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Capoeira
comes to new performing arts venue
from the Beaches of Brazil
A new Capoeira group has been launched at
Worcester’s new performing arts venue,
Studio B at Everoak Industrial Estate in the
St John’s area of Worcester.
Oficina da Capoeira’s new Worcester
group holds classes for beginners and
young players on Tuesdays (7-8pm) and
intermediate players on Thurs (7-8.30pm).
Classes cost between £6 -£8 per class and are open to anyone
who is interested in learning this Afro-Brazilian art form which fuses
dance, martial arts, music and culture.
When group leader, Monitor Ace Ventura heard about the
opening of the new venue, Studio B he decided to take the
This Green Earth
Worcester Museum & Art Gallery
This Green Earth is
a new exhibition
showcasing work from
Malvern based artist
Bridget Macdonald
(who also curated the
show) alongside the
landscape traditions of
master painters
Claude Lorrain,
Samuel Palmer and
Peter Paul Rubens; rare works on loan to Worcester from the
prestigious Ashmolean Museum collection and Manchester
Art Gallery. The unique combination of artworks offer new insight
into the way artists interact with the landscape they live in and
remember from their past, highlighting the timeless yearning for
‘Sovinec’
Centrala presents the exhibition ‘Sovinec’ by Jindrich Streit,
one of the most important Czech Documentary Photographers.
For over 40 years, primary school
teacher Jindrich Streit has been
photographing the people of his home
village Sovinec in the north of the Czech
Republic.
Having always lived and worked among
his subjects Streit is well known locally
and is assumed to always be carrying his
camera. His photographs strikingly reveal
this intimate relationship with the
villagers, but are often brutally frank about the hard life that was
etched out by the people of Sovinec. These images were
unsettling for the authorities, who in 1982 imprisoned him for,
amongst the other things, photographing a party meeting where
people were asleep. As a result, he lost his teaching job and had
to join his friends who worked on the local collective farm. Despite
this, Streit persevered with his photographic work, responding by
opportunity to move his
class to this new, exciting
venue. Ace Ventura is a
skilled capoeirista who lives
in Worcestershire with over
15 years’ experience in
capoeira. He is keen to
ensure that his classes are
suitable for all fitness levels,
developing new skills for the
less able but stretching
those with a higher level of
fitness.
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Ace said, “Capoeira combines the creativity of dance with
fitness-building benefits of sport. It has so many benefits as it
brings together people from all walks of life, builds self-confidence,
develops new skills, improves health and fitness and develops
friendships.”
To find out more about the class visit Oficina da Capoeira’s visit:
www.odacapoeira.com or contact Ace Ventura on 07517 206376
the elusive peace and
tranquility of rural life
underpinning much
landscape art.
Bridget Macdonald’s
work has appeared in
collections worldwide
and echoes the towers,
herds & trees heavy with
fruit seen in Baroque &
Romanticist painting.
She said: “It is a wonderful privilege to have this opportunity to
exhibit my drawings and paintings in the company of exquisite
works by Claude Lorrain and Samuel Palmer, those great masters
of the relationship between nature and the ideal.”
This Green Earth is a free exhibition running from 13th February
until 25th June and look out for bite sized talks at the gallery in
April, May and June!
For more information visit www.museumsworcestershire.org.uk
or follow @worcestermuseum
opening his house to the local community and building a gallery
for contemporary art on the first floor. Today it is a remarkable
cultural centre that attracts work from around the world.
This Exhibition is supported by Arts Council England, Czech
Centre London in London, Eric Franck Fine Art and The Side
Gallery. The Exhibition is part of the #CaptureBirmingham
weekend 19- 20 March, Centrala, Unit 4 Minerva Works.
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