2007 Wrap-up
Wow! What a year!
2007 was our biggest year yet! With the help of the GBCJ committee, GBCJ Action Teams, volunteers, and friends, Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japan was able to host and take part in some huge events and some awesome projects!
Design Festa
2007 saw GBCJ perform live to a huge and highly receptive audience in Tokyo Big Sight at Design Festa vol. 25. It was also our first time to perform maculelê live.
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Professor Gringo in Tokyo
2007 also saw our very first guest Bantus instructor Professor Gringo arrive in Tokyo. He brought with him fellow Bantulinos Shireen and Chacal for one week of fantastic workshops, street rodas in Kichijoji, an Open Roda, and Festa Junina.
Our first Batizado!
And without a doubt the highlight for GBCJ in 2007 was our very first capoeira festival and batizado with not one, not two, but three invited guest Bantus instructors Zoi, Claudinho, and Rafael and a bunch of guests from around Tokyo, and as far as Ibaraki, Gunma, Shizuoka, and Sapporo!
Trip Down Under
With the axé still high from our batizado, 10 GBCJ members hopped onto a plane and flew south to Perth, Australia for the huge event that was the 1st World Capoeira Meeting and Decade of Bantus Capoeira Australia. We took part in workshops of capoeira, samba, instrument making, and even Aboriginal dance. We met hundreds of other Bantulinos from Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Holland and Brazil. We also met up with Mestre Pintor (GBC Brazil), Mestre Escamoso (GBC Brazil), Graduado Zoi (GBC Holland), Graduado Claudinho (GBC Singapore), Instrutor Rafael (GBC Malaysia), Instrutor Grão (GBC Brazil), and Instrutor Geléia (GBC Germany). We also met Contra-Mestre Borracha (Capoeiracre - Sydney), and Professor Vira Lata (Ginga Mundo - Melbourne).
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