Mestre Doutor’s non-profit, Project Capoeira, has been making a difference in the Philadelphia community for many years, and Brazilian Day Philadelphia is one big way in which Project Capoeira accomplishes their mission, “to promote intercultural understanding and a sense of community through arts education and social outreach.”
The Utah Brazilian Festival is set to party on September 10, 2016, and with the help of Salt Lake City’s Volta Miúda, festival goers will be treated to a world-class performance of the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira.
Stephen Magagnini, for the Sacramento Bee, on a capoeira performance at the Brazilian Day Sacramento Street Festival:
First Annual Luso-Brasilian Day Celebration Promotes Cultural Awareness via the Montclarion:
Professor David Morgan, the instructor of the capoeira class, encouraged students to get involved in the dance by promoting the sense of fun and friendship, “Capoeira is a community where you make friends,” Morgan said. “You go to these clubs and get to meet new people.”