Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc
Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc is dedicated to educating, empowering, and inspiring communities in the areas of health, arts, and culture.
As an avid Staten Island community and cultural advocate, Dorcas had partnered with Friends Who Think Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Organization and Universal Temple of the Arts to fulfill the need of implementing the first Juneteenth Freedom Parade with the historical Re-enactment by the SI Freedom Players on Staten Island and Alkebulan Consciousness Rising and other prominent local organizations of community engagement events, i.e. Arts In The Park by bringing awareness to untapped talent, enhancing the health, wellness and cultural education of our youth and cultural diversities on Staten Island, and beautifying Tappen Park through Park clean-ups, the medias of music, dance, theater and visual arts, while commemorating and celebrating Juneteenth, when the news of liberation for people of African descent came to Texas June 1865; these Quarterly Cultural Exchange has shifted the perception of Staten Island and increased the spotlight and support from outside entities.
Additional partnerships JCC Beacon Program at I.S. 49 History and Kwanzaa programs which were inaugurated in 2018 INCLUDING: “Taking It To The Streets: Free Friday Night Films”, July 2020 with Secta 5 Productions and First Central Baptist Church; Juneteenth Re-enactment, June 2021 with local artists; Black Lighthouse Keepers and Life Saving Service members, Feb 2022 with the National Lighthouse Museum and S Black Heritage; “Taking It To The Streets Back-To-School Film & Festival at Empire Outlets”, September 2022, Kwanzaa Celebration: 7 Days 7 Principles 7 Communities December 26, 2022 through January 1, 2023 with Janet G. Robinson aka "The Kwanzaa Lady and Gregory Taylor, Alkebulan Consciousness Rising; Black History Through Time and Sound, February 28, 2023 with JCC Beacon Program at I.S. 49, Alkebulan Consciousness and Jason Price and Juneteenth Freedom Parade & Festival at Tappen Park-Stapleton, June 17, 2023, The Freedom Ball, February 2024, Arts In The Park at Tappen Park, May 2024, Fall Freedom Festival at Tappen Park in collaboration with NYC Parks and Recreation, October 2024 and are growing from strength to strength.