Events - 29 May 21
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The library is holding its first Recycled Art Contest and invites everyone to create art from materials destined for the recycling or trash bins. Artwork must be made from recyclables or trash and be a maximum of 2 feet square. All the pieces must be secured with no sharp edges. Artwork with entry forms attached must be submitted before deadline date of June 5th. Artwork will be displayed in the library’s front window until June 11th. |
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The Textile Art & Craft Group and Marie-Paule Muller, leader of the group, have the pleasure to showcase their creations at the library from May 5 to June 22, 2021. Here is a sample from one of their projects. We invite you to come and discover their delicate work! If you would like to join the group, who meet once a month, don’t hesitate to contact the Front Desk at info@ellia.org. |
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The question is…will you have the winning raffle ticket? Here is another fun fundraiser for the library…come and buy your raffle tickets in order to win different baskets of lovely items donated to the library. You can buy your tickets anytime between May 21st and BBB and Open House day, May 29th during the hours open to the public! Drawing will be done on Saturday, May 29th at 5 pm. |
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The English-language Library is thrilled to be able to offer their traditional Open House and fundraiser to be held on Saturday, May 29th from 10-6 non-stop. This is a fun day to come and see the library and discover the many programs available to members. Note that twice a year the library has a big booksale (books donated or weeded from the collection) so come and buy your stock of second-hand books in English…hundreds and hundreds are on sale! This is the total win-win situation, not only do you get books at great prices but you also support the library…two birds with one stone! The cherry on the cake? Well, there will be a bake sale with delicious homemade goodies, a plant sale (mostly seedlings of vegetables but other plants as well) offered by the library’s Garden Club AND…a tombola with baskets of wonderful items to win! Note the date! Hope to see you for this special event… |
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The Saturday Reading Group is for anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people. Exceptionally, the session will not be held at the library. Participants will meet in front of the library and leave at 3 pm sharp to walk to “La Cour” (23 rue de la Roë). The number of participants is limited to 6 so sign up is mandatory by Thursday 27 May. To sign up, send an email to the group coordinator at bookgroup@ellia.org. The May read for the group is Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder. Tracy Kidder–the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House–spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac’s fifth-grade classroom in the depressed “Flats” of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable, compassionate teacher–sharings their joys, their catastrophes, and their small but essential triumphs. As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America…and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and important book to date. Meetings are once a month on Saturday afternoons starting at 3 pm. Open to all library members. To sign up please contact the group coordinator at bookgroup@ellia.org. |