Garra will open a Capoeira class in partnership with Capoeira Master Veronica de Paulo

Have you always wanted to learn capoeira?

This is your chance!

Garra's Healing With Art Program will welcome a new capoeira class! BUT we need YOUR support to make it happen!

What do we need funding for?

We need funding to:

1- rent a safe studio space in New York City to hold the class twice a week for two hours,

2- pay the teacher for sharing her craft and experience,

3- buy instruments that are intrinsic to the capoeira roda, and

4- cover the price of transportation (MTA metrocard) for students who would otherwise not be able to come due to financial constraints.

Our goal is to provide the class either completely free or for a low fee, as we believe that capoeira is part of our Brazilian cultural heritage and should be shared accurately and widely. Sharing in that cultural heritage should not be inaccessible due to one's income.

Our Healing Through Art Program seeks to heal the trauma of immigration, family separation, gender-based abuse, and discrimination by fostering the self through art and cultural expression

Garra is seeking donations to hold an entrepreneurship project for immigrant women

Garra is expanding its economic empowerment program, aGARRAndo o Futuro (Grabbing the Future) to include expanded entrepreneurship classes and workshops, as well as providing a space to show and sell products and to build community

Immigrant entrepreneurs will learn the basics of opening a business, have their legal concerns addressed, have their questions answered regarding how to place a fair price on a product, and will have a space to show and sell their products to the community

We welcome new partners in this endeavor, the international store Bela Brand, and Elo Por Ela, to help build the capacity of under resourced immigrant entrepreneurs.

We will launch this project in early December 2023, with a immigrant entrepreneur Holiday Fair. Stay tuned for the exact date!