Date: Sunday 2nd March
Time:7.45pm
Venue:CB 3.06
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Date: Monday 3rd March
Time:12pm to 3pm
Venue:Parade
Showcase societies: BUASS LGBT Italian society Folk Soc BAHS Cheerleading Capoeira Kickboxing
Performances: Folk Soc Capoeira BUASS BREAK Cheerleading Kickboxing
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Time: 7.45pm
Venue: CB 3.10
Date: Tuesday 4th March
Time: 11am to 12midday
Speaker: Khalil
Venue: 6E 2.1
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Time: 3pm to 5pm
Venue: Students' Union Level 3
Time: 2pm to 3pm
Speaker: Daisy Zhu
Venue: 1WN3.23
Date: Wednesday 5th March
Time: 1pm to 3pm
Venue: Students' Union downstairs and Parade
Please note: There is a £1 fee to enter
Prizes: 1 Pint at the Plug & Tub for Stage 1, 1 Special Offer (Small Pizza+Pint) at the Plug & Tub for Stage 2 and £20 and International Dinner ticket for Stage 3
Date: Thursday 6th March
Speaker: John Mancini
Venue:CB 3.10
Date: Friday 7th March
Speaker: Isabella
Venue: CB 3.06
Time: 1pm to 2pm
Speaker: Prof. Alexander Betts - Associate Professor on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford
Venue: 8W 2.23
Times:7.15 to 8.45 - O Zelador movie screening 8.45 to 9.40 - Capoeira practice session 9.40 to 10.05 - Roda and music session
Venue: 1W 2.102 (film screening) then Students' Union downstairs (practice session and music)
Starting from the 16th century, the colonization of Brazil was enacted through the massive use of enslaved manpower. Until the end of slavery, around 3 million human beings were forcibly kidnapped and sold across the African continent and shipped to Brazil by European slave traders to work in sugar cane plantations and mines. Exploitation, abuse, grief and suffering represented slaves' daily experiences as hard labour, physical punishments and families' separation were practices proactively used by slaveowners to “manage” their workforce. Despite all such pain and suffering slaves managed to create an art form which enabled them to respond to the physical and cultural annihilation they were subjected by the slavery system: Capoeira. To avoid slaveowners' prohibitions, in Capoeira kicks and strikes were disguised as passionate dance moves behind the musical and rhythmical elements of the form giving Capoeira the fluidity and flair it has today. In many cases Capoeira represented the only effective means of self-defense and survival for an escaped slave against his masters. After slavery abolition, capoeira was prohibited and criminalized until 1937, but yet represented a means for many Brazilians to preserve and pass on the unrecognized struggle of millions of human being craving for freedom and dignity, yesterday as much as today.
Join the Capoeira Society as we screen the movie “O Zelador” (The Caretaker), a movie exploring the roots and development of Capoeira in Brazilian society through the voice and life of a Capoeira Master, Mestre Russo de Caixias. Make sure you bring suitable sports attire, as you will have the opportunity to learn and practice Capoeira for yourself in the training session after the movie! Our taster session will end with a roda and music session, where everyone will have the opportunity to play the instruments which make up the rhythmic and melodic capoeira bateria!
Date: Saturday 8th March
Venue: CB 4.1
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Venue: Students' Union downstairs
Please note: There is a £2 charge for non-members
Time: 6.15pm to 8.15pm
Venue: CB 5.1