WELCOME TO BRAPA,  BEM VINDOS AO BRAPA ! 

BRaPA is a Language and Arts School in San Diego founded in 2006. We are Brazilian born educators and creatives with a passion for sharing our culture. Our focus is on Portuguese language tutoring and Brazilian music programs for kids and adults. 
BRaPA offers group and private tutoring and workshops.  The lessons are mostly available on Zoom. You will study with PhD candidate and director of BRAPA, Claudia Lyra, who has a rich experience teaching Portuguese in different contexts:
- Online full program at the Middlebury College - VT in 2020 and 2021. She taught 3 levels of a Portuguese Summer Program to college students during 7 weeks each year next to a team of professionals in the Linguistics and Portuguese department.
- Lyra is an educator who has also worked with Harvard University, San Diego State University and MIT University teaching students Portuguese and Brazilian culture programs during the years of 2015, 2016 and 2017. 
- Since 2006 she has been teaching private and group lessons at her own office and online using updated material and creative lesson plans.
BRaPA also writes school curriculums implementing ARTS in education in partnership with local school districts as well as Arts and Music organizations.  In addition, BRaPA supports Brazilian musicians by promoting events featuring Brazilian artists, such as Brazil in Trio Choro Group, Julio Lemos, Giba Alves (Barbatuques), Dudu Fuentes from Monobloco, Dani Lasalvia and Pedro Sá. 
                     

We have been very happy and pleased to bring Brazil closer to San Diego, CA since 2006

Check out our classes and events below!
E-mail - info@brazilcc.com 

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"Claudia knows how relate with her students and adapt her lessons so concepts are more understandable."
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Ryan Castro, Chula Vista CA

​ADULTS -  Zoom / digital updated material 

PERFORMING ARTS 

THE OFFICE - SmartSpace is a great location for our private and group Portuguese tutoring!  (all online at the moment)

   ​KIDS 

WELLNESS ARTS

With a background in Psychology, Language Teaching and Performing Arts, BRaPA offers all the activities inspiring THE AUDIENCES to be present in everything they are doing, to develop critical thinking, to get in touch with cultural aspect of Brazil consequently with musicianship. AUDIENCE also is able to find, explore and respect their limits in all of the learning processes in life. 

Schumman's acculturation theory is put in practice at BRaPA - basically he believes that Language learning can not be separated from the cultural and social aspects of it. 

All the workshops, performances and language tutoring are filled with passion and professionalism within the education and psychology world so students and audiences can experience a real learning moments connected to who they are, to who the target language speakers are (Portuguese speakers)  and what their interests are. 

When they leave a class or a show, something must be shifted inside, so each content was worth to all the people involved regarding to learning, actively listening, speaking, playing, exchanging. 
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Stay tuned to our workshops on Body Percussion, Brazilian rhythms with percussion instruments, Portuguese Language Tutoring with updates and creative material to all levels and write us about your interest.