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The Bahians Hit Germany
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News of the Salvador Grafita European tour is beginning to trickle in. The sojourn in Paris was packed full of exciting activities, including a visit to a prestigious private art school near the Bastille and a meeting with a group...
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A Powerful Book Launch at the ICBIE
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On Tuesday, the ICBIE hosted a big event: the launch of a new book, a catalog of the Salvador Grafita Project, which coincided with the third anniversary of this high-profile cultural initiative, where the city of Salvador fosters, rather than...
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Big Plans in Barcelona
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The long-planned ICBIE invasion of Spain is rapidly approaching.  Our team in Barcelona is doing a fine job, with a big event scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, April 19th on the terrace of the Gothic Point (Calle Vigatans 5,...
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More Photos of the New Apartments (on a Sunny Day)
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Here are some more images of the four completed rooms, taken yesterday morning in the sunshine.
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New Rooms for the Art Hostel
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After months of stop and go, the new mini-apartments are finished and ready to accommodate our guests. An essential part of our mission, the hostel provides an opportunity for our visiting professors, social workers, volunteers and socially-responsible tourists to live...
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Gates Foundation Awards $1,000,000 to the ICBIE!
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We'll use the money to buy Apple Computers! Happy April Fool's Day!
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ICBIE and Salvador Grafita Prepare for a Big European Tour
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The great success of last October's expedition, when ICBIE president Pietro Gallina brought two Salvador city councilmen and our artists Julio and Bigode to Italy, caused the city of Salvador to plan another, even more ambitious, trip, visiting France, Germany,...
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D’Artagnan at the MOMA: A Testimonial
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When the news of D'Artagnan's work at the Museum of Modern Art broke yesterday, it unleashed an real tsunami of enthusiasm across the whole ICBIE community, with a flurry of triumphant and congratulatory emails flying around the globe. In New...
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Clamorous News from New York
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A wonderful surprise, ever so often. That's really what keeps us going, and luckily, the mad ICBIE dream has been sustained by fortuitous luck, which always seems to arrive in the proper, albeit often crucial, moment. Today's thunderbolt came from...
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An Ounce of Prevention
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The responsibilities of running an operation like the ICBIE go beyond the ordinary, that's for sure.  Just as he was planning to use the relative calm of the Easter season to grab a rare day off for a trip to...
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