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 private Portuguese Language tutoring. 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.
 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. 
                     

Kids Assembly Programs
at Schools ​2025

BRaPA music and movement art curriculum 
started in 2006 by sharing Traditional Brazilian Arts and Capoeira with students as an Assembly program offered at Elementary and High Schools in San Diego, CA. The Assembly Program was called Nós de Chita and performed for 15 years. Claudia Lyra,  BRaPA's founder, language and art teacher, also writes school curriculums implementing ARTS in education in partnership with local school districts as well as Arts and Music organizations.
Kids concerts SPRING 2025 - check the dates and locations below and come to enjoy with us! 
We have been very happy
​and pleased to bring Brazil
closer to San Diego, CA
since 2006
@brapasd

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


​ADULTS -  Zoom / digital updated material 


PERFORMING ARTS 


   ​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.