Italy's favourite son, finally moving out - The Florentine
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10<br />
Thursday 7 September 2006<br />
What’s on & Where to Go<br />
www.theflorentine.net<br />
Events in FLORENCE SEP 8 TO SEP 21<br />
Musical Wednesday by Ente Cassa di<br />
Risparmio di Firenze - concerts<br />
Sept. 13, Auditorium Ente Cassa di Risparmio<br />
di Firenze, via Folco Portinari 5/r - tel.<br />
05526121<br />
• SPORTS & ACTIVITIES<br />
Everlast Mabo Firenze - Ozzano<br />
Summer Cup, Basketball championships<br />
for Series B<br />
Mandela Forum,viale Pasquale Paoli, 3, h<br />
21<br />
THURSDAY 14<br />
• CINEMA<br />
Cars (In English)<br />
Odeon CineHall, piazza Strozzi, tel.<br />
055.214068, www.cinehall.it, Shows 3.30<br />
– 5.50 – 8.10 – 10.30 pm<br />
• GUIDED TOURS<br />
Guided visits to gardens in Fiesole:<br />
Villa Montececeri<br />
Villa Montececeri Firenze, info 800414240<br />
- www.comune.fi esole.fi .it, h17.00<br />
<strong>The</strong> old Duomo of Firenze: la Basilica<br />
dei SS. Apostoli<br />
Tour lead by Giovanni Straff, meeting 4 pm<br />
piazza del Limbo, Associazione Akropolis,<br />
Info 055461428, http://it.geocites.com/associazione_akropolis<br />
Cappella dei Principi - Sagrestia Nuova<br />
di San Lorenzo<br />
Tour lead by architect Lara Mercanti meeting<br />
15,30 piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini,<br />
Associazione Akropolis, Info 055461428,<br />
http://it.geocites.com/associazione_akropolis<br />
• MUSIC & CONCERTS<br />
Estemporaneo Cool Jazz Trio<br />
Jazz Club, Via Nuova de’ Caccini, 3 – Firenze,<br />
info 339-5630795 www.jazzclubfi renze.<br />
com, h 22.16<br />
FRIDAY 15<br />
• MARKETS & FESTIVALS<br />
4^ Fragranze<br />
Over 100 brands showcased; artistic perfumery,<br />
candles, objects for the home<br />
Sept. 15 for busness only, 16 and 17 open<br />
to public, Giardino di Palazzo Corsini sul<br />
Prato, Via della Scala 115, info 05536931<br />
www.pittimmagine.com, 5 euro. During the<br />
fair will be possible to preview the Museum<br />
of the Offi cina Santa Maria Novella - only<br />
with reservation.<br />
• MUSIC & CONCERTS<br />
Gotan Project. Tiga, Timo Maas; etc<br />
Concerts<br />
15 sept, Stazione Leopolda, Nokia Trends<br />
Event, www.stazione-leopolda.it, www.ticketone.it,<br />
15 euro<br />
Blackmore’s Night<br />
15 sett, saschall, fi renze, Boxoffi ce<br />
Sacrae Harmoniae - Orchestra Barocca<br />
Il Rossignolo<br />
Classical Music<br />
Saloncino del Teatro della Pergola - via della<br />
Pergola, 12/32 , Firenze info 055-22641<br />
www.amicimusica.fi .it, h 21<br />
• SPORTS & ACTIVITIES<br />
4th edition International Baseball<br />
Tournament Città di Firenze 2006<br />
Sept. from 15 to 17 A.S.D. Junior Firenze<br />
Baseball Club - tel. 055607473<br />
SATURDAY 18<br />
• MARKETS & FESTIVALS<br />
4^ Fragranze<br />
See Sept 15<br />
Fortezza Antiquaria<br />
Antique market<br />
Piazza Indipendenza , Firenze info 055-<br />
3283550<br />
• MUSIC & CONCERTS<br />
Quartetto Felix, Sergio Paglicci, clarinet<br />
music by Mozart, Weber<br />
Sept. 16 Parco Mediceo di Pratolino<br />
Sala Rossa Summer at Demidoff Villa info<br />
055409155 - www.provincia.fi .it<br />
<strong>The</strong> Elegant Gypsy quartet<br />
Jazz Club, Via Nuova de’ Caccini, 3 – Firenze,<br />
