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Program:  November 14th - 24th, 2000
Tuesday, November 14th
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Start of the International Adiovisual and Multimedia Show
Curated by Euridice Arratia (Venezuela/USA - 1st part) and Raysa White (Cuba - 2nd part)
Location: Cinema 23 y 12
 
Wednesday, November 15th
2:00 am
Opening of more than 20 exhibitions on contemporary Cuban art in Havana galleries with the show Siempre Vuelvo, works by Belkis Ayón.
Location: Galería Habana
Belkis Ayón
Thursday, November 16th
10:00 am
Biennial press conference
Location: Fundación Alejo Carpentier

Press viewing of the Biennial exhibitions

4:00 pm
Opening of the exhibition of works by Wifredo Lam (Collection: Museo Nacional).
Launching of the "Lam's Year - 2002"
Launching of the CD-ROM Wifredo Lam.
Location: Memorial José Martí, Plaza de la Revolución

5:00 pm
Opening of the "Taller de Ideas: Una Ventana hacia Venus" (Italy).
Opening Exhibition "Los últimos dibujos del siglo" (Zerynthia-Italy).
Location: Sala Covarrubias, Teatro Nacional de Cuba

6:00 pm
Happening by the artists Manuel Piña and Fernando Fors ('60).
Location: Café Delirio Habanero, Teatro Nacional de Cuba

9:00 pm
Concert of Cuban Music, (under the auspices of the Instituto Cubano de la Música).
Homage to the Biennial collaborators.
Location: Teatro Amadeo Roldán
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Friday, November 17th
11:00 am
Opening of the Biennial
at the Plaza Vieja:

Dialogue between Island, sheets painted by artists from Cuba and the Balearic Islands

UNESCO's Award for Promotion in the Arts to
Diana Domingues, Galería Dupp, Los Carpinteros, Jean Pierre Raynaud

Performances by Peter Minshall, Amanda Heng, Gustavo Artigas

Mail-Art-Parade, Clemente Padín


11:00 am
Opening of the Biennial exhibition area Pabellón Cuba.
Actions by Ricardo Benaím, Carlos Blanco, Jorge Menna Barreto.

2:00 pm
Exhibition opening: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Coordination/curator: Gallery Enrico Navarra
Location: Galería Haydeé Santamaría, Casa de las Américas


3:30 pm
Exhibition opening: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Location: Museo del Ron
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5:00 pm
Exhibition opening: Hélio Oiticica
Coordination/curator: Foundation Hélio Oiticica (Brazil)
Location: Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas


5:00 pm
Performance by Klaudia Stoll and Jacqueline Wachall in: "Intercambio sin ser conocido"
(Austausch unbekannterweise). A project by Mia Unverzagt with 7 Cuban and 7 German artists.
Location: Casa Humboldt


10:00 pm
Welcome party for the guests
Location: Salón Rosado, La Tropical
Hélio Oiticica
Saturday, November 18th
10:30 am
Opening of the Biennial exhibition areas
Castillo del Morro and Cabaña
Performance by Alfredo Aquilizan and Isabil Gaudinez (Philippines); Presentation of athletic T-shirts by Cristian Silva (Chile); Performance "The Dance of the Cloth" by Peter Minshall (Trinidad & Tobago); Performance "Ingeniero de Almas" by Tania Bruguera (Cuba)
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3:00 pm
Opening: La gente en casa
Cuban Art of the 60's - 90's. Contemporary Collection of the Museo Nacional.

Presentation of the book project "Memoria: Artes Visuales Cubana del Siglo XX".
Selling of the Wifredo Lam CD-ROM
Presentation of the book "Suceden los Espejos" (works by several Cuban artists)
Presentation of the calendar 2001 by Manuel Medive.
Presentation of art magazines: Arte Cubano, La Gaceta de Cuba, El Caimán Barbudo.

