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Art and Family
Families making art together for the community at the Raritan River Art Walk.
Family Arts Movement
Family Arts Movement provided arts and crafts activities for families and children at Monster Jam.
Sean Battle
Raíces 2010 Intern Sean Battle performed at Monster Jam as president and member of Rutgers University student club Verbal Mayhem. This was the first collaboration between Raíces and Sean. He would later go on to compose and perform original poetry…
Raícitas Bomba Class
Participants in the Raícitas Youth Program learn the music, dance, song and history of the Caribbean folkloric traditions. The student is practicing bomba, an Afro-puertorican folkloric tradition. In bomba, the dancer and the drummer converse, with…
Eco-Culture Garden: The First Raíces Beans
The first Raíces beans poking up out of the ground. In the following year we would plant two kinds of red kidney beans, green beans, black beans and white beans.
Eco-Culture Garden: Tomato Harvest
End of summer tomato harvest ripening on the windowsill.
Tomatoes originated in the Andes, where they grew wild with very small fruits, most likely yellow in color. There are species of tomatoes that still grow wild there today. Tomatoes were…
Tomatoes originated in the Andes, where they grew wild with very small fruits, most likely yellow in color. There are species of tomatoes that still grow wild there today. Tomatoes were…
Raíces Program Flyer
Raíces Cultural Center program flyer to hand out at community festivals and arts events describing the various programs and services available from Raíces Cultural Center, including the Raícitas Youth Program, Dance and Music classes, a Cultural…
Herbal Healing from the Island of Puerto Rico Ticket
Ticket for admission to the workshop “Herbal Healing from the Island of Puerto Rico”, the first in a series of herbal healing workshops presented by local herbalist Angela Lugo. This was the first program presented in the Raíces Natural Arts program…
Raíces Visual Arts: Orisha Art Show
Raíces Intern Sean Battle at the Orisha Art Exhibit.
Raíces Visual Arts: Orisha Art Show
Raíces supporter and art fan Ozzy Vera with exhibit artist Joe Lentini.
Orisha Art Show Cultural Display
Cultural and educational display at the Orisha Art Exhibit. The display includes the batá drums, and peripheral instruments used in Afro-Cuban music, an orisha Oyá doll, a handmade Eleguá, Orisha tiles and a an Orisha poster.
Raíces Visual Arts: Orisha Art Show
Students from Raícitas Youth Program attended the Orisha Art Exhibit to learn more about the Orishas, or forces of nature. These students had recently begun to learn the songs and dances of the Orishas in their classes.
Raíces Visual Arts: Historias de los muertos
Visitor to Raíces Cultural Center viewing the art exhibit “Historias de los muertos”. The exhibit by Jonathan Jacob Horowitz was inspired by the “Day of the Dead” celebration and the paintings were inspired by and themed on untold stories of the…
Day of the Dead Skull at Family Arts Day
Participant in the Raícitas Youth Program and Family Arts Day proudly displaying his Day of the Dead skull.
Making Art at Family Arts Day-Day of the Dead
Participant in the Raícitas Youth Program and Family Arts and Culture Day working on his Day of the Dead skull. Family Arts and Culture Days provide participants with culturally based arts activities while teaching the stories and histories of a…
Family Arts Day-Day of the Dead
Family Arts and Culture Day participants hung their Day of the Dead themed artwork in the “Historias de los muertos” exhibit at Raíces.
Student Artwork at Family Arts Day-Day of the Dead
Participant in the Raícitas Youth Program and Family Arts Day proudly displaying her Day of the Dead arts and crafts.
Learning Percussion
Raíces Cultural Center provides arts and music education to the community. Here a student is learning the basics of Afro-Caribbean percussion with teacher and Raíces Co-Director Francisco G. Gómez
S&F Honey Farm
On August 8, 2014, the Raíces Apiculture Initiative took a field trip to S & F Honey Farm in Hillsborough, NJ for a tour, presentation and questions and answer session with beekeeper Stan Wasitowski. Here, Raíces Co-Director Francisco G. Gómez is…
S&F Honey Farm: Bee Box
This is one of Stan’s bee boxes, he explains the entrance reducer he devised for his bees.
S&F Honey Farm: Beekeeping Presentation
Stan explains the inner workings of a bee box to participants in his Apiculture presentation and honey farm tour.
S&F Honey Farm: Beehive Frame with Honeycomb
Bee frame foundation packed with honey
Apiculture Initiative: Nucleus Hive
Nucleus Hive: This is a starter Nuc that is already populated with a queen and bees. The population is later transitioned or split into a bee box/s.
Apiculture Initiative: Transitioning a Nucleus Hive
Raíces Co-Director Francisco is transitioning a nucleus hive into a friend’s new bee box. He has to smoke the nuc before moving the bees to their new home.
Apiculture Initiative: Placing a Bee Box
Susan Winkler, one of the first community members to contact Raíces regarding our Apiculture Initiative and to find out where to get her first bee colony and beekeeping equipment, preparing a new bee box for her bees.