lunedì 7 giugno 2010
Istituto Europeo: Students at Istituto Europeo
Visit Chianti Winery
Visit Chianti Winery
venerdì 4 giugno 2010
Istituto Europeo: Trip to Chianti Winery
Istituto Europeo Field Trip to Chianti Winery
*Lunch and wine tasting included
£50
Saturday June 5, 2010
Meet in front of the school at 9:50 a.m
Buses leave at 10:00 a.m
Return to Florence at 4:00 p.m
giovedì 3 giugno 2010
Information: This Month's Movie Schedule at Odeon Cinehall
ODEON CINEHALL
2 Piazza Strozzi, Firenze, Italia 50123
Tel + 39 055 210954
www.cinehall.it
Tickets £6.00 for students
Tuesday June 1
The Back Up Plan
4.30 p.m - 6.30 p.m - 8.30 p.m - 10.30 p.m
Wednesday June 2
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
3.45 p.m - 6.00 p.m - 8.15 p.m - 10.30 p.m
Friday June 4
Sex and the City 2
5.15 p.m - 8.00 p.m - 10.45 p.m
Saturday June 5
Sex and the City 2
5.15 p.m - 8.00 p.m - 10.45 p.m
Sunday June 6
Sex and the City 2
4.00 p.m - 6.45 p.m - 9.30 p.m
Monday June 7
Sex and the City 2
6.45 p.m - 9.30 p.m
Tuesday June 8
Sex and the City 2
6.45 p.m - 9.30 p.m
Wednesday June 9
Sex and the City 2
6.45 p.m - 9.30 p.m
Thursday June 10
Sex and the City 2
6.00 p.m
Friday June 11
Sex and the City 2
6.00 p.m
Saturday June 12
Sex and the City 2
4.00 p.m - 6.45 p.m - 9.30 p.m
Sunday June 13
Sex and the City 2
4.00 p.m – 6.45 p.m - 9.30 p.m
Monday June 14
Agorà
5.30 p.m - 8.00 p.m - 10.30 p.m
Tuesday June 15
Sex and the City 2
6.45 p.m - 9.30 p.m
Thursday June 17
Sex and the City 2
6.45 p.m - 9.30 p.m
Tuesday June 22
Inglorius Basterds
5.00 p.m
Thursday June 24
The Last Station
6.00 p.m - 8.15 p.m -10.30 p.m
Monday June 28
The Road
6.00 p.m - 8.15 p.m -10.30 p.m
Tuesday June 29
The Road
6.00 p.m
Wednesday June 30
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
4.20 p.m - 6.40 p.m - 9.00 p.m
Plot Summaries
The Back Up Plan
Jennifer Lopez, Alex O'Loughlin, Michaela Watkins, Eric Christian Olsen, Noureen DeWulf
A romantic comedy centered on a woman who conceives twins through artificial insemination, only to meet the man of her dreams on the very same day. (IMBD Editors)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, Steve Toussaint
Set in the mystical lands of Persia, a rogue prince and a mysterious princess race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time -- a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world. (Walt Disney Pictures)
Sex and the City 2
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis
Two years have passed since Carrie Bradshaw finally bagged John "Mr. Big" Preston, the man she was always meant to be with. Just as her friend Charlotte must deal with her young daughter's "terrible two's", Carrie must deal with her relationship taking a turn for the worse - Big likes to watch old black-and-white movies on TV and eat take-out food, which prevents Carrie from feeling like the free-wheeling party girl she used to be. Meanwhile, Miranda copes with a new boss that can't handle an intelligent, powerful woman, and Samantha works a public relations angle that gets the fashionable foursome an all-expense-paid trip to Abu Dhabi. (The Massie Twins)
Agorà
Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom, Michael Lonsdale
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria. (IMDB)
Inglorius Basterds
Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent, Diane Kruger.
In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history. (The Massie Twins)
The Last Station
Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff
The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people. (IMDB)
The Road
Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael K. Williams, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, and Charlize Theron
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food--and each other. (Sean Pollock)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli
Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob -- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life. (Summit Entertainment)
Istituto Europeo: June/July 2010 Summer Internships at Istituto Europeo
Istituto Europeo's June/July 2010 student internships:
Graphic Design
Public Relations
Tourism
Photography
Fashion
Physical Therapy
Advertising and Marketing
Nursing
Cultural Management
Pre Med
History/Museum
Business Intelligence
Culinary Arts
Gymnastics
Hospitality
Community Developement
Marketing
Government/Non Profit
Architecture
Event Management
International Trade
Information: Lectures at the British Institute in Florence This Month
Graham Avery
Thursday June 3, 2010
6:00 p.m
Sigeric: An Anglo-Saxon Archbishop in Tuscany
Archbishop Sigeric passed through Tuscany on his way from Rome to Canterbury in the year 990. His itinerary, recorded in a MS in the British Library, is the earliest account of the Via Francigena, the medieval route to Rome from Northern Europe. Following its designation as a European Cultural Route, many guide-books and local way-marks refer to Sigeric - in fact, he is better known in Italy than in his native land. Graham Avery, Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, explains why Sigeric went to Rome, which places he passed in Tuscany, and the historical significance of the Via Francigena.
