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100 anos do Intercâmbio Japão-Brasil

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日本ブラジル交流年
（Ano do Intercâmbio Japão-Brasil）
（2008年は日本ブラジル交流年です）

100 years of exchange

Today I received a special email from Mestre Pintor, it reads like this:

Mensagem a todos alunos e ao povo Japonês

Hoje, dia 18/06/2008, quarta-feira, completa 100 anos da imigração japonesa no Brasil, e agradecemos muito aos pioneiros por trazerem ao Brasil um pouco do Japão e podermos conhecer melhor o quanto é importante a participação do japonês no Brasil. Obrigado por vocês viverem junto conosco aqui, e que sejam sempre “bem vindos”. Nós gostamos muito de vocês!!!

Today, 18/06/2008, Wednesday, marks 100 years of Japanese immigration in Brazil, and we are thankful to the pioneers for bringing to Brazil a little bit of Japan and to be able to know better how important the participation of the Japanese in Brazil is. We are thankful that we can live here together, and that you are always welcome in Brazil. We love you guys!

Grupo Bantus Capoeira - Mestre Pintor

Ministry of Foreign Affairs homepage

100 Years of Exchange between Brazil and Japan - Streaming Video in Japanese

flickr update

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flickr update

I finally managed to upload some old photos that have been lying around on DVD for a little while. More coming soon…

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Tamagawa 300m Matsuri

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3rd Anniversary and Bonenkai 2007

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Antaru Festival 2007

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Batizados and Open Rodas

While you’re at it, why not check out all our photosets on flickr!

Earth Day Roda

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Earth Day Roda

Open Roda

To celebrate “Earth Day Tokyo 2008″ Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japan will be holding an open roda on Sunday, April 20th. So come on down to Tachikawa Showa Kinen Koen - Midori no Bunka (Green Culture) Center and let’s enjoy a day of fresh air, green grass, and capoeira.

After the roda we’ll go out for dinner. Whoever forgets to bring their “My Hashi” has to pay for someone else!

Date: Sunday 20th, April

Time: 1.30pm-5pm

Location: Tachikawa Showa Kinen Koen - Midori no Bunka Center

Cost: FREE (no entry fee required)

Access: 10 minutes walk from JR Tachikawa Station Map, Google Map

Bring your “My Hashi”

Midori no Bunka Center

No Smoking Please

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2007 Wrap-Up

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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.

Links 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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.

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Google Group Email List

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Google Group Email List for GBCJ members only. If you’re a current member of Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japan, please join now to keep up-to-date. You can also upload and download private documents, photos, videos etc. I hope this will help us to have a more effective and efficient communication between instructors and students, and within the student body here at GBCJ.

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Blog Update

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We finally worked out all the bugs and uploaded the “new” Bantus Capoeira Japan blog for 2008. At first glance it may just look like the colours have changed, but have a good look around. Check out the links at the top of the page. Things have changed over at “カポエイラとは？”, “バントゥスとは？”, “クラスとは？”, “Capoeira?”, “Bantus?”, and “Class?”. We’ve also added Gravatars to the commenting on our blog. And have a good click around the sidebar area on the right. New videos, photos, mp3s, and other links.

Thanks to our translation team for the Japanese pages.

Thanks to Tartaruga from GBC Malaysia for your help with the back end.

Keep checking for more updates.

Happy New Schedule

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Happy New Schedule

Starting from Monday January 14th we’ll have a brand new schedule. I believe the new schedule is our best yet, allowing our members the greatest opportunity to improve their capoeira with GBCJ. During the week we’ll have two training days, Monday and Wednesday starting at 7.30pm and finishing around 8.45pm. Doors open at 7pm giving you enough time to change and get ready for class. The weekends will be changing too. Saturday class will take place during the day and has been extended. Sunday will be open to special capoeira events, special training, rodas, parties, and meetings.

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Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year 2008!!!

2008 Cafune and Cacapa

2008

On behalf of Cafune and Caçapa, to all the members of Grupo Bantus Capoeira around the world, and especially in Japan, we wish you a happy new year and may 2008 bring you much happiness and success!

Feliz Ano Novo!
あけましておめでとうございます、今年もろよしくお願いします！
Happy New Year!

Stay tuned for the 2007 Wrap-Up report and “special thank yous” to everyone who was a part of GBCJ in the past year.

Graphics by Japan Post

Global Citizens on Channel NewsAsia International

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Caçapa and Cafune’s Wedding on Global Citizens

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If you’re in South East Asia tonight make sure you glue your eyes to Channel NewsAsia and check out Caçapa and Cafune’s Japanese Wedding on the new program Global Citizens.

The crew from Moving Visuals flew over from Singapore in October to conduct a few interviews and capture some of the magic of our wedding here in Tokyo. Check out the beautiful scenery, get a behind-the-scenes look at an expat’s life in the Megalopolis that never sleeps, see some of the fascinating take on a modern Japanese wedding with a capoeira twist!

Date: Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Time: Singapore + Hong Kong + Manila at 10pm, Delhi at 10:30pm and Jakarta at 9pm. Please check your local listings for exact timings in your city

Batizado 2007

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1º Batizado de Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japão

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Batizado Poster

The team at Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japão is madly working away behind the scenes putting the finishing touches on the festival preparations.

Things are looking good, our Brazilian guests are packing their suitcases and bringing some extra axé and a little bit of dendê (I hope it clears customs). The energy is going to be intense, and GBCJ is going to be transported to Brazil for one week of workshops, rodas, show and the batizado. The impossible will be possible, the unimaginable will come true, and the magical transformational powers of capoeira will be working overtime on the people of Tokyo. Mandinga!

This is not going to be any ordinary week. This is going to be a life changing experience. So please don’t miss a minute of it. Tell your boss you’re sick for the week, or even better yet, invite your boss too! Bring your mum and dad, bring your brother and sister , tell all your friends and neighbours. I know some of you already have! THANK YOU.

So what is the batizado? Keep reading.

Date: Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Time: 12pm-4.30pm. Batizado, Open Roda, and Outdoor Party. After party in Kichijoji starts at 6pm

Location: Tachikawa Showa Kinen Koen, Mina no Harappa/Open Field. Access, Area Guide, Download the park map

Cost: GBCJ Members: 10,000yen includes batizado cord and t-shirt. Non-members: 3000yen for batizado t-shirt. Open Roda is free

Dress: GBCJ Members: White Bantus Capoeira pants and white/colour cord and batizado t-shirt. Non-members: White t-shirt and capoeira pants of your group

Park entrance fee: Adults: 400. Kids: 80yen

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