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Bomba at La Casita de Chema.

Food cooking at La Casita de Chema.

Celebrating Puerto Rican culture with bomba, plena, flags, food, and community.

T-shirt that reads “Puerto Rico No Se Vende” on the back.

T-shirt that reads “Abolish Act 22” on the front.

Protest signs on display before a charla (discussion group) in Puerto Rico.

Raíces Community Historian Natalie Saldarriaga presents on her Family Ties Oral History and Digital Exhibit project over Zoom at the 2023 Rutgers Digital Humanities Symposium.

Raíces Community Historian Natalie Saldarriaga presents on her Family Ties Oral History and Digital Exhibit project over Zoom at the 2023 Rutgers Digital Humanities Symposium.

Raíces Community Historian Natalie Saldarriaga presents on her Family Ties Oral History and Digital Exhibit project over Zoom at the 2023 Rutgers Digital Humanities Symposium.

Drummer Luis Pérez demonstrating plena rhythms to his grandsons at La Casita de Chema in the Bronx.

Drummer Francis Acevedo playing a pandero at La Casita de Chema in the Bronx.

Drummer Luis Pérez playing plena at La Casita de Chema in the Bronx.

Raíces student ensemble member Evelyn Sepulveda feeling the clave while she dances.

Clave is key to both music and dance.

Raíces student ensemble members studying clave before beginning to practice bomba choreography.

Spring garlic growing in the Raíces EcoCulture gardens.

Raíces directors Francisco G. Gómez and Nicole Wines with artisan Juan Figueroa.

Raíces student ensemble member Evelyn Sepulveda picking up a repaired cuatro from artisan Juan Figueroa.

Artisan Juan Figueroa inspecting a broken cuatro.

Raíces student ensemble member Evelyn Sepulveda brings a broken cuatro to Juan Figueroa for repairs.

Raíces student ensemble members practicing bomba choreography.

Raíces student ensemble members practicing bomba choreography.

Raíces student ensemble members practicing bomba choreography.

Evelyn Sepulveda picking up her handcrafted barril de bomba from artisan Juan “Juancho” Figueroa.

Class photo after a weekly Introduction to Bomba drum class.