nor will AAA or ROF ad/or their agets be resposible for loss, ijury, damages or expeses to persos or property, due to illess, weather, strikes, local laws, hostilities, wars, terrorist acts, acts of ature or other such causes i coectio with The Program or aythig beyod their reasoable cotrol. AAA is ot resposible for trasportatio or other program delays ad chages, or additioal expeses or loss of time that may be icurred. I the evet it becomes ecessary or advisable for the comfort or well-beig of the participats, or for ay reaso whatsoever, to alter the itierary at ay time, without otice to the participats, such alteratios will be made without pealty to AAA or ROF. Additioal expeses, if ay, shall be bore by the participats. Baggage ad persoal effects are the sole resposibility of the participat at all times. AAA ad ROF reserve the right to accept or declie ay perso as a participat at ay time, or to require ay participat to withdraw from The Program at their ow expese whe such a actio is determied by AAA or ROF to be i the best iterest of the participat s health ad safety, or the geeral welfare of the other participats. CANCELLATION POLICY AAA must strictly adhere to its cacellatio policy to offset costs icurred prior to the commecemet of The Program, which may iclude but are ot limited to: advace paymets to lad operators; commuicatio expeses; developmet ad the loss of time that might have permitted resale of reserved space. All cacellatios must be made i writig to the offices of AAA ad are subject to a $500 o-refudable admiistrative fee. All refuds are limited to amouts actually received by AAA ad are the sole resposibility of AAA; ROF shall have o liability for refuds. At the time AAA receives writte otificatio of cacellatio, the followig cacellatio charges will apply: cacellatios received betwee 90 ad 61 days before departure, 50 percet of the program cost per perso; o refuds will be give for cacellatios received withi 60 days of departure. No refuds are give for cacellatio o or after the day of departure, or for uused portios of the tour, for ay reaso. Air cacellatio charges, if ay, will be assessed i accordace with airlie regulatios. All group fare tickets must be issued o less tha 30 days prior to departure. NOTE: Neither AAA or ROF shall be liable for ay airlie cacellatio pealties icurred by the purchase of a o- refudable ticket. I the case of a cacellatio due to shortage of participats, AAA will attempt to otify all participats at least 45 days prior to departure. However, AAA reserves the right to cacel The Program prior to departure for ay reaso ad, i such case, reimbursemet of refudable costs of the trip by AAA shall costitute full settlemet with the participat. I the ulikely evet that a dispute arises betwee a participat ad AAA or ROF, the followig coditios will apply: (a) the dispute will be settled by bidig arbitratio admiistered by the America Arbitratio Associatio i New York, NY; (b) the dispute will be govered by New York Law; (c) the maximum amout of recovery to which a participat shall be etitled uder ay ad all circumstaces will be the sum of all moies actually received from the participat by AAA. The participat agrees that this is a fair ad reasoable limitatio o the damages, of ay sort whatsoever, that a participat may suffer. Upo paymet of the deposit to AAA, the participat agrees to be boud by the above terms ad coditios. Copyright 2013 Arragemets Abroad, Ic. TSP licese No. CU-78770-a Califoria Seller of Travel #2059789-40 O the cover: View of El Capitolio from the Saratoga Hotel. Photo by Gloria De Luca.
