Photo Galleries: “Our Roots, Our Nature” Visual Arts Program Series – 2025
Check out some highlight photos from the “Our Roots, Our Nature” program series at Raíces Cultural Center, which included 8 public workshops, a community mural project, and the installation and opening reception of the “Natural Migration: Milkweed” visual art exhibit.
Raíces Cultural Arts Classes 2025
Check out some highlight photos from our classes and family cultural arts workshops on the Raíces blog, and come out to experience some Caribbean dance and drum by joining one of our weekly classes, bomba practice lab or Family Cultural Arts workshops.
¡Dímelo! Open Mic Photo Album
Photos from our ¡Dimelo! Open Mic events held in Winter and Spring 2025.
Where We Live: NEA Big Read Photo Album
Photos from our NEA Big Read public program series, documenting our projects, programs, events and creative works inspired by the book Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Raíces Cultural Center Accepted into Internet Archive’s Community Webs Partnership Program
Raíces Cultural Center has been accepted as a partner in the Internet Archive’s Community Webs project, providing tools and training to grow Raíces digital archive and preserve community history.
Support Spotlight: Raíces Receives Phase 9 Grant from New Jersey Arts & Culture Renewal Fund
Raíces Cultural Center has been awarded an NJCH Action Grant to develop a series of digital exhibits and a project portal landing page for our Family Ties: Stories that Inspire Community History project.
Rest in Peace our Dear Sister Evelyn Sepulveda
The closest reference to the Latin phrase, “In ictu oculi,” “Life is a blink of an Eye,” seems to be apropos to our dear sister’s passing.
Support Spotlight: Raíces Receives NJCH Action Grant
Raíces Cultural Center has been awarded an NJCH Action Grant to develop a series of digital exhibits and a project portal landing page for our Family Ties: Stories that Inspire Community History project.
VIDEO: NJHC Grantee Spotlight – Inclusive History Grant
In FY2023 Raíces Cultural Center received an Inclusive History from the New Jersey Historical Commission project grant to conduct oral history interviews with herbalists, healers and descendants of practitioners from diverse cultural backgrounds and healing traditions.
Support Spotlight: Raíces Receives Middlesex County Technical Assistance Grant for 2024
Raíces Cultural Center has received a Technical Assistance grant for 2024 to support the design and development of our website based Community History collections, projects and digital exhibits.