IMPORTANT!!!: Please note that the Batizado Ceremony on Sunday 8th Nov will be held at Jaya One, Jalan Universiti, PJ

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Okay, lets try that again. My apologies for Monday’s no show by Paulo as there was some mis-communication between him and myself. We will be having another free trial this coming Monday 19th of October

Regular classes  will probably be on the weekends once or twice a week at academy. Fees to be determined but no worries, it should not be too expensive.

• What: Free Trial Portuguese Classes
• Where: Bantus Capoeira Academy, DJ
• Date/Time: 9:30pm to 10:15pm, Monday 19th October 2009

Again, for more info about this year’s 6th Annual Bantus Capoeira Malaysia Festival, see the the posts below.

Register now for the 6th Annual Bantus Capoeira Festival 2009! This year we will be hosting Mestre, Profesor Claudinho, Graduado Grau, and Contre Mestre Silvio. Our family has grown across the Klang valley this year and this is a great time to get together and meet all your Bantus brothers and sisters.

**Download your registration form here. Print out, fill up and pass to either Rafa or Quek.

Schedule of Events: Adults

Batizado Packages

Festival Package (Members Only) - Members: RM 320

1. FREE CLASSES FOR NOVEMBER
2. Attend ALL workshops
3. Attend ALL rodas
4. Festival T-Shirt
5. Attend Batizado Ceremony

Standard Festival Package - Members: RM 280, Non-Members: RM 350

1. Attend ALL workshops
2. Attend ALL rodas
3. Festival T-Shirt
4. Attend Batizado Ceremony

**Download your registration form here.

Abada Promotion

Buy a brand new pair of abadas for only RM 100 with your Festival Package

To purchase your Festival Package please talk to Quek or Rafa at the academy… or wherever you happen to bump in to them!

Schedule of Events: Kids (under age 16)

Kids Festival Packages

Bantus Capoeira Kids Package with Uniform - Price: RM 180

1. Kids Workshop with Mestre
2. Festival T-Shirt
3. Official Bantus Capoeira Abadas (Pants)
4. Attend Batizado Ceremony

Bantus Capoeira Kids’ Package without Uniform - Price: RM 120

1. Kids Workshop with Mestre
2. Festival T-Shirt
3. Attend Batizado Ceremony

**Download your registration form here.

Important Notes About the Batizado Ceremony

Please note that your registration for the festival does not automatically guarantee that you will receive your first or new belts during the ceremony. Our mestre and your instructor will be responsible to award eligible students with their new belts at their discretion.

You are required to own a pair of official Bantus Capoeira Abadas (Pants) to be eligible to for grading.

Payments

Payments can be submitted to our instructors, Mr. Rafael Rosario or Mr. Quek Wei Kin in the form of cash or check made payable to Bantus Capoeira Malaysia Sdn Bhd.

By Adrian Low:

The well known Chow Kit area in Kuala Lumpur, famous for some of its best kept secret street food stalls, is also equally infamous as the place where the city’s destitute can be found. With the help of Adopt Action Group Malaysia (AAG), Bantus Capoeira Malaysia (BCM) is volunteering weekly classes for the children of Rumah Nur Salam (RNS) right in the heart of Chow Kit.

Bantus Capoeira is from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. They are active in reaching out to street children and teach them capoeira in hope of keeping them out of trouble. BCM would like to carry out the same initiative here. By having capoeira classes in RNS, they are hoping to be able to reach out to more street children in RNS’s efforts to keep them out of harm’s way.

Rumah Nur Salam is a 24-hour sanctuary where street children can walk in and out freely. The idea is to keep these children out of the streets where they are at high risk to undesirable elements like drugs, prostitution, human-traffickers, just to name a few. Currently RNS is the only child crisis centre in Malaysia where they assist, protect and address children issues. To date there are more than 400 children registered with RNS. They get at least a proper meal a day, some exposure to education and basic healthcare which are usually unattainable for most of them.

Adopt Action Group is a watchdog group of concerned civilians from varied backgrounds formed to monitor the status of abandoned children found with the objective of them ended up in homes instead of orphanages. AAG works with the existing system to facilitate the adoption of abandoned children by disseminating information and pointing potential adoptive parents to the right direction. AAG works closely with RNS to champion their common cause.

C’mon over to celebrate Graduado Rafael’s birthday with July’s Roda do Mese!

• What: Roda of the Month July 2009
• Who: All Bantulinos welcomed no matter where you train
• Where: Bantus Academy Damansara Jaya
• When: 8pm - 9:30pm Friday 31st July 2009
• Attire: Bantus T-shirt

We are organizing Grupo Bantus Capoeira Malaysia’s 1st Cultural Week at the Academy and we need your help to make it a success.

