Our Mission

The purpose of the program is to provide students a nurturing, safe and supporting environment that instills healthy behaviors, strong and healthy bodies, and builds character education through Capoeira.

First Session     June 14 to July 2

Second Session     July 5 to July 23

Third Session     July 26 to August 13

Activities

Capoeira, Music, Maculele, Volleyball, Basketball, Soccer, Kickball, Painting, Arts & Crafts, Board Games, Story Time

Field Trips

Movie Theatre, Chuck E. Cheese, Water Park, Bowling, Metro Zoo, Jungle Island, Dandy Bear, Morgan Levy Park, Children’s Museum, Miami Seaquarium and Actor’s Playhouse.

Cost

Registration     $35 per camper

Full Day     7:30 - 5:30     $115 a week

Half Day    9:00 – 2:00     $55 a week

Price includes martial arts classes, field trips, daily snack and 1 t-shirt.

Registration is limited to the first 100 campers.

Lunch

All campers must bring their lunch and drink. Campers should also bring a water bottle, which can be refilled, since they will be participating in fitness classes daily.

Personal Belongings

Children should write their names on all their belongings. Children must wear t-shirts, shorts and sneakers at all times. Camp t-shirts must be worn on field trip days.

MARTIAL ARTS INFORMATION

CAPOEIRA

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian blend of martial arts, games, and culture created by enslaved Africans in Brazil during the 16th Century. Participants form a roda (circle) and take turns playing instruments, singing, and sparring in pairs in the center of the circle. The game is marked by fluid acrobatic play, feints, subterfuge, and extensive use of groundwork, as well as sweeps, kicks, and head butts. Throughout the game, a player must avoid a sweep, trip, kick, or head butt that may knock him or her on the floor. Capoeira has evolved from one main form, now referred to as "Capoeira Angola", into two other forms known as "Capoeira Regional", and the ever-evolving "Capoeira Contemporânea“.

Maculele

Maculele is an Afro Brazilian dance where a number of people gather in a circle called a roda with one or more atabaques positioned at the entrance of the circle. Each person brandishes a pair of long sticks, traditionally made from biriba wood from Brazil. As the Maculelê rhythm plays on the atabaque, the people in the circle begin rhythmically striking the sticks together. The leader sings, and the people in the circle respond by singing the chorus of the songs. When the leader gives the signal to begin playing Maculelê, two people enter the circle, and to the rhythm of the atabaque, they begin striking their own and each other's sticks together. On the first three beats, they strike their own sticks together, making expressive and athletic dance movements, and on each fourth beat, they strike each other's respective right-hand stick together. This makes for a dance that looks like "mock stick combat". (Also, traditionally in Maculelê, the players wear dried grass skirts).