Capoeira News Online

Connecticut’s Mestre Efraim Silva has been in capoeira news quite a bit lately, from this weekend’s O Rio da Vida women’s event (with Professora Fominha), to being noticed for his determination in his own education. His newest spotlight comes from whistlekick Martial Arts Radio, who invited Mestre Efraim on their show for a 42 minute interview about his life and the art of capoeira.

As the saying goes, capoeira is for men, women, and children. Taking that statement to heart, Connecticut’s Raça em Movimento is hosting its first event honoring the women and mothers of capoeira—a powerful, essential, and often under-appreciated segment of the capoeira community.

São Paulo’s Naima Yazbek (full name Fernanda Yazbek Pereira) is an accomplished capoeirista and dancer, and she’s found her true calling in using her skills as a tool for activism. Uniquely talented and connected to her heritage in Lebanon, she’s been helping others use art as therapy and as a means of fighting for civil rights. Yazbek was recently interviewed by Lebanese-Brazilian magazine ConnectionBeirut on her artistic pursuits as well as her social work.

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: