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Introduction to Caribbean Drumming class, Summer 2023.

Dancing bomba in a class batey.

Outdoor Introduction to Bomba class held at the Eugene Young Environmental Education Center.

Introduction to Bomba classes end in a community batey, where participants can drum and dance to practice what they have learned.

Introduction to Bomba students discuss the history and cultural significance of bomba with teacher Francisco G. Gómez.

Bomba drummers playing barriles, cuá and maracas during an Introduction to Bomba Class.

Introduction to Bomba students drumming along with ensemble members and the class teacher Francisco G. Gómez.

Introduction to Bomba students practicing dance movements they learned in class to the sounds of live drumming.

During Introduction to Bomba classes, drums are played by a mix of students, ensemble members and the class teachers.

A plena class meets outdoors during our 2022 summer class series.

Francisco G. Gómez demonstrates how the basic rhythms of plena are played on the panderos or panderetas.

Francisco G. Gómez introduces the instruments and history of plena during an outdoors cultural arts class.

Flyer to promote voting in the 2022 Park Partners grant competition. Raíces Cultural Center entered and won in the culture & diversity category. This grant will allowed the Raices Cultural Center Community Cultural Arts Program to add a series of…

Raíces Director Francisco G. Gómez and his son, artist Gabriel Gómez, setting up the group display for the opening reception.

Stan explains the inner workings of a bee box to participants in his Apiculture presentation and honey farm tour.

Participants of the Raíces Apiculture Initiative field trip to S & F Honey Farm, Angela, Jen and Gabriel listen to Stan giving his presentation on apiculture.

Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble performed bomba and plena and presented about the tradition of Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico, an Afropuertorican folkloric tradition. After the interactive performance, participants had the opportunity to dance and…

As part of the 2009 Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico arts residency program, the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble performed their vejigantes presentation at Paul Robeson Community Theme School for the Arts in New Brunswick, NJ. Students learned about…