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).
Check out the list of highlights from 2007, read more and leave comments below.
- New Bantus Online Store: January 3rd
- 2007 classes commence: January 13th
- The first Bring-A-Friend-Day: January 13th and 14th
- 3 week Kids Capoeira Workshop, Mitaka: January 27th - February 10th
- Shinnenkai, Nijyu Maru, Kichijoji: February 11th
- Nudist Beach, Club Core, Roppongi: February 17th
- Namakemono Mail introduced: February 25th
- March in March (National Union of General Workers Tokyo Nambu), Shibuya: March 11th
- Annual General Meeting, 2007: March 11th
- Capoeira Camp, Yamanashi: March 24th & 25th
- Hanami and Park Roda, Showa Kinen Koen, Tachikawa: April 1st
- New Tuesday classes at Event Hall Musashino, Kichijoji: April 3rd
- Nudist Beach, Club Core, Roppongi: April 21st
- Regional Japão Open Roda, Kichijoji: April 22nd
- Marana Open Roda, Ibaraki: April 29th
- Farewell Party for Sorvete and Street Roda, Kichijoji: May 6th
- Design Festa, Tokyo Big Sight: May 26th & 27th
- World No Tobacco Day (Information booklets): May 31st
- Ache Brasil Batizado, Osaka: June 17th
- BumB presentation, Tokyo: June 30th
- Metropolis Podcast Episode 693 part 1, 12min20sec, July 5th
- Workshops and Street Rodas with Professor Gringo, Kichijoji: July 3rd to 8th
- Open Roda with Gringo, Go Sho: July 7th
- Festa Junina, Noodle chafe&bar, Kichijoji: July 8th
- Grupo Tempo Batizado, Takadanobaba: July 15th
- Nação Capoeira Batizado, Go Sho, Inokashira: July 22nd
- Park Roda, Showa Kinen Koen, Tachikawa: July 29th
- GBCJ Meeting, Kichijoji: August 5th
- Marana Batizado, Ibaraki: August 19th
- Asakusa Samba Carnival, Asakusa: August 25th
- Metropolis Podcast Episode 702 part 1, 13min00sec, September 7th
- Workshops with Graduado Zoi: September 3rd - 6th
- Workshop with Instrutor Rafael: September 7th
- Street Roda with Graduado Zoi, Graduado Claudinho, and Instrutor Rafael, Kichijoji: September 7th
- Workshops with Graduado Zoi, Graduado Claudinho, and Instrutor Rafael, Shinjukumura LIVE: September 8th
- bantus festa LIVE, Shinjukumura LIVE: September 8th
- 1º Batizado de Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japão, Showa Kinen Koen, Tachikawa: September 9th
- Batizado After Party and Street Roda, Kichijoji: September 9th
- 1st World Capoeira Meeting and Decade of Bantus Capoeira Australia, Perth, Australia: September 17th - 30th
- Caçapa and Cafune’s AQWA Wedding, Perth: September 28th
- Caçapa and Cafune’s Happoen Wedding, Tokyo: October 5th
- Mitaka Sports Festival, Mitaka: October 8th
- Nudist Beach, Club Asia, Shibuya: October 12th
- Antaru Festival and Park Roda, Yoyogi Park: November 11th
- New Google Map and directions launched: November 15th
- GBCJ Podcast introduced: November 27th
- GBCJ EGM, Inokashira: December 2nd
- Namakemono Blog introduced: December 5th
- troca de fundamentals de capoeira, Ikebukuro: December 16th
- Open Roda and 3rd Bonenkai, Kichijoji: Decmeber 22nd
- Caçapa and Cafune’s Wedding on Global Citizens: December 30th
Of course all of the above would not have been possible without some serious blood, sweat, and tears! 2007 was an exhausting year where sleep and rest took a back-seat to focus, concentration, and hard work. Making posters, flyers, promo-videos, t-shirts, application forms, proposals, and updating the blog. Long distance phones calls to Brazil, emails around the world, sending invitations, committee meetings, sponsorship meetings, searching for venues, making applications for visas, finding apartments for our guests, distributing flyers, advertising in the media. And let’s not forget teaching eight lessons per week!
GBCJ Committee 2007
GBC Japão 委員会 2007
Chairperson責任者: Caçapa (Marcello Pietrantonio)
Vice- Chairperson副責任者: Cafune (Kinuko Pietrantonio)
Secretary秘書・書記: Lanterna (Yoshiko Makita)
Treasurer会計: Guarana (Yuki Goto)
Events Coordinator行事・イベントコーディネーター: Coruja (Noriko Tsukada)
Promotions Officer宣伝係: Cotonete (Hiroshi Tsumura)
Translation Team
Lanterna, Miniatura, Chaveirinho, Sorriso, Bambu, Peta, Risadinha, Girrasol, Cafune
Festival Team
Cafune, Lanterna, Guarana, Cotonete, Espantalho, Barril, Pikachu, Formiga, Tatu, Máskara, Sorriso and Frank (thanks brother!)
Multimedia Team
Cotonete, Pikachu, Mico, Barril, Espantalho
Special Help
Sorvete (& Gorilla Bantus)
GBCJ Class of 2007
Caçapa, Cafune, Mico, Lanterna, Peta, Requeijão, Miniatura, Largatixa, Risadinha, Cotonete, Guarana, Bambu, Topeira, Tatu, Barril, Chaveirinho, Girrasol, Formiga, Pinóquio, Pikachu, Sorriso, Máskara, Jesse, Sakuraba, Palito, Beija Flor, Machado, Espantalho, E.T, Joaninha, Takehiro Sasaki, Toshihiro Kataoka, Yukari Hirabayashi
ありがとうございました
MUITO OBRIGADO
THANK YOU
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