Events - 20 Mai 16
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This is a special moment when the community gathers together to talk about everything and anything (…in English of course!) and sips coffee and tea. Coffee House is free and open to all library members. Just drop in, no need to reserve! Coffee house is every Friday except during school holidays. |
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Gordon and Jocelyn Simms will be in the library to talk about the upcoming Litfest to take place in St Clémentin from June 24th – 26th 2016 where you can meet authors, poets and story-tellers…join in debates, reading, writing and performance workshops. The Litfest? Want to know more? Don’t miss Lemn Sissay’s appearance on Saturday. This is a truly remarkable event in that he is in demand world-wide as a speaker and yet has agreed to join us on the 25th June. Workshops include: Ian Mathie, of the much-praised Africa series. Ian will inspire all those who want to shape real-life encounters into exciting prose. Festival organiser, Gordon Simms, poet and playwright, suggests exercises for writing and presenting duologues. Roger Elkin holds a Master class in poetry writing and Katherine Gallagher offers ‘Masks,’ stimulating our imagination through exploring the concept of disguise. The programme also includes a wide range of readings & discussions with a variety of authors including Patricia Duncker whose latest novel, Sophie and the Sibyl is a wonderful evocation of the world of George Eliot. See all our events on: www.stclementinlitfest.com We’d also like to remind you that the Segora writing competitions deadline is 15th June. For further details visit www.poetryproseandplays.com Exciting and relevant theme for our vignette this time is ‘Water.’ We are delighted to have Roger Elkin (poetry)& Amanda Hodgkinson (short story) joining Gordon Simms(plays) and Ed Briggs(vignettes) as judge, making our 10th Segora a very special competition. |
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The May read for the bookclub is “The Burgess Boys” by Elizabeth Strout. Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a legal aid attorney who idolises Jim, has always taken it in his stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan – the sibling who stayed behind – urgently calls them home. Her lonely teenage son, Zach, has landed himself into a world of trouble, and Susan desperately needs their help. And so the Burgess brothers return to the landscape of their childhood, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed their relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. |
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