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Memory of the symbolic places of europe: the most beautiful images
In Via Maggio 58, at the Tethys Gallery, during the days of the Festival d’Europa, it will be possible to visit the photographic exhibition “Lapis Fragilis”, showing pictures by Stefano Amantini, Massimo Borchi and Guido Cozzi, promoted by the Via Maggio Association. From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., the Gallery will display the collection of images devoted to the European memory and to its importance and fragility.
As a matter of fact, the exhibition will feature three different intervention methods for the preservation and the safeguard of some symbolic monuments of the European history: from the study and optimization of the tourist movements to the Hadrian’s Wall, to the debate over the proposed solution for the future of the Mont Sant Michel, to the daily activity of some “factories” of the large European cathedrals.
The Art is in the street at the Festival d'Europa
The event "The Art is in the street", organized every year by Lorenzo dei Medici Institute is this year inside Festival d'Europa. Appointment Saturday 7th of May from 10 to 21.
In cooperation with the Quartiere 1 and the shopkeepers of Via Faenza, the students of Lorenzo dei Medici Institute will organize an exhibition in the street and in the shop windows by showing works realized in the courses of Fine and Creative Arts of the Institute. The exhibition and prize-giving will be followed by a dance and a fashion show. The theme that creations and sceneries will share for the occasion is Europe as students perceive it.
Learning Europe
The James Madison University, Europe Direct and the Municipality of Florence, within the ambit of the first edition of the Festival d’Europa, feature the “Learning Europe” project, which has been underway for three years and which, also this spring, provides for meetings among about two hundred students of Florence high schools and the American students of the JMU, trained and followed by teachers of the JMU and of the European University Institute. The project provides for teaching, in English, the foundations of history, of European institutions and policies in high schools by the young Americans who are spending a year in Florence to achieve a Master on EU policies. During the Festival days, an event will be held during which the continuing engagement of university and school teachers and of the students involved in the project, will be recognized and awarded. Learning Europe, to date, has involved 750 students, about forty high school teachers of Florence and about fifty JMU post-graduates.
Languages of Europe in Florence
Languages of Europe in Florence. Appointment on the 6th of May from 2.30 pm to 5 pm at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence for a round-table conference whose protagonists will be the main European language institutes.
The event has been proposed by the Società Dante Alighieri, which, apart from involving the most important European language institutes, has invited also Indire and Eurispes in order to stimulate a debate on strategies to support and promote European languages and take advantage of student tourism flows in Europe related to the study of foreign languages.
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