Caçapa on Tokyo MX
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Here’s the video from Instrutor Caçapa’s appearance on “The Golden Hour – Yokoso 9Ch”.
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Caçapa on Tokyo MX (Live TV)
Instrutor Caçapa will be appearing on live television in Japan tonight!
Tokyo MX (Channel 9) has invited Caçapa to appear on the show “The Golden Hour – Yokoso 9Ch”. A short talk-show type program aiming to promote Non-Japanese living in, or visiting Japan.
Date: Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Time: 9pm-10pm (Yokoso 9Ch starts around 9.40pm)
Japanese TV or OneSeg: Channel 9, Tokyo MX
If you’re not in Japan then you may be able to watch live using this program, Keyhole TV.
Otherwise stay tuned for the YouTube upload.
オンライン・ショッピング
Instrutor Caçapa here throwing some recommended capoeira stuff your way!
First up, I just got my hands on some PUMA 917 Lo Sneakers, and I gotta say, they are great. They were on sale at Kichijoji Parco’s ABC Mart, but you can buy them online right here from Amazon (US/Japan).
The second recommended shoe comes from our very own GBCJ Kids Capoeira maniac, Oto-chan. The Jinga, a shoe designed just for capoeira.
We’ll have some more info about the shoe helping kids in Brazil soon, but in the meantime, here’s a sneak preview from Amazon (Japan).
More recommended goodies!
2009 Wrap-up
2009 was a year of reflection. We started off with a bang, with several exciting workshops and performances in January and the pace hardly slowed down after that. However, things weren’t all great. Membership dropped off a little in April, we became a smaller, let’s say ‘streamlined’ group. We were not ready to have our 3rd batizado in 2009, or visit our Bantus brothers and sisters in Brazil for the World Meet. Maybe it was a side effect of the Lehman Shock, maybe it was a sign to head in another direction.
Whatever it was, it was time to reflect. It didn’t effect our dedication to capoeira though, just focused our attention more on creating better relationships within the capoeira community in Japan, and creating a better future for GBCJ in 2010.
The 2009 highlights included:
Visiting Guests
Thanks to Instrutor Sabão, Capivara, Chá Mate from GBC Australia, Instrutor Coelho from GBC Malaysia and Mico Estrela for stopping by on your visists to Japan. Thanks to all the visiting capoeira instructors and students from all over the world that also shared their axé at Bantus Capoeira Japan classes and rodas.
Capoeira Kids
From teaching a workshop to 90 excited International Elementary School kids to starting our very own Bantus Capoeira Kids Class, 2009 saw GBCJ planting the seeds for a big, strong capoeira tree.
Capoeira Performances
In 2009 we started regular musical performances at Antaru Cafe 8, giving us another opportunity to share the Bantus Capoeira Axé amongst the community. We also performed on stage in front of appreciative audiences at the Amnesty International Film Festival, MISHOP International Festival in Inokashira Park, Mitaka Sports Festival, and a hugely successful Antaru Festival in Yoyogi Park.
Workshops and Batizado Visits
Although we weren’t able to host our own batizado in 2009, we were invited to many batizados all over Japan and were able to meet many great visiting mestres. Bantus Capoeira Japan’s own Instrutor Caçapa was also invited down to Osaka to teach 2 days of workshops for Força Da Arte at their internal batizado in April.
Bantus Japan 5th Anniversary
2009 also marked the 5th Anniversary of the Grupo Bantus Capoeira in Japan. Looking back at 5 years of capoeira in Tokyo, Japan.
Check out the list of 70 highlights from 2009, read more and leave comments below.
Instrutor Caçapa (GBC Japan), Formado Rafael (GBC Malaysia), and Professor Claudinho (GBC Singapore) appear on Belo Horizonte television in 2003. Caleidoscópio, an arts program featuring street artists and performers invited Grupo Bantus Capoeira to perform on their television show along with other street musicians, actors, magicians, and acrobats.
Promotional video for the New Beginners Class at Event Hall Musashino. I hope you can all make it on Saturday night!
Happy New Year 2010
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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！
2010 is going to be a TORAriffic year!
Thank you everyone that helped us throughout 2009! Through all the ups and downs, our true supporters stuck with us the whole way.
We thank you!
In 2009 we couldn’t have our 3rd batizado, but were able to participate in other batizados in Japan. We were happy to support our capoeira friends.
We also participated in several huge festivals, events, and workshops. More about those events and other highlights in the 2009 Wrap-Up coming soon.
Here’s to a purrrfect year in 2010!
Graphics by Japan Post and Bill Watterson
GBCJ 5th Anniversary
November 28th, 2004 – November 28th, 2009: 5 Years of Bantus Capoeira in Japan!
Thanks to Sorvete for the new gorilla!
Has it already been 5 years since we had our first capoeira class at Mitaka Dai San Chugakkou Junior High School ?
It all started in 2002 in Perth, Western Australia, when Cafuné met Caçapa at capoeira class. The next thing we knew Mestre Pintor was asking us to start Bantus Capoeira in Japan. It has never been an easy path to travel. But through sheer dedication and pure love for the art of capoeira we’ve made it this far.
