ABOUT RAÍCES CULTURAL CENTER
Our Mission
Raíces Cultural Center, a NJ Nonprofit Corporation is dedicated to preserving cultural roots through the arts, history and ecology.
Raíces works to preserve Caribbean and other cultures as reflected in music, art, dance, history and the natural arts. Raíces Cultural Center’s principal goal is the investigation, compilation, documentation, preservation, and dissemination of traditional Caribbean culture through art, history and ecology.
Our Vision
Raíces means roots. Raíces Cultural Center has put down its roots in the Hub City of New Brunswick, creating a home for the cultural arts and sustainable ecology in Central NJ.
Raíces seeks to foster a vibrant community of artists and create a center for exploration, collaboration and cultural fusion within the performing, visual and media arts as well as, their connection with Nature and Planet Earth. We believe that the arts and Nature form an intrinsic bond between Mother Earth and Humans, and that this collaboration expands the creative process innate in the human experience. We encourage all participants to join this endeavor in the hopes of fomenting a new consciousness that will re-heal Mother Earth and thereby preserve the global cultural experience.
Raíces Cultural Center provides hands on opportunities to individuals that wish to learn about sustainable ecology and its connection to culture from an artistic perspective. art, music, dance, spoken word and folkloric traditions. Raíces does mean “ROOTS,” Hence the unifying forces of humans and earth working in conjunction for a new future.
OUR TEAM
Co-Founder, Executive Director, Music Director
View ProfileFrancisco G. Gómez
Co-Founder, Program Director
View ProfileNicole Wines
Community Historian
Profile Coming Soon!Natalie Saldarriaga
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chair, Board of Directors
Angela Lugo
Member, Board of Directors
Dr. Miraida Morales
Member, Board of Directors
Marisol González
Member, Board of Directors
Evelyn Sepulveda
Member, Board of Directors
Melina Harvin
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Raíces Cultural Center’ is a non-profit that relies on donations and grants to keep our work going (and growing) strong. Your donations are tax deductible.
Our VALUES
Raíces Cultural Center is committed to:
- Creative expression and exploration
- Artistic excellence and education
- Cultural exchange and dialogue
- Collaboration and cooperativism
- Equitable opportunities for artists and community members
Our GOALS
Raíces Cultural Center seeks to:
- Provide the Central NJ community with cultural, educational, artistic and historical programming, with a focus on the history and evolution of the Caribbean folkloric traditions.
- Provide opportunities to local community to attend affordable artistic, creative and ecological events and educational programs.
- Document the history and evolution of the Caribbean performing arts through archiving, research, publications, resource catalogs, documentaries and other content production.
- Encourage and inspire the community to participate in the arts and sustainable ecological living.
- Cultivate and develop the talents of students dedicated to the performing, visual, and ecological arts.
- Establish a permanent eco-preserve homestead/arts center to facilitate the exploration of the cultural and ecological arts and sciences