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Busy street in Old Havana in front of the Capitol building.

Front view of the Hotel Rachel in Old Havana.

Entrance to Chinatown in Old Havana.

Sign that says Chinatown, in Old Havana

Chi Tack Tong restaurant in Chinatown in Old Havana. Absolutely delicious menu and warm friendly staff.

Dancer performs in El Prado area of Old Havana.

Street mural on El Prado Old Havana.

Street mural on El Prado Old Havana.

Unripe coffee beans growing at Plenitud Eco Farm in Las Marías, Puerto Rico. The mountains of Puerto Rico allow for perfect conditions for coffee growing. At Plenitud, farmers grow hundreds of other crops among their coffee plants instead of having a…

Flyer for the first event in the Common Ground Workshop series, a collaborative program introduced in Spring 2016 by Raíces EcoCulture in partnership with Chef Enrique Pérez of Elijah's Promise.

Coffee beans ripening.

Mountain view from Plenitud Eco-Iniciativas in Las Marías, Puerto Rico.

Participants of a Raíces EcoCulture Seed Saving workshop checking out and identifying different varieties of bean seeds after the workshop.

Raíces Cultural Center Director Francisco G. Gómez walking and talking with Co-Director of Plenitud Iniciativas Eco-educativas.

Raíces Caribeñas, the predecessor to the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble, performing as part the Streets 2k5 community and public arts festival. Raíces Caribeñas was invited to participate as part of the attempt to integrate cultural arts and…

NJ musicians from Raíces Caribeñas preparing to perform at the Streets2k5 festival in downtown New Brunswick, NJ. Raíces Caribeñas played Afro-Caribbean and hip-hop fusion music at this festival celebrating and highlighting public art.

Dean Warren Schomburg playing music with other NJ based folkloric Caribbean musicians

Raíces Caribeñas, the predecessor to the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble, performing giving an educational concert as part of the 2nd Reformed Church of New Brunswick’s Lunchtime Recital Series. Dean Warren Schomburg played both flute and percussion…

Raíces Cultural Center ensemble member Dean Warren Schomburg preparing to perform and share the history and evolution of traditional Puerto Rican and Cuban music and dance traditions with Rutgers University students at the Center for Latino Arts and…

NJ musician Dean Warren Schomburg on a cultural arts exchange trip in Havana, Cuba.

Dean Warren Schomburg posing with statue of Ernest Hemingway in "el Floridita" in Havana, Cuba. "El Floridita" was a well known hangout of Hemingway.

NJ musician Dean Warren Schomburg on a cultural arts exchange designed to make connections between NJ based artists active in the preservation of Caribbean cultural arts and traditions and individuals practicing those traditions in the Caribbean. …

NJ musician Dean Warren Schomburg posing with congas in Cuba, one of the most common instruments played in Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean music. These drums are handmade and maintained with care as resources are scarce.

In Havana, there is no specified time or place for music, it is simply part of everyday life, from morning to night. On his cultural exchange trip to Cuba, NJ musician Dean Warren Schomburg experienced this, as pictured here by his spontaneous dance…

Gabriela Pérez dancing bomba with Los Vejigantes.