April Newsletter

CET Events and Activities
April 8, 2011: IPS day trip to Venice


April 19, 2011: Spring Luncheon at CET 1-2:30 pm


April 22-25: Easter Break 


April 30: Day trip to Montepulciano, Pienza and Montalcino. Sign up today!


Events in Florence
Sunday, April 10, 5 pm "I Shall Paint a Piece”
Dramatic readings drawn from the Florentine poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Performed on the "piano nobile" in Palazzo Davanzati by actors Devon Black and Matt Douglas, who have just completed a North American tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Robert Shaw Cameron, associate artistic director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Palazzo Davanzati, Via Porta Rossa 13, Firenze. Free entrance, reservation required. email lapietra.reply@nyu.edu to reserve. 

April 11-14: Shakespeare Week at the British Library 


Monday 11 April
15.00 Public Reading: Twelfth Night or What You Will
A reading of the play in its entirety. All are welcome to come and listen or to join in on the reading in any
language. With the participation of members of FESTA International Theatre Company. Afterwards there will be Elizabethan and Jacobean music, and a light buffet.

Tuesday 12 April
16.00 John Madden’s Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’s clever reworking of texts and plots from Shakespeare’s life as well as his plays Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet.

Wednesday 13 April
6pm  British Library“Draw the curtain and show you the picture”: the graphics of Twelfth Night
Professor Keir Elam of the University of Bologna addresses the role of pictorial, cartographical and other graphic modes in Twelfth Night, as part of what we might term the optical allusion at work throughout the play. The issues addressed include the problem of visual perception as a source of knowledge, and the relationship between ‘competing’ arts in the drama.

8 pm British Library Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night
1996 film version 


9:15 pm Duomo
Free chorus performance. www.maggiofiorentino.com


Saturday, April 16: International Slow Art Day 

What: Guided visit of the exhibit at Palazzo Strozzi followed by high tea. Cost: 8 euro. Guided conversation and complimentary English High Tea: Meet the group at 5pm in the Loggiata (open space on the third floor, wear your jacket).Reservations required. 

Sunday, April 17: Excursions between nature and culture (free!) www.fiesoleforyou.it

Thursday, April 28: 7-10 pm Knit Lounge at Le Murate plus free aperitivo

(Piazza Madonna della Neve, 1) Craft and Knitting workshop (beginning to advanced, English and Italian). You can purchase a kit or bring your own materials to make a yarn necklace, cotton pillow, and iPad case. 

Saturday, April 30: Notte Bianca

Annual all-night party in Florence; Palazzo Vecchio open all night, Jazz music in the Uffizi, events throughout the city. 

On-Going Events in Florence

April 2-30. Evening openings of the museum in Palazzo Vecchio 

(ticket office open until 11 pm every day except thursday). 

Through July 17: Picasso, Mirò, Dalì. Giovani e arrabbiati. 

Palazzo Strozzi www.palazzostrozzi.org


Every Tuesday
Language exchange at the Casa della Creativita'


Every Wednesday 7 pm wine tasting & aperitivo at Negroni


Art Tuesdays
Free evening admission to state museums: April 26, May 31, June 28, July 26, August 30, September 27, October 25, November 29 and December 27. In Florence, the participating museums are the Uffizi Gallery; Galleria dell'Accademia; Bargello Museum; Medici Chapels; San Marco Museum; Museum of Palazzo Davanzati; Gallery of Modern Art and Palatine Gallery, both in Palazzo Pitti.

See Current Events April-June for more on-going events