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Outdoor Performance in Lancaster Pennsylvania performing music of Puerto Rico for The Latin American Alliance.

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Outdoor Performance in Lancaster Pennsylvania performing music and dance from Puerto Rico for The Latin American Alliance.

¡Retumba! performances are both entertaining and educational. As seen in this photo, ¡Retumba! encourages people of all ages…

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Outdoor Performance in Lancaster, Pennsylvania performing music of Puerto Rico for The Latin American Alliance.

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The introduction to the production “Festival for the Dead”. The production began with a multimedia sequence projected with live music followed by interviews footage of community members explaining their own connections to the ancestors.

For many…

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End jam session at the Bronx Music Center in the Melrose section of the Southwest Bronx. Holiday Celebration "Bronx Rising - Season 6 - December 2017 - Parranda con Paranda Strings Attached

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Flyer for a PROPA sponsored event held in Washington D.C.. Raíces was invited to participate in this community bombazo and fundraiser event for the 4th Bomba Research Conference.

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Yvette Martínez dances before the drums in this performance of bomba, a genre of folkloric music and dance from Puerto Rico.

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

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Participants in the cultural exchange workshop learned Cuban orisha movements and rhythms.

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Bomba from Puerto Rico meets hop hop from India.

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Dancing hip hop movements to the bomba drums, a conversation where each movement creates a response from the drum.

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The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Hip-Hop Ambassadors Cultural Exchange program stopped at Raíces Cultural Center on their tour of the Northeast.

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Flyer for the North Plainfield Farmer’s Market where the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble will perform traditional folkloric music, song and dance from the Caribbean, as well as discuss the intersections of culture, food and sustainability.

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Vejigante dressed in traditional costume with Puerto Rican flag on the front.

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Citizens of Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico in a parade on the day of Santiago apostol.

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Vejigante, Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico on the day of Santiago apostol.

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Citizens of Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico dressed as vejigantes marching in a parade on the day of Santiago apostol.

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Raíces Cultural Center flyer for Raícitas "Little Roots" Family Cultural Arts classes offered at the Eugene Young Environmental Eduction Center in August and September of 2023.

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Raíces Cultural Center flyer providing an overview of the organization's cultural arts programs offered at the Eugene Young Environmental Eduction Center in the Fall of 2023.

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Raíces Cultural Center flyer for Afro-Caribbean hand percussion classes offered at the Eugene Young Environmental Eduction Center beginning in the Fall of 2023.

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Raíces Cultural Center flyer for Bomba dance classes offered at the Eugene Young Environmental Eduction Center in the Fall of 2023.

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Raíces Cultural Center flyer for Bomba dance classes offered at the Eugene Young Environmental Eduction Center in the Summer of 2023.

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Raíces Cultural Center flyer for Afro-Cuban dance classes offered at the Eugene Young Environmental Eduction Center in the Fall of 2023.

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Trailer for the Raíces Cultural Center documentary Relief, Renewal, Resilience: Reflections on Hurricane María and her Aftermath. The documentary was premiered in the Spring of the 2019 at the Forum Theater in Metuchen, New Jersey.

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