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…

For a team working in a cultural institute, there can also be an odd moment of collective relaxation, such as watching a film. An example of this occurred at the beginning of this month, when a group of people working for the ICBIE had the opportunity to see three recent Italian films: Il Paese Dove…

On Friday, November 13th, at the ICBIE in Salvador, a “Café Literário” event took place, as part of the 7th edition of the “Exposition of Art and Culture of Itapagipe,” which intends to give the inhabitants of the Itapagipe peninsula an opportunity to discuss the importance of the arts in attaining civil rights for the…

From 28/11 to 20/12 a festival will be held to celebrate ten years of activity of the ICBIE, an association that, as many know, works to promote culture and the arts in Ribeira, in the historic ‘Cidade Baixa’ of Salvador da Bahia. The festival has planned 22-23 days of intense programming, where each of the…

The ICBIE completes 10 years of activity, and for the occasion we will put on a Festival of workshops, events, expositions and performances.  The program will run from the 29th of November to the 20th of December, in three intense weeks, and you, too, can be part of this celebration. To raise funds for the…