SambaFunk! 2024 Carnival Registration

IMPORTANT: Before registering please read the FAQs and Performer Expecations .

Get ready for an energizing, uplifting community experience, featuring guest artist-in-residence Mestra Renata Dias Fraga Scholl! Our goal is to have 40+ Dancers and 15+ Drummers, so please invite your friends and community members!

Registration fees and dates

“Super Supporter” registration is $40 through April 14. General registration is $50 (please note that the final day to register as a Dancer or Drummer is Sunday May 5. After this date registration will be for Spirit Section only).

2024 Carnival Season Schedule

Following is a tentative schedule. Make sure you are on our Community Text Messages for updates (text “funk” to ‭510. 800.7395‬ and follow the prompts to sign up). Stay tuned for other special events and gatherings.

Weekly Classes - please attend as many as possible to learn choreography and rhythms

#SambaChurch

Sundays 3:30 - 5:30

Live drums | $17

Malonga Center for the Arts

1428 Alice street, Oakland

African Brasilian Technique

Zhi Dao Guan - The Taoist Center

Thursdays 6:00 - 7:15| $15

13824 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland

*class time will extend beyond 7:15 as we approach Carnival

Outdoor rehearsals

Outdoor rehearsals will start in May. They will be held on Saturday afternoons in Astro Park, Oakland (the grassy area between the library and the highway at Lake Merritt). Exact dates and times TBD. Please hold the time and attend as many as you can. 

Saturday May 18th will be the first rehearsal with Mestra Renata.

Key dates

Sun Mar 16: “Super Supporter” registration opens

Sun Apr 14: Last day for “Super Supporter” pricing; General registration pricing begins

Sat Apr 20: Street Carnival Block Party @ Calabash (afternoon)

Sun May 5: Registration cutoff for performers

Sat May 18: Outdoor rehearsal in Astro Park with Renata

Sun May 19: Dancer roles and costume requirements finalized and shared w/ registered participants

Week of May 26: “Hell Week” (costume nights, rehearsals, and more)

Sat Jun 1: Oakland Carnival!

Read the full information packet and FAQs here

Host or Publisher SambaFunk!