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Breaking Bread with Visions Students
During the time Raíces crew members stayed at Plenitud PR’s permaculture farm and eco-learning center, a group of students from St. Thomas University in Minnesota was visiting on a service-learning trip. The Raíces crew arrived just as dinner was…
Breeding Native Monarchs
As part of ecological restoration, protection and education programs, Casa Pueblo maintains a mariposario and breed native monarch butterflies, and important pollinator on the island. Insect populations were decimated by Hurricane María and the lack…
Bri Treppeda at Plenitud PR
Bri Treppeda was an intern at Plenitud PR when Raíces visited the farm in January 2018. Here she is harvesting patchouli to use as mulch.
Bridges in the Roda
Students in Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira train and play a combination of dance, combat and acrobatics, and utilize all three when playing in the Roda.
Building a Vaka
Interns Gabi and Steve from the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea adding sails to the model vaka they contributed to the Water Is Life art exhibition series.
Building the Museum
Building the cultural museum
Busy Is My Best Friend
CD cover for Silent Knight's single "Busy is My Best Friend"
Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:
"Then magic happened, the song that changed it all. Mantra. Slogan. Mindstate. All in one. I was going through a tough time. I wrote a…
Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:
"Then magic happened, the song that changed it all. Mantra. Slogan. Mindstate. All in one. I was going through a tough time. I wrote a…
Busy Market
These are the busy market showgrounds
Butterfly
Butterflies are important pollinators, and Casa Pueblo continued its work of breeding, releasing and protecting butterflies in their mariposario, or butterfly house, immediately after Hurricane María.
Butterfly House
Butterfly house at Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, where a native subspecies of monarch is bred, protected, and released into the natural environment. A few monarchs remain in the butterfly house at any given time in order to educate visitors,…
Bye, Officer
The “officer” appears to break up a capoeira roda, but finds it disguised as samba instead and leaves the capoeiristas who quickly get back to training.
Cabaça
Cabaça is a hallowed out gourd used as part of the berimbau to amplify the sound. Sometimes the gourds are painted and decorated, like the one pictured here.
Caballero
Citizen of Loíza Aldea dressed as a “caballero” on the day of Santiago apostol. The caballero is a popular character seen during the festival of Santiago apostal.
Cake
Cake made from plastic utensils.
Call and Response
Like many African derived music and dance traditions, songs and chants in capoeira are sung using call and response. All members of the group present, including the drummers and musicians, respond to the lead singer with the chorus of the song.
Calle Calma Resident
A resident of Calle Calma who stopped to talk to participants of the 5th Bomba Research Conference.
Calle Ismael Rivera
Calle Ismael Rivera, also called Calle Calma, where the legenday singer and composer Ismael Rivera grew up.
Camp
Overnight visitors to Plenitud PR stay in a campground area of the compound, protected from water and rain by extra pop-up tents and drainage ditches around each tent site.
Camp
A tent set up in the camping section of Plenitud PR’s compound. Tents are protected from the rain by a canopy and a drainage ditch dug around each camp site.
Camping at Masikandoro
Camping at Masikandoro
Can We Ever Give Up on Our Dreams?
Can we ever give up on our Dreams?
Capoeira - Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
Capoeira is a martial art that is disguised as a dance form. Many of the combat movements used are kicks, practiced by students in Professora Amazonas’ academy during classes and training sessions.
Capoeira - Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
Capoeira is a martial art born in Brazil, with roots in Africa. Many of the combat movements used are kicks, which students in Professora Amazonas’ academy practice during classes.
Capoeira "Cover Up" - Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira
In classes, presentations, performances, and in the roda, members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira always honor their history and the history of capoeira.
In Brazil, capoeira was once outlawed, to keep enslaved Africans from training their…
In Brazil, capoeira was once outlawed, to keep enslaved Africans from training their…
Capoeira at Kwanzaa
Professora Amazonas plays the berimbau at the at the 53rd Annual Harvest Festival of African Culture Kwanzaa Celebration at the Montclair Public Library. The berimbau is the instrument that sets the rules of the game for capoeira.