ICBIE

Appropriately, the ICBIE’s new fashion workshop and exposition has insinuated itself into the weekly cineforum.  Tomorrow’s film will be The Devil Wears Prada, directed by David Frankel and famous for the splendid acting of Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.  Even better, the film’s title is faithfully and literally translated in its foreign versions. ————————— O…

Here is a complete calendar of events for the upcoming ICBIE Fashion Week. O ICBIE tem o prazer de convidá-los para participar das atividades de encerramento da  Semana da Moda  de 9 a 11 de dezembro. PROGRAMAÇÃO: Quinta-feira, 09 de dezembro: ·         17:00 – Abertura da exposição de revistas italianas de moda da década de…

Who knows what will be going through Pietro’s mind, as he watches our local kids absorbing the Rome of his childhood in Fellini’s masterpiece film.  There’s just so much emotional and physical territory separating the Via Veneto of the ’60s and Rua Porto dos Tainheiros in 2010.  It’s a sensation that Fellini would understand well.…

SEMANA DE ENCERRAMENTO ATIVIDADES 2010 NO ICBIE – SEMANA DA MODA (Italian and English translations below) Sabado, 4 de dezembro ENCERRAMENTO CURSO DE DESENHO  COM EXPOSIÇÃO DOS TRABALHOS – (Pela manhã) OFICINA DE MODA E CUSTOMIZAÇÃO – CUSTOMIZARTE – (das 9 as 17h) terça feira, 7 de dezembro – ENCERRAMENTO CURSOS DE INGLÊS / ITALIANO …

Susanna (who was a student of Pietro’s in Rome) and her Irish boyfriend Ian stayed at the ICBIE for a month, during their extended travels in South America.  They really dug in and helped us, and when they left last week, they left us this sweet message. —————— After nearly 8 months travelling, a month…

Without our network of friends, collaborators and supporters, the ICBIE couldn’t survive for a week.  Without them, the hassles of maintenance and management, as well as the isolation, would be too much for Pietro, Marlene and Marcella to bear.  Fortunately, the Institute is solidly established in the quick of Salvador’s cultural life, and our reputation…

Not content with just fund raising and an ambitious calendar of courses and events, ICBIE Europa has done a splendid job of creating a buzz in the local press.  The leading weekly current events magazine Roma c’è gave us a high visibility splash in this week’s edition, explaining how our Portuguese and Italian classes are…

A while back, some people from Rede Bahia, the local Salvador TV station, came to the ICBIE to interview Pietro for their Saturday morning program Aprovado.  It just so happened that a big meeting of the Salvador grafita artists was underway when they arrived, and that made their visit to our Institute all the more…