Cultural Exchange - Puerto Rico 2009

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Title

Cultural Exchange - Puerto Rico 2009

Subject

Cultural Exchange
Bomba
Vejigantes
Plena
Las fiestas de Santiago apostol
Loíza Aldea
Puerto Rico
Folklore

Date

7-2009

Rights

© Raíces Cultural Center

Format

Still Images
Video

Language

en
es

Coverage

Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Collection Items

Bomba Dancer
Bomba dancer, Nelissa Andrades, during a bombazo on the beach in San Juan.

Raúl Ayala
Raúl Ayala, artisan and bombero, playing the barriles de bomba during the fiestas de Santiago Apostól.

Bombazo in San Juan
Melissa Hernández Romero, attorney, dancing bomba in Old San Juan. In bomba, the dancer and the lead drummer hold a conversation through music and dance, with the lead drum (or primo) responding to the movements (piquetes or picoteos) of the dancer.

Bombero
Unknown drummer on the beach at night in San Juan, Puerto Rico playing the barril “bomba drum”.

Caballero
Citizen of Loíza Aldea dressed as a “caballero” on the day of Santiago apostol. The caballero is a popular character seen during the festival of Santiago apostal.

Church Puerto Coelli
Church Puerto Coelli in San German, Puerto Rico.

La Coca Waterfall
Waterfall La Coca in El Yunque National Rain Forest Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

El Yunque Bamboo
Bamboo in El Yunque National Rain Forest Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

Fiesta
Man dressed in unknown costume during the festival of Santiago apostol.

COPI Headquarters
Main headquarters of C.O.P.I. (Corporación Piñones se Integra) C.O.P.I. is a 501 c 3 non profit organization founded by sociologist Maricruz Rivera Clemente.

Art at COPI
Mural on a wall at C.O.P.I. (Corporación Piñones se Integra) C.O.P.I. is a 501 c 3 non profit organization founded by sociologist Maricruz Rivera Clemente.

Vejigante Masks
Vejigante masks at C.O.P.I. (Corporación Piñones se Integra) C.O.P.I. is a 501 c 3 non profit organization founded by sociologist Maricruz Rivera Clemente.

COPI
Francisco G. Gómez Co-Director of the Raíces Cultural Center at C.O.P.I. (Corporación Piñones se Integra.) C.O.P.I. is a 501 c 3 non profit organization founded by sociologist Maricruz Rivera Clemente.

Bombazo
Bombazo on a beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Bombazo
Nellisa Andrades dancing bomba on a beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Bomba in San Juan
From left to right Francisco G. Gómez and Nicole Wines, Co-Directors of the Raíces Cultural Center and Obanilu Ire at a bombazo on a beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Barriles de bomba
Barriles “bomba drums” on the beach at night in San Juan. Puerto Rico.

Bomba in Loíza
From left to right, Raúl Ayala and Marcos Peñalosa Pica playing the barrilles (bomba drums) on the day of Santiago apostol in Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico.

Bomba in Loíza
Nicole Wines, Co-Director of the Raíces Cultural Center dancing bomba at the Ayala family home on the day of Santiago apostol.

Bomba Dance
Unknown Santero (a person who practices the Yorùbá belief system of Ocha) Ocha is a belief system from Nigeria in West Africa. Its practitioners believe in the forces of nature like the ocean, rivers, lightning and thunder, wind, vegetation and…

Raúl Ayala and Jesus Cepeda
Raúl Ayala and Jesus Cepeda playing the barrilles (bomba drums) in Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico on the day of Santiago apostol.

Familia Ayala
In center, Nicole Wines, Co-Director of the Raíces Cultural Center. From left to right unknown drummer, Raúl Ayala, Marco Ayala Lind and Marcos Peñaloza Pica playing the barrilles (bomba drums) in Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico on the day of Santiago…

Papo Del Valle, bomba drum maker
Nicole Wines, Co-Director of the Raíces Cultural Center with Papo Del Valle drum maker from Carolina, Puerto Rico.

Papo Del Valle, bomba drum maker
Papo Del Valle, drum maker from Carolina, Puerto Rico.

Papo Del Valle, bomba drum maker
Papo Del Valle, drum maker from Carolina, Puerto Rico.

Raíces Cultural Center's barriles de bomba were handcrafted by Papo Del Valle and shipped to NJ in 2008.
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