[:en]This semester the ICBIE has initiated a solid collaboration with the Portuguese language professor Jorge Peret.  He teaches at the Costa & Silva state school near our Institute and desired to respond to the community’s demand for a Portuguese language course, to prepare students for the ENEM (the multi-disciplinary exam to enter Brazilian public universities).…

[:en]Eduardo Brandão de Santana, a professional musician and great friend of the ICBIE, is offering very interesting popular guitar lessons to our community.  He began with a Wednesday class during the month of March, but given the course’s success and the demand of interested students, we opened another class starting in the month of May.…

[:en]During this first semester of 2016, beginning in February with Marlene, as always on Saturdays, the Basic Italian course and the Intermediate course, with the participation of Pietro, who teaches lessons regarding Italian art and culture. Marlene, along with our student Luiz, beginning on March 10th, is teaching a course in preparatory English, every Tuesday…

[:en]On the 20th of February, the theater laboratory began again, always with new participants and coordinated by our artistic director Pietro Gallina and Alex Nascimento, who recently graduated from the Theater School of the UFBA (Federal University of Bahia). One new development this semester is that the theater students are also participating in the introductory…

[:en]We owe all our faithful followers an apology for our Blog’s long silence, which is not caused by a lack of activity here, but from the opposite.  It has been a richly rewarding time, filled with activities, great courses and a lot of outreach to our local community, creating a heavy workload for all of…

[:en]Rome, May 4, 2016 Dear Prof. Pietro Gallina, I am sending you the official motivation relating to the Sympathy Award 2016 that will be delivered Monday, May 23 at 18:00 in the Protomoteca room at the Capitol in the presence of the Honorary Committee, Jury and other City Authorities. Motivation: To foster the historical and…

[:en]The Friday night tradition of the ICBIE Cineforum returns: projections of movies with an introduction and followed by a debate and comments from the public. To jump start the series, we have chosen a film that deals with a little known aspect of Brazil’s history: the attempt by France to colonize the country and transform…

[:en]PROGRAM OF ICBIE ACTIVITIES — (1st SEMESTER 2016) =ITALIAN COURSE AT BASIC LEVEL – Begins on Saturday 27/02/2016 from 8.30 to 10.30 -ITALIAN COURSE AT INTERMEDIATE LEVEL – Begins on Saturday 27/02/2016 from 10.30 to 12.30. Depending upon registration requests, the possibility of opening a class during the week will be considered. Days and times…

WINNER OF THE LOTTERY: 10 YEARS OF ICBIE! We communicate to all that the winner of our raffle is Mr. Jair Santos Fonseca, with ticket n° 036, the same number that emerged in the competition of the Federal Lottery on the day 29/12/2015: In the extraction of December 19 (the day indicate in the regulations),…

[:en]At last, here we are at the last day of the Festival, and in one sense, we’re happy to be able to get some rest after all the stress of organizing and presenting three weeks of events, but in another way, we’re already feeling a bit of nostalgia, for the atmosphere of joy and friendship…