The Embassy of Brazil, through the Latin American-Caribbean Centre of UWI, is hosting a two-week summer capoeira workshop from August 8 - 20 at the Students’ Union Gym on the Mona Campus.
Organized specifically for participants in the Youth Training and Empowerment Programme, the capoeira workshop will expose students to capoeira, a creative and defensive form of martial arts that is harmonized into a dance with music.
Capoeira has its origins in the need of Brazilian slaves to protect themselves without the use of weapons, which they were forbidden to carry or own.