As some of you might know, I have started some basic capoeira classes at my gym. I have always wanted to try capoeira out ever since I watched ‘Only the strong’. I think that movie, influenced many.

Anyways, I have just been informed about Brazil Fest 08. This year, the organizers are going to have a huge contingent of capoeiristas and students from overseas taking part in the event.
It will be a week of world class capoeira workshops, Malaysia’s first capoeira championship, parties and street shows, samba, a Brazilian themed art & photography exhibition and of course, tons of fun!!!

For those interested:-
Grab your registration forms at Bantus Capoeira.

Closing date for registration is 27th October so please hurry!
Pre Event: Look out for more info on the Spirit of Brazil: Photography and Art Competition. Have your art displayed at Pavillion and Cloth n Clef and win attractive prizes!

Schedule of Events: Adults
Date: Mon, 10th Nov
Venue: Grand Hall, Garden International School, Jalan Bukit Kiara, KL

Capoeira Workshops with Mestre Pintor
Time: 8:00pm – 9:10pm

Capoeira Rhythm and Music Workshops with Mestre Pinto
Time: 9:15pm – 10:00pm

Open Roda
Time: 10:00pm – 10:30pm

Date: Tues, 11th Nov
Venue: Grand Hall, Garden International School, Jalan Bukit Kiara, KL

Capoeira Worskshop with Instructor Grau
Time: 8:00pm – 9:10pm

Samba Workshops with Fernanda and Rodrigo
Time: 9:15pm – 9:55pm

Open Roda
Time: 10:00pm – 10:30pm

Date: Wed, 12th Nov
Venue: Grand Hall, Garden International School, Jalan Bukit Kiara, KL

Capoeira Workshop with Graduado Claudinho
Time: 8:00pm – 9:10pm

Talk on Nutrition and Weight Training
Time: 9:15pm – 9:55pm

Open Roda
Time: 10:00pm – 10:30pm

Date: Thurs, 13th Nov
Venue: Grand Hall, Garden International School, Jalan Bukit Kiara, KL

Capoeira Workshop with Mestre Pintor
Time: 8:00pm – 9:10pm

Talk on Injury Prevention and Training Concepts
Time: 9:15pm – 9:55pm

Open Roda
Time: 10:00pm – 10:30pm

Date: Fri, 14th Nov
Venue: Jalan Bukit Bintang (Outside Maybank)
Street Roda!
Time: 8:00pm ~ 10:00pm

Date: Saturday, 15th Nov

Venue: Academia Bantus Capoeira Malaysia, Damansara Jaya
1st GBCM Championship
Time: 12:00noon ~ 5:00pm

Venue: Cloth & Clef, Jalan Ceylon, KL
Noite Brazileira
Time: 9:00pm – late

Date: Sunday, 16th Nov
Venue: Pavillion Shopping Center, KL
5th Annual GBCM Batizado e Troca de Cordas
Time: 4:00pm ~ 8:00pm

BATIZADO PACKAGES

SPECIAL OFFER FOR MEMBERS
- FREE CLASS FOR NOVEMBER!!
- Attend ALL workshops
- Attend ALL rodas
- 1 Festival T-Shirt
- Attend Batizado Ceremony
- Members Price: MYR320

Bantus Capoeira Festival Package
- Attend ALL workshops
- Attend ALL rodas
- 1 Festival T-Shirt
- Attend Batizado Ceremony
- Members Price: MYR280
- Non Members: MYR350

Abada Promotion
Buy a brand new pair of abadas for only RM100 with your Festival Package

There is also a package for kids. Get more info from Bantus Capoeira.

Hope to see you there.

The 9 Emperor fest is upon us again.

I will be back in Penang for two weeks but I won’t be contactable.

Will not be near any Internet services.

See you all in two weeks!!!

Little Penang Street Market

August 2008

Merdeka Magic

What better way to celebrate our nation’s birth than by bringing joy to its children

Little Penang Street Market will celebrate Merdeka Day with a series of programs especially for children. These include special drama programs on movement and rhyme, and sessions with magicians, clowns and jugglers.

Date of Market : Sunday 31st August

Place : Upper Penang Road

Time: from 10.00am to 6.00pm

Programs for Children :

Whole day Painting and working with Collage by Shamsul Bahri

12.15 – 2.15 The Balloon Clown wanders around the Market

12.30 – 1.30 Jeffrey the clown entertains around the Market

2.00 – 2.30 The Amazing Antics of Master Seng the Plastic Man

2.30 – 3.00 Penang Players presents: Movement in drama by Joelle St Arnoult. Children will have FUN while developing their physical and emotional expression as they participate in a variety of movements accompanied by sounds of music.

3.00 – 3.30 Rhyme-Time! By Lucille Dass. Children will have FUN participating in a variety of expressions that will develop their skills in the “sound of English” as they learn to rhyme and keep time!

Other Programs :

Book Reading LOVERS AND STRANGERS REVISITED – by Robert Raymer

Robert Raymer, who teaches creative writing at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, will read one of his stories and talk about how you can turn your ideas into short stories, using examples from Lovers and Strangers Revisited whereby he turned his ideas into a collection of 17 Malaysian short stories that have now been published 63 times in 9 countries, taught at four Malaysian universities, and in SPM literature (”Neighbours”).

In the title story, a selfish writer gets more than he bargained for when former lovers haunt him in more ways than one. In another story, a man’s loneliness turns into obsession when he shares a taxi ride with a Malay woman. A Clark Gable lookalike is a barrister wannabe with a shocking secret and gossipy neighbours reveal more about themselves than the man who commits suicide. Elsewhere, expats cross the border to Had Yai to experience a good bargain in the Thai flesh trade before going home to their wives in America.

In this republished edition of Lovers and Strangers Revisited, Robert’s snapshots of scenes from various walks of life provide an insider-outsider view on love, family and culture, and urges a second look at ourselves in the mirror of self-awareness.

At the Space :

Our Entertainment

11.30 The Dance Factory presenting an assortment of contemporary dance

12.00 Our very own Princess of Pop, Regina

12.30 The G Spot Resident Jazz Band – music from among the best of

Penang’s jazz musicians

1.00 The magic of Jeffrey the Magician

1.15 The G Spot Resident Jazz Band

1.30 Rozz and the Frequency

2.00 The amazing antics of Plastic Man, Master Seng

2.30 The Penang Players workshop: Drama Activities for Children

3.30 Wishing Treez – two brothers with great talent

4.00 Miliz – a young band already making waves

70 Art and and Crafts stalls, Heritage Food Stalls

On-site Demonstrations on making paper aeroplanes, Wayang Kulit, and Grass Hoppers made of Coconut Leaves

More Information on our other guests, performers and arts and crafts persons can be found on our website. Please contact :

Feei at 016 488 3632, Ambi at 012 482 8619 or check out our website at: www.littlepenang.com.my