info 339-5630795 www.jazzclubfi renze.<br />
com, h 22.17<br />
• SPORTS & ACTIVITIES<br />
4th edition International Baseball<br />
Tournament Città di Firenze 2007<br />
See Sept. 16<br />
SUNDAY 17<br />
• MARKETS & FESTIVALS<br />
4^ Fragranze<br />
See Sept 15<br />
<strong>The</strong> little fair of St. Michael<br />
Sept. 17 Piazza S.Spirito tel.055697747<br />
Fortezza Antiquaria<br />
See Sept 16<br />
• MUSIC & CONCERTS<br />
Musical concert: choir Vox Luna, Paolo<br />
Spennato reading voice, Natalia Prince<br />
piano, Eva Mabellini mezzosoprano<br />
Sept. 17 Parco Mediceo di Pratolino Sala<br />
Rossa Summer at Demidoff Villa info<br />
055409155 - www.provincia.fi .it<br />
• SPORTS & ACTIVITIES<br />
4th edition International Baseball<br />
Tournament Città di Firenze 2008<br />
See Sept. 17<br />
Una città da giocare - games, music,<br />
sport, animation, creativity<br />
Sept. 17 from 10a.m. to 6p.m. Giardini del<br />
Mezzetta - Info Q.2 - tel. 0552767822 -<br />
www.comune.fi .it<br />
NaturaInBici<br />
Quartiere 4, Associazione Città Ciclabile<br />
Firenze info 329-1524746, www.fi renzecittaciclabile.org<br />
XI° Women’s International Tuscan<br />
Tour, Memorial Michela Fanini<br />
From 12 to 17 Sept., from Viareggio to Florence,<br />
Arrival Sunday 17 in Florence, Piazza<br />
della Repubblica, info www.michelafanini.<br />
com<br />
MONDAY 18<br />
• CINEMA<br />
Superman Returns (In English)<br />
Odeon CineHall, piazza Strozzi, tel.<br />
055.214068, www.cinehall.it, Shows 4.00<br />
– 7.00 – 10.00 pm<br />
• GUIDED TOURS<br />
I Cenacoli<br />
<strong>The</strong> Last Supper in the Convent of the<br />
Nuns of Foligno<br />
Tour lead by Dott.ssa Rita Tambone, meeting<br />
10 am in via Faenza, 42, Associazione Akropolis,<br />
Info 055461428, http://it.geocites.<br />
com/associazione_akropolis<br />
• MUSIC & CONCERTS<br />
Quartetto Modigliani<br />
Classical Music<br />
Saloncino del Teatro della Pergola - via della<br />
Pergola, 12/32 , Firenze info 055-22641<br />
www.amicimusica.fi .it, h 21<br />
Quartetto Navarra<br />
Classical Music<br />
Saloncino del Teatro della Pergola - via della<br />
Pergola, 12/32 , Firenze info 055-22641<br />
www.amicimusica.fi .it, h 21<br />
Anastasia Boldyreva, Arcadio Baracchi,<br />
Riccardo Sandiford<br />
Opera - Tuscan classics<br />
Chiesa di Orsanmichele, via de’ Calzaiuoli,<br />
info 055-210804 boxoffi ce<br />
TUESDAY 19<br />
• CINEMA<br />
Quinceañera (In English)<br />
Best fi lm and Audience award Sundance<br />
Film Festival 2006<br />
Odeon CineHall, piazza Strozzi, tel.<br />
055.214068, www.cinehall.it, Shows 4.30<br />
– 6.30 – 8.30 – 10.30 pm<br />
• THEATRE (in Italian unless otherwise noted)<br />
Palle<br />
Dinner and <strong>The</strong>ater<br />
Teatro del Sale, via macci, info 055<br />
2001492, www.teatrodelsale.com; h<br />
19.30<br />
WEDNESDAY 20<br />
• LECTURES & CONFERENCES<br />
‘Vive per violenza, e more per libertà’:<br />
violence and its representation in 15thcentury<br />
Florence<br />
Scott Nethersole from the Courtauld Institute,<br />
London, will introduce his research<br />
ab<strong>out</strong> the representation of violence in Renaissance<br />
Florence.<br />
20 Sept. at 18.00 at <strong>The</strong> British Institute of<br />
Florence, Lungarno Guicciardini 9, tel. 055<br />
