Long Branch, NJ’s Capoeira Sol Nascente will be representing the Afro-Brazilian arts at the Soulsanational Music and Wellness Festival with a capoeira workshop and performance led by Contra-Mestre Baiano.

UK’s the Daily Mail covered star footballer Nani’s introduction to fans at his new club, Valencia. The Portugal-born player regularly practiced capoeira in Lisbon as a youth, and he was happy to demonstrate his skills and enjoyment of the art form for Valencia fans.

‘If I was not playing football, I was doing capoeira with my friends.

In addition to demonstrating the supportive nature and generosity of capoeiristas, Mestre Acordeon’s Projeto Kirimurê is “entirely dedicated to enriching the lives of vulnerable children at risk who live in the Alto da Bela Vista, Itapuã.” The project is overseen by the Instituto Mestre Acordeon (IMA), a non-profit headquartered in Salvador, Brazil, and the rodathon is organized by the Capoeira Arts Foundation, a California-based non-profit organization.

The 5th annual PBS Online Film Festival is featuring an excellent submission titled simply Capoeira:

Memo is at a capoeira roda and has reached his breaking point. He is going through an inner struggle that makes it seem like the world is caving in. He has to decide which road to take: to give in to his fears and play it safe or risk it all and let go.

At Capoeira Morro Verde’s 6th annual batizado this past weekend, Contra-Mestra Gata Brava opened the ceremony with a stark reminder of the severe—and often brutal—social injustices afflicting minority groups in the US. Her soul-baring speech demonstrated dignity, composure, and strength in the face of recent events; yet the visibly upset Contra-Mestra did not hold back in telling the crowd that the status quo in each of us—no matter how well-intentioned—is not going to be enough to make a…