The Summer Institute is a Social Justice program which utilizes theater together with social justice education to empower youth ages 13-18. Students are encouraged and supported to be active in their respective communities arms with self-actualizing tools and information.

Capoeira provides an oportunity to learn about a discipline that was born out a specific cultural context where liberation and self preservation played a paramount role in  against oppression. Today Capoeira Angola  provides a physical and mental form of education which increases awareness and improvisational approaches to self discipline and community.

We are pleased to Welcome back our MEstre to guide our collaboration. This Summer Mestre Marrom will also be attending and presenting Capoeira Angola at a Quaker Peace and reconciliation Camp and embarking on a new path through the Lundstrum Center.

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Friday, December 12, 2008

• 7:00pm     Opening Roda (Peace Palace) 1830 Glenwood Avenue

Saturday, December 13, 2008

•  8:00am to 12:00pm    Capoeira Angola movement workshop(Peace Palace)

• 12:00pm to 1:00pm    Southern Style Lunch (Sunnyside Café- Glenwood and Morgan)

• 2:00pm to 3:00pm Lecture – Yolanda Williams: Music in the African Diaspora (Minneapolis Community and Technical College)

•     3:30 to 6:00pm   Capoeira Angola rhythm class -Lyrics of Capoeira Angola music (MCTC)

• 5:00pm to 7:30pm    Evening Roda -1830 Glenwood Avenue

• 8:00pm to 9:30pm    Hip-hop dance class with Abide (Peace Palace- 1830 Glenwood Avenue)

  Sunday, December 14, 2008

• 8:00am to 12:00pm    Capoeira Angola movement workshop (Peace Palace- 1830 Glenwood Avenue)

• 12:00pm to 1:00pm    Lunch Suunyside Café

• 1:30pm to 3:00pm    Lecture – Edward Powe: Black Martial Arts( Peace Palace)

• 3:30pm to 6:00pm    Closing Roda

*SEE guest bios Below contact us at 763-377-5907 or marrombahia@yahoo.com.br

*Pode entra em contacto com marrombahia(at)yahoo.com.br para mas informação.

This year Grupo Acupe will comtinue an exciting partnership with Afro Centric Academy in North Minneapolis. Last year  Grupo Acupe provided class during the school day  at this Minneapolis junior high and we have the honor of working with the school again this year through a partnership with Redeemer Center for Life, the Minneapolis Public School System, Urban 4H and Sanctuary.

Grupo Acupe has enjoyed a weekend workshop in Indianapolis in October. In November our Mestre will be in Boston.

The Minneapolis Branch will host an event in December for those who practice Capoeira Angola. See the dates, times and guest biographies below Please feel free to contact us At 763-377-2907

or at marrombahia(at)yahoo.com.br

She will be giving a  lecture at the December event in Minneapolis entitled
Music in the African Diaspora.  Her vocal performances range from singing Jazz and Gospel to Oratorio and Opera. Her operatic roles have included Pamina (The Magic Flute), Musetta (La Boheme), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos) Bess/Serena (Porgy and Bess) and The Countess (The Marriage of Figaro). In addition to her appearances in opera, Yolanda has performed in musicals in MN (“A…My Name is Alice and South Pacific) as well as in Europe (Chatouranga). Her Oratorio performances include Handel’s Messiah (both soprano and alto); Seven Last Words of Christ by Dubois; Poulenc’s Gloria, premier performances of Esperanto by Pierre Huwiler and the Requiem Mass by Nuñez-Garcia
As a guest soloist Yolanda has performed  with such prestigious performance groups as Les Choralies (Vaison la Romaine, France), Choeur Symphonique de Fribourg, La Cuivres Jurassien, Lundi Sept Heures, The Montreux Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland),  The Riga Symphony (Latvia)  and the Israel Philharmonic (Israel) ; Orchestral l’Ensemble Orchestral de Champagnole, de l’Orchestre Symphonique de Pontarlier (France) These performances include participation in the the Nuits des Joux (France); Paleo Festival, and the Festival des Musiques Popularies à Moudon (Switzerland).In recordings, Yolanda can be heard on the “Witness I, II, III” recordings by Vocalessence and on the Swiss produced recordings under the direction of Pierre Huwiler.
Ms. Williams serves as part time faculty with Minneapolis Community and Technical College and the University of Minnesota.  Yolanda can be heard on Sundays, where she holds the position of Director of Worship and Music at Redeemer Lutheran Church in North Minneapolis.

In 1967, Dr. Powe traveled to Salvador, Bahia, Brazil on a Fulbright scholarship.  Amidst his studies he trained with and received a diploma de capoeirista from Mestre Pastinha’s academy, which is only given to those students who distinguished themselves in the art.

In 1972 Dr. Powe opened the first Capoeira Academy in the United States as a community outreach program while Director of Black Education Programs at Eastern Washington State College in Cheney, Washington.
Dr. Powe has also traveled extensively in Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, Latin America, Indonesia, and Melanesia and has held various administrative and teaching positions at home and abroad, including: President and Founder of the Black Languages, Arts & Culture Foundation of Paterson N.J., Associate Peace Corps Director (Chad, Niger, Upper Volta), Lecturer in the Program of African and Asian Languages (Northwestern University, Evanston), and Lecturer in the Dept. of Nigerian Languages at Bayero University in Kano Nigeria. He has proficiency in 7 languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Hausa, Kiswahili and Indonesian) in addition to his native English and has acquired sufficient knowledge of Malagasy ,Quchuca, Tagalog, Zulu, Kiché and Tamil for research purposes. Since 1992, Dr. Powe has worked almost exclusively as an independent writer and publisher, articulating his research into over 70 self-published titles to date.

For more information about his various publications please view his websites: www.danaikipublications.org. and www.blacfoundation.org 
Born and raised in Paterson, NJ, Edward L. Powe has a Ph.D. in African Languages & Literature (specializing in Hausa) from the University of Wisconsin - Madison,(1984), an MA in linguistics with a minor in Arabic  from Indiana University-Bloomington(1971); and a BA with distinction in Spanish with a minor in Portuguese from the University of New Mexico- Albuquerque (1967).

In 1967, Dr. Powe traversed to Salvador, Bahia, Brazil on a Fulbright scholarship.  Amidst his studies he trained with and received a diploma de capoeirista from Mestre Pastinha’s academy, which is only given to those students who distinguished themselves in the art.

In 1972 Dr. Powe opened the first Capoeira Academy in the United States as a community outreach program while Director of Black Education Programs at Eastern Washington State College in Cheney, Washington.
Dr. Powe has also traveled extensively in Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, Latin America, Indonesia, and Melanesia and has held various administrative and teaching positions at home and abroad, including: President and Founder of the Black Languages, Arts & Culture Foundation of Paterson N.J., Associate Peace Corps Director (Chad, Niger, Upper Volta), Lecturer in the Program of African and Asian Languages (Northwestern University, Evanston), and Lecturer in the Dept. of Nigerian Languages at Bayero University in Kano Nigeria. He has proficiency in 7 languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Hausa, Kiswahili and Indonesian) in addition to his native English and has acquired sufficient knowledge of Malagasy ,Quchuca, Tagalog, Zulu, Kiché and Tamil for research purposes. Since 1992, Dr. Powe has worked almost exclusively as an independent writer and publisher, articulating his research into over 70 self-published titles to date.

For more information about his various publications please view his websites: www.danaikipublications.org. and www.blacfoundation.org

Schedule will be posted shortly