26778270, 18.00, admission free<br />
• SPORTS & ACTIVITIES<br />
Fiorentina - Parma<br />
Soccer series A<br />
stadio comunale A. Franchi, at 15.01<br />
• THEATRE (in Italian unless otherwise noted)<br />
Palle<br />
See Sept 19<br />
THURSDAY 21<br />
• CINEMA<br />
<strong>The</strong> Gems Merchant (In English)<br />
Odeon CineHall, piazza Strozzi, tel.<br />
055.214068, www.cinehall.it, Shows 4.00<br />
– 6.10 – 8.20 – 10.30 pm<br />
• GUIDED TOURS<br />
I Musei<br />
<strong>The</strong> most famous mausoleum in the world;<br />
the Princes’ Chapel and the New Sacresty<br />
at San Lorenzo.<br />
Tour lead by arch. Lara Mercanti meeting<br />
15.30 in piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini,<br />
Associazione Akropolis, Info 055461428,<br />
http://it.geocites.com/associazione_akropolis/<br />
all year<br />
Guided visits to gardens in Fiesole:<br />
Villa Nieuwenkamp<br />
Villa Nieuwenkamp, Fiesole, info 800414240<br />
- www.comune.fi esole.fi .it, h17.00<br />
• MUSIC & CONCERTS<br />
II° Festival Firenze Classica - dall’aperitivo<br />
a notte fonda<br />
stazione leopolda, info 055 2625955 www.<br />
fi renzeestate.it, 9pm<br />
NEXTECH FESTIVAL first night<br />
See Ongoing<br />
3 soprani in concert<br />
With Dianne Bailey (Australia) Isabel Barbosa<br />
(Brazil), Sumiko Okawa (Japan), piano<br />
prof. Gianni Fabbrini<br />
Chiesa dei barnabiti (piazza santo spirito)<br />
(2nd night on 30 Sept), h 20.30<br />
• THEATRE (in Italian unless otherwise noted)<br />
Palle<br />
See Sept 20<br />
ONGOING<br />
• CINEMA<br />
Tutti quanti voglion fare il jazz<br />
Film festival with theme of jazz. For complete<br />
program see website<br />
Castello via R. Giuliani, 374, Rifredi www.<br />
cinetecadifi renze.it <strong>The</strong> Program: Monday<br />
11 - 20,00 Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby<br />
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN with Bing<br />
Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Madge Evans.<br />
USA 1936. In English with French subtitles.<br />
Sunday - 17 18,30 Chet Baker LET’S GET<br />
LOST; USA 1989. Original sound with Italian<br />
subtitles, Ray Charles 20,30 PIANO<br />
BLUES byClint Eastwood; USA 2003. English<br />
with Italian subtitles.<br />
• COMPETITION<br />
RockContest<br />
Contest for artists and bands<br />
Ending on 15 Sept Organized by Controradio,<br />
Comune di Firenze Assessorato alla<br />
Pubblica Istruzione e alle Politiche Giovanili,<br />
Comuni di Bagno a Ripoli, Campi Bisenzio,<br />
Scandicci and Sesto Fiorentino, info 055-<br />
7399946 www.rockcontest.it/ www.controradio.it<br />
1ª Ed Concorso “media-letterario” Dalla<br />
pagina allo schermo<br />
Organized by the Festival della Creatività<br />
and the Toscana Film Commission<br />
until 31 october, info 055-271991 Festival<br />
della Creatività And Toscana Film Commission<br />
www.festivaldellacreativita.it<br />
• EXHIBITS<br />
Moda e Stile.<br />
Hidden wealth. An artistic collection of the<br />
Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova<br />
Until May 2008 Palazzo Pitti, Galleria del<br />
Costume - tel. 0552388713<br />
Painting and photographic exhibitions<br />
at Villa Pozzolini (Firenzestate 06)<br />
from June 3 to October 8 Villa Pozzolini, viale<br />
Guidoni 188 - tel. 0552767045 - www.<br />
