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UPCOMING EVENTS
Home is more than a place. It can be a feeling, a person, a memory, a rhythm or somewhere we feel most ourselves.
Using a simple map-fold structure, we’ll create a small illustrated zine exploring what home feels like to us. Through words, colour, marks, collage and drawing, we’ll make our own personal maps of belonging.
Time: 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Date: 12 September 2026
Venue: Brazilarte Academy, 1st Flr Victoria Centre, Southend on Sea, SS2 5SP
Capacity: 12 places per workshop
Duration: 2 hours
Included: All workshop materials are provided + tea/coffee station
Age: Suitable for 10 years + / under-14s accompanied by an adult
Access: Accessible unit and accessible toilets within the Victoria Centre*
Cancellation: Bookings are firm sale; unused places are paid forward
Media: Photography and video may be taken during sessions**
*If you have any access requirements please let us know in advance as we’ll do our best to accommodate your request.
**Please let us know if you would like to be excluded from any photography.
As summer begins to loosen its grip, this workshop is an invitation to gather ourselves back in.
We’ll learn a simple hand-binding technique and make a small book to carry with us into autumn. Gentle prompts will help us begin its pages together, but this is a book designed to grow slowly. Somewhere to notice, collect, write, draw and return to as the season unfolds.
Time: 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Date: 19 September 2026
Venue: Brazilarte Academy, 1st Flr Victoria Centre, Southend on Sea, SS2 5SP
Capacity: 12 places per workshop
Duration: 2 hours
Included: All workshop materials are provided + tea/coffee station
Age: Suitable for 10 years + / under-14s accompanied by an adult
Access: Accessible unit and accessible toilets within the Victoria Centre*
Cancellation: Bookings are firm sale; unused places are paid forward
Media: Photography and video may be taken during sessions**
*If you have any access requirements please let us know in advance as we’ll do our best to accommodate your request.
**Please let us know if you would like to be excluded from any photography.
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Berimbau - A story of how it came to be is a mythical story. A suggestion of what could have been. A sacred instrument in the Capoeira circle, the Berimbau draws from many indigenous cultures from around the world. There are similar instruments, played in similar ways, Capoeira has it’s way.
We follow our protagonist, Hunter, on a forage into the forest. what he finds there is not what he expects. In this moment he discovers a secret which changes his life forever.
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Emma ’Sininha’ Gibbs De Oliveira has been practicing the art of Capoeira for 24 years. On this journey she has been fortunate to travel and meet with so many wonderful people. The memories that stick in her mind of these travels are the stories told.
Combining her love for storytelling and her artistic prowess Emma brings to the world her first comic book, Berimbau, a story of how it came to be. With a bold desire to inspire others through the vibrant cultural teaching of Capoeira, its music and colourful history, she has written a fantastical story about the sacred Berimbau.
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A4 Full Colour
40 Pages
First published July 2024
Language: English.
Delivery: via email.
Mestre vol.1 EBOOK (PDF DOWNLOAD)
Written and illustrated by Emma Gibbs De Oliveira - Contramestra Sininha
Featuring twenty nine Mestres who have walked the Capoeira path before us, allowing us to play the beautiful art of Capoeira today. Each mestre is represented with an original illustration plus a short story of their path in Capoeira and how they have influenced the art.
The desire to create this book was to ignite a curiosity about the mestres who passed before us. To preserve their traditions and stories in the rodas we participate in today.
Language: English.
Book size : 210mm x 210mm
Delivery: via email.