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Archive for November, 2009

The Day of the Black Consciousness

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Mestre Jogo de Dentro singing a Ladainha at his workshop at the Volta Por Cima / Cordão de Ouro Centre in Brasília in 08-2005

Since the 1960s the Day of the Black Consciousness in Brazil is celebrated on the 20^th of November. At this day, in 1695, the last leader of the Quilombo dos Palmares – Zumbi, was executed by the slavish establishment.

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Tags: Canhembo, Capoeira and Black Conciousness, Day of the Black Conciousness, Quilombo, Zumbi dos Palmares
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The Social Role of Capoeira: An invitation to make local sense of a cultural practice in global spreading.

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Photo taken at a 'Domingueira'. Project Learning from Brazilian Culture

After writing about the Volta Por Cima and the Brazil Sweden Cultural Exchange projects I received a few e-mails from people interested in this sort of social initiative in Capoeira. These new contacts made me think about the 4 Capoeira Thoughts proposal.

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The Social Role of Capoeira:

An Invitation to make local sense of a cultural practice in global spreading

If we are to contribute with and bring awareness to the role of Capoeira as an educative and social inclusive practice worldwide, we need to discuss the difficulties, particularities, and outcomes of these actions in local communities. Capoeira was born from attitudes of resistance against oppression and since then has been empowering the underprivileged people. (more…)

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• Jogo do Jogo TV A channel focused on Capoeira history and philosophy. Very educative videos, interviews, doccos and games (mostly in Portuguese).
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• Paul Lalo, Animation and Illustration Paul supports the 4CapoeiraThoughts with his amazing work. Coming up soon…
• Project GEM & Urban Ritual London Project gem is a UK registered charity that uses arts activities as a means of engaging inner-city children within society. Urban Ritual is a blog on Capoeira in London
• Volta Por Cima / Cordão de Ouro Australia Volta Por Cima is a non-profit organisation that promotes social inclusion and cultural diversity through the practice of Capoeira.