ICBIE

It’s cold. I’m looking at a pallid winter sunset as I affectionately browse through photos and videos of Ribeira and I don’t want to make anyone sad: “the nostalgia for you and for Salvador, too” doesn’t include remorse. You were all great, welcoming me like only a great little community such as yours can do.…

Tuesday, December 8th was a day rich in color and different flavors.  The ICBIE, as part off its Festival of 10 years, decided to dedicate a day to gastronomy, but in a different way, mixing culinary arts with graffiti art. The Nova10Ordem crew invited the city’s street artists to paint the walls of the open…

Library and Museum Day On Sunday, December 5th, we dedicated the programming of our Festival to the Library and the MEPE museum that recounts the history of the Itapagipe peninsula. We began with a debate regarding the negative and positive aspects of the internet on our knowledge, and discordant opinions emerged: for older people, the…

Saturday, December 4th, ICBIE hosted the presentation of the book “Os Poetas estão vivos” (The Poets Are Alive) by Cacau Novaes, who was the first vice president of the ICBIE and an important collaborator during the Institute’s first years of activity. The principal theme of this collection of poetry is an attempt to bring to…

Cinema and Photography Day, December 4th, 2015 “Cinema and Photography Day” included the participation of the up and coming young photographer Ribeira Tiago Nonato, already well known at the ICBIE for having won the first Photography competition, launched by the Institute in 2014, A bola é redonda (The Ball is Round). Tiago presented a selection…

Sunday, November 29th, the ICBIE organized a festive and colorful parade that wound though the streets of our district, Ribeira. to celebrate, together with others around the world, “Climate Day.” The goal of the demonstration was to sensitize the local public’s opinion regarding the delicate theme of respect for the environment and urban decorum. Unfortunately,…

Inauguration! ICBIE Tenth Anniversary Celebrations On the 28th of November we inaugurated the celebrations for our tenth anniversary. We kicked off with the event “EBM-expositions, bazaar and music”, with an extensive photo exhibition that documents the highlights of the ICBIE’s history, from 2005 up to this year; with a little market of new and used…

The time has come to salute our departing volunteers, Alberto Mariani, Giulia Soffiantini and Sage Rahm, who, with great diligence, have held courses in the German, French and English languages. Before they left, I asked them a few questions. – What are your personal impressions regarding your experience at the ICBIE? Giulia: I carved out…

Testimonials from ICBIE Friends, Volunteers and Students To engage our whole community in the festivities for the ten years of activity of the Institute, we asked those who were affiliated with the Institute, either in the past or in the present, to write a brief description of what the ICBIE means to them, together with…

And while the calendar of the artistic events seems to be definitely defined, the ICBIE is undergoing a restyling.  The facades of the big house are being repainted.  The interior walls, once they are redone, will be decorated with the graffiti of Bahian street artists. The big-little MePe museum is being re-organized to tell the…