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St. James Events
International Dinner This Thursday - African Cuisine

Where & When
Date: Thursday, June 16
Time: 19:30
Location: Undercroft
Final Dinner June 16

 

The final International Dinner will be held on Thursday, June 16 at 7:30 PM, and will feature the cuisine of Africa. The dinner is open to members of St. James and friends. The cost is €10 per person (children under 12 free).

Please contact the Church Office for reservations.


Your St. James
2011 Local Outreach Donations

Suggestions for Recipients Needed  

We need
parishioner suggestions for local outreach donations to be made in 2011. There are so many wonderful organisations in Italy, run primarily by volunteers, which actively help the community. This is an opportunity for St. James to help them in their work. The deadline for submissions is Sept. 30. Please contact Barbara Maraventano: [email protected].  
Opportunity to Help Those Effected by Hurricanes in the South USA

Episcopal Relief and Development

 

The severe storms and tornadoes that have overwhelmed five Southern states continue to batter the region.  A new wave of storms came shortly after an earlier cluster that barreled through the Southeast over the weekend of April 16.  Over 300 people have died throughout the South and Southeast and widespread damage to homes and civic infrastructure has been reported.

 
In response to the most recent storms, Episcopal Relief & Development has been in contact with the Episcopal Dioceses of Alabama and Atlanta.  Several churches are involved in immediate relief efforts, including providing temporary shelter and distributing food and other necessities. 
  
Episcopal Relief & Development is also supporting the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina and two congregations in the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina as they minister to their communities in the wake of the April 16 storms. 
 
Your help is critical in providing temporary shelter, food assistance, basic household items, pastoral care and comfort for those in desperate need.

 

Please make checks payable to:  

Episcopal Relief & Development/USA Disaster Response Fund

Mail to: PO Box 7058 Merrifield, VA 22116-7058

 

To make a credit card donation, please call 800-334-7626, ext. 5129 or visit our website at 

www.er-d.org  

 

Donations may be also be at the Church office.

 

Earmark your "5 x 1000" to "Amici di St. James in Florence""

http://stjames.it/donate/5x1000

Support the Church's Ministries with a Simple Gesture

 

Support the Food Bank and other outreach programs by requesting that the 5 X 1000 on your Italian tax return be donated to "Amici di St. James in Florence." Simply sign the relevant box on your taxreturn form and indicate the 'codice fiscale' (tax ID number) for Amici di St. James in Florence:

 

94138720480

 

There is no financial implication to you for doing this; funds fromthe "5 x 1000" that are not specifically allocated for non-profit associations are left to the government.

Please share this information with anyone who is interested in supporting the charitable activities of St. James.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Cleaning and Repairing of the Facade of the Church
Full on Church
Where & When
Dates: April 11 - mid June
St. James gets a Facial

 

The Tecress Company will be cleaning and repairing the facade of the Church. The work will begin on April 11 and is scheduled to run for two months. There will be some scaffolding around the exterior of the building. Pardon our progress.  

 

 

St. James' Townhouse Available for Bookings

Contact: [email protected]
Come stay in the St. James' Townhouse

St. James' Town House, in the heart of Florence, is the perfect place to stay with friends or family. We are centrally located near the train station, the Duomo, Piazza della Signoria, and many other favorite places to visit. We accept reservations for a minimum of 1 week and a maximum of 3 months. Your stay with us is considered a donation to St. James Church. Contact us for availability and further information. Everyone is Welcome at St. James' Town House!

 

St. James' Town House is a three story apartment with its own entrance on via Bernardo Rucellai, next to the church rectory and part of the parish complex. It is a spacious 3-bedroom, 3-bath apartment, furnished with antiques, including a beautiful 1826 John Broadwood fortepiano, and overlooking the church and the rectory garden. It is fully equipped with linens for both bed and bath, along with kitchen supplies. There is satellite television that includes many English language programs, a washing machine, microwave oven, and iron. The bedrooms and living room are air conditioned. Off- street parking within the grounds of the church for one car.


Events in Florence
Art Exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi

Where & When
Date: Through July 17, 2011
Time: Everyday 9:00-20:00
Thursday 9:00-23:00
Location: Palazzo Strozzi
Picasso, Mir� and Dal�: Angry Young Men -
The Birth of Modernity

 

Palazzo Strozzi is currently hosting an exhibitiondedicated to the early work of Picasso, Mir� and Dal�, which played a decisive role in the beginning of modern art in Spain. The exhibition concentrates on Picasso's pre-cubist period 1900 - 1905, whilst Juan Mir�'s works of 1915-1920 are presented along with Salvador Dali's from 1920-1925, both artists painting in the period before the discovery of surrealism. Each artist will be represented by 25 - 30 masterpieces selected to show aspects of the three artists in their earliest periods, works that are rarely shown in mainstream catalogues and exhibitions.

 

Tickets (full price) are €10. 

 

For information call: 055 264 5155

 

http://www.palazzostrozzi.org/SezionePicasso.jsp?idSezione=907

Clare Lillingston "Patternistic"
Clare exhibit
Where & When
Dates & Times:
Exhibit runs June 4 - July 17, 10:30  - 19:30
Location: Agora bookshop, Palazzo Strozzi
Art Show and Innauguration

 

St. James' own Clare Lillingston is having an exhibition of her artwork at the Agora Bookshop in Palazzo Strozzi.

 

The exhibit will be on view everyday from June 4 through July 17, from 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM. Free entrance.

 

Bloomsday - June 16

Where & When
Date: Thursday, June 16
Time:17:00
Location: The British Institute of Florence
Public Reading of Sirens at the British Institute of Florence

 

June 16, 1904 is the day on which James Joyce set Ulysses, the most well-known of modern novels: on that day Stephen Daedalus and Leopold Bloom each took his epic journey through Dublin. Bloomsday, the annual celebration of those events, has become a tradition for Joyce enthusiasts all over the world.  

 

The British Institute of Florence celebrates Joyce and his novel each year. This year we concentrate on the eleventh episode of the novel, generally known by its Homeric title 'Sirens.' You are invited to come along and join in the group reading, or to listen.

 

To reserve, contact

The British Institute of Florence

Harold Acton Library

Lungarno Guicciardini 9

50125 Florence

Tel. 055 26778270

www.britishinstitute.it

 

Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, and lighten with celestial fire. Thou the annointing Spirit art, who dost the sevenfold gifts impart.    

                       Hymn 504, para. of Veni Creator Spiritus, tr. John Cosin (1594-1672).  

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