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Mr. Chiduku is a farmer and he donated Soya beans to this community.

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Mr. Shumba

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Mr Shumba died but he had a story and it needs to be told.

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Mrs.Shumba in her kitchen.

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Muertos, directly translated to "the dead", or ancestors, play a large role in Cuban spiritual traditions. The ancestors are always honored before any ceremony or celebration for the Orishas begin.

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The Puerto Rican flag appeared on many murals and pieces of street art seed throughout the one week trip Raíces made in January 2018, four months after Hurricane Maria.

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Mural seen on Calle Calma neighborhood walking tour of the 5th Bomba Research Conference.

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Mural on one of the buildings in the yard of Casa Pueblo. The organization is dedicated to ecology and education, as well as committed to culture and the arts.

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NJ musician Dean Warren Schomburg on a cultural arts exchange trip in Havana, Cuba.

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

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César Vele of Grupo INKHAY plays at the Raíces Roots Concert Series 2018, a program with a mission to bridge cultures through the universal language of music.

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The music created from dreams and and not written

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

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Professora Amazonas (Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira) and Instrutora Cuica (Capoeira Mandinga) demonstrate the berimbau and the agogô, transitioning from the music of capoeira to samba.

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The heartbeat of the music of capoeira revolves around the drums and the berimbau.

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The musicians of Grupo INKHAY play over two dozen musical instruments. Among the wind instruments, they play a variety of pan-pipes known to the natives as "sikus", "antaras" or "zampoñas". They also play end-nocthed vertical flutes called kenas,…

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In my culture muzukuru comes to intervine and help. Midiah was my muzukuru and best friend, sadly she passed away in 2014 (she is the one on the left).

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A species of monarch endemic to the island of Puerto Rico. This type of monarch does not migrate off the island. This butterfly was in the mariposa, or butterfly house, at Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas. Breeding and providing habitat for butterflies and…

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Flyer for the New Brunswick Community Garden Coalition’s 2012 seed swap.

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Raíces participated in this Seed Swap and New Brunswick Community Garden Orientation event setting up our own Seed Library table with seeds to share and…

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Flyer for a group art exhibit “New World Border”

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NEW WORLD BORDER

ARTISTS FROM ACROSS THE US RESPOND TO THE BORDER WALL NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED BETWEEN THE US AND MEXICO

EXHIBIT DATES June 3-July 5, 2011
OPENING…

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Photograph of Silent Knight with other members of the News Beat team.Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:"Delving further into community work, but also journalism, I became the first artist-in-residence for a new podcast called News Beat.…

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Head of State Obasanjo, second from left, went to visit the Epe General Hospital where Mohammed Talukder on the right with his back turned is speaking about how the surgical skills were improved at the hospital as well as how there was more…

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Night time at Masikandoro

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There was no help from Rural District council
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