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