OPEN HOUSE: Blues and Greens Numero Dos: Santa Fe (UW-Waukesha Continuing Education)

Back by Popular Demand UW-Waukesha Continuing Education offers a second helping of “Blues and Greens” Tour

WAUKESHA: UW-Waukesha Continuing Education’s inaugural Blues and Greens tour, featuring the music  & food of Memphis, New Orleans and St. Louis, was so well received Continuing Education is turning up the heat by offering a new six day tour, Blues and Greens Numero Dos:  Santa Fe Edition, featuring the art & cuisine of New Mexico.

This trip, April 29, 2011-Saturday, May 5, 2011 includes airfare from Milwaukee, beautiful accommodations, 12 meals, 5 tours and 2 cooking demonstrations. Cost is $1849 per person, based upon double occupancy.

A free information session Open House will be held at UW-Waukesha, Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 6 p.m., in the UW-Waukesha Commons Building, room C101. The Open House includes a presentation, details on all activities and a Q&A with tour director Vic Passante.  Space is limited on this trip and expected to fill up quickly so those seriously interested may attend the open house and secure their spot with a $500 non-refundable deposit.   Registration for the open house is encouraged, but not mandatory.

“Last year our group explored music and food, but this year we are taking our palette to a new level on this Blues and Greens tour.  What makes our Continuing Education trips so unique is our guests have a hunger for knowledge and a thirst for the arts and what a better way than to satisfy with this incredible trip to the southwest, “ says Vic Passante, Travel and Study Abroad Coordinator for UW-Waukesha Continuing Education.

The Blues and Greens Numero Dos tour features southwest destinations to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, with day-trips to Taos led by Passante.  Guests will explore Georgia O'Keefe's Abiquiu, where they will spend time at Ghost Ranch with a cooking demonstration from the Georgia O'Keefe Cookbook. This food centric tour will treat guests to a cooking class led by Jane Butel, author of more than 20 cookbooks and founder of The Jane Butel Cooking School which is recognized by Bon Appétit as one of the four best cooking schools in the world. Art lovers will explore galleries in Taos and Santa Fe where they will discover incredible art by local artists ---and meet renowned southwest artist Michael Ortega, who created the wildly popular coyote sculptures in the 1990's. Guests will dine at the "Best in the West" with amazing cuisine served at Rancho de Chimayo, Cafe' Pasqual's, Andiamo's, and Graham's Grille.

Registration for the tour is available online at www.waukesha.uwc.edu/ce. Click on “Travel.”

If unable to attend this session but still interested in receiving information, please email wakce@uwc.edu or call (262) 521-5460.

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