Alexandra Richardson
Wednesday June 9, 2010
6:00 p.m
Alexander Hardcastle and the Greek Temples of Agrigento
For every ten people who know about Austin Layard, Arthur Evans and Howard Carter, perhaps only one has heard of Alexander Hardcastle (1872-1933). Yet as Alexandra Richardson shows in her recent biography Passionate Patron, Hardcastle holds a high place among these rich, self-taught and passionately dedicated amateurs, whose money and enterprise opened up a golden age of archaeology. She tells the moving story of a life traumatised by war service in South Africa, precariously rebuilt among the almond groves and ruined temples of Agrigento, then cruelly torn apart by the stock market crash of 1929.
Jeremy Lane
Wednesday June 16, 2010
8:00 p.m
Waking the Dead: The Hades Episode in Joyce’s Ulysses
For Bloomsday this year we concentrate on the sixth chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses, generally known by its Homeric title ‘Hades', which we will read in its entirety during the afternoon. In this talk Jeremy Lane considers the importance of death in Joyce's fiction, and relates the episode to Ulysses more widely, providing an entry to a broader attempt at understanding this ‘novel to end all novels'. Jeremy Lane is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex.
Danile Weissbein
Wednesday June 23, 2010
6:00 p.m
Literary Anglomania or Anglophilia? The Case of J.L. Borges
By an irony of fate, the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is less well known in Britain than elsewhere. Yet not only was he brought up by an English grandmother and an English-speaking father, but he read deeply and omnivorously in the field of English literature and philosophy, and lived all his life in a mental universe that was largely that of a late-Victorian savant. This talk explores this aspect of Borges's oeuvre, which though widely acknowledged has never been given its due.
Michael John Angel
Wednesday June 30, 2010
6:00 p.m
Pietro Annigoni: English Portraits and Tuscan Frescoes
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Pietro Annigoni (1910-1988), the portraitist and fresco painter who was catapulted to world fame after painting Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. Michael John Angel, who knew Annigoni well, is a figurative painter who since 1997 has run the Angel Academy of Art in Via Fiesolana, Florence. This illustrated talk focuses on Annigoni's English portraits, while not overlooking the frescoes painted here in Tuscany.
The British Institute in Florence
Library and Cultural Centre
Lungarno Guicciardini 9
Tel.05526778270
www.britishinstitute.it
Thursday June 3, 2010
6:00 p.m
Sigeric: An Anglo-Saxon Archbishop in Tuscany
Archbishop Sigeric passed through Tuscany on his way from Rome to Canterbury in the year 990. His itinerary, recorded in a MS in the British Library, is the earliest account of the Via Francigena, the medieval route to Rome from Northern Europe. Following its designation as a European Cultural Route, many guide-books and local way-marks refer to Sigeric - in fact, he is better known in Italy than in his native land. Graham Avery, Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, explains why Sigeric went to Rome, which places he passed in Tuscany, and the historical significance of the Via Francigena.
Alexandra Richardson
Wednesday June 9, 2010
6:00 p.m
Alexander Hardcastle and the Greek Temples of Agrigento
For every ten people who know about Austin Layard, Arthur Evans and Howard Carter, perhaps only one has heard of Alexander Hardcastle (1872-1933). Yet as Alexandra Richardson shows in her recent biography Passionate Patron, Hardcastle holds a high place among these rich, self-taught and passionately dedicated amateurs, whose money and enterprise opened up a golden age of archaeology. She tells the moving story of a life traumatised by war service in South Africa, precariously rebuilt among the almond groves and ruined temples of Agrigento, then cruelly torn apart by the stock market crash of 1929.
Jeremy Lane
Wednesday June 16, 2010
8:00 p.m
Waking the Dead: The Hades Episode in Joyce’s Ulysses
For Bloomsday this year we concentrate on the sixth chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses, generally known by its Homeric title ‘Hades', which we will read in its entirety during the afternoon. In this talk Jeremy Lane considers the importance of death in Joyce's fiction, and relates the episode to Ulysses more widely, providing an entry to a broader attempt at understanding this ‘novel to end all novels'. Jeremy Lane is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex.
