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Participants learned the basic rudiments of Orisha dance starting with the Ochá step.

Raíces music director Francisco G. Gómez discussed the history and evolution of Afro-Cuban batá, and Raíces ensemble members demonstrated several rhythms before participants got up to dance.

The introduction to the production “Festival for the Dead”. The production began with a multimedia sequence projected with live music followed by interviews footage of community members explaining their own connections to the ancestors.

For many…

Flyer for "The Line Up", an event produced by The Band Called FUSE.

Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:

"After a string of ever more energetic and popular events, the band and I decided to start our own show, The Line Up. This event…

Raíces Cultural Center Flyer for adult “Cultural Fusion” dance and percussion classes at the Hub City Teen Center. Class ran through 2010.

Baby zucchini with blossom.

Prepared beds in the early spring. Green beans, black beans, basil, tomatoes, beets, cabbage and herbs later filled up these plots.

Early spring harvest of radishes, peas and mint.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Hip-Hop Ambassadors Cultural Exchange program stopped at Raíces Cultural Center on their tour of the Northeast.

Visitors came from Zimbabwe, Uganda, India, Burma and Pakistan

Participants in the cultural exchange workshop learned Cuban orisha movements and rhythms.

Bomba from Puerto Rico meets hop hop from India.

Dancing hip hop movements to the bomba drums, a conversation where each movement creates a response from the drum.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Hip-Hop Ambassadors Cultural Exchange program stopped at Raíces Cultural Center on their tour of the Northeast.