Please put December 7 and 8 on your calendar to be at St. James Church. Beginning at 7:00 PM on Friday with dinner, we will be led by Ruth-Ann Collins of the Episcopal Church Center in New York City in looking at the Charter for Lifelong Christian Formation. Beginning at 9:00 AM on Saturday, we will break for lunch and end by 2:30 PM. 

 

Cindy D'Alimonte and her team will be in charge of meals. A sign-up sheet will be in the back of the Church, or you may contact the Church office. This gathering is for the entire parish. Please come and welcome our special guest from the Episcopal Church Center in the United States.

 

At its last meeting, the Vestry voted unanimously to host and sponsor a Parish Seasonal Lunch immediately following the Service of Advent Lessons and Carols on Sunday, December 16. The cost will be 10 Euro for adults, kids free. There will also be a raffle. A sign-up sheet will be in the back of the Church, or you may contact the Church office. See you there!

 

 

The Church Office will be closed this Thursday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Best wishes for a blessed Thanksgiving to all.

Grab a cappuccino and join us in the Undercroft.

 

Training for acolytes is being offered to older children, teens, and adults during Sunday School. The new Guild of Acolytes will be inter-generational for those who desire to serve at the Altar on Sundays. Please contact the Church Office if interested.

 

The time has arrived for us to prayerfully consider and commit our pledges to St. James Church for 2013. Pledge cards will be mailed and can also be obtained at the Church Office and at the Church Entrance. Thank you to everyone who supports the many ministries of St. James Church. We will have an ingathering of all our pledges on December 16 when they will be presented on the Altar for God's blessing.

 

 

We are now making plans for our ministries in 2013. In order to make preparations, all groups and ministries who would like to be part of the 2013 St. James Church Budget are asked to make a request with detailed information by November 30.

Today - Wednesday, November 21  

Afternoon session 2:00 - 4:30 PM

 

The conference celebrates the 25th anniversary of Primo Levi's death and focuses on the question of ´the last witness.´ What will happen when there are no remaining survivors of the Nazi extermination camps? How, and in what manner, will the sons, daughters, and grandchildren of survivors transmit the memory of their experience to future generations? In what manner will the memory of the Shoah change? A distinguished group of intellectuals and writers will address these questions from different perspectives. RSVP at lapietra.dialogues@nyu.edu or 055 5007 202.

 

For more information:

http://www.lapietradialogues.org/dialogues_sch.php?cat=4&id=68.

 

 

Michael Griffiths, the Vice-Chairman of the British Institute, who has a degree in classics from Cambridge, looks at the ancient games as reflected in the victory odes of Pindar, and at the revival of the modern games in late-19th-century France.

 

All are welcome

 

Library and Cultural Centre

Palazzo Lanfredini

Lungarno Guicciardini, 9

50125 Firenze

Tel: 055 2677 8270 Email:

library@britishinstitute.it

 

Plus Ultra, I Grandi Viaggi is an art show featuring works by diversely abled Italian and American artists, as well as students from California State University who are enrolled at Florence's Accademia of Fine Arts. The theme of the event is the idea that, in the spirit of Vespucci, traveling requires going beyond our limits.

 

The next initiative of the Amerigo & America program, the exhibition is a collaborative effort involving Colori del Levante Fiorentino, a cultural and artistic association and ODA (La Fondazione Opera Diocesana Assistenza Onlus), a foundation that assists disabled adults. Among the exhibits is a painting by Kevin Hosseini, a 17-year old autistic American artist whose work is currently hanging in the Smithsonian.

 

Inauguration: Thursday, Nov. 22, 5 pm
Open Friday, Nov. 23 & Saturday, Nov. 24, 10 am - 1 pm, 3 - 7 pm and Sunday, Nov. 25, 10 am - 1 pm

 

 

Books, dvds, craft and other home made goods, refreshments, raffles. All proceeds will go towards the Library. 

 

Why not enter our competitions for The Best Christmas Wreath and The Most Beautiful Cake with a Christmas theme. You can win a Library Gift Voucher of €70 each!  Contact the British Institute for details.

 

 

The British Institute of Florence

The Harold Acton Library, Ground floor,

Lungarno Guicciardini 15, 50125 Firenze

tel. 055 26778270, library@britishinstitute.it

www.britishinstitute.it

 

 

On Saturday, December 8, the American International League of Florence is holding its annual Christmas Bazaar.

This much anticipated event will be held again this year at Le Pagiere (ex Scuderie Reali), Viale Machiavelli 24. The Bazaar will be open from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM, and the lottery numbers will be drawn at 2:30 PM.

 

Via B. Rucellai, 9

Firenze, Italy