The deep ties between Italy and Brazil lie, above all, in the socio-cultural links that cross the oceans to assert the idea that there is only one world.
The ICBIE is founded upon this conviction, and it has worked, through the years, to facilitate cultural exchanges by promoting education, the arts, and open creative spaces.
On the 23rd of March, the Institute put a spotlight on a second event dedicated to the Italians in Bahia, and to anyone interested in this particular cultural exchange. During the Wine Party, therefore, a perfect union between taste, culture and traditions united Italy and Brazil, through a sharing of artistic and cultural panoramas.
We discovered this during Thais Muniz’s workshop for making turbans, where the textiles used are tied to a roving history through Africa, Asia and post-war Europe; we were accompanied by the rhythms of the drums that moved the bodies of the ICBIE Afro-dance group led by Emerson Ataide and the performance of Marcella Bomba, a dancer who has re-discovered modern Italy’s dances through its traditions from the south of the country; through the photographs of Antonello Veneri, we observed a peculiar image of Brazilian cities, where the immortalized faces seemed similar to those found on streets of other latitudes, constructing an imaginary space between the Ladeira da Preguiça and the Avenue of Campo di De Andrè. A special role was dedicated to the theme of artistic re-use and recovery, thanks to the Bazaar put on by the students of ICBIE courses and the creations of the plastic artist Herbert Dantas. The wines were tasted together with poetic verses declaimed by Pietro Gallina, ICBIE’s artistic director and the creator of the event, while the associates’ dinner was accompanied by the traditional chorinho of Jackson Dantas.
Culture was celebrated in a meeting place, the ICBIE, which became something special for the Bahians and the Italians. The Wine Party, therefore, was an ideal occasion, to toast to good luck, for future high quality artistic and eno-gastronomic encounters to be organized in the future, with the whole community.
