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Travel Pursuits for 2007

A listing of educational travel opportunities from Classical Pursuits.

Travel Pursuits are learning vacations rooted in place and transcending time. See with your own eyes and through discussion of the works of some of a country’s most celebrated authors and artists. Explore the mutual influence of artist on place, and place on artist.

Cultural Tour of Mexico - The Labyrinth of Solitude - Yucatan, Mexico
Selected works of Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes
February 19–26

Flannery O'Connor Literary Tour - Mystery & Manners in Savannah - Savannah, Georgia, Selected Works of Flannery O'Connor
March 25–29

Florence, Italy Tour - To Hell and Back with Dante: The Flowering of the Late Middle Ages in Italy, Dante, Giotto, St. Francis
May 13–23

Galicia, Spain Tour- A Journey into the Heart of Mystical Spain
St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa de Avila, Rosalia de Castro
June 18–25 (7 nights)
SOLD OUT

Santa Fe Art & Cultural Tour - The American Southwest: The Power of Place - Santa Fe, New Mexico - The Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner and southwestern landscapes of Georgia O'Keefe
September 23–29

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Toronto Pursuits

A listing of some of the cultural courses and lifelong learning seminar opportunities from Classical Pursuits.

Toronto Pursuits gets started early Sunday evening, July 15, with an informal welcoming reception. From Monday through Friday, twelve seminars take place concurrently each morning, with no more than fifteen in each group, then we all gather for an excellent lunch together. During the afternoons and evenings, we offer a wide variety of cultural and social activities – topical talks, walking tours, film screenings, theatre, small dinners, and much more. We conclude with a festive farewell gathering on Friday evening.

Toronto Pursuits:
July 15–20

1. The Play's the Thing: William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar & Coriolanus Seminar

2. The Book of Genesis Seminar

3. J.S. Bach: St. Mathew Passion Seminar

4. Goethe: Faust Seminar

5. David Batchelor: Chromophobia Seminar

6. Herman Melville: Moby Dick Seminar

7. Tolstoy: Anna Karenina Seminar

8. Naguib Mahfouz: Children of the Alley Seminar

9. Jazz, Blues, and Gospel: Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison Seminar

10. The Art and Science of Leonardo Da Vinci Seminar

11. Keeping the Peace: Conversations with Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau Seminar

Past Courses and Educational Seminars at Toronto Pursuits..

Private Trip Planning and Small Group Tours

We design literary trips and cultural and educational tours for affinity organizations and groups with a focus on small group discussion of great works of literature in the destination in which they were written or set.

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Classical Pursuits is a cultural and educational travel company based in Toronto, Canada, specializing in small group literary travel and learning vacations. We provide adventures for the mind and travel for the soul - to places like Hemingway's Paris, Joyce's Dublin, Dante Alighieri's Italy, and Flannery O’Connor’s Savannah and the Andalusia family farm in Georgia. We offer both scheduled small group tours and private educational group travel planning for existing groups. Classical Pursuits provides learning vacations with a difference.