Capoeira and Tradition
Gender Equality and Empowerment
Dates: October 26 to November 3, 2024
Location: Kyōto, Osaka, and Tokyo, Japan
Organizers: Capoeira Angola Nzinga Kyoto
Supporters: Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo
Support; Doshisha University Kyoto;
Humanities Research Institute 21º Period Research 17
■Welcome!■
We are pleased to host a two Capoeira Masters from Bahia, Brazil for a cultural exchange event running in late October and early November. Through this event, the group Capoeira Angola Nzinga Kyoto aims to bring people together for learning and social good--beyond barriers such as race, nationality, ethnicity, age, gender, or capoeira style. This will be a wonderful opportunity to learn Capoeira Angola from the two masters whose tradition of capoeira was forged at its source.
■Event Information■
Capoeira and Tradition
Gender Equality and Empowerment
an International Meeting of Culture and Capoeira in Kyoto and Osaka, Japan with Mestra Janja and Contramestra Bruna from the group Capoeira Angola Nzinga Group of Salvador.
■Brief Dates and Locations (2024)■
October:
Saturday Oct. 26th, in Kyoto at the Sakyo Seibu Ikiiki Center
Sunday Oct. 27th, in Kyoto at the Kyoto City Gender Equality Center (Wings Kyoto)
Tuesday Oct. 29th, in Tokyo at the Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo , and Minato-ku Gender Equality Center LIBRA
Wednesday Oct. 30th, in Kyoto at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Nobember:
Friday Nov. 1st, in Osaka at the Oyodo Community Center
Saturday Nov. 2nd, in Kyoto at the Higashiyama Ikiiki Center
Sunday Nov. 3rd, in Kyoto at the Sakyo Seibu Ikiiki Center
■Schedule■
[Saturday, 10/26]
Kyoto: Sakyo Seibu Ikiiki Center, 2F room1
13:00-14:30 Workshop
14:30-16:00 Workshop
16:30-18:30 Talk + Circle
[Sunday, 10/21]
Kyoto: Kyoto City Gender Equality Center (Wings Kyoto) , 4F sports room
Admission ¥1,500
13:30 - 15:00 Musicality and Movement Workshop “What is Liberation through the Movements and Music of Capoeira?”
15:00 - 16:30 Lecture: “Considering Gender Equality within the Tradition”
[Tuesday, 10/29]
Tokyo: Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo
14:00-16:30 Presentation and Lecture Minato-ku Center for Gender Equality *free
Tokyo: Minato-ku Gender Equality Center LIBRA, 2F room A
Room A (gakushu shitsu A)
19:00 - 21:00 Workshop, Talk, Roda
[Wednesday, 10/30]
Kyoto: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Building 9, 7F, Internationa hall
*Admission free
18:30-19:00 Presentation
19:00-20:00 Talk
[Friday, 11/1]
Osaka: Oyodo Community Center, 1F room 1
18:30 -19:30 Workshop
19:30 - 20:30 Talk and Roda
[Saturday, 11/2]
Kyoto: Higashiyama Ikiiki Center, 2F Shukai room
After entering the building, take the stairs on the far left.
13:30 - 15:00 Workshop
15:00 - 16:30 Workshop 17:00 - 19:00
Talk + Roda
[Sunday, 11/3]
Kyoto: Sakyo Seibu Ikiiki Center / Roda by the river bank
10:30 - 12:00 Workshop
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Workshop: Lecture "Capoeira and Tradition"
14:30 - 16:30 Roda
How to resgister
Please register from our Event registration form
Locations
Kyoto: Sakyo Seibu Ikiiki Center
149 Genkyocho Tanaka Sakyo-ku Kyoto city, Kyoto 606-8201
Kyoto: Kyoto City Gender Equality Center (Wings Kyoto)
4th floor Sports Room
262 Misayamacho Nakagyo-ku Kyoto city, Kyoto 604-8147
Tokyo: Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo
2-11-12 Kita-aoyama Minato-ku Tokyo 107-0061
Tokyo: Minato-ku Gender Equality Center LIBRA
Minato Park Shibaura 2nd floor
1-16-1 Shibaura Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0023
Kyoto: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Building 9, 7th floor, International hall
6 Saiin Kasame-cho Ukyo-ku Kyoto city, Kyoto 615-0058
Osaka: Oyodo Community Center
3-8-2 Honjo-higashi Kita-ku Osaka city, Osaka 531-0074
Kyoto: Higashiyama Ikiiki Center
442 Tatsumi-cho Higashiyama-ku Kyoto city, Kyoto 605-0018
■Target audience■
Anyone from children to adults, regardless of their prior experience of capoeira (beginners are welcomed!). Anyone who is interested in the subject and/or Capoeira is encouraged to come.
■Prices■ Note: Only on October 27th will the rate be different.