Curret Restrictios o Travel & America Travelers to Cuba There are substatial restrictios o travel to Cuba from the Uited States ad for all Americas citizes ad America residets. These restrictios apply regardless of where you are travelig from o your way to Cuba or where you travel to followig a visit to Cuba. The restrictios iclude persos who are citizes of other coutries as well. Oly those who are authorized by the U.S. Treasury Departmet s Office of Foreig Assets Cotrol, kow as OFAC, may legally travel from the Uited States to Cuba. There are specially licesed air carriers (CSTs) that provide charter services for authorized idividuals betwee Cuba ad the U.S. Further, air arragemets ad arragemets for travel ad stays withi Cuba ca oly be made through a licesed Travel Service Provider (TSP). Academic Arragemets Abroad is a licesed Travel Service Provider ad is authorized to make all travel arragemets to ad from Cuba, as well as travel arragemets withi Cuba for idividuals who possess the followig liceses: Please ote that this summary of OFAC travel restrictios is for iformatioal purposes oly. For the official requiremets please see: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-ceter/sactios/programs/documets/cuba_tr_app.pdf For your program, you will be travelig uder a Specific Licese. The Royal Oak Foudatio has bee grated a Specific Licese for educatioal exchages ot ivolvig academic study pursuat to a degree program to promote people-to-people cotact. Its members travel uder this licese ad must have a copy of the licese i their possessio at all times while travelig to ad from Cuba. Specific Liceses: Applicatios must be submitted to OFAC for a Specific Licese, either by a idividual or istitutio. OFAC will cosider issuig a Specific Licese for the followig: Educatioal exchages ot ivolvig academic study pursuat to a degree program to promote people-to-people cotact. Educatioal: A applicat must be travelig for certai clearly defied educatioal activities, icludig: participatio i a structured educatioal program that icludes at least 10 weeks i Cuba; idepedet research for writig a Master s thesis, doctoral dissertatio or similar documet; participatio i a formal course of study or teachig at a Cuba academic istitutio or sposorig a Cuba scholar i the Uited States. Persos travelig for religious activities. Persos travelig for certai humaitaria projects. Persos travelig for free-lace jouralism. Persos travelig for professioal research or to atted a professioal meetig that do ot meet the requiremets of the relevat geeral licese. Amateur or semi-professioal athletes travelig to participate i a competitio held uder the auspices of a iteratioal sports Federatio or for participatio i certai public performaces or exhibitios. Persos travelig for the purposes related to exportatio, importatio or trasmissio of iformatio or iformatioal material. Persos visitig close relatives who are either Cuba atioal or U.S. govermet employees assiged to the U.S. Iterest Sectio. For complete iformatio, please see the OFAC website: http://www.treasury.gov/services/pages/cuba-travel-liceses.aspx By participatig o this program, you agree to the followig restrictios of the Specific Licese ad OFAC regulatios o travel to Cuba: - To travel to ad from Cuba with the group - To participate fully i all program activities - To abide by the terms of the U.S. Embargo After reservig your place o the program, you will be iformed of exactly what you must brig with you i order to eter Cuba ad re-eter the Uited States accordig to OFAC. http://www.treasury.gov/resource-ceter/sactios/programs/pages/cuba.aspx
To reserve a place, please complete ad retur this form with paymet i full of $4,995 per perso (of which $500 is o-refudable for admiistrative fees) payable to Academic Arragemets Abroad. Mail to: Academic Arragemets Abroad, 1040 Aveue of the Americas, 23rd floor, New York, NY 10018-3721. I/We will be travelig to Cuba uder a specific OFAC People-to-People licese umber CT-2012-295104-1. FIRST PARTICIPANT NAME IN FULL AS ON PASSPORT MOTHER S MAIDEN NAME HOME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP TELEPHONE (HOME) (BUSINESS) FAX E-MAIL PASSPORT NUMBER EXPIRATION DATE (must be valid for six moths after etry ito Cuba) CITIZENSHIP OCCUPATION q M q F DATE OF BIRTH GENDER PLACE OF BIRTH SECOND PARTICIPANT CUBA WITH THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION RESERVATION APPLICATION February 22 to March 1, 2014 NAME IN FULL AS ON PASSPORT MOTHER S MAIDEN NAME HOME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP TELEPHONE (HOME) (BUSINESS) FAX E-MAIL PASSPORT NUMBER EXPIRATION DATE (must be valid for six moths after etry ito Cuba) CITIZENSHIP OCCUPATION q M q F DATE OF BIRTH GENDER PLACE OF BIRTH Accommodatios Hotel Room Preferece q Double q Twi q Sigle (at a supplemet of $575) I wish to share a room with Form of Paymet q Eclosed is my check for paymet i full ($4,995 per perso) ad sigle supplemet, (if applicable) payable to Academic Arragemets Abroad. Each participat must sig below. I/We cofirm that I/we will fully participate i the licesed cultural exchage activities of this People-to-People Program. I/We cofirm that I/we have fully read ad agree to the Terms & Coditios of this program, icludig the page o Cuba Travel Restrictios. I/We agree to full paymet by check with this reservatio form. SIGNATURE REQUIRED DATE SIGNATURE REQUIRED DATE For more iformatio, please cotact Academic Arragemets Abroad (a OFAC licesed Travel Service Provider) Telephoe: 212.514.8921 or 800.221.1944 1 Fax: 212.344.7493 1 E-mail: trips@arragemetsabroad.com