ICBIE news

Susanna (who was a student of Pietro's in Rome) and her Irish boyfriend Ian stayed at the ICBIE for a month, during their extended travels in South America.  They really dug in and helped us, and when they left last...

Without our network of friends, collaborators and supporters, the ICBIE couldn't survive for a week.  Without them, the hassles of maintenance and management, as well as the isolation, would be too much for Pietro, Marlene and Marcella to bear.  Fortunately,...

Not content with just fund raising and an ambitious calendar of courses and events, ICBIE Europa has done a splendid job of creating a buzz in the local press.  The leading weekly current events magazine Roma c'è gave us a...

A while back, some people from Rede Bahia, the local Salvador TV station, came to the ICBIE to interview Pietro for their Saturday morning program Aprovado.  It just so happened that a big meeting of the Salvador grafita artists was...

Today the ICBIE Cineforum is presenting the wonderful Pasolini film Oedipus Rex.  This is particularly appropriate, seeing as the lead actress is Silvana Mangano, the wife of Dino de Laurentiis, who died yesterday at the age of 91, ending an...

ATTIVITÁ ALL´ABEAC (Portuguese and English translations below) La collaborazione tra l´ICBIE e l´Associazione della Ribeira, ABEAC (Associação Beneficente Educação Arte e Cidadania) é stata sempre molto attiva. Quest´anno si é rafforzata in occasione della visita delle volontarie del Manhattanville College...

It's been awhile since news about ICBIE Europa has appeared here, but that doesn't mean that it has been on vacation.  On the contrary, the team of Roman supporters has been busy cooking up new initiatives.  Two language courses have...

Today at 5 PM the ICBIE is hosting a seminar/workshop on health and wellness, led by the physiotherapist Benedito C. Gandra. O ICBIE em parceria com a SECULT, através do Projeto Leitura, Arte e Inclusão Digital na Cidade Baixa, Têm...

With the new month, the ICBIE Cineforum moves on, away from modern Brazilian cinema to Italy, kicking off with Dino Risi's milestone film, Il Sorpasso (1961).  And we're back to the usual total confusion in the title's translation for foreign...

Grande final da Semana da língua italiana no mundo O ICBIE participou ativamente as várias atividades realizadas na UFBA, na ocasião da 10a Semana da língua italiana no mundo; terça-feira passada, dia 26 de outubro, o presidente Pietro Gallina interveio...