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!

 

 

Get a jump on your Christmas shopping at the next Thrift Shop. As always, there will be lots of  bargains on gently used clothing, accessories, toys, household wares, knick knacks, and more. Have fun, save money, and support a great cause.

The Istituto Europeo Music Department will hold a Christmas Concert at St. James Church on Wednesday, December 5, at 9:00 PM. Students will perform works of opera and classical music by Mascagni, Verdi, Donizetti, Gounod, Rossini, Händel, Mozart, Mercadante, and Padovano.

 

Piano: Maestri Francesca Giovannelli and Riccardo Foti

 

With this concert, the Istituto Europeo Music Department continues its intense activity of musical performances since 1988 by its singers and musicians from all over the world.

 

Free Admission 

 

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.

 

The St. James Outreach Committee will introduce some of the charities that will be receiving donations from the Church this year at the 11 o'clock Eucharist on December 9.

 

 

All who would like to make a donation for Christmas flowers as a Thanksgiving or Memorial to a loved one are asked to send their donation to the Church office, or to use the special envelopes provided in the pews on Sunday. Please enclose the names of those remembered and the donor. Thank you.

 

We are looking for volunteers who would like to decorate the Church for Christmas. Anyone who would like to be part of the Decoration Team, please contact the Church office. We appreciate your help. 

Volunteers are needed to help with folding bulletins envelopes. A small time commitment would make a big difference! If interested, please contact the Church office.

 

 

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.

 

 

Antony Van Dyck is known to have painted a 'Continence of Scipio,' widely believed to be the well known picture now in the Christ Church Gallery, Oxford (pictured). Yet there are cogent reasons for identifying it with a quite different painting, now in a private Florentine collection. Before Dr Tempestini's talk, a message from Professor Salvatore Settis will be read, as he is unable to attend; there will also be a statement from the Christ Church Gallery.

 

All are welcome.

 

Library and Cultural Centre

Palazzo Lanfredini

Lungarno Guicciardini, 9

50125 Firenze

Tel: 055 2677 8270

Email:library@britishinstitute 

 

 

The British Institute of Florence will hold a screening of Ken Russell's "Salome's Last Dance" at 8:00 PM on Wednesday, December 5, in the Sala Fiamma Ferragamo, Harold Acton Library.

The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence and the artist Janice Gordon cordially invite you to the exhibit EMBODIMENTS.

 

Janice Gordon is a New York artist who explores the connections between art and science, nature and culture, and the relations between the physical and the metaphysical. In recent years, she has investigated the human body and the ways in which it is perceived. Gordon has shown her work in the United States of America, but Embodiments is her first exposition in Italy. The exhibit is a body of works inspired by the antique anatomical models of the Zoological Section of "La Specola."

 

Hours: 9.30 - 16.30 each day, closed Mondays   

There is no extra charge beyond museum admission for the exhibition.   

Museum tickects:

Full: € 6,00
Reduced: € 3,00    

For further information:

Servizi Didattico Divulgativi
Tel. +39055-2346760

 

Via B. Rucellai, 9

Firenze, Italy