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Arts and Family Day: Painting Vejigante Mask
Participants in this Arts and Family Day event had the opportunity to paint and take home their own miniature vejigante masks.
Arts and Family Day: Vejigante Coloring Activity
After hearing stories about Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico and making their own vejigante masks, participants colored vejigante costumes and masks and later put their artwork on display at the Raíces studio.
Arts and Family Day: Vejigante Crafts
After learning about the history of the vejigantes, families who participated in this Arts and Family Day event worked together on vejigante based crafts.
Arts and Family Day: Vejigante Mask Making
Arts and Family Day participant working on her own miniature vejigante mask.
Arts and Family Day: Meeting the Vejigantes
At this Arts and Family Day event, participants got to learn about and meet los vejigantes de Puerto Rico in an interactive presentation and performance.
Arts and Family Day: Instruments of Bomba and Plena
Raíces Co-Director Francisco G. Gómez explaining the instruments used in the music of bomba and plena, which is the music most closely related to the tradition of the vejigantes.
Arts and Family Day: Family Bomba with Vejigante
Family participants in the vejigantes Arts and Family Day event got to try the instruments of bomba and plena and learn how to play a simple bomba rhythm together.
Arts and Family Day Participants: Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico
Some of the participants from the February 2009 Arts and Family Day event: Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico.
Raícitas Youth Program Dance Class
Raícitas Youth Program dance class held at the Hub City Teen Center in New Brunswick, NJ. Students pictured here are learning about picoteos, or piquetes, which are movements used in bomba dance to converse with the drum.
Raícitas Vejigantes Rehearsal
Raícitas Youth Program participants who registered for full program cycles had the opportunity to rehearse and perform with the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble at community events and presentations, as well as student performances during Raíces…
Interfaith Earth Day Celebration Flyer
Flyer for a community centered Interfaith Earth Day Celebration held at the Sacred Heart Church in New Brunswick.
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Join Raíces Cultural Center as we perform with the Rainbow Children's Choir of New Brunswick at the Interfaith…
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Join Raíces Cultural Center as we perform with the Rainbow Children's Choir of New Brunswick at the Interfaith…
Raíces Fundraiser Flyer - “Shaking it to the East”
Flyer for fundraising belly dance/Egyptian and Moroccan folk dance class held by the Brown Girls Club which benefited Raíces Cultural Center.
Spring Jam 2k10 Flyer
Flyer for Spring Jam 2k10 event, a collabroative community arts event. Raíces was one of the organizations which collaborated to create this public arts and educational event that encompassed many different forms of art, culture and education. From…
Raícitas Creative Expressions Writing Circle Program Flyer
Flyer for Raícitas Youth Program Creative Expressions Writing Circle.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
All young writers grades six and up are invited to join Raíces volunteer Emily Gibbons every Friday at 4:30pm for the Creative Expressions Writing…
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
All young writers grades six and up are invited to join Raíces volunteer Emily Gibbons every Friday at 4:30pm for the Creative Expressions Writing…
West African Dance: Initiations
West African Dance workshop leader Liana Conyers, teaching as part of the 2013 Cultural Legacy Festival workshop series.
West African Dance: Initiations
Workshop leader Liana Conyers teaching and leading West African dances.
West African Dance: Initiations
Workshop leader Liana Conyers led participants through a variety of West African dances including Lamba and griot dances.
West African Dance: Initiations
Dance teacher Liana Conyers leading workshop participants at the Raíces Cultural Center Cultural Legacy Festival 2013 Workshop Series.
Kombucha Workshop
Dan Farella explains the healing, medicinal and nutritional properties of kombucha.
Kombucha Fermenting
Workshop participants learned how to care for kombucha and brew kombucha drinks.
Dan Farella and his Kombucha S.C.O.B.Y.s
Kombucha is not a fungus, it’s a S.C.O.B.Y. (Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria and Yeast)
Healing Lymes Naturally
Dan Farella discusses herbal protocols which can help those who suffer from Lymes disease, as well as educate participants on how to avoid, identify and remove ticks.
“Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico” Program Flyer
In 2009, Raíces Cultural Center created and presented its first production thanks in part to an award a MINI grant by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission. Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble performed with guest artists and Raícitas…
Bomba Class Flyer 2009
Raíces Cultural Center flyer for children’s and adults’ bomba classes held at the Hub City Teen Center in New Brunswick.
Monster Jam 2k9 Flyer
Raíces Cultural Center flyer for the community event Monster Jam 2k9, a community arts event that took place at the Raritan River Art Walk in New Brunswick as a result of a collaboration between Raíces Cultural Center, Family Arts Movement, Community…