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CU students discover culture of Cuba while making documentar

A weekly magazine show devoted to arts and culture stories from around Colorado and across the country. Produced and curated by Rocky Mountain PBS, “Arts District” spotlights an array of visual arts, performing arts, music and cultural events, with behind-the-scenes interviews with artists who may be well-known or whose creativity is just being discovered.

CU students discover culture of Cuba while making documentar

Season 5 Episode 519 | 27m 40s | CC

Guillermo (Bill) Vidal returns to Cuba with a CU News Corps documentary team, to remember the places he knew as a boy, before his parents sent him and his brothers to a Colorado orphanage, to protect them. Vidal, who later became Denver mayor, reflects on how it felt to be a refugee in the US. ALSO: a multimedia artist whose 3-D painting is drawing an audience; and jazz pianist Khalid Moss. #519

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