Batizado 2025

Maple Valley Capoeira Batizado – 2025

We are happy to announce that Maple Valley Capoeira will be hosting its second Batizado and Troca de cordãos on the weekend of May 16th – 17th, 2025. We are excited to celebrate this event with our students, families and friends. Please join us. Axé!

What is a batizado/troca de cordão?

A batizado or baptism is when capoeiristas from all throughout the capoeira community come together to celebrate students receiving their first capoeira cordão. Subsequent promotions are known as a “troca de cordão” or changing of cord and can also be part of the batizado. During a batizado, a student receiving their first cordão plays a visiting Professor/Contramestre/Mestre in a roda and is welcomed or baptized into the capoeira community. As students reach higher belt levels they may play with more than one teacher before they receive their next cordão as a recognition of their progression.

Check back here regularly for updates to the schedule and notes from your hosts. Batizado FAQs here

Registration Information for Guests/Visitors

Details and Pricing

  • For the following, please contact bebida@maplevalleycapoeira.com
    • Instrutores/Professores/Contramestres/Mestres (teacher’s registration)
    • If you would benefit from having child care at the event
    • Discounts available to families (3+ individuals)
  • Only a limited number of t-shirts will be available for registrants that are not pre-registered
  • Important – At the end of the initial registration process, there will be an option to see details. Follow that link to the Google Form which allows you to enter additional information and select t-shirt sizes.

* T-Shirts/sizes no longer guaranteed after April 20th *

(T-shirts no longer guaranteed once early registration ends)

Full-Event

* $100 *

  • All workshops
  • All open rodas
  • Batizado / Troca de cordão
Register

Friday Only

$35

  • Workshop
  • Open roda/mixer
Register

Saturday Only

* $85 *

  • Workshops
  • Open rodas
  • Batizado / Troca de cordão
Register

Special Guests:

Mestre Calango – UCA

Mestre Calango began training Capoeira at 7 years old in his native town in the state of Piaui in the Northeast of Brazil. He received his formatura in the US under Mestre Acordeon in the Late ’90s and the title of Mestre in the early 2000’s, but has been teaching since he was 18 years old. He has been featured in workshops, shows and films throughout the world. Mestre Calango has taught in Chicago, Colorado, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Brazil, and has been teaching in the Bay Area on and off since 2002.

Mestre Mata Mosquito – UCA

Mata mosquito (Silver Cruz) has been practicing capoeira for over 20 years under the instruction of Mestre Acordeon, Mestre Rã and Mestra Suelly. As an instructor, he has taught all ages and levels. He was assisting or teaching kids classes for 18 years at the UCA Berkeley headquarters, as well as in after school programs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He has taught adults beginner and intermediate classes at UCA Berkeley, Lua de Prata – Xalapa and currently teaches a kids, teen and adults classes at Lua de Prata – Bay Area. He has lead workshops in UCA Schools in Cd. Juarez in Mexico, El Paso, TX, Denver, CO, Albuquerque, NM, Sacramento, CA, Bend, OR and Waimea, HI. He also has participated in great number of capoeira workshops and events in USA, Mexico, France, Japan and Brazil. In 2015 he opened his own project called Lua de Prata in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and recently in Berkeley, CA. Originally from Xalapa, Mexico, Mata mosquito speaks Spanish, English and Brazilian Portuguese.

Mestre Pimenta – UCA

Roda de Fogo

Visiting Teachers:

  • Mestre Silvinho – FICA – Seattle, WA
  • Mestre Mangangá – Grupo Capoeira Angola Palmarinos / Seattle Capoeira Center – Seattle, WA
  • Contramestre Bode – UCA
  • Contramestre Galo Preto – Filhos de Palmares – Tacoma, WA
  • Contramestre Desenho – Grupo Capoeira Angola Palmarinos / Seattle Capoeira Center – Seattle, WA
  • Professora Força – UCA / Água de Beber – Sacramento, CA
  • Professor Tatu – UCA / Água de Beber – Sacramento, CA
  • Instrutor Palhaço – UCA / Água de Beber – Sacramento, CA

Event Location and Schedule:

Friday – No Uniforms / School attire

The opening workshop and roda will be focused on the styles and teachings of Mestre Rã, one of the founders of the United Capoeira Association, who recently passed away in late 2024.  We would like to take advantage of this opportunity to share a bit of his legacy with our capoeira community and hope that everyone, regardless of which school or style of capoeira they come from, can share in his memory.  Please come in non-uniform/no school affiliation training attire so that we can simply be together as a capoeira community, ready to support, experience and learn from each other.  Mestre Acordeon and Mestre Rã had two very distinct styles of capoeira, yet they came together and created something very special and that is what we would like this opening evening to reflect.  If you have any memories or experiences with Mestre Rã, we would love for you to come and share them. Here is a link to a tribute video that was prepared by Mestre Galego, A Tribute to My Teacher Mestre Rã.

Mestre Rã academy, circa 2012

Visiting Mestre Rã’s academy, Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, July 2012

Saturday – School Uniforms / Event dress

Please come in whatever uniform/attire is appropriate for you and your school to attend event workshops and batizados (e.g whites, uniforms, abadas, cordão/corda, etc), . Event t-shirts will be available for those that pre-registered when you check in at the registration table. Please reserve them to be worn for the Batizado & Troca de Cordãos.

[Tentative schedule, please check back for updates]

Friday, 16 May 2025
Saturday, 17 May 2025
Sunday, 18 May 2025

Event Policies:

Registrants will receive policies to sign by email when they register for the event. If you have already created an account with Maple Valley Capoeira, you may have signed these documents previously. Copies of some of the digital documents are available here if you wish to review them prior to registering for the event.

Additional Information:

Housing – We have extremely limited housing available so we highly recommend an AirBnB or other locally available accommodations. We can help direct or provide recommendations if you have questions or are looking for other folks that are also looking for housing. Thank you for understanding

Local information –