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Cuban Congas
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.
Cultural Collaboration
Raíces Cultural Center was able to present a variety of traditions that honor the ancestors through music, song and dance thanks to a cultural collaboration with Grupo Ribeiro from New York City, who presented the Brazilian traditions of the caboclo…
Cultural Collaboration
Professora Amazonas (Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira), Instrutora Cuica (Capoeira Mandinga), and Instrutora Canarinha (Capoeira Sol Nascente) taking a group photo after their collaborative demonstration of the rhythms and movements of capoeira at the…
Cultural Concert in Highland Park
The Raíces Folkloric Ensemble performs the Puerto Rican folkloric tradition of bomba in a concert dedicated to folkloric music of the Caribbean.
Cultural Exchange: Fundación Ismael Rivera
Raíces co-founder and Archive Curator Nicole Wines with Eugenia Ivelisse Rivera, sister of Ismael Rivera and director of the Fundación Ismael Rivera.
Cultural Legacy Festival 2012 Program Flyer
Flyer for 2013 Cultural Legacy Festival.
EVENT DESCRIPTION
Join us for a day of celebration and exploration of cultural roots through the arts.
All are invited to participate in workshops and hands-on activities, watch cultural demonstrations…
EVENT DESCRIPTION
Join us for a day of celebration and exploration of cultural roots through the arts.
All are invited to participate in workshops and hands-on activities, watch cultural demonstrations…
Cultural Legacy Festival 2013 Program Flyer
Flyer for 2013 Cultural Legacy Festival workshop series.
EVENT DESCRIPTION
November 19: Mapping Legacies with Diana Sanderson-Collage Workshop
November 21: West African Dance with Liana Conyers-Dance Workshop
-December 3: Sephardic Storytelling…
EVENT DESCRIPTION
November 19: Mapping Legacies with Diana Sanderson-Collage Workshop
November 21: West African Dance with Liana Conyers-Dance Workshop
-December 3: Sephardic Storytelling…
Cultural Traditions
These Cultural traditions at their best
Culture is Beautiful
Culture is beautiful and we are losing all this
Culture is Family
Family members involved in the Raícitas Youth Program and Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble in 2011.
Cupcake
Cupcake made out of plastic utensils and bottle caps.
Curcuma
Digital painting of Curcuma. This botanical illustration was created as part of a Raíces Branch of Community History digital exhibit.
Curious About the Footprint
Curious about what type of foot print this is
Cutting Patchouli
Plenitud PR intern Briana cutting patchouli and creating bunches to use as mulch. This adds rich organic matter to the soil as it breaks down, and the patchouli plant regenerates it’s leaves quickly, making a it a renewable green fertilizer. The…
Damaged Greenhouse Post-Hurricane Maria
Some of the damage to the screened in greenhouse at Finca Mi Casa in Camuy, Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria. Almost immediately after the Hurricane, a work brigade of volunteers from Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto…
Damaged Structure
Damaged outbuilding at a family home in Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico, missing it’s roof and walls.
Damaged Structure - Adjuntas
Damaged and abandoned structure in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Evidence of raging floodwaters brought by Hurricane María is clear in this image. The rose high enough and was moving fast enough to destroy the concrete staircase, remove the concrete layer…
Damaged Structures - Utuado
Blue tarp roofs dotted the landscape throughout the island, both on the coast and in the mountains. Debris was also seen throughout the mountains, such as the sheet metal seen to the left of the house structure in this photo.
Dan Farella and his Kombucha S.C.O.B.Y.s
Kombucha is not a fungus, it’s a S.C.O.B.Y. (Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria and Yeast)
Dance for the Dead
A dance for the dead (or 'muertos'/ancestors). In the Cuban Orisha tradition, homage is paid to the ancestors before any ceremony or celebration begins.
Dancing After the Meeting
Dancing after the meeting
Dancing Before the Drum
Bomba dancer dancing before the drum.
Dancing Before the Drum
Don Miguel Flores Lopez and Melanie Maldonado dancing before the drum in the plaza of Juncos, Puerto Rico at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores.
Dancing Before the Drum - Don Miguel Flores Lopez
Don Miguel Flores Lopez was a bomba dancer from Guayama, and was the last dancer to preserve and share the old style bomba dance from his town, having danced bomba for over 75 years.
Dancing before the Drum - Maculelê
Capoeira Senzala shares the Afro-Brazilian tradition of Maculelê in Highland Park, NJ as part of the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.