Rate for 1 Workshop:
<Children> ¥ 1,500
<Adults> ¥ 3,500
Rate for all workshops and rodas ¥ 17,000
Rate for 1 roda*:
<Children> ¥ 1,000
<Adults> ¥ 2,000
*Free for those who participate in the workshop on the same day as the roda.
Rate for October 27 at Wings Kyoto
<Students> ¥ 1,000 (ages 3-12)
<Adults> ¥ 1,500
Bios
MESTRA JANJA
Dr. Janja Araújo (Mestra Janja) is Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the School of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the Federal University of Bahia/UFBA. She holds a Doctorate in Education and Master’s degree from the University of São Paulo/USP and an undergraduate degree in History from the Federal University of Bahia/UFBA. She also was postdoctoral researcher in Social Sciences at PUC/SP. She is the Leader of the NEIM-Gender, Art, and Culture Research Group (UFBA/CNPq) and a researcher at A Cor da Bahia - Research and Training Program in Racial Relations, Culture, and Black Identity in Bahia (UFBA). Her work is at the intersection of studies of gender, race, culture, and development. She also conducts research on affirmative action programs in education and Afro-Brazilian culture, focusing on the study of capoeira, culture, and religions of African origin. She teaches in the Postgraduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies on Women, Gender and Feminism (PPGNEIM) and in the Ph.D. program in Knowledge Dissemination/DMMDC-UFBA. Advisor to the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science/SBPC (2023-2027). A master of Capoeira Angola, she is co-founder and coordinator of the Nzinga Institute and Studies of Capoeira Angola and Bantu Educational Traditions in Brazil/INCAB.
CONTRAMESTRA BRUNA
Bruna Ferreira (Contramestra Bruna) plays many roles in the group Capoeira Angola Nzinga Salvador’s include instructor, cultural activist, musical arranger, and contributor to communication, outreach, and social impact-oriented projects. These projects reflect on the presence and leadership of women in the world of capoeira angola. Born in the city of Salvador, and a resident of the Alto da Sereia community in Rio Vermelho, Bruna Ferreira considers herself “a black woman who has been impacted by artistic and cultural actions since her insertion as a child in the and the Nzinga Institute of Capoeira Angola.” Along with other women, Bruna is a member of the Igbadu Orchestra, a woman-created project in the city of Salvador focused on the practice of playing the berimbau, percussion instruments, and more. She is the communications coordinator for the Cine Sereia collective, a project by the Nzinga de Capoeira Angola Salvador Group that focuses on screening films for children and adolescents in the Alto Sereia community. She also works as a film curator and workshop leader for the Cine Sereia project.
SATOMI SHIMOGO
Satomi Shimogo is a freelance journalist who will support the event as an interpreter and interviewer. From 1992 to 1994, she lived in the outskirts of São Paulo where she participated in daycare centers and educational activities for children. Since then, she has continued to report on various popular movements in Brazil, mainly in the favelas in large metropolitan areas, such as Rio de Janeiro, and in indigenous lands in the Amazon. She was the official interpreter for Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami leader and shaman, during the international photography festival in Kyoto, KYOTOGRAPHIE 2024.
TREINEL LUCAS
トレイネウ・ルーカス
Treinel Lucas (Lucas Costa) is a percussionist, tata xícarangoma, capoeira treinel, and art educator from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. He studies Humanities at UNILAB and teaches Capoeira Angola to children at Casa Escola Via Magia in Salvador. He is also a trainee at the Nzinga Institute, Grupo de Capoeira Angola Nzinga Salvador. He has experience in Afro-Brazilian Dance with Tata Mutá Imê and has participated in capoeira and music activities in Brazil, Germany, and Argentina.
TREINELA ISADORA
Trainela Isadora (Isadora Harvey) is a Ph.D. student in interdisciplinary studies focused on women, gender and feminism at PPGNEIM/UFBA. She holds a Master’s degree in political science from IPOL/UnB), and an undergraduate degree in political science from CCJP/UNIRIO. She is a program coordinator for Democracies and Labor Innovation at Fundación Avina. She began her career in regional capoeira in 1998, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2018, she joined Grupo Nzinga de Capoeira Angola, in the city of Brasília, Brazil. She has been involved in capoeira since she was a child, but it was in capoeira angola that she found a place of belonging, autonomy and freedom. She believes in capoeira as an instrument of emancipation and sees in capoeira a link between the before, the now, and the after.
Capoeira and Tradition
Gender Equality and Empowerment
Dates: October 26 to November 3, 2024
Location: Kyōto, Osaka, and Tokyo, Japan
Organizers: Capoeira Angola Nzinga Kyoto
Supporters: Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo
Support; Doshisha University Kyoto;
Humanities Research Institute 21º Period Research 17
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