Sunday School begins each Sunday at 10:45 AM. The theme for the year is "Telling the Story / Telling our Story ... In our Time".  Spread the word.

The Nursery is available during the Sunday Eucharist at 11 AM.

The watercolor classes taught by local artist Robert B. Reed resume this week.

Classes are offered:
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Tuesdays
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM Wednesdays

9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Fridays  

2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Fridays

For more information:
Tel. 349 679 0358 / 0577 921533
Email: robert-b-reed@libero.it
  
www.watercolourinflorence.org /

http://www.robertbreed.org/ 

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.

The Director of Villa La Pietra, Ellyn M. Toscano, cordially invites you to a concert, lecture, and film on Wednesday, November 16 at 6:00 PM: The Bells of Florence, by Anthony Sidney, guitarist composer.

The unique sounds of bells such as the Tower of Giotto, Santa Croce, Orsanmichele, Santa Maria Novella, San Remigio, San Miniato al Monte, and Santa Felicita, were recorded by Anthony Sidney and photographed and filmed by Benjamin Sidney. The screening of this project will include  hearing and a bell that has been silent for 512 years, the bell of Savonarola "La Piagnona," by Donatello and Michelozzo.  

Preceding the lecture, Anthony Sidney will play a series of his compositions for the classical guitar dedicated to this project.

Anthony Sidney was born in New York USA. His music has been performed around the world in many theaters and Universities. In 1979 he was invited by  Salvador Dalì to hold a concert at the painter's home. The same year he was a guest artist on the Ray Charles Tour in Italy.  His compositions  include: documentaries for "Il linguaggio dei Luoghi" for Mr. Folco Quilici, for the Italian National Television, and 15 documentaries for the Italian National Television series, "Capitali a Confronto." In 2011 he composed soundtrack for the feature film "Reality News", directed by Salvatore Vitiello, which will be presented in September at the Odeon in Florence, and "11," by Tommaso Cavallini, a short film now in production. 

There will be a wine tasting at the American International School of Florence Junior School on Friday, November 18, 2011 from 6 PM to 8 PM.

Proceeds will be donated to the "Associazione Fabio Jonathan Onlus" http://www.fabiojonathan.org.

Tickets are €15 and may be obtained from Ana Maria Bevilacqua on the night of the event. (You may reserve by sending an email to Anna Maria - am.bevilacqua@isfitaly.org.)

The Executive Director of New York University Florence, Ellyn M. Toscano, cordially invites you to a talk by Prof. Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, New York University: "Dante's Birthday:  Florence and the Aesthetic Education of Italians," on Monday, November 21 at 6:15 PM, at the Salone dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio.

Professor Yousefzadeh of New York University will address the role played by the city of Florence in the symbolic construction of the Italian nation-state during the period immediately after the Italian national unification. Referring to the aesthetic, cultural and urban policies adopted by the Florentine municipality for the 1865 Dante sexcentenary, she will probe into the contradictory and the uneven process of modernization. Addressed, in addition, will be the relevance of aesthetic and cultural policy for contemporary Florence, as well as for other cities as they endure the course of globalization.

Guests from outside the immediate NYU student community wishing to attend this lecture must RSVP to: lapietra.reply@nyu.edu or call 055 5007 210

In solidarity with the Association "Il Sassolino Bianco," a Christmas Concert will be held on Friday, 2nd December 2011, at 8 pm in the Waldensian Church, Via Micheli, 26.

Soprano: Ko Myung San

Trumpet: Samantha Robinson

Organ: Robin Walker

There will be a buffet-aperitivo at 8 pm

with the concert starting at 9 pm.

The association "Il Sassolino Bianco" www.ilsassolinobianco.org  promotes initiatives to help children in need in Italy and abroad. The proceeds from this concert will be dedicated to improve the park and playground for the visiting children in the women's prison in Empoli.

Minimal offer 15 Euro

Fair is the sunshine, fairer still the moonlight, and all the twinkling starry host: Jesus shines brighter, Jesus shines purer, than all the angels heaven can boast.     

                    Hymn 383, third verse. Words: German composite, tr. New York 1850.