Welcome back!!! The ICBIE is ready to begin a new year, full of activities, together with all of you, with the same passion and joy. Don’t miss the first event of 2015, an evening full of culture, music, poetry, art, literature and dance! Next Saturday, January 24th, you are all invited to inaugurate the new…

The ICBIE is happy to announce to all of its followers, friends and supporters the following extraordinary news:  the government of the state of Bahia has released a document in which it officially recognizes the high quality of the activities of public utility that the Institute has carried out in the course of its ten…

Maintenance of the ICBIE Facilities The holiday vacation is the best time to do the necessary maintenance work of the ICBIE facilities.  So during the weekend Marlene and Ivanildo, with the help of a few members of the capoeira group got to work painting the walls and the pavement of the ICBIE multipurpose room and…

ICBIE End-of-Year Celebration 2014 Last Friday night, the 19th of December, was an animated evening, full of joy, to properly close a rich year of initiatives and projects.  It began with choro music  by the duo, Maurissio and Eduardo, who also invited Adriele to sing a couple of songs with them. That was followed with…

Little Theater Co. Preview Performance at the Martim Gonçalves Theater Last Saturday, 29/11, the theater lab of the ICBIE – Institute of Culture Brazil Italy Europe – put on an open rehearsal in Hall 5 of the Theater School of the UFBA (Federal University of Bahia), with the work “Quem espera nunca alcança,” (which is…

The third edition of the EBM is over, and this year it surely had an even richer and more varied program.  Among the musical groups that played were Dom Sá, Eu Tu Ele, Estilo Livre and the chorinho trio, Varanda Brazuca, with our Marlene Rosa as a special addition.  But she wasn’t the only ICBIE…

Among the various denominations that are used in the Portuguese language to designate Salvador is that of “Roma Negra.”   The most likely origin of the term is credited to the priestess Mãe Ani­nha, founder of one of the city’s oldest terreiros, and was intended to underline the fact that, just as the Eternal City is…

Our Earth The ICBIE Meets the Sem Terra Movement (…) You, too are a hill and a rocky pathway and play in the reeds, and you know the vines that are silent in the night. You don’t speak words. There is a land that is silent and it’s not your land.” Cesare Pavese – The…

The third edition of the EBM – Exposition Bazaar and Music – has begun its countdown.  Today the program with the confirmed entertainment groups has been sent out. The singer Juliana Coelho, who participated as a solo act in the previous two editions of the EBM, will bring her new project, the group “Eu, Tu…

“In the suburbs of Havana they call a friend my land or my blood.  In Caracas, a friend is my oven or my key:  oven, source of good bread for the hungers of the soul; and key… “Key, in the sense of a key,” Mario Benedetti tells me.  And he recounts that when he lived…