Last week we held a party in costume, reviving the fashions from the end of the nineteenth century up to the 1930s-1950s, in order to remember and celebrate the old Brazilian salons, where the noble class, middle class, students and some small businessmen got together to sing, recite poetry and dance, mostly to steps of European origin. These get-togethers were an opportunity to forge new business deals and to make social contacts, which sometimes included marriage proposals.
The idea for putting on such an unusual and historic party at the ICBIE came from many elderly residents of the neighborhood and from several young actors who prepared their poems to recite and their songs to sing.
We thought that it was important to open up to all the isolated communities of Ribeira, to become a point of reference and a center for the cultural activities of the Cidade Baixa, the lower quarters of Salvador. We believe that once again we made many people happy, because they were able to use our facilities to finally present their project.
