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The Garden Club starts up each new year with a seed exchange…otherwise known as the Great Cake Extravaganza.This is a fun afternoon of discussion on what gardens to visit in 2016.

If you would like to join the Garden Club and receive invitations to the outings in private and public gardens one Thursday afternoon a month between the months of April and October. The Garden Club is free of charge to members of the library. For more information please send an email to the President.

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! Upcoming dates for 2016 are February 23rd, March 15th, April 19th, May 24th and June 14th.

The library is pleased to invite you to a concert of young boys from England. Warwickshire County Boys Choir brings together well over 100 enthusiastic boy singers between the ages of 8 and 14 to perform and experience a wide repertoire. Approximately 25 will be traveling to France for this tour.

Reservations possible, call the library or send an email. Just come and enjoy the concert! Donations will be accepted in order to cover costs.

The February read for the bookclub is “The Dinner” by Herman Koch: a summer’s evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse – the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened.

Upcoming dates for 2016 are February 19th, March 18th, April 22nd, May 20th & June 17th.

Love those French restaurants? Feel like you need to speak English more but in a relaxed atmosphere? Join this club which schedules a lunch in a great local restaurant. Click here to send an email to the coordinator for more information and the full schedule.

Come along and bring your knitting,

Have a natter while you’re sitting,

Or learn to knit with wool provided,

Needles loaned and stitches guided.

Knitted garments are très chic,

So be in vogue and start this week.

Knit and natter is a free activity open to all members. No need to reserve, just come and enjoy yourself!

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! Dates for January 2016 are the 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th.

“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! Upcoming 2016 dates are February 4th, March 3rd and 31st from 2 to 4 at the Casse Croute de Suzy. . No need to sign up, just come and enjoy!

You can sign up to take your TOEIC test here in the library. To sign up please consult the ETS website. Dates for 2016 are February 2nd, March 1st, March 29th, April 26th, May 17th, June 7th.

The library is pleased to offer a showing of “The Red Shoes”.

The Red Shoes (1948) is a British feature film about a ballet dancer, written, directed and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Victoria ‘Vicky’ Page (Moira Shearer) is a young, unknown dancer from an aristocratic background. At an after-ballet party, arranged by her aunt as a surreptitious audition, she meets Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), the ruthless but charismatic impresario of the Ballet Lermontov. Lermontov takes her on as a student, where she is taught by, among others, Grisha Ljubov (Léonide Massine), the company’s chief choreographer. After seeing her dance in a matinee performance of Swan Lake, Lermontov realises her potential and invites Vicky to go with the company to Paris and Monte Carlo. When he loses his prima ballerina (Ludmilla Tchérina) to marriage, Lermontov begins to see Vicky as a possible successor. He decides to create a starring role for her in a new ballet, The Red Shoes, the music for which is to be written by Julian Craster (Marius Goring) a brilliant young composer engaged as orchestral coach the same day that Vicky was brought into the company. As the premiere of the ballet approaches, Vicky and Julian lock horns artistically, and then fall in love. The ballet is a great success, and Lermontov talks with Vicky about her future. Lermontov revitalizes the company’s repertoire with Vicky in the lead roles, with Julian composing some of the most successful scores.

Screening begins at 15:00 sharp. This activity is free of charge for all library members. Please sign up at the front desk in advance if possible. A discussion in English will follow the film.