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 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.

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. 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.

Empowerment and Europe. This is the title of the film clip produced by the Istituto Lorenzo dei Medici which will be shown on Monday 9th May 2011 at 7 pm at the picturesque Chiesa di San Jacopo in Campo Corbolini in Florence (Via Faenza 43) within the Festival d’Europa. The protagonists will be a group of young people speaking different languages and with different histories and cultures, who, in spite of their differences, will be able to group together and integrate themselves to face adversities, feeling part of a single nation and finding a strong sense of belonging.

A big concert with three artists from different countries having in common the habitual attendance of the famous Parisian theatre of Pigalle ”Les Trois Baudetes”. The event, on the occasion of the Festival D’Europa, will be held in Florence on Saturday 7th of May at the French Institute.Among the protagonists, Mrs Maud Lubek, author, composer, arranger and singer known for her dream-like and poetic pop songs and Nicolas Jules, entertainer for the most important world festivals with a mix of his sensual voice and provocative humour. Both these French artists will be accompanied by Maurizio Geri, an Italian composer, guitar player and singer, specialized in folk music and Italian Gipsy Jazz.

Pianist Riccardo Sandiford will be the protagonist of a concert held at the Lyceum Club Internazionale of Florence on Monday 9th May at 5 pm (via Alfani 48).
The concert title is “Homage to Franz Liszt” and will be held on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth (1811-1886). The event is included in the first edition of the Festival d’Europa. The repertoire includes some of the most representative piano works of the composer. Riccardo Sandiford, born in Florence in 1967, graduated with high honours in 1987 from the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini to start then a  brilliant career that quickly brought him to perform all over the world.

“Mainstream. A survey on the culture everybody likes” is the title of the meeting taking place at the bookstore Libreria Feltrinelli International in Florence on Monday 9^th of May at 6 pm within the Festival d’Europa. The protagonist will be the French researcher and journalist Frèdèric Martel, who will talk about European culture in the age of globalization. How is it possible to build a best seller? Why do popcorn and coca cola have such a central role in the film industry? These are just some questions to which Martel will try to answer with his work-survey.