Last Sunday was a lively and intense day for the ICBIE. We hosted a variety of diverse events that were attended by about fifty people, including friends, Italian and Bahian members, as well as current and past students of ICBIE courses.
We began with a simple but exquisite buffet lunch of typical Bahian cuisine: our excellent cook Lu delighted us with a fish moqueca, the definitive Bahian dish, accompanied by vegetables and manioc meal. This celebration, in petit comité was organized in honor of Monica, our ICBIE Italia comrade who, along with Pietro, was celebrating her birthday.
In the afternoon, in the ICBIE multipurpose room, there was a performance of Afro-Brazilian dance: some of the students from the dance class and two ICBIE volunteers, directed by Emerson, the teacher of the course, put on a lively choreography to the samba reggae music of the Bahian singer Daniela Mercury. Right after that we viewed the projection of an independent film by the Italian director Max Gaggino, who lives in Bahia, entitled “ContraCorrente.” This full-length film, shot in Italy and Brazil, recounts the story of an Italian boy who decides to emigrate to Salvador to escape from the routine and the discontent with his daily life, in search of happiness and new experiences.
In short, a whole day dedicated to culture and good times!!
