Anya Achtenberg Cuban Artist Tours

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Anya Achtenberg, an award-winning fiction writer as well as poet. She has written several novels and poetry books. Her stories have received awards from Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope, the Asheville Fiction Writers Workshop, the Raymond Carver Story Contest, and others. She received a Minnesota State Arts Board Individual Artist’s Initiative Grant to work on it in 2008 and she has taught creative writing at many colleges and universities.

Ms. Achtenberg is not an OFAC licensed Travel Service Provider. Her tours are organized through Marazul, a well known and respected Travel Service Provider.

Tentative itinerary includes:

• Visits to artists’ studios and other centers for the visual arts
• Meetings with the Union of Artists and Writers
• Visits to the Alejo Carpentier Foundation, Casa de las Americas and the Maqueta or scale model of Havana
• Varadero beach trip

Arts scene in Matanzas:

• Ediciones Vigia (handmade books)
• Cuban Association of Artists and Artesans
• Schools for the arts and for arts instructors

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