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ICBIE Italia Up and Running
Now that the telephone line is finally hooked up, the new Rome office is fully functional. The office hours have been set for Mondays and Fridays from 3-7 PM, and the telephone answering machine is always on. The number is 06.89010848 and there is a new email address: icbie.it@gmail.com. Marcella, Monica and Consuelo are handling…
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Pilfered Pictures
OK, I confess. These three photos have been pinched from Orkut, which is the most popular personal networking site in Brazil; I would only have committed such a crime against intellectual property (and the artistic quality of the stolen works is indubitable) if I knew my villainy would be forgiven. I wouldn’t think of posting…
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Um tour pela cidade de Salvador
(English translation below) No último sábado (2), aproveitei para curtir um dia bem diferente, apesar de ter amanhecido cinzento. Horas depois, o Sol surgiu, desaparecendo as nuvens escuras, dando lugar a um céu bem azulado, modificando o panorama da manhã. Pensei: Que maravilha!! Vou poder fazer o tour com os meus amigos Pietro Gallina e…
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Birthdays and Goodbyes in Ribeira
A double-barreled party at the ICBIE on the night of 30 May ’08: barbecue, guitar, jolliness and a lot of chatter, in many different and grotesquely mixed up languages, to send Marlene off on her trip (she’s already in Italy, by now) and to celebrate Marcella’s birthday (and we’ll diplomatically leave the number unsaid…). How…
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A Powerful Book Launch at the ICBIE
On Tuesday, the ICBIE hosted a big event: the launch of a new book, a catalog of the Salvador Grafita Project, which coincided with the third anniversary of this high-profile cultural initiative, where the city of Salvador fosters, rather than represses, street artists. And considering the fact that tomorrow night six of the protagonists of…
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Gates Foundation Awards $1,000,000 to the ICBIE!
We’ll use the money to buy Apple Computers! Happy April Fool’s Day!
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The German Connection
Hallo Bahia, hallo Roma, hallo world…. Once upon a time (approx. 1967?) in Rome, Pietro met Heinz Kuby – Heinz was one of the “European Vanguard” working hard to create and expand the new European Community. His daughter, Renate Kuby, kept in touch and in the family tradition, is now the leading light within an…
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Boa Viagem, Bogus!
Another proud day for the ICBIE! Our extraordinary student Bogus is flying to Milan today. It’s hard to imagine how the ICBIE will be able to function with out him! But we’re all thrilled for the wonderful experiences that await him during his two month long tour of Italy. As the photo below shows, his…
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Bigode’s Italian Memories
No dia 22 de setembro (julio e bigode )esperavamos na fila do embarque com um atrazado de 3 horas para embarca para nossa primeira viagem internacional, na bagagem so levávamos duas coisas uma era que iríamos representar o nosso Brasil e a nossa cultura, e a outra era que com muita intensidade iríamos colocar em…
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ERRATA CORRIGE
Prendo spunto da una email inviatami dal mio attentissimo ex allievo David Angelelli che oggi è una delle colonne portanti dell’ICBIE-Roma, il quale ha rilevato l’errore commesso nello scrivere la locandina di presentazione del nostro CINEFORUM, in cui risulta che Massimo Troisi è un regista. Effettivamente tutti sanno che Troisi è stato un grande attore,…