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Big Plans in Barcelona
The long-planned ICBIE invasion of Spain is rapidly approaching. Our team in Barcelona is doing a fine job, with a big event scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, April 19th on the terrace of the Gothic Point (Calle Vigatans 5, just off Via Laietana and Calle de l’Argenteria, in one of the trendiest areas of…
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More Photos of the New Apartments (on a Sunny Day)
Here are some more images of the four completed rooms, taken yesterday morning in the sunshine.
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New Rooms for the Art Hostel
After months of stop and go, the new mini-apartments are finished and ready to accommodate our guests. An essential part of our mission, the hostel provides an opportunity for our visiting professors, social workers, volunteers and socially-responsible tourists to live in the cidade baixa, the heart of Salvador’s Afro-Brazilian culture, with all its problems and…
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ICBIE and Salvador Grafita Prepare for a Big European Tour
The great success of last October’s expedition, when ICBIE president Pietro Gallina brought two Salvador city councilmen and our artists Julio and Bigode to Italy, caused the city of Salvador to plan another, even more ambitious, trip, visiting France, Germany, Spain and Italy, following an itinerary meticulously prepared, once again, by Pietro. This time, he…
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D’Artagnan at the MOMA: A Testimonial
When the news of D’Artagnan’s work at the Museum of Modern Art broke yesterday, it unleashed an real tsunami of enthusiasm across the whole ICBIE community, with a flurry of triumphant and congratulatory emails flying around the globe. In New York, our stalwart friend Mary Norris went straight from work to the museum, to verify…
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Clamorous News from New York
A wonderful surprise, ever so often. That’s really what keeps us going, and luckily, the mad ICBIE dream has been sustained by fortuitous luck, which always seems to arrive in the proper, albeit often crucial, moment. Today’s thunderbolt came from our dear friend Kerry, whose KS Art gallery has managed D’Artagnan’s paintings since 2003. A…
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An Ounce of Prevention
The responsibilities of running an operation like the ICBIE go beyond the ordinary, that’s for sure. Just as he was planning to use the relative calm of the Easter season to grab a rare day off for a trip to the beach, ICBIE president Pietro Gallina discovered that a big crack had opened at the…
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Italian Lessons Away from Home
The fact that the ICBIE offers the best Italian instruction in Salvador is no longer a secret. So when a group of fifty-one dancers were recruited by the Italian company Fitness Mare to travel to Italy next summer (where they will perform at various Club Med tourist centers), we were asked to arrange a ten…
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Julio’s Art Course at Minha vó Flor
February 29th, 2008. Ribeira, Salvador. Today was a very exciting day for the kids at the Minha vo Flor orphanage in Ribeira, Salvador. All the children were in for an unusual treat today, when graffiti artist, and member of the ICBIE staff, Julio Costa arrived with a dozen blocks of paper, and a huge box…
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ICBIE Helps the Minha Vó Flor Orphanage
It’s hard not to have a soft spot in your heart, when it comes to the Minha vó Flor orphanage. The sight of all the beautiful children would be enough, but then come the wrenching stories from the valiant director Florenice Gomes Macêdo, who has battled for the last eleven years, just to keep things…