GreenTARA Space is so happy to be moving forward on this Cuban-American Friendship Exchange project : CAFÉxchange for June 2023. This will be our main focus for the year.
CAFS – the Cuban American Friendship Society in Burlington, Vermont, sponsored a recent visit to Havana to reconnect with several photographers that we met in 2020 before the Covid pandemic. Our goal is to rebuild trust in a mutually beneficial exchange of cultural identity and aspiration for the future.
The team of CAFS, VICII (Vermont Institute of Community and International Involvement), The Caroline Fund, and Friends of GreenTARA, Inc. met with three of the four photographers that have been invited to visit Vermont as part of our program for community development and ongoing future exchanges.
The Feb/March trip included meetings with Tomas Inda Barrera, Alfredo Sarabia Fajardo, and Yadira Ismael Sotomayor. The fourth photographer Nadhiesda Inda Gonzalez will be coming from Argentina.
Their work talks to the social contract we have with the environment, humanity, workers, and cultural constructions. The international level of their photographic art is world-class and we are very honored to be able to invite them to Vermont.
