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Gabriela dancing bomba with students at the Greater Brunswick Charter School in New Brunswick, NJ, sharing the folkloric traditions of bomba, plena and los vejigantes de Puerto Rico.

There are many styles of bomba dresses and costume, both traditional and contemporary. Raíces Cultural Center had these costumes handmade by a local NJ seamstress for their educational performance series Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico in 2009, opting…

Gabriela Pérez dancing picoteos de bomba at the Raritan River Environmental Festival in New Brunswick, NJ.

Gabriela Pérez dancing plena at a public educational performance in New Brunswick, NJ. Plena is the national music dance of Puerto Rico and is commonly played, sung, and danced in the diaspora at festivals, parties, plenazos, performances and…

Traditionally, vejigantes carried inflated cow or goat bladders on the end of a stick and use it to tease, taunt and chase those participating in the celebrations, or las fiestas, especially children. Today a balloon or paper bag is what is commonly…

In June of 2009, Raíces Cultural Center Folkloric Ensemble was invited to collaborate in a cultural performance at the annual Brooklyn Puerto Rican Day Parade. The collaboration was made up of additional musicians and dancers from NJ and NY.

Flyer for the Common Ground program’s knife skills workshop. The Common Ground Workshop series was a collaborative program presented throughout the Summer of 2016 by Raíces EcoCulture in partnership with Chef Enrique Pérez of Elijah's Promise.

Flyer for the Common Ground program's zucchini bread workshop. The Common Ground Workshop series was a collaborative program presented throughout the Summer of 2016 by Raíces EcoCulture in partnership with Chef Enrique Pérez of Elijah's Promise.

Flyer for the Common Ground program's canning workshop. The Common Ground Workshop series was a collaborative program presented throughout the Summer of 2016 by Raíces EcoCulture in partnership with Chef Enrique Pérez of Elijah's Promise.

Flyer for the Eco-Art Exhibit featuring assemblage artist Lisa Bagwell. All sculptures featured in this exhibit are made from 100% post-consumer recycled materials.

A cold morning at Domboshava Showground Market.

Most of these women became my friends and inspired me to start women groups leading to the creation of Domboshava Community Project.

Mushrooms from the forest and bananas from the homesteads found their way at the Showground market but displayed on the ground.

Organic garden of Sekuru Murehwa in Domboshava, Zimbabwe.

Other vendors were into clothing too so competition.

Proud family with their permaculture home built from natural materials.

Proud Permaculturalist Sekuru Murehwa.

Seeing this inspired Sylvia Hove, founder of the Domboshava Community Project, to improve on the quality and conditions of the market place.

Sekuru Murehwa was already practicing permaculture at his house near the Showgrounds and used the cow dung as organic manure he picked everyday of the week at the market. This image shows Murehwa’s water source and illustrates how different elements…

The clothing business was what originally got founder Sylvia Hove into the Domboshava project.

The gateway into the market at the Domboshava Showgrounds.

The hustle and morning bustle at the Domboshava Showgrounds Market.

The permaculture garden at the Domboshava Showgrounds

Vendors at the market had to pay a fee to the district council for using this space yet the conditions were still bad.

Tomatoes for sale at the market.