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Construction at Lake Guajataca
Signs of construction and the beginning of repairs to the dam at Lake Guajataca which was breached during Hurricane María, threatening the lives and homes of tens thousands of residents who live downstream. The drinking water supply will be affected…
Conversation with the Drum
Don Miguel Flores Lopez dancing in the old style of bomba dance from Guayama at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores in Juncos, Puerto Rico in 2013.
Cooking at Masikandoro
Another section at Masikandoro where we wanted to use for just grilling meat and cooking traditional sadza and vegis - Gochi Gochi.
Cooking in the Kitchen
Cooking in the kitchen
Cooperation
In training and in the roda, members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira work together cooperatively, and as a family. Capoeiristas don't lose gracefully, they create learning opportunities, as noted by this high five, which says "well executed…
COPI
Francisco G. Gómez Co-Director of the Raíces Cultural Center at C.O.P.I. (Corporación Piñones se Integra.) C.O.P.I. is a 501 c 3 non profit organization founded by sociologist Maricruz Rivera Clemente.
COPI - Post-Maria
On the first full day in Puerto Rico, the Raíces Crew drove through Piñones and Loíza to visit friends who are musicians and work to preserve culture on the island. We made a stop at COPI, a location Raíces had visited on the 2009 cultural exchanges…
COPI Headquarters
Main headquarters of C.O.P.I. (Corporación Piñones se Integra) C.O.P.I. is a 501 c 3 non profit organization founded by sociologist Maricruz Rivera Clemente.
Cordels
New cordels (cords) ready for students who will be graduating at the 2020 Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira batizado. As more cords are made throughout the pre-batizado season, Professora Amazonas starts to leave them out during the children’s class to…
Coro
Singers in the group representing Aguada at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores singing the coro, or chorus, of the song being performed.
Corydalis
Digital painting of Corydalis. This botanical illustration was created as part of a Raíces Branch of Community History digital exhibit.
Cosmos for the Pollinators
On the stretch of property between the Casa Pueblo main building and mariposario, or butterfly house, there are stands of flowers to provide food to the released butterflies and other pollinators. These stands of cosmos are self-gaining and self-…
Cover Crops at Finca Mi Casa
This section of Don Luis’s farm had not yet been repaired and replanted after Hurricane Maria, but instead of keeping it mowed and tilled, cover crops were left in place to keep down unwanted weeds, help hold the soil in place as well as regenerate…
Cows Are Wealth
Cows are wealth
Cows at the Market
Cows being sold at the market in the financial crisis of 2009.
Creating Art from Garbage
Participants in the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop create "River Fish" sculptures from litter collected along the banks of the Raritan River.
Creating Eco-Art
Artist Lisa Bagwell works with a program participant and to create a fish sculpture made from garbage collected during a Raritan River clean up held earlier in the day.
Creation Is a Constant
Always creating something new
Crews Restoring Power in Puerto Rico
Pike Electric Trucks, which were seen throughout the island of Puerto Rico by the Raíces Sustainable Disaster Relief Support Crew in January 2018 during our travels through the west and north parts of the island. These trucks bore listen plates from…
Croton
Digital painting of Croton. This botanical illustration was created as part of a Raíces Branch of Community History digital exhibit.
Cuá
The cuá is an instrument that accompanies the barriles de bomba. The cuá is actually the sticks used to play on either a barrel or chunk of bamboo and helps keep the basic rhythm of the bomba strains.
Cuá
Drummer playing the cuá on the side of a barril de bomba.
Cuatrista
José Gabriel Muñoz in his beginning years as a cuatrista in the early 90’s.
Cuatro
Gabriel Muñoz playing the Puerto Rican cuatro as he introduces Jíbaro music from the mountains of Puerto Rico at the Forum Theatre in Metuchen, NJ.
Cuatro - Close Up
Close up José Gabriel Muñoz’s modern ten-string cuatro while he plays after his oral history interview for the Raíces Digital Archive.