CSBTJM!CSBTJM!DVMUVSBM!DFOUFS BATUQUE & BALLET FOLCLORICO DO BRASIL November 2010 What’s new at BBCC... PRESERVING OUR HISTORY, This has been a great year for NURTURING THE PRESENT, BBCC! We have gone through many structural changes and BUILDING THE FUTURE have started many new programs. We also recently collaborated with Samba ‘N’ Motion offering a series of Master Workshop in Dance & Drumming which was a great success. In addition to our ongoing Capoeira & Samba classes, we added some new classes like Youth Hip-Hop, Parkour, Portuguese and Drumming. We are also very excited that BBCC was the recipient of the 2010 Talk of the Town award in Performing Arts!!!

*** Become a BBCC Member Being a member entitles you to many great classes, workshops, A kids Point of View... events and merchandise at Each year, we try to get the kids in research at home and draw or discounted rates! Only $36 a year and you save so much on our youth program involved in handwrite what they understood of everything we always offer! different ways for our Zumbi event. Zumbi. The results were full of Last year, they participated in a play creativity! It was so nice to see them *** for the community. The year before, run to class so excited about giving us Check out our Free & they helped with our interactive their homework. We wish we could Open Public Dance booths, which included mask and include all the kids work but you can Performance instrument making. This year, we enjoy some throughout this Saturday, November 20 @ noon thought it would nice for them to newsletter! Thank you to all the Please check page 4 for show us what their idea of Zumbi parents for your ongoing support! full schedule of Zumbi event. was. So, we asked them to do Celebrating Zumbi, Movement of Liberation

In the early 1600s, formerly enslaved Africans and other escaped sugar plantation laborers began to develop maroon communities and fortified settlements known as mocambos or . The largest of these was founded in the Serra da Barriga hills about 200 kilometers from the coast of Brazilian coast. What were initially 11 decentralized African-style village communities developed into a self- sustaining renegade republic of 30,000 people. In 1655, Zumbi was born free into the maroon community of Using his experience of the Zumbi served as the leader of dos . Portuguese from his captivity, Zumbi the Quilombo dos Palmares until his became a powerful military strategist and capture and execution by the Portuguese a leader in the Quilombo dos Palmares. government on November 20th, 1695. In Due to Palmares' growing size, In the late 1670s, the Portuguese colonial Brasil, the 20th of November is agricultural productivity, and well- government offered to recognize the celebrated as Dia da Consciência Negra defended position in the mountains, the freedom of the Quilombo's residents or . Zumbi is colonial Portuguese colonial government under the condition that the leader of the remembered as a hero and as a symbol saw this renegade republic as a threat. Quilombo dos Palmares submit to the of freedom within the country of . For decades the Portuguese government authority of the Portuguese government regularly launched military campaigns and accept their use of enslaved African against the Palmares. As a result of the labor. While the leader of the Quilombo It is often the labor and the Portuguese's goverment's assault on the dos Palmares accepted this offer, Zumbi heart of the artist to provide voices for autonomous community,Zumbi was argued that the Portuguese would never those stories that yet to be given eventually taken as a prisoner. After his recognize that Quilombos and their free voice. Through our artistry, we capture, Zumbi was given to a Catholic inhabitants, while others were enslaved contribute to the cultural heritage that missionary at the age of 6 years old. and oppressed. Zumbi's refusal of the developed from Palmares and their During his captivity, he was baptized into Portuguese offer resulted in him fight for freedom. The shortened lives the church with the name Francisco. He becoming the new leader of the of Zumbi remind us that our own time studied Latin and Portuguese and served Quilombo dos Palmares is short. the church during their daily mass. In 1670, at the age of 15 years old, he escaped his captivity and returned to the Written by Eugene Mahmoud Quilombo dos Palmares.

A song by Mestre Boa Gente ZUMBI, ZUMBI, OHLA ZUMBI

Palmares Cresce sem parar Lavoura movambo cobre a regiåo O herderiro de Ganga Zumba nasceu com destno taçado nas måos Bravo, fort guerreiro Deus da guerra, se fez na trra A lenda de um heroi ZUMBI, ZUMBI, OLHA ZUMBI (2X) Olha o coco la no alt do coqueiro GANGA ZUMBA DA UM COCO PARA QUEM SOBE MAIS PRIMEIRO (2X) Mais se tm coco no coqueiro de quilombo

(not:chorus is in capital leters) NEGO SOBE MAIS LIGEIRO PARA DAR UM COCO AO SEU AMOR (2X) Brought to you by Sabor Da Bahia 310-841-2729 [email protected] ENJOY A TASTE OF TRADITIONAL BAHIAN FOOD On the menu...

Acarjé Homemade Brazilian Falafel made with black eyes peas ($4) Abará Steamed black eyes peas dough with dried SERVED shrimp in a banana leaf AT BBCC ON (Mestre Amen’s favorite!) ($4) 11/20 FROM Feijoada 11AM-3PM Delicious beef & turkey, bean stew (no pork) served with rice & plantains ($7)

More from the kids... Celebrating Zumbi, Movement of Liberation Fourth Annual Celebration Thursday November 18 10 to 12pm - Mixed Level Capoeira @ BBCC 6 to 8pm - Drumming @ Motherland Music 7 to 8:30pm - Intro Level Capoeira @ BBCC 8:30 to 10pm - Open Roda @ BBCC Friday November 19 @ BBCC 4 to 5pm - Youth Class (ages 4-7yrs) 5 to 6pm - Youth class (8yrs. & up) 6 to 7pm - Intermediate & Advanced Capoeira 7 to 8pm - Maculele All levels 8 to 10pm - Open Roda @ BBCC Dance the night away Saturday November 20 @ BBCC Sat Nov. 20 @Angel’s in Santa Monica @10pm!!! 9 to 10:15am - Intro Level Capoeira Only $5 10:30 to 11:30am - Youth Roda Featuring Quetzal & (all levels, groups and ages welcome) Batuqueiros!!!! 12 to 2pm - Open & Free Public Performance 2:30 to 4:30pm - Dance Class (Samba & Afro-Brazilian dance) 5 to 7pm - Intermediate & Advanced Capoeira 7 to 9pm - Open Roda Cost for whole event $45 (adults) 10pm - Party at Angel’s Santa Monica ($5 cover) Cost for whole event $35 (youth) Performances by Quetzal & Batuqueiros Cost per workshop $25 Sunday November 21 @ BBCC Cost per Roda $10 Meet at Ocean Park beach in Santa Monica on Grass area at 11am to warm up for a Samba de Roda and Capoeira Roda This will be a potluck...please bring something yummy to eat, drink and share! (if it’s raining, meet at BBCC)

BBCC: 4325 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver CIty CA 90232 www.capoeirabatuque.org 310-397-3667