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Follow on Google News | Students from Woodbury’s Social Justice Program Visit Cuba & Experience Healing Power of the ArtsAs the U.S. and Cuba Seek to Normalize Relations, Graduate Students Document a Country and a Culture on the Brink of Massive Change
In fact, the presentation was the highlight of a two-week adventure for seven students and three faculty from Woodbury’s master’s degree program in Media for Social Justice that began as an opportunity to document a unique cultural exchange between two Los Angeles-area high schools and the 25-year-old Havana-based theater group (https://www.youtube.com/ In a country where new or “gently used” items of any kind are impossible to find, the gift of a guitar owned by singer Silvio Rodriguez was “priceless” Fast-forward to May and a scheduled presentation of videotaped theatrical performances featuring students from Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) and Sequoyah School of Pasadena (collaboration directed by Woodbury and LACHSA instructor Susie Tanner), and a live theatrical performance by La Colmenita. There to document the Cuban students’ performance for replay to the two American groups when they returned to the U.S. were the Woodbury students, Fischer, and adjunct professor and photographer Rose Eichenbaum. “At the end of the performance, Cookie brought out the guitar and presented it to them,” recalled Woodbury documentary film student Monique Lyons. “There were people in the audience who were crying. They felt very moved that Americans were interested in helping to preserve their culture. I felt very proud to be able to participate.” “La Colmenita is a remarkable illustration of children in a society with very little in terms of possessions evincing great joy and celebration,” Lyons used the remainder or her time in Cuba filming two dozen interviews for her Master’s thesis film on low-income women in Latin America, while Gibbons spent his free time developing a podcast featuring little-known facts about Che Guevara. The students also visited and participated in the production of “Canal Habana,” a public television channel, and Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television, a Cuban film school. Accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Woodbury’s Media for Social Justice program was founded in 2014 and resides in the university’s School of Media, Culture and Design. (http://mcd.woodbury.edu/ About Woodbury University Founded in 1884, Woodbury University is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Southern California. It offers bachelor's degrees from the School of Architecture, School of Business, School of Media, Culture & Design, and College of Transdisciplinarity, along with a Master of Arts in Media for Social Justice, Master of Architecture (MArch), Master of Interior Architecture (MIA), Master of Science in Architecture (MSArch), and Master of Leadership. The San Diego campus offers Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees, as well as an MSArch degree with concentrations in Real Estate Development and Landscape + Urbanism. Woodbury ranks 15th among the nation’s “25 Colleges That Add the Most Value,” according to Money Magazine. Visit woodbury.edu (http://www.woodbury.edu/ Media Contact: Ken Greenberg Edge Communications, Inc. (323) 469-3397 ken@edgecommunicationsinc.com End
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