All GBCJ members have been an important part of the evolution of our group in Tokyo. Through the many collaborations and meetings, our capoeira friends in Japan have been a big support for us. Our Bantus brothers and sisters in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Israel, and Brazil have been a never-ending source of inspiration and motivation! The faith Mestre Pintor put in us to represent GBC in Japan has been the power we needed to continue through the hard times.Thank you all for your support.
In those 5 years we’ve had almost 500 different people from 5 years old to 50 years old from 6 continents participate in our classes!
Our group has performed all over Tokyo at various festivals and events. We’ve appeared on television, radio, on the internet, and in magazines and newspapers and exposed millions of people to the joy of capoeira in Japan and abroad.
As a group, we’ve travelled to Malaysia, Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and all over Tokyo and the Kanto area taking part in various capoeira events with Bantus and other capoeira groups.
We’ve invited 10 Bantus Capoeira instructors over to Tokyo from Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Holland, and Brazil, including Mestre Pintor for special capoeira workshops and our Batizados in 2007 and 2008.
Overall, our accomplishments have been huge and memorable.
Our quest to promote capoeira has been a never ending project that started with handmade business cards printed in an internet cafe to appearing on television all over Asia.
Instrutor Caçapa, Cafuné, and a team of volunteers have been working hard to make sure GBCJ always has a strong presence on the internet.
From our very first website released in 2005 to our current blog, we’ve been at the forefront of internet technology pushing Bantus vibes out across the world wide web.
Thanks to the Web Archive you can take a look at our previous website designs:
Mar 20, 2005, Apr 04, 2005, Jun 16, 2005, Nov 24, 2005, Dec 22, 2005, Aug 13, 2006
Our first blog post, back in 2005.
Now go…
buy our 5th Anniversary commemorative t-shirt!
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Take a look at some videos on YouTube
Check out a few thousand photos on Picasa
One more time, thank you to everyone that supported us these last 5 years. Thanks to Gringo, Chacal, Zoi, Rafael, Claudinho, Canguru, Grão, Lula, Sabão, and Mestre Pintor for your help and advice. Thanks to Cafuné, without you there would be no グルーポバントゥスカポエイラジャパン. The journey continues, the dream lives on. 2010 holds more wonderful experiences that we’ve already started preparing. Our 3rd Batizado and Troca de Cordas, more capoeira kids, more events, more workshops, and more fun for GBCJ!
Axé Galera!!
Instrutor Caçapa, November 2009.
Antaru Festival 2009 (Report)
It was a very successful event full of awesome capoeira and positive Bantus vibes. As you can see from the above video of the full stage performance (20 minutes) we had a large number of guests representing 10 capoeira groups from Tokyo, Chiba, and even Osaka.
A huge thank you and congratulations to Osuman Oralndo Bingle for organizing a very successful 2nd Antaru Festival in Yoyogi Park.
Thank you to Porco Espinho (Capoeira Narahari Tokyo) and Eric (GBCJ) for taking video which you can link to from within the above YouTube video for some alternative camera angles.
A big Bantus Capoeira Axé to the following friends that helped out a lot at this year’s Antaru Festival performance:
World No Tobacco Day Roda
(Above: Graphic warnings displayed on cigarette packs in Australia)
To celebrate “World No Tobacco Day 2009″ Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japan will be holding an open roda on Sunday, May 31st. So come on down to Inokashira Park (井の頭公園) and let’s enjoy a day of fresh air, green grass, and capoeira. After the roda we’ll go out for dinner, so bring your “My Hashi”!
Date: Sunday 31st, May
Time: 1pm-5pm
Location: Inokashira Park (井の頭公園). Next to the Ghibli Museum (ジブリの横) See below for map
Cost: FREE (no entry fee required)
Access: 10 minutes walk from JR Kichijoji Station
Bring your “My Hashi”
No Smoking Please
Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death. More than five million people die from the effects of tobacco every year — more than from HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. It is the only legal consumer product that kills when used exactly as the manufacturer intends. Up to half of all smokers will die from a tobacco-related disease. Second-hand smoke harms everyone who is exposed to it.
Earth Day Open Roda
To celebrate “Earth Day Tokyo 2009″ Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japan will be holding an open roda on Sunday, April 19th. So come on down to Inokashira Koen (井の頭公園) 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 19th, April
Time: 1.00pm-5pm
Location: Inokashira Koen (井の頭公園). Next to the Ghibli Museum (ジブリの横) See below for map
Cost: FREE
Access: 15 minutes walk from JR Kichijoji Station
Bring your “My Hashi”
No Smoking Please
Keep reading for our Environmental Message and Google Maps.
The humble waribashi – disposable wooden, or literally ’split-apart’ chopsticks. Japan consumes a massive 25 billion sets of them every year – about 200 pairs per person.
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All over the world people will be celebrating our environment on Earth Day and thinking of ways they can save the earth. One way you can help save the earth here in Japan is by refusing to use Waribashi (disposable chopsticks).
Get your own pair of “My Hashi” and take them with you everywhere you go. There are thousands of shops where you can get your own portable chopsticks, from the 100yen variety to the now highly fashionable “My Hashi” online store, or collapsible chopsticks you can wear around your neck. Just pop into your local bento shop and have a look around. There are boundless designs to capture your heart, from Hello Kitty to Doraemon, Sakura to Mt. Fuji.
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