Danile Weissbein
Wednesday June 23, 2010
6:00 p.m
Literary Anglomania or Anglophilia? The Case of J.L. Borges
By an irony of fate, the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is less well known in Britain than elsewhere. Yet not only was he brought up by an English grandmother and an English-speaking father, but he read deeply and omnivorously in the field of English literature and philosophy, and lived all his life in a mental universe that was largely that of a late-Victorian savant. This talk explores this aspect of Borges's oeuvre, which though widely acknowledged has never been given its due.
Michael John Angel
Wednesday June 30, 2010
6:00 p.m
Pietro Annigoni: English Portraits and Tuscan Frescoes
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Pietro Annigoni (1910-1988), the portraitist and fresco painter who was catapulted to world fame after painting Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. Michael John Angel, who knew Annigoni well, is a figurative painter who since 1997 has run the Angel Academy of Art in Via Fiesolana, Florence. This illustrated talk focuses on Annigoni's English portraits, while not overlooking the frescoes painted here in Tuscany.
The British Institute in Florence
Library and Cultural Centre
Lungarno Guicciardini 9
Tel.05526778270
www.britishinstitute.it
The Florence Newspaper: Uffizi Gallery Now Available on iPod Touch, iPad, and iPhone
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the oldest museum in modern Europe and one of the most visited in the world, has become the first Italian museum to go on iPod, iPad, and iPhone.
The ArtFirstGuide “Uffizi” Apple application allows users to discover the Uffizi’s great masterpieces of Italian and European art via iPod, iPad, and iPhone. The platform includes a virtual tour of the museum and close-ups of thirty-three masterpieces including Botticelli's Venus, Leonardo's Annunciation, Raphael's Madonna del Cardellino, Michelangelo's Tondo Doni and Caravaggio's Medusa.
Developed by the Parallelo and ArtFirstGuide, ArtFirstGuide “Uffizi” provides expert descriptions and videos of the Uffizi’s most famous masterpieces as well as information on opening hours, ticket bookings, and upcoming events.
The application can be downloaded from the Apple and iTunes online stores.
Aplpication Details:
ArtFirstGuide “Uffizi”
Version 1.14
$1.99
93.7 MB
Available in English, Italian, Spanish
Created by Parellelo and ArtFirstGuide
Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
*Requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later
www.florencenewspaper.it
martedì 1 giugno 2010
Information: Tomorrow is "Festa Nazionale della Repubblica"
Festa della Repubblica is celebrated on the second day of June each year. It commemorates the institutional referendum of 1946 when (by universal suffrage) the Italian population was called to decide what form of government (monarchy or republic) to give to the country after World War II and the fall of Fascism.After 85 years of monarchy, with 12,717,923 votes for and 10,719,284 votes against, Italy became a Republic, and the monarchs of the House of Savoy were deposed and exiled. This is one of the most important Italian public holidays which, like July 14in France and July 4 in the USA, celebrates the birth of the nation. A grand military parade is held in central Rome. (Wikipedia).
*The attached photo displays the Frecce tricolori at the Festa della Repubblica in Italy, 2nd of June 2005.
Information: June Music Festivals in Florence
73RD MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
www.maggiofiorentino.com
June 13–24, 2010
FLORENCE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
MEMORIA DEL FUTURO: SCHUMANN, CAGE, L'AVANGUARDIA
Cortile del Museo Nazionale del Bargello
www.flamensemble.com
June 18-20, 2010
WRONG FESTIVAL - THREE DAYS OF MUSIC AND ART
Giardini di via del Mezzetta
info: info@exfila.it
Information: Art Exhibits in Florence in the Month of June
DE CHIRICO, MAX ERNST, MAGRITTE, BALTHUS: UNO SGUARDO NELL'INVISIBILE
February 26 - July 18, 2010
Palazzo Strozzi
info: 055 2645155
www.palazzostrozzi.org
ANSIA D'IMMAGINI. ITALO ZANNIER FOTOGRAFO: 1952-1976
