Sep
10
ASPEN, CO. (September, 2024) – Now in its 10th year, the Aspen-Bariloche Arts + Culture Exchange Program returns this month with a visiting artist from Argentina and a bicultural art exhibition that celebrates a decade of art exchange between the two iconic mountain towns and sister cities. Argentinian artist and...
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Aug
18
Greetings from Aspen’s Sister City of Shimukappu, Japan! My name is Grayson Bauer, and after having lived in the Roaring Fork Valley since 2015, I was lucky enough to become the English Exchange Teacher here this past spring. In the event that you just learned that Aspen has a sister...
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Aug
09
Celebrating ten years of friendship and collaboration between artists from Bariloche and the Roaring Fork Valley. OPENING RECEPTION: ASPEN CHAPEL GALLERY- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 4:00-7:00PM ARTIST TALK: ASPEN CHAPEL GALLERY- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 5:00 TO 6:30PM EXHIBITION RUNS THROUGH SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 For more information and video of artwork please...
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Aug
09
Washington, D.C. (July 30, 2024)– Aspen Sister Cities has won the Sister Cities International 2024 Annual Award for Innovation in Business, Trade and ProfessionalExchange for a city with a population of less than 25,000. Since 1962, the Sister Cities International (SCI) Annual Awards competition recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding...
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Jul
01
This week, the Aspen Institute New Zealand hosted its inaugural Aspen Sister City Youth Seminar at Wakatipu High School, Queenstown. This event brought together visiting exchange students from Aspen High School and their hosts from Wakatipu High School to delve into the concept of regenerative tourism. Moderated by Dr. Susan...
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May
13
A group of students from Chamonix visited our valley this past February, and shortly after it was the Aspen students' turn to visit them in France, from March 18 to 30. The chaperones were Sarah Graber (Aspen Sister Cities student exchange coordinator) and Jane Larsen (Aspen High School French teacher)....
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May
10
Six medical professionals from Bariloche visited Aspen for the annual Aspen Bariloche Medical Exchange Program (April 14-22). The delegation was made up of two orthopedic surgeons, an anesthesiologist, two physical therapists and a dentist. For their professional activities they were hosted by Aspen Valley Hospital, Valley View Hospital, Sopris Rehab...
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May
09
"10 years ago I took the long flight from Aspen to Bariloche Argentina to be the first person from Aspen to participate in the new Sister Cities Art Exchange. This April I returned to see how this amazing program has blossomed. Paula Fischer, whose husband was in the Doctor Exchange,...
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May
08
Ruben Velazquez from Bariloche completed his ski patrol exchange to Aspen. He worked as a fulltime patroller at Aspen Highlands during the 2023/24 winter season. So successful was his experience that he has been invited to return to the Highlands next year as a “returning patrolman.” Ruben traveled to Aspen...
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Apr
11
"The Aspen Sister Cities Adaptive Skiing Exchange program is one of the best ideas in terms of human thinking aimed at long-term common good. For Fundación Desafio Bariloche over all these years, the communion of our cause with our seemingly different perspective, united by this sisterhood, means that the effect...
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