The next Thrift Shop will be held on Wednesday, June 5. This will be the last Thrift Shop before the summer break. 

As always, there will be great bargains on gently used clothing, accessories, housewares, toys, and more. 

Don't miss the fun!

 

Once again, St. James Church is hosting the Florence Voice Seminar from Rider University. The talented young opera singers participating in this program will hold two concerts at St. James on Saturday, June 8, and Sunday, June 9, at 8:00 PM.

The concerts are free of charge. 

We need your suggestions for local outreach donations to be made in 2013. There are so many wonderful organizations in the Province of Florence, 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 September 30. 

  

Please contact Barbara Maraventano at b.maraventano@gmail.com or Jocelyn Fitzgerald at jocelyn.f@tiscalinet.it. 

The St. James Office is open from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Tuesday through Friday:

 

Telephone: 055 294417

Email: office@stjames.it.

 

The Church is closed on Mondays.

 

Please remember that it is not possible to make deliveries or drop off donations on Mondays. Thank you for your understanding! 

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

 

The "Ladies for Human Rights" exhibit is being held at the Robert F. Kennedy Center, located in the historic "Le Murate." Curated by Melissa Proietti, it is a collection about 18 women from around the world who have worked for human rights.

 

Italian artist Marcello Reboani's brilliant use of recycled materials to create mixed-media rendition of these powerful women will amaze and captivate you. Along with the portraits are the biographies of these larger-than-life ladies and how they contributed to the rights of humans everywhere in the world.

 

From actresses to artists, prisoners to princesses, mothers to martyrs, these various women each in their own way exemplified what each of us has the capacity to do: act upon what is right and to speak out about what we believe to be fair and just and against those things which are unjust. 

 

As part of the ongoing "Talking Pictures" series, the British Institute will hold a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's film, "Psycho," with Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh, on Wednesday, May 29, at 8:00 PM, in the Sala Fiamma Ferragamo, Harold Acton Library.

 

 

Antony Molho, Professor Emeritus, European University Institute, will present the topic "Merchants and Discoveries: Italians, the Mediterranean and the New World," on Thursday, May 30, at 5:30 PM.

 

R.S.V.P.: stanfordinflorence@stanford.edu.

 

The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, in collaboration with the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, will hold a conference on The Italian Renaisance in the Nineteenth Century June 5-7.

The object of this conference is the Renaissance revival as a Pan-European phenomenon of critique, commentary and re-shaping of a nineteenth-century  present perceived as deeply problematic. This three day event proposes to recover some of the multi-dimensionality of the reaction to, transformation of, and commentary on the Italian Renaissance and its ties to nineteenth century modernity, as seen both from within (by Italians) and from without (by foreigners, expatriates, travelers, etc.).

 

For information see: http://itatti.harvard.edu/content/revision-revival-and-return-italian-renaissance-nineteenth-century

The Best of  Sri Lankan Finger Food

A Summer Cocktail will be held at the Cloister of the Methodist Church on June 19 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, to benefit the  Associazione Fabio Jonathon ONLUS (www.fabiojonathan.org),  which is building a school in Sri Lanka.

 

Donation: € 10.00

 

For tickets, contact: blandina.steinhauslin@gmail.com

Via B. Rucellai, 9

Firenze, Italy