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.

GUYS, the Festival 2009 is around the corner and WE WANT YOU to be part of it.  It’s going to be a week full of culture and fun, which only Capoeira can give you. Don’t miss the chance to see as well as be part of Capoeira, Maculele, Samba and much more.  Keep your eyes on the website for more info soon!!!

LET’S TRAIN HARD

Here are dates for the Bantus Capoeira Asia Pacific Batizado Circuit 2009

• Perth - 26th Oct to 1st Nov
• KL - 3rd Nov to 8th Nov
• Singapore - 11th Nov to 15th Nov
• Bangkok - 19th Nov to 22nd Nov
• Jakarta - 26th Nov to 29th Nov

Poster Design Competition

This year we are holding a competition to design the Festival 2009 poster.

The poster will need to include the following:

1. Title of the event
2. Date of the event
3. Special guests names
4. Short description about the event

The winner will receive free entry to Festival 2009. For more information speak to Marissa.

Submission date by 10^th September.

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

Bantus Capoeira is part of the Astro Sokker Safari, a series of events leading up to the World Cup in South Africa next year! Please be on time for this as it is a scheduled performance in the itinerary for this event

• What: Public Roda - Astro Sokker Safari for Man Utd vs Malaysia
• Who: All Bantulinos welcomed no matter where you train
• Where: Carpark A, Stadium Bukit Jalil
• When: 7pm - 8pm Saturday 18th July 2009
• Attire: Bantus T-shirt and Abadas

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

• What? Street Roda
• Where? Jalan Bukit Bintang Outside Maybank
• When? This Sunday 17th May 2009 @ 7pm
• Who? All capoeiristas welcomed! If not from Bantus please introduce yourseld to Graduado Rafael or Instructor Cueca before jumping in
• Wear? Bantulinos please wear your (Bantus) capoeira t-shirts even if you don’t plan to play
• Bring? Your axe

Come join us as we train and learn from Bantus instructors, Graduado Rafael and Instructor Cueca. Capoeiristas of all levels are welcomed to participate.

• What? Capoeira Workshop for All Levels
• When? Saturday May 9th 2009 from 4pm to 8pm
• Where? Lot S-07 & S-08, 2nd Floor, Giant Hypermarket, Jalan BK 5A/1, Bandar Kinrara, Puchong.
• Fees? Early Bird RM50, Drop-In RM70
• Contact? Terry @ +6012 328 6730 for more details

There will be an optional Pizza Party at the end of the workshop. Those interested to join please bring an additional RM 20 for the pizzas.

Come on by to academy for our 5th Anniversary Roda 2009 and potluck

• When? Friday 24th April 2009 @ 8pm
• Where? Bantus Capoeira Academy DJ
• Wear? A Bantus Tee
• Bring? Some Food and Drink for post-roda potluck

Note: Go easy on the desserts and sweets guys, the last few times we had like 10 cakes haha. Instead bring more salad, sandwiches, local food, think one cake will be enough!

In other news, we will be doing a charity demo for an event called Project Unmasked: The Story Behind HIV/AIDS. It will be a free and easy demo so all are welcomed!

• When? Saturday 25th April 2009 @ 11am
• Where? Jaya One, PJ (meet outside Starbucks)
• Wear? A Bantus Tee

See y’all there