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Welcome to Rome, Val!
This evening, Valdanice Santana is arriving in Rome after her first long airplane ride from Salvador. After Julio, Bigode and Bogus, this lovely young lady is the fourth ICBIE Italian language student to be invited to discover Italy, a guest of our network of friends sprinkled here and there, up and down the boot. She…
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Photos of Riccardo Fontana’s Book Launch
Once again, thanks to our faithful friend Paranaguá, we have some fine photos of Thursday’s book launch at the Historic and Geographic Institute of Bahia. With the support of the Italian Institute of Culture in Rio de Janeiro, the ICBIE was able to organize this high profile cultural event, recognizing a work by our friend…
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Paranaguà Leads an ICBIE Tour
(English translation below) A presença dos amigos do ICBIE no Museu Arqueológico da Embasa (MAE), no último dia 24, teve um significado muito importante para mim. Afinal, era a primeira vez que recebia a visita de pessoas tão ilustres, ligadas a arte e a cultura entre a Itália e o Brasil. Atendendo ao meu convite,…
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An Important Book Launch
A primary focus of the ICBIE mission is to nurture the cultural ties between Brazil and Italy, and the many conferences, seminars and encounters that the ICBIE has offered during the past three years have brought honor to the institute, as well as a growing respect from other cultural institutions and scholars, both in Brazil…
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Saturday Night Concert
The concert on Saturday night was a gift from Stefano Bottoni to the students of the ICBIE and the Ribeira community. Fred Menendez and his band brilliantly accompanied Stefano’s performance, even though they had never played together before. Their show was yet another fine example of the ICBIE’s outreach, merging foreign artists with the local…
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Stefano Bottoni: Manholes & Music
In the late 1970s, Pietro and I were composers for Spettro Sonoro, a Roman contemporary music ensemble that produced, as part of the legendary Estate romana, a John Cage festival, and we performed one of Cage’s Variations in the sewers under main pedestrian streets, including the Via del Corso (the manhole covers were partially elevated…
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ICBIE Photo Exhibit: Another Kind of Street Art
As everybody knows, the ICBIE has always supported street art, and its graffiti artists have become a source of great pride to us. But now we’re concentrating on another less than obvious source of art that can be found on urban thoroughfares: manhole covers! Our friend and kindred soul Stefano Bottoni has come to…
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Extraordinary News!
Yesterday’s post contained some pretty discouraging news, and in fact, for the last month or so, we have been forced to face a fair share of grim realities, because of our distressing financial straits. But the ICBIE is blessed with good fortune, and the lucky breaks always appear at just the right moment, when our…