Events - 15 May 19

The month-long show “San Francisco in Black and White” featuring photography by Yves Tourmen opens on Thursday, April 25th at 6 PM, and continues until Saturday, May 25th. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Join us on opening night for refreshments and meet the artist!

Yves Tourmen, a biologist and passionate photographer, shows photographs from his visits to San Francisco in 2017 and 2018. The exhibit features classic landscape shots, portraits and street photography. His Hasselblad camera, a vintage model from the 1970s, surprised many Californians, which gave him the perfect opportunity to start up a conversation with the locals and take many candid shots. Despite the digital age, Tourmen respects the traditional process and develops his photographs in his own darkroom.

Stop by the library from April 25th to May 25th during opening hours to view his work.

The library is an authorised test center for the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test (the Test of English for International Communication). For more information please visit our TOEIC page or to sign up go to the official ETS website.

If you enjoy putting pen to paper this is your moment to shine! Join Veronique Kanor, from Martinique, and Tyler Pennock, a Cree and Métis two-spirits poet from Canada, for 2 writing workshops (the first in French and the second in English) on Wednesday, May 15^th. You’re welcome to sign up for only one of the workshops or sign up for both!

• 11 am-12:30 pm – Veronique’s workshop in French
• 12:30-1:30 pm – Pot-luck lunch, bring something to share! Let’s eat, drink and be merry!
• 1:30-3 pm – Tyler’s workshop in English will be about “witnessing – a form of exploring the moment and it’s impacts on the storyteller. I will be a participant-based exercise designed to get people to  let the personal impact of moments lead their appreciation of it.”

To sign up please contact the front desk here. And in the meantime, please feel free to enjoy some of Veronique and Tyler’s poetry by clicking on the PDF copies below:

• Tyler Pennock – Emergency
• Véronique Kanor – Combien de solitudes
• Véronique Kanor – Les tôles de la nuit

Sélectionnés par un comité de lecture piloté par l’Ambassade de France au Canada, ces deux auteurs ont la préoccupation commune de mettre en lumière leurs origines à l’histoire mouvementée. Ils composeront ensemble un texte lors d’une résidence d’écriture à Winnipeg fin avril, qu’ils partageront sous la forme de lectures bilingues et performances à Nantes, Angers, Paris et au Canada.

Véronique Kanor est née à Orléans de parents martiniquais. La question de l’origine, de l’identité, fonde son travail artistique, comme dans « Combien de solitudes… » (Présence africaine, 2016). Elle a réalisé trois courts-métrages, des documentaires télévisuels, et publié cinq livres de récits et poèmes. À travers ces langages, elle veut redonner dignité aux individus dans leurs choix, leur aliénation, leur parcours de vie. Sur scène, elle pratique ce qu’elle appelle des pict-dub-poetry (performances scéniques vidéos et textes).

Tyler Pennock est un jeune poète canadien issu d’une famille autochtone Cree, peuple de la grande forêt boréale, des lacs et des rivières. Ses textes, en grande partie inspirés de son expérience, disent la situation des peuples aborigènes, la menace qui pèse sur leur culture, leur langue. Enfant adopté, Tyler Pennock recherche inlassablement son identité à travers ses poèmes. Ses textes sont publiés en revues, et « Bones » paraîtra au printemps 2020 chez Brick Books Publishing

This program, free and open to the public, has been made possible with the support of the “Service culturel de l’Ambassade de France au Canada” and in collaboration with the MIEL.

Come join the Drama Club which is open to adults and university students, with or without acting experience. It consists of miming, improvising, and acting out published works of theater, such as sketches and plays.

Meetings take place at the library twice a month (except during school holidays) on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Please attend regularly on the following dates: May 15th, May 22nd, June 5th and June 12th.

This activity is open to library members, the cost is 90 € for the 2018-2019 school year. Sign up at the front desk. Take the stage and break a leg!