• What: GBCM Cultural Week 2009
• Who: All Bantulinos welcomed no matter where you train
• Where: Bantus Academy Damansara Jaya
• When: 24th to 27th June 2009 from 8:15pm - 9:30pm
• Itinerary: Roda, Presentation of Work by Groups, Screening of Capoeira Movie: Bimba Illuminada

We have organized 5 groups to give presentations on a range of capoeira related topics. Give Rafa a call at 0122713983 or at rafael@bantus.com.my to be part of this event!

Lets continue where we left off with a great roda of the month this May. All you guys who have just started training, please pop by to experience a Bantus roda!

• What: Roda of the Month May 2009
• Who: All Bantulinos welcomed no matter where you train
• Where: Bantus Academy Damansara Jaya
• When: 8pm - 9:30pm Friday 29th May 2009
• Attire: Bantus T-shirt

Hey all we have two, maybe three items on the agenda for this weekend!

This Friday we have:

• What: Roda of the Month March 2009
• Who: All Bantulinos welcomed no matter where you train
• Where: Bantus Academy Damansara Jaya
• When: 8pm - 9:30pm Friday 27th March
• Attire: Bantus T-shirt

This Saturday we have:

• What: Public Roda for Stylo KL GP Couture and Cuisine Festival 09
• Who: All Bantulinos welcomed
• Where: Lake Gardens (you can see us there at the bottom of the map shown below with Remy Airbrush and Sageema)
• When: 5:30pm Saturday 28th March
• Attire: Bantus T-shirt

We will have a booth up for promotions of our classes primarily the Bom Brazil classes downtown. The booth will be there from 2pm till midnight. I need 3 people to man three shifts as follows.

• Shift 1: 2pm to 5:30pm
• Shift 2: 6:30pm to 9pm
• Shift 3:  9pm to midnight

Basically just treat it as a day out in the park. Feel free to hang out and look around just make sure at least one of you is a the booth. You can train a little in the park, give out flyers and talk to people about Bantus Capoeira.Spread the lurrrve…..

If you can be there please either call me or email or let me know if you are available in the comments. Cheers!

On Sunday we MAYBE have:

• What: Roda in Solaris
• When: Sunday 29th March time TBA

Para bens to Grupo Bantus Capoeira Malaysia for organizing what was most definitely the biggest and best annual Brazilian cultural festival in Malaysia to date. We had a superb kids workshop and batizado, a week of capoeira, percussion, and makulele workshops, some very informative sports science and nutrition lectures, a fierce capoeira tournament, a very cool Brazilian themed art exhibition, a SLAMMIN party at Cloth n Clef in KL, and a feel good Batizado e Troca de Cordas ceremony in Pavilion.

Many many thanks goes out to the entire Bantus crew, our special guests Mestre Pintor, Graduado Claudinho, Instructor Grao, Instructor Cacapa, Contra Mestre Silvio do Berimbau, & Tissao,  our hot n sexy sambistas Rodrigo, Fernanda, Barracuda and Lua, all the students from Singapore, Perth and Japan, and our new Bantus branches in Jakarta and Bangkok!

Cheers also to all our corporate and media sponsors namely Jaya One, Elabram Systems, Cloth n Clef, Pavilion, Malaysian Today, KLUE, NST, The Sun, Malibu, and Tiger for the great support.

A picture is worth a thousand words (or something like that) so here is a picture commentary of Brazil Fest 2008. Anos que vem tem mais, axe!

Aaawwwwww kids…. so cute…. watch out for the up and coming Bantus juniors next year

Passing on of techniques over to the next generation

Taking a break

Full concentration is required

A more artsy-fartsy side of Bantus Capoeira Malaysia

Winners of the “Spirit of Brazil” Art and Photography Exhibition

1st: Marissa and Fernanda - Brazilian Swimwear for Criola

2nd: Jeanette, Lynn, Marissa - Slipper Stories

3rd: Yap Kian Kiat - Nuts About Capoeira

judged by: Adeline Ooi from Valentine Willie Gallery and Yee I-Lann a reknown Malaysian Artist

Tung-tak-tak-tung-tung-tak… grrrrrrowl, hoowllll, ggggrunt, grooooan

Game

Ups

Thumbs up

Hot chicks and samba beats

More game

More Ups

Wah!

Valeu galera, Bantus Capoeira AXE!

Congratulations to all involved during last weeks amazing Brazil Fest 08. We are taking a much needed break from classes at the Academy and Bom Brazil this week for some rest and recuperation. Other classes at Tru Fit, Celeb, PW, and WMAC will go on as usual. A bunch of us will be in Singapore for Bantus Capoeira Singapore’s festival this weekend. See y’all on Monday at the Academy!