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With December at the door, the end of year madness formally begins.  And in Brazil, that also means the end of the school year (and the beginning of summer vacation).  Yesterday the ICBIE celebrated the conclusion of the drawing course...

The kaleidoscopic succession of ICBIE events continues this Thursday with a presentation regarding one of Italy's most fascinating dance traditions, the tarantella.  Antonello Veneri and Marcella Bomba are experts in the field, and are also professional educators.  They will present...

This Friday evening at 6:30 PM the ICBIE will be hosting a book presentation and a video projection; both events are focused on local realities in the city of Salvador.  The book Lives at Risk: When Violence and Crime Threaten...

Pietro just posted this link on facebook, and it seems appropriate to share it here, too.  The local Salvador television, Aratu, made this video of the Berlin Wall event in the Pelourinho last week, and there are priceless interviews with...

The Nigerian artist Darton X brought his brilliant colors to the ICBIE last night, and they radiated their light on our community, which is always receptive to any manifestation of African culture. Peter Oluwadare Adeniyi was born in Ikere-ekiti, in...

A veritable avalanche of art has cascaded upon the hapless residents of Ribeira, hailing down from all directions, first from Berlin, then the Chapas, and now from Nigeria.  In just a matter of hours, the ICBIE doors will open to...

Tomorrow at 6:30 PM the ICBIE will be hosting an exposition of thirteen paintings by the Mexican painter Antún Kojtom Lam, who has come to Brazil to spread his special message about Mayan culture. A rare opportunity for our community...

Tomorrow afternoon the ICBIE, together with the Goethe Institut and the City of Salvador, will feature a crew of street artists painting a big plaster wall in Pelourinho Square, in the historic center, ... and then destroying it, to celebrate...

It's always great when ICBIE events receive attention, after all the work that we put into them.  For that reason, the discovery of a new Brazilian art blog with wonderful in-depth articles about our last two events comes as a...