April 17 - June 13, 2010
Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia
info: 055 216310
LA GRANDE MADRE. I LEGNI 'NON FINITI' DI GIUSEPPE GAVAZZI
April 17 - January 31, 2011
Villa Bardini
info: 055 2613289
www.bardinipeyron.it
CERAMICHE ANIMATE DI PAOLA STACCIOLI
April 30 - October 3, 2010
Museo delle Porcellane
info: 055 2388709
DE CHIRICO AL 1° MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO. BOZZETTI, FIGURINI E DISEGNI PER 'I PURITANI' DI BELLINI
May 1 - June 22, 2010
Palazzo Strozzi
info: 055 2776461/06
MARCO MAZZONI. E' UN MIRACOLO
May 5 - June 10, 2010
EX3 Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea
info: 055 6287091
www.ex3.it
MADRI, FIGLIE, BALIE. IL CORETTO DELLA CHIESA E LA COMUNITÀ FEMMINILE DEGLI INNOCENTI
May 7 - September 30, 2010
Istituto degli Innocenti
info: 055 2037331
www.istitutodeglinnocenti.it
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. L’ACCELERAZIONE NELLA SOCIETÀ CONTEMPORANEA
May 14 - July 18, 2010
Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS)
info: 055 2776461/06
www.strozzina.org
CARAVAGGIO E CARAVAGGESCHI A FIRENZE
May 22 - October 10, 2010
Galleria degli Uffizi & Galleria Palatina
info: 055 23885
www.unannoadarte.it
FIRENZE PREZIOSA 2010 DIALOGHI
May 22 - June 6, 2010
Chiostro dell'ex Convento delle Leopoldine
info: 055 2280131
www.preziosa.org
MARIO FRANCESCONI. VIAGGIO 1960-2010
May 28 - July 15
Palazzo Medici Riccardi
info: 055 2760340
www.palazzo-medici.it
PIETRO DA CORTONA A FIRENZE
June 23 - October 9, 2010
Casa Buonarroti
info: 055 241752
www.casabuonarroti.it
VIRTÙ D'AMORE. PITTURA NUZIALE NEL QUATTROCENTO FIORENTINO
June 8 - November 1, 2010
Galleria dell'Accademia
info: 055 2388609
www.unannoadarte.it
PIETRO ANNIGONI: FRAMMENTI DI DIARIO TRA ARTE E LETTERATURA
from June 5 to September 5, 2010
Museo Casa Rodolfo Siviero
info: 055 4382652 - 055 2345219
www.museocasasiviero.it
DALLA SPIGA AL CAPPELLO. INTRECCI DI PAGLIA TRA ITALIA, SVIZZERA E INGHILTERRA
June 29 - July 31, 2010
Museo Marino Marini
info: 055 219432
www.museomarinomarini.it
DAVID E GOLIA. IL RESTAURO DI DUE FORMELLE SBALZATE E DECORATE DEL MUSEO STIBBERT
May 13 - June 30, 2010
Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure di Firenze
info: 055 2651347
www.opificiodellepietredure.it
FIRENZE UPSIDEDOWN. ITINERARI E VISITE
June 4, 14, 18, 21, 23, and 25, 2010
info: 055 5520407
www.archeologia.it
Information: 73rd Maggio Musicale Fiorentino June Schedule
The 73rd Maggio Musicale Fiorentino commenced April 29th and will run until July 22nd. The theme of this year's multiethnic edition Verso Oriente (Towards the East). The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino is a world renowned classical music and dance festival held every year in Florence. Events ranging from opera, to symphony, and ballet are performed by some of the top musicians and dancers. Long time director of the Maggio Musicale, Zubin Mehta, is an accomplished conductor and has provided some of the most successful performances around of classical operas and symphonies.
The June Maggio Musicale Fiorentino schedule of events can be found below:
73RD MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
April 29 – July 22, 2010
www.maggiofiorentino.com
Schedule from June 8 - June 31, 2010
June 8, 2010
INCONTRO NATURA VIVA
Teatro Comunale
6:00 p.m
CECILIA CHAILLY
Piccolo Teatro
9:30 p.m
June 9, 2010
KREMERATA BALTICA • GIDON KREMER
Teatro Comunale
8:30 p.m
June 11, 2010
CONCERT BY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD AND FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY
Teatro Comunale
8:30 p.m
June 15, 2010
NATURA VIVA
Teatro Goldoni
8:30 p.m
June 16, 2010
PRESENTAZIONE VOLUME
"I DISEGNI DI UN TEATRO" di MORENO BUCCI
Piccolo Teatro
6:00 p.m
CONCERT BY ORCHESTRA OF MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
DIRECTED BY DIEGO MATHEUZ MUSIC BY LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, DMITRIJ ŠOSTAKOVIČ
Teatro Comunale
8:30 p.m
June 21, 2010
GALÀ DI DANZA CON MAGGIODANZA
Piazza della Signoria
9:30 p.m
June 22, 2010
LAST NIGHT OF MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
KURT MASUR CONDUCTOR, MUSIC BY BEETHOVEN
Piazza della Signoria
9:30 p.m