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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…
Bomba in the Park
At the Spring Jam community art event, Raíces Cultural Center organized a day of workshops and music performances, as well as collaborations with local family arts organizations. A local Girl Scout troop participated in the festival, attending all…
“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…
Drumming Class Flyer
Raíces Cultural Center flyer for Afro-Caribbean hand percussion classes offered at the Hub City Teen Center from the Fall of 2009 through the Spring of 2010.
Roots at the Hub Dance Class Flyer
Raíces Cultural Center Flyer for adult “Cultural Fusion” dance and percussion classes at the Hub City Teen Center. Class ran through 2010.
Roots at the Hub Dance Class Flyer
Raíces Cultural Center flyer for children’s dance and music classes held at the Hub City Teen Center in New Brunswick throughout 2010.
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…
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…
Raíces Caribbean Film Series Flyer
Flyer for Raíces Caribbean Film Series, held throughout the summer of 2010. Raíces held screenings and discussions of films that addressed the topic of Caribbean culture and arts, specifically related to the cultures of Cuba and Puerto Rico.
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 Flyer “Historias de los muertos”
Flyer for visual arts exhibit “Historias de los Muertos”, a solo exhibit by Jonathan Jacob Horowitz, inspired by the Day of the Dead holiday and untold stories of the dead.
Day of the Dead Family Arts Day Flyer
Flyer for the November 2010 Family Arts Day Workshop. This workshop featured crafts and storytelling activities inspired by the Day of the Dead, or el día de los muertos.
“Spirit of the Drum” Flyer
Postcard for the 2010 Raíces Ensemble production “Spirit of the Drum: History and Evolution of an Afrocaribbean Tradition”. This production was made possible in part by funding from a Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage MINI Grant, as well as a…
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.
Orisha Art Show: With the Artists
Raíces Co-Directors Francisco G. Gómez and Nicole Wines with the artists featured in the exhibit, Aja Washington and Joe Lentini