News
Moving…
Salve,
All good things come to an end, and so after three great years in the market, we are forced to move and look for another home. Not by choice, but because some landlords are just too crooked, have no regards to our safety and comfort (you all know the AC broke down every summer) and [...]
Congratulations to Prof. Grilo
This past weekend, Grupo Uniao na Capoeira – Portugal had their Batizado and Troca de Graduacao, and Mestre Umoi graduated Grilo to the level of Professor (Yellow Belt).
All of the group here in Canada would like to congratulate Prof. Grilo on this achievement, and take his example of hard work and practice.
We hope to someday [...]
Nosso Encontro (Évora 2009)
Dear Friends,
This year marks the 10th “Nosso Encontro” (Our Encounter) and to celebrate this achievement we will once again have three more days of Capoeiragem ruled by the same environment of camaraderie and knowledge exchange that became the quality mark for these last ten years.
Set for the 11th, 12th and 13th of September, this year [...]
24h Summer Capoeira Roda – We did it!
24h Capoeira Roda (The End)
Salve,
The 24h Roda was a success. I would like to thank all of you for taking on the challenge, and a special thanks goes to Capoeira Mandinga and Aruande, for the commitment, for the AXE and for holding the roda from start to finish.
In the words of Inst. Parafuzinho (Capoeira Aruande):
“It [...]
Casting Call
Salve,
I was contacted about this opportunity to participate in a commercial, so I’m passing along the information so that everyone can have a chance.
Axe,
Prof. Kmelo
SEEKING CAPOEIRISTAS, ACROBATS & TUMBLERS FOR TV COMMERCIAL
Jigsaw Casting Ltd. is looking for capoeiristas, tumblers and acrobats to learn PARKOUR (free running sport: www.pkto.ca) to be featured in an upcoming COOL [...]
Bamboo Berimbau Making Workshop
This coming Car Free Sunday on May 31st, we will be having a small bamboo Berimbau making Workshop in front of our academy at Augusta and Oxford in Kensington Market.
The workshop will be simple and about how to prepare the “verga”. It is very hard to find cabaças here, so the preparation of the cabaça [...]
We now have a twitter account which I will be updating with news, rodas, events, and stuff, follow us here:
http://twitter.com/GUCanada
Axe,
Prof. Kmelo
New Chat Feature
The development of the site continues, and I have just enabled a direct chat window, so if you have any questions, suggestions and ideas feel free to contact me in real time using the chat window on the bottom right, you may even change pages and continue with the chat, of course you can always [...]
New Schedule
We have a new schedule: Monday to Thursday from 8:30p.m. to 10:00p.m.
Website Redesign
We are redesigning our website, and introducing new and exciting features, more information about capoeira, events, history, pictures and videos.
Please bear with us as we work out all the little bugs.
If you had an account registered, you will have to register again, as I can’t move the registrations over to the new system.
Axe,
Prof. Kmelo
