BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Xavier Cortada - ECPv5.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Xavier Cortada
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cortada.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Xavier Cortada
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20120311T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20121104T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120120T190000
DTSTAMP:20261108T042709
CREATED:20201217T145327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201217T145327Z
UID:39783-1327086000-1327086000@cortada.com
SUMMARY:Habana in the Park: Avion Cubano art project and exhibit
DESCRIPTION:PAINTED CUBAN PLANE AND FREEDOM LUGGAGE INSTALLATION  \nMiami artist Xavier Cortada created this participatory art piece so Cuban exiles could recount their journey to freedom. See www.cortada.org The participatory art project and exhibit of photographs is presented by the City of Hialeah\, the FIU College of Architecture + The Arts | Office of Engaged Creativity and the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection \n Miami artist Xavier Cortada created this participatory art piece so Cuban exiles could recount their journey to freedom.\n\n\n\nThe participatory art project and exhibit of photographs is presented by the City of Hialeah\, the FIU College of Architecture + The Arts | Office of Engaged Creativity and the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn May 2004\, ¡Celebra Libertad ! featured Xavier Cortada’s painted airplane:  his painting on the actual Russian Antonov-2 Colt airplane that brought a family from Cuba to the United States.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCortada also presented 45 pieces of luggage numbered sequentially from 1959 to 2004\, representing each year the Cuban community has been in exile.  Each piece is to  include letters from exiles describing their diaspora:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nName: _________________ ____________________________\n\n\n\n\nWhere are you from (city in Cuba): _______________\n\n\n\n\nDate of departure from Cuba: ____________________\n\n\n\n\n1. What did you leave behind? ___________________________________________\n\n\n\n\n2. What did you find when you arrived?___________________________________\n\nParticipants are invited to contribute their comments.  Answer the questions above and mail them to:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCuban Heritage Collection/ University of Miami Libraries\nXavier Cortada Collection\n1300 Memorial Drive / P.O. Box 248214\nCoral Gables\, FL 33124-0320\n\n\nCortada created this art piece with the idea that it would be a living monument through which Cuban exiles could communicate their journey from a tyrannical regime to the home of the free. The plane and its freedom luggage concept is part of an interactive piece asking exiles to recount their journey to freedom.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMessages were originally solicited from exiles and placed in the suitcases surrounding the plane. The 46 pieces of luggage numbered sequentially from 1959 to 2004\, representing each year the Cuban community has been in exile. Letters from exiles describing what they left behind in Cuba  and what they found when they arrived here are still being collected. The originals are stored at the Cuban Heritage Collection in the UM Library and will be uploaded being placed in virtual galleries spaning from 1959 to the present.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nXavier Cortada\, “Painted Cuban Plane and Freedom Luggage Installation\,” 2004.
URL:https://cortada.com/event/habana-in-the-park-avion-cubano-art-project-and-exhibit/
LOCATION:Walker E. Library\, Hialeah\, FL\, 33012\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Lisa%20Setrini-Espinosa":MAILTO:LSetrini@hialeahfl.gov
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR