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  • Saturday, January 5 – Saturday, January 12 – Cuba Photo Expedition

    Travel to Cuba January 5 – 12, 2013 with professional photographer and past Garden Club of the Back Bay speaker Rich Pomerantz, and the Center for Cuban Studies.  This trip is designed for the enthusiastic travel photographer who wants to take better travel photos.  Based in Havana, enjoy visiting coffee plantations, local markets, fishing villages, the Vinales World Heritage site (below), Las Terrazas, Pinar Del Rio and more.  Visit the studios of contemporary photographers, painters, and ceramists.  Meet local farmers, merchants and residents.  This is officially a “people-to-people” trip, and the emphasis will be on meeting and learning about the Cuban life.  $3,750 per person, double occupancy, or $4,050 single, includes round trip flight from Miami to Havana, lodging and breakfast, some dinners, tour guide, transportation to planned activities and group and one on one photo consultation.  To reserve your spot or for more information call 212-242-0559, or visit www.cubaupdate.org.  Photo from www.greatarchaeology.com.

  • Saturday, September 25 – Sunday, September 26, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm – 31st Annual Lenox Apple Squeeze

    The highlight of the harvest season is the 31st Annual Lenox Apple Squeeze, a family weekend running from 10 to – 6 on Saturday and on Sunday the 25th and 26th. Painters, sculptors, crafters, jewelry and textile makers display their wares throughout the village. Foods from around the world are available, and hayrides and children’s activities and entertainment fill the streets.  For complete information, log on to www.lenox.org.

  • Friday, April 23, 7:45 pm – Birding Program: Inspired by Bowerbirds

    Artist-naturalist Mary Jo McConnell has traveled to a remote region of Papua New Guinea every year since 1992 to paint a group of bowers constructed by Vogelkop bowerbirds (Amblyornis inornata).  Watch a brief PBS Frontline documentary about McConnell’s remarkable odyssey to her field site, view examples of her striking bower paintings and listen as McConnell shares her observations of individual bower-makers that convinced her these birds are true artists.  The event takes place in the Phillips Library Auditorium of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem on Friday, April 23, beginning at 7:45, and is free.  Co-sponsored by the Essex County Ornithological Club, the E.C.O.C. meeting will be held from 7:30 – 7:45.  For more information, and directions to the museum, log on to www.pem.org.

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  • Sundays through October 25, 10 – 4 – SOWA Open Market

    The SoWa Open Market offers a shopping experience like no other in Boston. With an ever-changing group of artisans, a hip location and the chance to feel the sun on your face while you browse, it’s a trip worth making. The market offers the opportunity to meet the artists, vendors and farmers behind the work, and is fast becoming part of the South End’s well-known artist’s community. Every week offers shoppers something different and unique – you won’t want to miss it!

    The market hosts a wide variety of vendors, whether you’re looking for hand-crafted accessories, original art, indie designer clothing or just a fresh loaf of bread, you’ll find painters, sculptors, photographers, clothing and jewelry designers, milliners, handbag designers, house wares, florists, bakers, local farmer’s produce and much more every week!  Free Admission and Parking. For directions and more information, log on to www.sowaopenmarket.com.