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Plena
Playing plena with Segunda Quimbamba.
Plena at the Brooklyn Puerto Rican Day Parade
In June of 2009, Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble members were invited to participate in the Brooklyn Puerto Rican Day Parade, drumming, singing and dancing plena. Plena is a musical tradition that evolved on the island of Puerto Rico. Plena is…
Plena at the Greater Brunswick Charter School
Plena is played on hand-held drums called panderos or panderettas, which look similar to tambourines without the cymbals. They are usually played in a set of three-the bajo, the seguidora and the primo or requinto. There can be many multiple bajos…
Plenera
Plenera playing a pandero and singing a plena with Segunda Quimbamba.
Plenty More Visits
Plenty more visits
Poetry Reading
Poetry from a student
Pollution
Plastic pollution along the Raritan River waterfront, collected by volunteers during the Our Plastic Waters clean up and eco-art workshop as part of the Water Is Life initiative.
Post Clean-Up Sorting
Volunteers and organizers sorting the collected garbage after the river clean up.
Post-María Clean Up Crews
Crews of workers clearing piles of vegetative debris left along roadsides after residents, work crews and brigades of volunteers and community members cleared the roads after Hurricanes Irma and María. There remain questions about what was done with…
Poster for Fiestas de Santiago Apostol
Artist Samuel Lind displaying a screen printed poster from the annual Fiestas de Santiago Apostol.
Posters by Seth Sutton
Posters by Seth Sutton who also contributed his documentary film "wiinwaa niizhaasing (We the 7th)" to the project.
Potable Water
Services and utilities were slowest to return to the interior of the island. In many parts of Utuado, as of January 2018, there was still no running water available, and residents had to haul water from refill stations such as the one pictured here.
Pottery Business
The pottery business in Masikandoro
Powering Samual Lind’s Art Studio Post-Irene
Puerto Rican artist Samuel Lind’s studio has been powered by generator since it lost power in Hurricane Irene. His studio was lucky not to have received much damage in Hurricane María, which was the second hurricane to hit the island in the 2017…
Practicing Kicks
Capoeira is a martial art that is disguised as a dance form. Many of the combat movements used are kicks, which students in Professora Amazonas’ academy practice during classes.
Practicing Maculélé
Like capoeira, maculélé is danced in a circle. It also utilizes a similar arrangement in the batería.
Practicing Maculélé with Machetes
When training, students playing maculélé break from the circle to practice their dance/combat in pairs.
Preparing for a Press Conference at Casa Pueblo
The Casa Pueblo crew preparing for a press conference announcing the launch of the first solar powered radio transmitter on the island of Puerto Rico, which will transmit for Radio Casa Pueblo.
Preparing For the Toilet
Mr. Shumba and Baba Mike looking at the site where they dug for the toilet and rocks collect to use for the building.
Preparing the Earth For Planting Beans
Don Luis and the Raíces crew immediately began preparing earth and planting seeds for a few varieties of beans after Don Luis chose the seed varieties he wanted to grow from the 50 pound box of seeds donated to Raíces by a dozen organic, non-GMO and…
Preparing the Earth For Planting Beans
Don Luis Soto watches over as the Raíces Crew helps prepare a bed for planting beans. This planting was intended for seed saving of three different kinds of bean seeds sent to Puerto Rico to help regenerate a local seed stock. Before planting, the…
Preparing the Soil for Planting
Members of the Raíces Cultural Center Disaster Relief volunteer crew working on Finca Mi Casa with Don Luis Soto, providing a helping hand to prepare and plant a bed of beans being grown for seed saving. All planting beds at Finca Mi Casa is prepared…
Preparing to perform
There are many styles of bomba dresses and costume, both traditional and contemporary. Raíces Cultural Center had these costumes handmade by a local NJ seamstress for their educational performance series Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico in 2009, opting…
Presenter and Participants
Presenter George Heibel and participants of his community seminar "Reflections on Advanced Agriculture Techniques in Guatemala"
Press Conference
Casa Pueblo press conference at the Casa Pueblo home base in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, announcing the launch of the first solar powered radio transmitter on the island of Puerto Rico.