We are pleased to announce that our 2013 beginners’ drumming workshops will start at 12.45pm on Sunday 12 May, and will run till 3pm. There will be 6 workshops in total, and costs are $60 for the series if paid in full, or $12.50 per workshop. The workshops are run at our usual practice space, Thistle Hall, which is on the corner of Arthur and Cuba Streets.
The dates for the workshops will be Sundays 12, 19, 26 May, and 3 (Monday), 9, 16 June. Each workshop will run from 1 – 3pm, apart from the first which has the earlier start time of 12.45pm, to allow for the registration process.
To find out more, check out our Join page. The page includes a form to fill in if you’re interested in taking part.
Workshop places are filling up fast, so if you want to be involved – get in quick!
As you may know, members of Wellington Batucada will be joined by sambaistas from all over the country this Anzac Day long weekend, to take part in a 4-day samba immersion workshop with international tutors Leon Patel and Adriana Rosso. It’s called Sambanui, and it’s gonna be a blast!
On Sunday 28 April, as a culmination of our four days of non-stop drumming, we’ll be holding a huge Samba Jam featuring Wellington Batucada, joined by our fellow drummers and dancers from all over New Zealand.
We will be gathering in the Dowse Square to showcase our new material. Come on down for a boogie!
Where: Dowse Museum, Dowse Square, Laings Road, Lower Hutt.
When: Sunday 28 April 2013, 3.30pm
Hi again everyone
I can’t believe that it’s now only FIVE (5) more sleeps until our wonderful and much anticipated Sambanui weekend!!!!
This is to remind you that today is the last day for paying your registration fee of $150 directly into the Wellington Batucada Kiwibank account, 38-9012-0348830-00.
If you are from out of town and need a ride from the airport to the venue please let me know by Monday 22 April, and include your flight arrival time.
If you are from Wellington and can help with getting visiting Sambistas out to Wainui, please let me know, again by Monday 22 April. Also, Batucadaites – please don’t forget to bring your own drum with you. As we will need as many timbaus, surdos, repiniques as possible – if you aren’t coming and are happy to lend your drum for the weekend this would be very much appreciated.
You’ll need to bring:
To refresh your memory about information about the weekend including the workshop times for each day please go to our Sambanui page.
Finally, we will be giving our public performance at the Dowse Museum in Lower Hutt, at 3.30pm on Sunday 28 April.
See you all out there next week!!!
Caroline
Relay for Life is an amazing event, with an incredibly loving, giving, and celebratory atmosphere. We were really honoured to have been asked to take part, and to lead the cancer survivors and their caregivers around the track for the first lap of the 24-hour relay.
From the Relay for Life website:
Relay For Life is an inspiring community event that gives everyone a chance to celebrate cancer survivors and caregivers; remember loved ones lost to cancer; and fight back by raising awareness and funds to support the work of the Cancer Society. Relay For Life is for people of all ages and fitness levels. Anyone can take part!
Team members walk and jog through the night, symbolising the fact that cancer never sleeps. However, people taking part may come and go as they like.
Our Brazilian friends had set up a Footvolley Championship on the beach at Oriental Bay, and asked us if we’d come and play to open the competition. We were delighted to do so.
We gathered at the beachside on Oriental Parade and watched the footvolley teams warming up and going through their paces. It’s such a skilled sport, requiring some serious foot-eye co-ordination, very fast and athletic. It’s fascinating to watch.
Then it was our turn to provide some early afternoon entertainment before the tournament matches began. It’s surprisingly hard to do our choreographed stepping on sand, but in such a beautiful setting, and on such a gorgeous day, with a lineup of footvolley players very keen and eager to be our dancers for the afternoon, it was a pleasure: Continue reading
