Seminars
Travel for the discerning explorer.
Traveling with a purpose–or traveling to unwind–CSA trips offer you a villa residence or hotel residence surrounded by timeless history, architecture, and culture. Small group trips (15 travelers) are destined for unforgettable cities, seaside or mountain villages in Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Every trip offers optional seminars with distinguished specialists in the field who have more than 20 years experience teaching. Seminars are for 10 days or for 7 days.
ART HISTORY Dr. Gersh-Nešić specializes in Twentieth-Century Painting however, her research has deciphered the genius of Picasso, 14th -Century Italian Paintings, Seventeenth Century Portraiture, and the cubism of André Salmon. Beth has worked on many museum exhibits including The Bannister Gallery, New York University’s Grey Gallery, The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. As an Art Consultant she also provides expertise to art galleries and museums. Beth has written numerous articles and books, curated shows and led museum tours. To visit the Louvre, the MET, or any smaller museum with Beth is to enter another world, the world beyond the canvas, into the heart and mind of the painter.
LITERARY AND HISTORIC SEMINARS Dr. Lillian Bisson leads travelers through the intimate settings of Jane Austen’s England. Literary buffs will share their interpretations of the novels in their literary setting and over English country meals in Bath, Winchester, and London. The group attends one contemporary theater production and considers what Miss Austen would have thought of the characters. (2010).
Dr. Angela Iovino, founder and principal of CSA, has written on Boccaccio, Renaissance literature, and the Italian Cinema. She invites travelers to explore Italy and its art, history, and architecture. Her expertise is the Italian middle ages and renaissance, while she leads seminars on classical Rome and Greece, she also heads the trips throughout Italy. Italian scholars add depth to the seminars on the rich Italian culture.
MUSIC OPERA & BALLET Jean Kellogg, Executive Director of The Merola Program at San Francisco Opera; formerly Executive Director of the Hylton Performing Arts Center at George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia. Prior to Mason, Ms. Kellogg was the Director of Education at Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Dean of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. She has a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Florida State University and a Master’s degree in piano accompaniment and chamber music from Westminster Choir College. Jean has produced numerous cds annotating operas and ballets and has been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Opera America conferences, and the Children’s International Film Festival, and adjudicator for the Metropolitan Opera auditions.
Seminars for watercolorists, painters, and photographers Established Photographers and Painters, lead workshops normally in Paris but also in other international cities offering rich subjects to shoot, inspiring new directions, and providing daily critiques to sharpen the senses. Each day includes a discussion of composition and light, a review of techniques and medium, and a conversation on experimentation. Paintings and photographs are critiqued easily with internet access and film process.
Nature Adventures Nature enthusiasts and those wanting to do sports in fabulous Mediterranean regions attend. Local guides lead hikes, biking, and forays into the countryside along the sea cliffs, through gardens, to slow-movement farms, volcanic mountains, and fascinating forests. These hikes are designed for everyone in good health and are rated moderate. For those more robust, CSA suggests our Corsica Tour with a variety of outdoor sports. CSA travels to the Island of Corsica which has rugged mountains for canyoning, rock climbing, and hikes while its white-sand beaches provide fishing, sailing, snorkeling, and water-skiing in 2012.
Our goal is to make your holiday special and your experience extraordinary.
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