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keep you up-to-date on the latest and greatest in culture, music and more
English-friendly entertainment here in our Top Picks!  Enjoy Florence.

 

Special
Events/Week of Cultural Heritage

April 9 to 17,
Florence and Italy

 

Enjoy
Italy’s magnificent cultural heritage in all its forms… free! The 13th annual
Week of Cultural Heritage features eight days of free entry to and special
openings of all state museums, archaeological sites, archives and libraries.
Get there early or get in line! For more information, see www.beniculturali.it
or call 800/991199. Are you a resident of Florence or the province? Were you
born here? Well, then enjoy A Kiss to Florence:
free admission to Palazzo Vecchio or Villa Bardini on April 10! For more
information, see www.unbacioneafirenze.net. Finally, MiBAC is giving free
entrance to state museums one Tuesday each month; see news on Page 1 for
details.

 

Special
Events/Shakespeare Week

April 11 to 14,
The British Institute of Florence

 

To celebrate
the birthday of Great Britain’s sommo
poeta, the British
Institute will be holding its third annual Shakespeare week. This year’s events
focus on The Twelfth Night or
What You Will, with a live
public reading of the play, screenings of Shakespeare
in Love  and the 1996 film version of Twelfth Night (introduced by TF’s own James Douglas), and concluding with the
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Graduate Conference. For more information on
dates and hours, see http://www.britishinstitute.it or call 055/26778270.

 

Concerts/Oltre le Gambe music festival 

Starting April
12, Glue Alternative Concept Space

 

Florence’s
hottest new music space hosts a festival in which young musicians from all over
Italy perform in unexpected ways. The space is overflowing with art and other
curiosities, a unique way to enjoy great sound. The venue opens at 8:30pm and
concerts start at 10. For more information, see www.gluefirenze.it or http://www.oltrelegambe.itwww.unbacioneafirenze.net

 

Concerts/World
sacred music week 

April 17 to 23,
Chiesa di Santo Stefano al Ponte, Florence

 

Since Easter of
2003, the festival has seen increased success each year of its existence. Best
to put it in the organizer’s words: ‘International youth, amateur and professional
soloists and ensembles will gather to perform centuries-old sacred music,
including the Goldberg variations, Vivaldi, Liszt, Bach and even Sufi music
from Morocco.’ For more information, visit http://www.florenceyouthfestival.com or call 055/611299.

 

Concerts/Free
Concert by Chorus of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino  

April 13,
9:15pm, Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo)

 

Enjoy a moving
classical performance by the acclaimed chorus of Florence’s own Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino in, if we may, the most beautiful cathedral in the world. Chorus
directed by Piero Monti, music by Franz Liszt. For more information, visit http://www.maggiofiorentino.com or
call 055/2779350.

 

Dinners/English
Speed Dinner

April 14, Le
Carceri restaurant

 

ToscanaIN NEXT
and Syracuse University Florence present an event for the youth among us: a fun
way to meet young Tuscans age and talk culture, language, work, networking and
all things life in the relaxed and beautiful setting of Le Murate. A
multicultural mixer to enjoy with your peers and chat it up with locals.
Members of the TF staff await you! For those 31 and under; 15 euro entry fee.
For more information, see www.toscanain.org or check out the event on the TF or ToscanaIN Facebook fanpages.

 

Exhibitions/Slow
Art Florence 2011 

April 16,
Palazzo Strozzi

 

Palazzo Strozzi
and The Florentine co-host the second annual Florence edition of International
Slow Art Day. Slow Art, as you might imagine, is an occasion to look at art
slowly! At your convenience on Saturday, April 16, spend 10 to 15 minutes
looking at each of six works in the exhibit Picasso, Miro, Dalì selected by the
organizer; then meet with the other participants at 5pm for a lively discussion
over English high tea. Discussion groups will be in English, Italian, and, in
honour of the Catalan artists, Spanish. See the article in this issue’s
features section and visit http://slowartflorence2011.eventbrite.com.

 

Exhibitions/Islands
of Thought: Böcklin, de Chirico, Nunziante

Opens April 16,
Palazzo Comunale, Fiesole

 

Fiesole fetes
three maestros from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Arnold Bocklin,
Giorgio de Chirico, and contemporary artist Antonio Nunziante. The exhibit
focuses on the thematic and artistic links in the works of these three artists,
and how Bocklin in particular influenced not only the exhibit’s other title
artists, but other twentieth-century artists like Edvard Munch, Rene Magritte,
Max Ernst and Salvador Dalì. For information, see http://www.museidifiesole.it.

 

 

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