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Travel to Cuba’s vibrant, alluring, and rapidly-changing capital in "Weekend in Havana."
Join Geoffrey Baer as he travels to Havana, where dancers, musicians, architects, and writers invite him into their lives to experience the color, culture, and history of a beautiful and seductive city only recently re-opened to Americans. "Weekend in Havana" illuminates and surprises, inviting viewers to experience a Cuba that is sizzling with the energy of new possibilities.
Join Geoffrey Baer as he travels to Havana, where dancers, musicians, architects, and writers invite him into their lives to experience the color, culture, and history of a beautiful and seductive city only recently re-opened to Americans. "Weekend in Havana" illuminates and surprises, inviting viewers to experience a Cuba that is sizzling with the energy of new possibilities.
Geoffrey welcomes us to Cuba, a mysterious place off-limits to most Americans for decades.
The Journey Begins!
Geoffrey and Irene enjoy the nightlife in Old Havana: music, dance and Hemingway’s bars.
Old Havana Nightlife
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A Closer Look at Weekend in Havana
Journey with Geoffrey Baer and explore Cuba's culture.
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Photos from Weekend in Havana
Vintage car on the street in Havana Centro.
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Folklorico Nacional de Cuba percussionist during a rehearsal.
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Geoffrey Baer and Daniel de la Regata, restoration architect.
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Geoffrey Baer and production crew walking along the Malecon.
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Geoffrey Baer at Plaza de la Catedral.
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Geoffrey Baer with dancer Irene Rodriguez in a Coco Taxi on Paseo de Prado.
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Geoffrey Baer at Plaza de Armas.
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Dancer Irene Rodriguez
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Musician Roberto Fonseca with Geoffrey Baer.
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WTTW/Hugo Perez
Vintage car on the street in Havana Centro.
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WTTW/Brian Canelles
About the Show
Travel to Cuba’s vibrant, alluring, and rapidly-changing capital in "Weekend in Havana." Join Geoffrey Baer as he travels to Havana, where dancers, musicians, architects, and writers invite him into their lives to experience the color, culture, and history of a beautiful and seductive city only recently re-opened to Americans. "Weekend in Havana" illuminates and surprises, inviting viewers to experience a Cuba that is sizzling with the energy of new possibilities.
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