Capoeira is a tradition the whole town keeps — masters, students, and families from groups across the region. Tribo Mirim is one of those groups. Below are moments from the wider community Tribo Mirim is part of.
Students from capoeira groups across the region come together to receive their first corda (rope marking their level) and a capoeira nickname. Different masters, one ceremony — the day a student is born into the wider capoeira community.
At Tribo Mirim itself, on 29 September — São Miguel's feast day — caruru is served to the children. Caruru is a traditional Bahian dish of okra, dendê palm oil, dried shrimp, and ground nuts. The dish carries the tradition of feeding seven children who answer "sim, eu como" ("yes, I will eat") to the syncretic saints Cosme and Damião, an offering of generosity that bridges Catholic and Candomblé practice.
After the weekly Saturday-evening roda at Praça Santos Dumont, the capoeiristas of Itacaré walk down to Praia da Coroa for a round of samba da roda. The full community shows up — multiple groups, multiple masters — and the night ends barefoot in the sand, pandeiros and voices carrying the roda back to its Afro-Brazilian roots.
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