Luz di Angolinha – workshop 2
Capoeira with Mestra Di




This is how it all happens






This is how it all happens


Instrument-making with Luan Following from the last blogs, here are some photos of the workshops led by Mestra Di and Luan. The children are making capoeira instruments – pandeiros – using recycled materials
“Eu creio que todo mestre e toda mestra é educador, e tem que envolver as crianças, porque a parte delas é a transformação.”
“I believe that every mestre or mestra is an educator, and has to involve children, because that’s where the change takes place.”
How is it possible to address the impacts of everyday racism and sexism on children? Mestra Di heads a children’s capoeira group, Luz di Angolinha in Olinda, Pernambuco. Pernambuco is in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the areas most affected by inequality, discrimination and violence, which disproportionately impact women and people of Afro-Brazilian or…