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The library is an authorized open center for the TOEIC Listening and Reading test (Public programme with photo). To sign up please consult the ETS website. 

The April read for the bookclub is “The Razor’s Edge” by W. Somerset Maugham.

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involve him with some of Maugham’s most brilliant characters – his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham’s novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.

For any inquiries about joining the book club please send an email by clicking here.

The pizza and board games evening is scheduled one Tuesday a month from 6-8 pm. Cost is 7 euros (covers pizza and non-alcoholic drinks, 5 euros for children 12 and under and native English speakers). No reservations necessary, just come and enjoy! Next dates are May 21st & June 18th.

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

Meetings will 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: April 24th, 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! 

“Books and Tea” is a monthly meeting for bookworms and tea drinkers. Bring a book you’ve really enjoyed, talk about it and pass it on! The group meets from 2 to 3:30 at the tea shop in town called “La Casse-Croûte de Suzy”. No need to sign up, just come and enjoy!

If you love needlecraft, this activity is for you! Each participant will make a textile creation of their choice, (bag, pouch, wall tapestry, whatever you fancy!) all while exchanging different techniques in English.

Bring your own materials and join us at the library from 2 to 4 p.m. Free to library members. Please sign up at the front desk, when possible.

The Garden Club of the library is offering vegetable and flower seedlings as a fundraiser for the library. Come in and see some of the wonderful varieties offered.

Note the date for the library’s big booksale, bakesale and plant sale (otherwise known as the BBB) & spring fun(d)draiser from 10-6!

The big, big booksale, bakesale and plant sale is not to miss. This is the ultimate win-win situation: support community services that the library provides while finding great book bargains…oddles and oddles of books for sale at great prices, plus a plant sale and a delicious bakesale!

The Saturday Reading Group is for anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people.

The April read for the group is “A Dry White Season” by Andre Brink. 1976, South Africa: Ben Du Toit is a South African school teacher, in a school for whites only. One day the son of Gordon Ngubene, the school’s gardener, gets beaten by the white police, after his participating to a peaceful demonstration. Following his son’s arrest, Gordon asks Ben for help but the white school teacher, who trusts the police, will not help Gordon. After Gordon himself gets arrested and tortured by the police, Ben decides to know more about the gardener’s disappearance. As the school teacher is seeing the disenfranchisement and helplessness of black people in South Africa, he takes the case to court, along with the help of a lawyer whose name is Ian McKenzie. Little does he realize that soon he will be labeled a traitor by people of his very own race.

The group will also be discussing the 1989 film based on the same title.

When and where: Meetings will be held in the library once a month on Saturday afternoons starting at 3:00. Cost: FREE to all members of the library. To join: Please contact Anne Kaar at bookgroup@ellia.org

The library is an authorized open center for the TOEIC Listening and Reading test (Public programme with photo). To sign up please consult the ETS website.