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Kombucha Workshop
Dan Farella explains the healing, medicinal and nutritional properties of kombucha.
Kombucha Workshop Flyer
Flyer for Raíces Natural Arts Workshop with Dan Farella
Kombucha
EVENT DESCRIPTION
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Participants will be taken step by step through the process of preparing a new kombucha brew, the caring and feeding of kombucha cultures…
Kombucha
EVENT DESCRIPTION
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Participants will be taken step by step through the process of preparing a new kombucha brew, the caring and feeding of kombucha cultures…
Kushonongorwa ne Mari
Kushonongorwa ne Mari is a cultural practise
Kwanzaa Celebration
The Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble was asked to share the traditions and cultures of the Caribbean through music, dance and song as part of the 2010 NAACP Kwanzaa Celebration. Raíces Ensemble members are pictured here playing batá and singing to…
La casa de los Ayalas
Citizens and tourists gathered around the home of the “Ayalas” in the city of Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico. The Ayala family are the premier exponents of the bomba and plena, an Afro -Puerto Rican musical tradition.
La Coca - Closed
The road into El Yunque National Forest was open in January 2018, but only up until the parking lot directly below La Coca waterfall. The road was too dangerous to travel past this point, with landslides, debris and collapsed roads still a challenge.
La Coca Falls Post-María
La Coca waterfall in El Yunque National Forest. The effects of Hurricane María could be seen in the sparse foliage of the normally lush rainforest.
La Coca Waterfall
Waterfall La Coca in El Yunque National Rain Forest Luquillo, Puerto Rico.
La Cosecha - The Harvest
As Don Luis tours his home based farm, he harvests fruits and leaves from the plants that are growing for visitors to sample. Three months after Hurricane María devastated the island of Puerto Rico, Don Luis and other small, local farmers already had…
La Henriqueta
This land is where the former enslaver Eduardo Lind lived. It was once a sugar plantation called "La Henriqueta". This property was visited by the attendees of the 5th Bomba Research Conference as "an opportunity for site-specific learning where…
La Henriqueta
The land where the former Lind family sugarcane plantation stood in Arroyo, Puerto Rico is now property of the electric company and there is no on-site indication of its historic significance. If not for events and programs like the 5th Bomba…
La Lucha Continúa
Mural in San Juan, Puerto Rico that reads “La Lucha continúa…NO a la Junta de Control Fiscal!”, meaning “The struggle continues…NO to the fiscal control oversight board.”
La luz redentora - Plegaria de misa/rumba
The Plegarias, or spiritual masses, are taken from the Espiritismo liturgy as practiced on the island of Cuba and in the diaspora.
Lady Liberty Litter
Statue of Liberty image printed on some of the litter collected during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop and riverfront clean up.
Lake Guajataca
View of Lake Guajataca in January 2018. Water levels are visibly low as the lake is being drained in order to begin repair work on the dam which was breached during Hurricane María in September 2017.
Lake Guajataca Overspill
Water flowing into one of the overspills from Lake Guajataca as it is being drained.
Landslide - Las Marías
Over 25,000 landslides were catalogued throughout the island of Puerto Rico in the months following Hurricane María. High concentrations of these landslides occurred in mountain towns like Las Marías.
Landslide in El Yunque
A small landslide along the road in El Yunque National Forest.
Landslides
The first major landslide we came across while driving on our first day in Puerto Rico on our January 2018 disaster relief and recovery support trip. We were later to find out this this was just 1 of over 25,000 landslides that have been mapped…
Large Pan Flutes
These large pan flutes are one of the staples of Andean Music. Andean Music traditionally consists of only two types of musical instruments,wind and percussion.
( https://www.pura-aventura.com/pothole/all-you-need-to-know-about-andean-music)
( https://www.pura-aventura.com/pothole/all-you-need-to-know-about-andean-music)
Las Marías
Mountain view from Plenitud Eco-Iniciativas in Las Marías, Puerto Rico.
Layers of the Coconut
Angela Lugo explains the healing, medicinal and nutritional properties of coconut and the many uses we have for them.
Learning How It All Began
Listening to the history of how it all started and the food is being prepared.
Learning percussion
Raíces Cultural Center provides arts and music education to the community. Here a student is learning the basics of Afro-Caribbean percussion with teacher and Raíces Co-Director Francisco G. Gómez