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In 2009, Raíces Cultural Center created and presented its first production thanks in part to an award a MINI grant by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission. Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble performed with guest artists and Raícitas…

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Raíces Co-Director Francisco G. Gómez explaining the instruments used in the music of bomba and plena, which is the music most closely related to the tradition of the vejigantes.

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At this Arts and Family Day event, participants got to learn about and meet los vejigantes de Puerto Rico in an interactive presentation and performance.

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After hearing stories about Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico and making their own vejigante masks, participants colored vejigante costumes and masks and later put their artwork on display at the Raíces studio.

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After learning about the history of the vejigantes, families who participated in this Arts and Family Day event worked together on vejigante based crafts.

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Flyer for the 2011 Black History Festival organized by the Lounge Society in New Brunswick, NJ. EVENT DESCRIPTION This annual community festival was packed with performances, art, speakers, children's activities, food, vendors, prizes and more! The…

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Raíces Cultural Center flyer for children’s and adults’ bomba classes held at the Hub City Teen Center in New Brunswick.

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At the Spring Jam community art event, Raíces Cultural Center organized a day of workshops and music performances, as well as collaborations with local family arts organizations. A local Girl Scout troop participated in the festival, attending all…

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Family members involved in the Raícitas Youth Program and Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble in 2011.

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Participant in the Raícitas Youth Program and Family Arts Day proudly displaying his Day of the Dead skull.

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Family Arts and Culture Day participants hung their Day of the Dead themed artwork in the “Historias de los muertos” exhibit at Raíces.

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Raícitas Youth Program participants and their families learn, study and practice the Afropuertorican folkloric tradition of bomba.

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Raíces Cultural Center flyer providing an overview of the organization's cultural arts programs offered at the Eugene Young Environmental Eduction Center in the Fall of 2023.

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Flyer for a poetry performance and workshop held by Glenis Redmond, who was holding a week-long artist residency at the State Theater. Raícitas Youth Program members were invited to attend and participate in this workshop.

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Bomba is community! Students from the audience were invited up to dance bomba before the drum with the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble.

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As part of the 2009 Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico residency program, the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble performed the music, dance and song of bomba and plena at the Greater Brunswick Charter School. As in all bombazos, audience/community…

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Participant in the Raícitas Youth Program and Family Arts and Culture Day working on his Day of the Dead skull. Family Arts and Culture Days provide participants with culturally based arts activities while teaching the stories and histories of a…

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Students from Raícitas Youth Program attended the Orisha Art Exhibit to learn more about the Orishas, or forces of nature. These students had recently begun to learn the songs and dances of the Orishas in their classes.

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Flyer for Raícitas Youth Program “Little Roots” Family Gardening Workshop.

EVENT DESCRIPTION
Join us to learn about Companion Planting, and cultivate some seeds for plants that are friends.

In the Children's Garden at the Reformed Church of…

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Flyer for Raícitas “Little Roots” Toddler Dance, Music and Culture Classes.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Discover the rich history of Afro-Caribbean music & dance!

Learn songs, music and dances together!

Hands on dance, music and…

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Flyer for Raícitas “Little Roots” Family Dance, Music and Song Workshops

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Families are invited to learn, make music, dance and sing together. Participants learn the songs, dances, rhythms, music, traditions, history, art and…

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Flyer for the Raícitas Youth Program “Raíces Means Roots” 4-H club.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Raíces Means "Roots" 4-H Club was open to all local youth K-first year of college and met the first Sunday of Every Month at Raíces Cultural Center.

The…

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Participants in the Raícitas Youth Program learn the music, dance, song and history of the Caribbean folkloric traditions. The student is practicing bomba, an Afro-puertorican folkloric tradition. In bomba, the dancer and the drummer converse, with…
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