Location: Edificio Restaurado # 3 del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes


7:00 pm
Charity auction of Cuban art works
Location: Casa de las Américas
Sonntag, 19. November
9:30 am - 8:30 pm
Round Table: Biennials, Institutions, North-South-Relations.
In collaboration with the Goethe Institute.
Location: Hotel Parque Central

10:00 am
Performance of Grupo Escombros: Por la tierra (Argentina)
Performance by Franklin Cassaro (Brazil)
Location: Pabellón Cuba

11:00 am
Opening of the mask workshop of Adolfo Cifuentes (Colombia)
Music by Claudio Perna (Venezuela)
Location: Casa Simón Bolívar

2:00 pm
Ceramic Workshop exhibition
Location: Castillo de la Real Fuerza

3:00 pm
Exhibition of the Graphic Workshop and the Brandywine Workshop (Philadelphia/USA)
Location: Taller Experimental de Gráfica and Palacio del Segundo Cabo
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4:00 pm
Tour through the urban interventions of different invited artists
Location: Barrio San Isidro

7:00 pm
Concert-performance by César Martínez (Mexico)
Location: Pabellón Cuba
San Isidro
Monday, November 20th
9:00 am
Opening of the International Art Professors and Students Conference
Location: Instituto Superior de Arte

10:00 am
Academic and Critical Meeting
Until 24th November daily sessions, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
See detailed program and speakers
Location: Consejo de la Administración Municipal de la Habana Vieja
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2:00 pm
Tour of the Cuban architecture exhibitions:
(See Architecture)

The Old Town. Saving Old Havana's Historic District
Location: Palacio de los Capitanes Generales

From Havana Tomorrow to Everyday Havana
About strategies, workshops and park avenues
Location: Pabellón de la Maqueta de Havanna


The City of the Future
Location: Galería Ciudades del Mundo

Return to the Sixties.
The Ambivalent Transcendence of an Heroic Architecture.
Location: International Press Centre


The Winners of the National Prize for Architecture
Location: Unión Nacional de Arquitectos e Ingenieros de la Construcción de Cuba

Architecture Workshops of the VIIth Biennial
Location: Facultad de Arquitectura de la Habana ISPJAE

7:00 pm
Opening of the exhibition of María Elena Álvarez (Venezuela)
Location: Galería Latinoamericana, Casa de las Américas
Tuesday, November 21st
10:00 am
Continuation of the Academic and Critical Meeting and the International Art Professors and Students Conference
Locations: Consejo de la Administración Municipal de la Habana Vieja and Instituto Superior de Arte

Start of the Taller de Creación Colectiva Iroko (Cuba)
The whole day, open until 5th January 2001
Location: Parque Mendoza, La Víbora


2:00 pm
Tour of the Latin American architecture exhibitions:
(See Architecture)

Experimental City. Proposals for the Preservation of Quarters and Other Similar Projects (Venezuela)
Locations: Galería Imago, Gran Teatro de Havanna

Project for the Historic Park of Guayaquil (Ecuador)
Location: Consejo de la Administración Municipal de la Habana Vieja

Project for the Comprehensive Preservation of Santa Ana de Velasco-Chiquitos (Bolivia - Cuba)
Location: Centro Literario y Cultural Leonor Pérez

Arquitetura. Arte. Cidade (Brazil)
Location: Ministerio de Finanzas y Precios

Free Architecture (Finland)
Location: Facultad de Arquitectura, ISPJAE

4:00 pm
Round table: Performativ experiences (Krisna Murti, Peter Minshall, Francis Alÿs, Tania Bruguera)
Location: Sala Che Guevara, Casa de las Américas

6:00 pm
Concert-performance by César Martínez (Mexico)
Location: Pabellón Cuba
César Martínez
Wednesday, November 22nd
10:00 am
Start of the International Architecture Conference
Sessions daily from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Location: International Press Centre


Continuation of the Academic and Critical Meeting and the International Art Professors and Students Conference
Locations: Consejo de la Administración Municipal de la Habana Vieja and Instituto Superior de Arte
 
Thursday, November 23rd
10:00 am
Continuation of the Academic and Critical Meeting and the International Art Professors and Students Conference
Locations: Consejo de la Administración Municipal de la Habana Vieja and Instituto Superior de Arte
 
Friday, November 24th
10:00 am
Last day of the Academic and Critical Meeting
Location: Consejo de la Administración Municipal de la Habana Vieja

Last day of the International Architecture Conference
Location: International Press Centre

Continuation of the International Art Professors and Students Conference
Until November 30th.
Location: Instituto Superior de Arte


6:00 pm
Good bye cocktail for the participants of the Academic and Critical Meeting and the International Architecture Conference

8:30 am
Danza del Caribe
Location: Teatro Nacional
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