Mobile Museum of Art: Cuban Festival
Date/Time
Date(s) - May 5, 2018
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Mobile Museum of Art
Categories
Join Mobile Museum of Art for the first ever Cuban Festival, celebrating the shared cultures of Mobile and our sister city, Havana, Cuba. With a day full of family activities, MMofA invites all ages to experience Cuban culture and enjoy COMMON GROUND: Photographs of Havana and Mobile. The MMofA special exhibition features photographs of shared characteristics seen in our sister cities, through the lens of photographers Chip Cooper and Julio Larramendi.
With free admission for all Mobile County residents offered all day, you can also check out some vintage Cuban cars that will be on display out front, tour the galleries with the artists themselves, enjoy lunch from a local food truck, learn to salsa, and end the afternoon with a film about the famous Buena Vista Social Club.
Schedule:
10 – 11:30 am – Tours & book signing in the gallery with artists, Chip Cooper & Julio Larramendi
11:30 am – 12 pm – Lecture by Grey Redditt on The History of Havana & Mobile as Sister Cities
12 – 2 pm – Sidewalk Chalk Activity
12:15 – 1:15 pm – DJ Hot Lobster
1:30 – 3:30 pm – Salsa dancing led by Starlite Ballroom dancers
2:30 – 4:30 pm – Film screening: Buena Vista Social Club, a film by Wim Wenders, in Larkins Auditorium
ALL DAY – Henderson Collection antique and classic cars on display in MMofA’s circular drive
Generously underwritten by the Crampton Trust,
established by Katharine Cochrane Crampton
Society Mobile – La Habana, Inc.
with additional support provided by the City of Mobile
Alabama State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts