Published on Friday, 27th October 2006 .
Festival Mundial Bantus Capoeira 2006
Originally uploaded by Bantus Capoeira Japan.
Well, I’ve finally uploaded the photos from Cafune’s digital camera onto our flickr site. You can check out the whole album here.
The festival delivered all that is promised and more! From August 21st to 27th it was non-stop capoeira 24 hours a day.
From the moment we stepped off the plane in Belo Horizonte to the final roda at Mestre Pintor’s holiday home in Casa Branca, we trained, played, learned, ate, slept, dreamt, and shopped capoeira!
The seven bantulinos from Tokyo were Caçapa, Cafune, Mico, Quati, Lanterna, Coruja, and Cotonete. Yoshiko, Noriko, and Hiroshi received their new nicknames at their batizado in Brazil!
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Published on Wednesday, 13th September 2006 .
Oi galera!
I got back home 5pm Friday 8th, and classes recommenced Saturday 9th.
It was a really long trip back to Tokyo from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, but I managed to avoid any jetlag.
Cafune and I bought back with us a handful of berimbaus, some pandeiros, and lots of new capoeira pants for sale! They’ll be ready for sale soon. The berimbaus were handmade by Mestre Pintor and Mestre Jaime de Mar Grande, and we have a few cabaças specially hand pyrographed with the Bantus logo. They look awesome even if I say so myself!
We’ve got heaps of shows coming up soon, so keep training hard, we’ll have some special guests dropping in from Bantus Australia, and I’m really inspired to do some more street rodas in Kichijoji.
Mestre Pintor says capoeira is not something to be confined to the classroom or studio. It comes from the streets, and it should be played on the street, a thing of the people, for the people. So let’s share the Bantus spirit in Kichijoji.
More details on the upcoming shows really soon. In the meantime check out the photos from the Bantus Festival in Brazil here and here.
Published on Tuesday, 13th June 2006 .
WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY 2006
May 31.
5 million deaths per year worldwide from tobacco use.
That’s one every 6 seconds!
Thank you to everyone who came to our WNTD06 event last Sunday May 28th!!!
Big axé to you all.
The video will be coming soon, but let me first tell you about the event.
Click the link below to read the full event report, and take a behind-the-scenes look into the exciting life of an Australian Capoeira instructor living in Tokyo, Japan, trying to change the world!
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Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2006 .
Here’s a little sneak peek behind the scenes at GBC Japão:
As part of our advertising campaign for the upcoming Saturday Class in Kichijoji! we’ve paid for an ad to be published in the Metropolis Magazine Classifieds section.
Advertising is one of those necessary expenses that you need to think about really cafeully when promoting your capoeira group. Sure, there’s plenty of ways to advertise for free, the best way is to do public street rodas. That being one of the things that makes Grupo Bantus Capoeira different from other groups. Mestre Pintor’s philosophy is to make capoeira accessible to everyone, not just “those in the know”. So expect at lot of public rodas in Inokashira Park as soon as the weather heats up!
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