ICBIE

O ICBIE, juntamente com a SECULT, através do Projeto Leitura, Arte e Inclusão Digital na Cidade Baixa, gostaria de convidá-lo para a exibição de mais um filme do nosso Cineforum 2010 Filme:   O Crime do Padre Amaro                Direção: Carlos Carrera        Censura: 16 anos Local, data e horário:  Sede do ICBIE, 13 de agosto, sexta-feira, às 18h30. Um pouco sobre o filme… O jovem padre…

A week ago, Júlio took his artistic experimentation to a new level.  Always a purist, faithful to the deepest philosophy of street art, he decided to employ another ever-present item that “decorates” the streets of the cidade baixa:  trash. Just down the street from the ICBIE, he found a toilet seat, some cement bags, scraps…

After the opening event with the activity of itinerant painting on Friday morning, accompanied by the exuberant group of children from the “Cidade mãe” Foundation, the opening of the library continued during the afternoon of Friday the 30th and all day Saturday the 31st of July.  As planned, Friday’s events were numerous and meaningful: –…

(English translation below) Grafite itinerante de Monalisa Hoje (30), às 10 horas da manhã iniciou a programação do evento “Abertura total da Biblioteca Leonardo da Vinci/ Projeto Leitura, Arte e Inclusão Social”, sobre o tema da pintura de grafite de Monalisa, na sede do Instituto de Cultura Brasil Itália Europa – ICBIE. Foi um sucesso…

The big day looms.  Tomorrow, Friday 29 July is the official opening day for the Leonardo da Vinci International Library.  From 9 AM there will be a full calendar of events, both inside the ICBIE and around the neighborhood, with a formal ceremony at 6:30 PM.   The opening celebration will also continue all day…

Last Wednesday was one of those days without a single dull moment.  First thing in the morning, Julio was busy making new ICBIE t-shirts (which are already being distributed to our friends in Michigan). Before he was finished, our friend Phillip Wagner arrived with a crew, to shoot scenes of ICBIE activities for a promotional…

Last night the gang assembled in the Pelourinho for an art show at the Nova10Ordem studio on Rua das Larajeiras.  Julio’s crew showed a capricious collection of Toy Art:  Sista K and Finho presented their fashion designs;  Thais’s creations were there, too, while out on the street the famous artist from São Paulo Does Tas…

All the exciting things going on at the ICBIE somehow fade into the background,  obscured by three weeks of dramatic tropical rainstorms.  At least ten times a day, the heavens burst open with deluges, flooding everything and causing all kinds of problems for the populace, blocking traffic, setting off landslides and interrupting the daily life…