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During this “holiday” week, Pietro and Marlene have been frantically busy. A good part of this has been my fault, as my house purchase triggered a swarm of bureaucratic tangles and tense meetings with lawyers and mediators that nonetheless raced...

There is a fourth ICBIE video on YouTube, this time dedicated to our Art Hostel in the verdant back courtyard, where we host our visiting professors, guests, and socially-responsible tourists.  Now people who are considering a visit to Salvador can...

The ICBIE's development work with Hapkido - the Korean Martial Art of Personal Defense - has objectives that go beyond the teaching of the techniques of kicking, body twists and immobilization (the principal training characteristics of this art). Our deeper...

I've seen a lot of amazing things at the ICBIE, but yesterday's performance by Mestre Pedro's Capoeira troupe surpassed them all. At four o'clock in the afternoon, about twenty incredible artists, ranging in age from eight to sixty, transformed the...

Yesterday Pietro had to spend many hours making artistic contacts in downtown Salvador, so I took advantage of the peace and quiet to put together another ICBIE video.  After the virtual tour of the premises, (which has been viewed more...

The ICBIE is full of surprises, and the last four days illustrate the rich variety of experiences that animate our lives here. On Saturday we celebrated the third night of the cineforum with the showing of Schindler's List, and about...

A morning of fooling around with a video camera and iMovie, and the ICBIE now has its first film on YouTube. You can find it on the Pages list in the right hand column of this blog. Please share the...

During the winter break, most of our students continue to gather here, because they can't afford to take holiday trips and there is little else to do in the neighborhood. In order to offer some entertaining activities that can also...

Everyone is complaining because the temperatures drop to 20 degrees centigrade at night, and it is true that the wind is blowing and the rain comes in rapid bursts. Pietro is suffering from a nagging cold, and he dresses as...