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Yesterday, the Ninth International Festival of Street Artists of Bahia opened in Ribeira.  For three days, our neighborhood will be animated by actors, musicians and artists, and then the festival will continue in other areas of the city until the...

Summer is over and ICBIE Europa held its first assembly after the holidays.  More than a dozen people showed up for a three hour meeting and barbeque on Loona's terrace, enjoying the brilliant sunshine and the panoramic view.  Everyone had...

As we constantly work to recruit new students for our courses and to find a wider public for our events, local people, especially those who work in the city center and return after dark, keep telling us that they were...

Today a beautiful long article by Sandra Fetticci appeared on the website of  Piuculture.it describing Loona's course of Italian for Foreigners.  For non-Italian speakers, here is a summary in English. During a hot Monday evening in July, strolling along Via...

Last night the ICBIE was enlivened by another one of those bittersweet moments, when the students got together to celebrate the completion of their English courses held by the brilliant team of Peter Ahlers and Elizabeth Akinsamni, two remarkable volunteers...

As I write, Pietro is taking off from Fiumicino airport, headed back to Bahia.  As always, his weeks in Rome gave a great boost to all the folks at ICBIE Europa, and during all the dinners and get-togethers, important ideas...

This photo pretty well sums up the evening, with Pietro surrounded by his bevvy of beauties — Marlene, Loredana, Loona, Meg, Francesca, Monica and Tiziana — in the Art Core Gallery last Friday.  As always, the annual gathering of our...

It's that time of year again, when the ICBIE gathers together all its Roman supporters for a convivial evening.  This year we will meet on Friday, May 17th (despite the fact that Friday the 17th is equally inauspicious to Italians...

On October 20th the ICBIE will inaugurate a new kind of in-house cultural activity.  Starting at 5 PM there will be an exhibition of beautiful drawings by Josemar Oliveira.  But this time, instead of just the usual refreshments and socializing,...

This coming Sunday, the Little Theater/Music Company of the ICBIE will travel across the bay to Plataforma to present Pietro Gallina's revision of Francesca Tagliafierro's setting of the play No Reading Allowed, a Walk in a Piece of Paper.  In...