Welcome to Florence: Newsletter June 8-June 17

CET Events/Activities: 
Thursday, June 9 

12:30 – 3:30 pm Lunch and walking tour of Florence

7:30 pm Welcome Reception Dinner Meet at CET

Saturday, June 11

Picnic in the Boboli Gardens and walk to the Piazzale Michelangelo. 

Tuesday, June 14

Pizza Making Class

Friday, June 17                          

La Traviata in Verona! Day trip and an evening of opera in Verona’s famous amphitheater

Summer Events in Florence:

Art exhibitions

Voices of the East. Miniatures and classical texts from Byzantium to the Laurentian Library

from March 4 to June 30. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana www.bml.firenze.sbn.it

Figures, memories, space. Drawings from Fra Angelico to Leonardo Da Vinci

March 8 to June 12. Galleria degli Uffizi www.unannoadarte.it

Picasso, Miró, Dalí: angry young man: the birth of modernity

from March 12 to July 17. Palazzo Strozzi www.palazzostrozzi.org

The School of the world. Drawings by Leonardo and Michelangelo in comparison 

from April 20 to August 1. Casa Buonarroti www.casabuonarroti.it

Virtual Identities

from May 21 to July 17. Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina. www.strozzina.org

Music, theatre, cinema

Concert by Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen music by Modest Musorgskij,

Zoltán Kodály, Hector Berlioz. 17 June. Piccolo Teatro del Comunale.

Meetings, literary prizes

Bloomsday – celebrations of James Joyce

16 June The British Institute of Florence www.britishinstitute.it

 

Folk festivals, sport events

Historical Florentine Soccer Tournament

18, 19, 24 June. Piazza S. Croce

72th St. John's Evening Run – walk/race 10 km

18 June. piazza Duomo

St. John Fireworks Display

24 June. Piazzale Michelangiolo www.sangiovannibattistafirenze.com

FIESOLE

Free bike tours between nature and culture (take the #7 bus from Piazza S. Marco in Florence – 15 min)

11, 19 giugno  June. www.fiesoleforyou.it

IMPRUNETA

Pizza Festival 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 June

Sede del Rione delle Fornaci  www.rionedellefornaci.it

June 23, 7-10pm
Knitting group - Le Murate, Via delle Vecchie

Carceri, first floor (Contact bettaknit@gmail.

com to reserve a spot)

July 12-Aug 3 Opera Festival 2011  Giardino di Boboli