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Saturday Night Concert
by roy|24 November 2008|ICBIE news, Mestre Pedro - Capoeira
The concert on Saturday night was a gift from Stefano Bottoni to the students of the ICBIE and the Ribeira community.  Fred Menendez and his band brilliantly accompanied Stefano's performance, even though they had never played together before.  Their show...
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Stefano Bottoni: Manholes & Music
by roy|20 November 2008|ICBIE news
In the late 1970s, Pietro and I were composers for Spettro Sonoro, a Roman contemporary music ensemble that produced, as part of the legendary Estate romana, a John Cage festival, and we performed one of Cage's Variations in the sewers...
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ICBIE Photo Exhibit: Another Kind of Street Art
by roy|16 November 2008|ICBIE news
As everybody knows, the ICBIE has always supported street art, and its graffiti artists have become a source of great pride to us.   But now we're concentrating on another less than obvious source of art that can be found...
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ICBIE Italia Up and Running
by roy|11 November 2008|Forum, ICBIE news
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...
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Extraordinary News!
by roy|06 November 2008|ICBIE news
Yesterday's post contained some pretty discouraging news, and in fact, for the last month or so, we have been forced to face a fair share of grim realities, because of our distressing financial straits.  But the ICBIE is blessed with...
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Difficult ICBIE Decisions
by roy|05 November 2008|ICBIE news
This is the headline article from the latest ICBIE newsletter.  It is reprinted here because it contains important news, for our friends who have not yet subscribed (please go to www.icbie.com and sign up, if you haven't!). Everyone who comes...
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Cineforum Dedicated to Anna Magnani
by roy|02 November 2008|ICBIE news
The coming week will feature the culmination of The Week of the Italian Language in the World, with a short cycle of films by the great Italian actress Anna Magnani, who was born in 1908, exactly a hundred years ago. ...
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An ICBIE Cineform Tackles Right Wing Italian Politics
by roy|20 October 2008|ICBIE news
Politics seems to be on everybody's mind these days: first, there's the run-off vote for Salvador's mayor; the US campaign is under daily scrutiny all around the world; and Italians are getting used to their new government, the most conservative...
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Bahia Graffita on YouTube
by roy|11 October 2008|ICBIE news
OK, maybe the International Graffiti Meeting was a stressful and financially difficult experience for the ICBIE, but deep down, we all feel good about it, and its legacy continues to grow, becoming some kind of Bahia Graffiti Woodstock, a magic...
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“Bahia ch’ ama África”
by roy|10 October 2008|ICBIE news
Once again, dear Paranaguá has come through with a gallery of his beautiful photographs, documenting the Guido Daniele show that was inaugurated at the ICBIE on Wednesday evening.  Keeping to the theme "Bahia Loves (Calls) Africa," he performed a live...
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