comune.fi .it<br />
Steven Klein. Case study # 13 Valley of<br />
the dolls<br />
from June 22 to October 30 Gallery Hotel<br />
Art - Vicolo dell’Oro - tel. 05527263<br />
Santa Maria Nuova e gli Uffizi.<br />
Hidden wealth. An artistic collection of the<br />
Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova<br />
Until 27 Sept, Sala delle Reali Poste Loggiato<br />
degli Uffi zi, 6 info 055-23885 www.<br />
polomuseale.fi renze.it/ H 9:00-12:30 e<br />
16:00-19:00 (mon and tue closet) free entrance<br />
Afghanistan 1976 - viaggio nella memoria<br />
photographic exhibition by Donella Bertini<br />
Sept. from 2 to 13 Parterre - tel. 0552767828<br />
- www.fi renzestate.com (4p.m.-7.30p.m.)<br />
Nel segno di diana, Roberto Lemmi<br />
From 2 to 24 Sept, Palazzo Medici Riccardi ,<br />
Via Cavour 1 (Limonaia) info 055-2760340,<br />
diana.edolimpia.it www.palazzo-medici.it<br />
Leonardo: <strong>The</strong> Lake That Never Was’<br />
Andrea Dami Sculptures<br />
from 7 Sept to 7 Oct at SACI Gallery - Palazzo<br />
dei Cartelloni, via Sant’Antonino 11 -<br />
tel. 055289948 - www.saci-fl orence.org<br />
Firenze nel 1770, l’anno del soggiorno<br />
fiorentino di W.A. Mozart<br />
To celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the<br />
W.A. Mozart’s birth<br />
from Sept. 15 to October 15 Biblioteca<br />
Nazionale Centrale di Firenze - tel.<br />
05524919322<br />
Elementalia<br />
From 16 to 29 Sept, Centro Commerciale<br />
Le Piaggie Via Lombardia 15, Piagge , Firenze<br />
, Sala Espositiva A.N.R.A.C.h 10:00-<br />
12:00 e 15:00-19:00 info 055-2767020<br />
Giovanni Paszkowski: l’ora sospesa<br />
paintings<br />
untill 11 Nov, Museo Marino Marini, Piazzo<br />
San Pancrazio, tel. 055.219432, www.museomarinomarini.it<br />
Pedalando nel tempo<br />
An exhibit of antique bicycles in the new<br />
ground-fl oor exhibition space of the Museum.<br />
Until December 31, Mon-Sat 9.30-17, Tues<br />
9.30-13, 2nd Sun of the month 10-13, Museo<br />
di Storia della Scienza, piazza dei Giudici<br />
1, tel. 055.265311, www.imss.fi .it<br />
Incontri Mediterranei<br />
Until October 10, Museo Archeologico<br />
Nazionale, via della Colonna 36, tel.<br />
055.294883, www.fi renzemusei.it/archeologica<br />
Arte e Manifattura di corte a Firenze.<br />
Dal tramonto dei Medici all’Impero<br />
(1732-1815)<br />
Until November 5, Palazzo Pitti, piazza Pitti<br />
1, tel. 055.294883, www.artedicorteafi renze2006.it<br />
Lorenzo Monaco: dalla tradizione giottesca<br />
al Rinascimento<br />
Until Sept. 24, 8.15-18.50, Galleria dell’Accademia,<br />
via Ricasoli 50, tel. 055.294883,<br />
www.polomuseale.fi renze.it<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mind of Leonardo. Universal Genius<br />
at Work<br />
Until January 7, 2007, 8.15-19.00, Tues-Sun,<br />
Galleria degli Uffi zi, Piazzale degli Uffi zi, tel.<br />
055.2388651, www.uffi zi.fi renze.it<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mystery of the Genesis in the Jorge<br />
Jimenez Deredia’s Sculptures<br />
Forty sculptures made of Carrara white<br />
marble and bronze by Jorge Jiménez Deredia<br />
(Costa Rican).<br />
Until Sept. 30, closed 1st and last Mon of<br />
the month, €7, Boboli Gardens, Piazza Pitti,<br />
tel. 055-2298732, www.ilmisterodellagenesi.com
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