November 2026

What it is

Activity by Seesaw Project, artistic direction by Veronica Boniotti. Three Saturdays to explore, through the body, play, contemporary dance and physical theater, the way we live emotions, boundaries, desire, closeness, distance, consent and choice. To try out new ways of being with ourselves and with others. And to sharpen the technique of really asking ourselves how we are!

Open to neurotypical and neurodivergent people, with and without disabilities, with and without experience in dance or theater. No prerequisites, no need to be easygoing or cool, no need to tell your business. Just a bit of curiosity and the urge to switch off your brain and see what happens!

What it is

Yoga from 10.30 am to 11.45 am, with Claudio Cicatiello. No experience needed, and if you don't have a mat we'll lend you one. The Brunch Musicale starts at 12, and is paid separately. You get there with a straight back, which helps at the buffet.

No rush

A moment made for taking your time and sharing it, in a space that's elegant, unusual and welcoming.

Book a table

From 12:00 to 3:30 pm. If you're coming as a group you can book, and you should: the second Sunday the lounge fills up.

From the outside you see little

The legs stay close and almost everything happens in the weight and the connection to the floor: that's how the pioneers told it apart from “dancing for spectators.” It's a dance that gives more than it promises when you watch it, and you only get it by trying it.

Four afternoons a season

One in November, one in January, one in March and one in May, always on a Sunday. From 2 to 4 pm the first level, for anyone who has never done Balboa; from 4:30 to 5:30 pm an open class on one topic, for those who have. The afternoon social dance starts at 5 pm.

What it is

The school welcomes those who have just arrived. An afternoon to get to know each other outside class, with the floor open and time to talk.

No class

Nothing is taught: you practice, or you watch how it's done. Someone who just started dances with someone who's been at it for twenty years.

Even if you don't dance

The Banco A Ristoro is open, the kitchen is cooking, and sitting down doesn't commit you to anything.

What it is

The 5 Rhythms are a movement practice born in the Seventies from Gabrielle Roth. There are no figures or choreographies to learn: you follow the music through five rhythms — flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness — which one after the other form a wave. You dance on your own and among others, and everyone moves however it comes.

Then you stay

Drinks and snacks are included, and so are the icebreaker games. The swing night follows.

Who comes

Students, expats, people here on Erasmus, travelers — and anyone who wants to meet new people in Florence.

From three to seven

The afternoon runs from 3 to 7 pm, and inside it you move around: you come for one thing and stay for another.

What goes on

The constant is the Circolo di Lettura. The others change and take turns — pastry, sewing and embroidery, painting, sign language — and any Saturday can bring a new one.

It ends at the table

Every session ends with a friendly aperitivo, the moment when people who didn't know each other start talking.

What it is

Choreographic research and work on new tricks, Solo or Duo. Half an hour of warm-up, then work on the apparatus. Open to all levels, but some experience required.

What it is

This year the holiday table is on you. A pastry workshop with Francesca of ChocoPastry ArtLab, part of Sabato Creativo. You make edible place cards and a centerpiece you can eat, and you decorate them with care. The rest you find out in the workshop. Your guests won't dare eat the place card. Then they'll eat it anyway.

No experience needed: Francesca walks you through it step by step and explains what happens between the ingredients, which is the secret of a dessert that works. You take home what you made, ready for the table or to give away, plus the recipes to make them again over the holidays. Ingredients and equipment are included.

You work from 3.30 to 7 pm. The workshop runs with at least 6 people signed up: we confirm it on Friday, November 27 at 1 pm. If it doesn't run, we let you know and give you your money back.

What it is

A hands-on workshop with the Il Glicine plant nursery, part of the Sabato Creativo. You start from nothing and, step by step, you build your own terrarium. We talk about plants, materials, composition and how to keep it alive. Materials are included. Pick the size when you book: small for €35, large for €55. The hours and what you hear are the same, what changes is what you take home.

You work from 5 pm to 7 pm, and at 7 pm there's the aperitivo, which you pay for separately. The workshop runs with at least 10 people signed up: we confirm it on Friday, November 27 at 1 pm. If it doesn't run, we'll let you know and give you your money back.

What it is

“I have never been frightened.” Through the pages of “Scandalosamente felice,” the Renny Book Club meets Josephine Baker: artist, dancer, free woman, spy during the Resistance and tireless civil rights activist. An extraordinary figure, able to reinvent herself again and again and to turn her voice and her fame into tools of freedom and change.

We'll meet in the Renny's vintage lounge to read, share feelings and opinions, and let ourselves be provoked by the story of a woman who crossed the twentieth century without letting the conventions of her time define her. An informal, friendly meeting to discover, page after page, not only Josephine Baker the artist, but above all the woman who chose to react, to change and to take a stand.

The meeting lasts about an hour, and is held in collaboration with L'Eredità delle Donne.

What it is

A hands-on workshop with Ceramicos Lab, part of the Sabato Creativo. You try working with clay, give shape to an idea of yours and get guided step by step. It can become a handmade Christmas gift, or it can stay at your place. You decide, nobody's checking. No experience needed. You work from 5 pm to 7 pm, and from 7 pm there's the aperitivo, which you pay for separately.

You don't take your piece away right away: the teacher collects it for firing, and when it's ready you come by the Renny to pick it up. The workshop runs with at least 6 people signed up: we confirm it on Friday, November 27 at 1 pm. If it doesn't run, we'll let you know and give you your money back.

What it is

A workshop with do nothing club, part of the Sabato Creativo. With needle and thread you decorate a cloth tote bag and learn a few embroidery techniques. At the end you take it home, to use or to give away. The club's name is a little misleading: for two hours you do something. No experience needed. You work from 5 pm to 7 pm, and from 7 pm there's the aperitivo, which you pay for separately.

The workshop runs with at least 5 people signed up: we confirm it on Friday, November 27 at 1 pm. If it doesn't run, we'll let you know and give you your money back.