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Art and Family
Families making art together for the community at the Raritan River Art Walk.
Community Arts at the Raritan River Art Walk
Raíces Cultural Center collaborated with the Community Arts Mural Project, Family Arts Movement and Albus Cavus to provide a day of arts and culture along the public Raritan River Art Walk.
Street Art at Monster Jam
At the Monster Jam community art event, professional artists worked with local youth on collaborative artwork along the Raritan River Art Walk.
Raícitas Dance Class
From 2009-2010, Raíces Cultural Center held classes at the Hub City Teen Center in New Brunswick. Classes were held for children and adults. Participants learned the folkloric traditions of the Caribbean in dance, music and song. Almost one…
Samba Mural
Temporary mural created by an unknown artist on the Raritan River Art Walk during the Streets2k9 Festival event, depicting a samba drummer.
Hands On Fermenting
The workshop was hands on, participants made their own ferments out of organic vegetables to take home and enjoy.
How to Ferment Foods
The secret ingredients-water and salt.
Fermenting Foods
Dan Farella explains the chemical process of fermentation.
Capoeira: Culture and Community
The Emerging Artists Group exhibit was organized by local artist Elaine Morales, who also brought members of the capoeira school she belongs to, Grupo Senzala. The group did a capoeira demonstration among the artwork of local art students.
Tags: Capoeira, culture, New Brunswick, Raíces Cultural Center, Zumbi
Culture is Family
Family members involved in the Raícitas Youth Program and Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble in 2011.
Sharing Knowledge and Culture at the Raíces Open House
All Raícitas share what they learn at community events, open houses, family performances and cultural festivals. These Raícitas presented the history and meaning of bomba.
Family Bombazo
Raícitas Youth Program participants and their families learn, study and practice the Afropuertorican folkloric tradition of bomba.
Layers of the Coconut
Angela Lugo explains the healing, medicinal and nutritional properties of coconut and the many uses we have for them.
Coconut Water
Coconut water draining.
Coconut Water
Pouring out coconut water.
How to Open a Coconut
Raíces Co-Director Francisco G. Gómez breaks open a coconut so participants can taste the water and see the layers inside.
Herbal Healing Workshop: Coconut
Herbal Healing workshop presenter Angela Lugo gave a class solely dedicated to coconut.
Caribbean Cooking Herbs
Angela prepared samples of food and herbs and shared recipes so participants could cook the nutritious and healing dishes themselves.
Herbal Healing with Food
Participants taste the results of cooking with herbs.
Church Puerto Coelli
Church Puerto Coelli in San German, Puerto Rico.
El Yunque Bamboo
Bamboo in El Yunque National Rain Forest Luquillo, Puerto Rico.
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.
Bombazo
Bombazo on a beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico.