Bantus Capoeira will be participating in Youth ‘09, Malaysia’s Largest Youth Lifestyle Festival

• When: Saturday 10th January 2009 - meet there at 2:45pm
• What: 10 minute demonstration
• Who: Senior students and performance group
• Where: PWTC

• When: Sunday 11th January 2009 at 2:45pm - meet there at 2:45pm
• What: 1 hour workshops
• Who: All are invited to participate
• Where: PWTC

Riding on the success of YOUTH’08, where 20,000 Malaysian youths gathered over 100 different activities, and RM300,000 worth of cash and prizes.

Coming January 9th ~ 11th 2009, in PWTC… Malaysian youths will bring the excitement back, twice the impact.

So what’s going on this year?

Who’s going to be there?

Bands, online communities, celebrities, facebook groups, entrepreneurs, bloggers, dancers, photographers, fashionistas, student organisations, and thousands of youths come together, to be part of competitions, performances, showcases, and gatherings around their interests!

Key events highlights include

• Career Attack – A career fair of alternative careers for this generation!
• The 2nd National Youth Entrepreneur Convention – 15 different lifestyle, media, and technology entrepreneurs under the age of 30 share their journey
• Battle of the Bands “Beat the Buzzer” – Bands get 3 minutes and the crowd decides if they’re IN or OUT! Intense and fast paced!
• Youth Community Meetups – Various online communities, Facebook groups, and community movements meet face to face and mingle!
• So much more! Eg. Foosball tournament, Photography 1 on 1 Shootout, Caged Futsal, Cosplay Competition, Celebrity Sessions…

See the full schedule! And get your free pass online:

Click on this link: http://youthmalaysia.com/youth09

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!

We going to do a little street roda for World AIDS Day so come on over with your Bantus t-shirt and lets have some fun

• When: This Saturday 29th November 2008 @ 4:00pm
• Where: Meet outside main entrance of Sungei Wang
• What: Street Roda for World AIDS Day
• Who: All Bantulinos welcomed to join the roda

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!

Brazil Fest 2008 is here! This year we are going to have a huge contingent of capoeiristas and students from overseas taking part in our event. Get ready for a week of world class capoeira workshops, Malaysia’s first capoeira championship, parties and street shows, more and more samba, a Brazilian themed art and photography exhibition and lots of fun fun fun!

Schedule of Events: Adults

Batizado Packages

SUPER 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

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

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.

As with all major events, things won’t be able to take off quite as spectacularly without your participation. Take this time to get to know your immediate and extended Bantus family, help out with preparations at the academy, make new friends and be a part of something fun and exciting!

Closing date for registration is Monday, OCT 27 so please hurry!

We have had many requests to start teaching classes in KL and finally we are proud to announce that Bantus Capoeira is now officially in Kuala Lumpur! We will be conducting capoeira and samba classes at the Bom Brazil Churrascaria, Changkat Bukit Bintang on Mondays and Fridays starting this September.

Venue

Capoeira Class

Contact Quek at 012 288 7908 to register.

• Every Monday 08:10pm - 09:10pm
• Every Friday Wednesday 07:00pm - 08:00pm

Samba Class

Contact Fernanda, our resident Brazilian sambista, at 012 354 6500 to register.

• Every Monday 07:00pm - 08:00pm
• Every Friday Wednesday 08:10pm - 09:10pm

Fees

• Drop in class: MYR40.00
• 12 class package: MYR360.00
• 24 class package: MYR600.00

Check out this free trial on Friday at Academy. If all goes well, we will be having regular yoga classes several times a week. Come on over for a great stretch before your regular capoeira class. Non-Bantulinos welcomed as well!

• Date: Friday 22nd August 2008
• Time: 07:00pm - 08:00pm
• Venue: Academy

We are celebrating 4 years of Bantus Capoeira this Sunday 18th May with a road trip and potluck picnic to the Chemang Waterfall in Bentong Pahang. Let us know what you are bringing by emailing myself or Rafa - or better yet post it up on the signup form at the academy.

• Date: Sunday 18th May 2008
• Time: Meet at academy at 08:00am
• Venue: Chemang Waterfall in Bentong, Pahang
• Overview: Roadtrip, BYO picnic (list of things to bring is on whiteboard at academy)

Our neighbour Graduado Claudinho from sunny Singapore is coming up to visit us in a couple of weeks. He will be giving two special capoeira workshops at the academy.

To sign up please email myself or Rafael or just put your name on the white board at the academy. Hurry… spaces are limited and you don’t want to miss this!

Details as follows:

• Event: Capoeira Workshops with Graduado Claudinho
• Date/Time: Saturday 24th March 2008 and Sunday 25th March 2008 from 05:00pm - 06:30pm
• Venue: Bantus Capoeira Academy, Damansara Jaya
• Fees: MYR35 for 1 class MYR50 for both

Sorry guys this is waaaay overdue… haven’t had a solid internet connection for awhile now. Rafa, Kennedy and I just want to thank everyone who has helped and is continuing to help with our ongoing process in preparation for our theatre production. Especially to Coelho, Marissa, Denise, Sophie, Lynn, Perereca, Durim, Cabecao, Catatao, Sara, Pinguin, Mael, Pravin, Fernanda, Victor, Joao’s wife and daugther, who stayed late at the academy to help out with the filming of our trailer, Alvin, Elain, and Zalfian who have been facilitating the workshops, our media planning team lead by Lee Ann, our art and design team lead by Stanley and Terry and everyone who has been showing up at the academy after class on Mondays and Wednesdays for the workshops… really sorry if I have forgotten anyone. Looking good so far so lets keep the momentum going!

Cheers!