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40 years ago, the Fete de la Musique was launched in France, and has now gone global. Seven years ago, France launched a national festival called “La Nuit de la Lecture”.

The library is honored to be able to participate once again in this event which takes place in bookshops and libraries throughout France and runs over a couple of days to celebrate reading in general! Click here for full program in France.

The library’s event will highlight readings from 10 most-loved library books. Each reader will explain why they choose their book followed by a discussion period.

Free tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits from 15h !

Free and open to the public, no reservation needed. Come and enjoy!

Once again Angers’ wonderful First Film Festival is planned for January 2023 (21st to 29th). The Library will be organising groups to go together to the festival – films, readings, talks, you name it! – which allows reduced prices and great company! Along with new European long feature films, classic films will be shown: The Dictator by & with Chaplin, Vertigo by Hitchcock, Gattaca and some special classics which will give a thrill to the daredevils: The Thing by Carpenter, The Shining by Kubrick. There will be avant-premières like Empire of Light by Sam Mendes and The Eternal Daughter. We will also see a couple of 1st European films which are part of the official selection.

Let us know if you are interested in any of these films, which screening before mid-January so we can organise ourselves. For more information about the festival click here.

To sign up to be part of this activity, please send an email to this address.

The January read for the book club is “Snow” by John Banville.

Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate a murder at Ballyglass House, the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. Facing obstruction from all angles, Strafford carries on determinedly in his pursuit of the murderer. However, as the snow continues to fall over this ever-expanding mystery, the people of Ballyglass are equally determined to keep their secrets.

To join the book club please send an email to the group coordinator here.

Get on those hiking boots and take some time to revel in the great outdoors! The group “Walk and Talk” organises an easy walk once a month – approximately 10 km, 2 to 3 hours in the afternoon – in order to discover or re-discover the beautiful hiking paths of the Maine-et-Loire. Come along with good walking shoes, protection against rain, cold or heat according to the season…. a bottle of water and a little “en-cas” to keep your stamina up !

Maximum group is 20 so make sure to sign up!

Want to sign up? Easy as pie!

Sign up by sending your name, email address and phone numbers (perferably cell phone) to this email address. You will be sent full details of the walk in due time.

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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 library members. No need to reserve, just come and enjoy! If anyone has some extra yarn please bring it in.

Join the library community for a special moment to talk about anything and everything (in English of course!). Just come in and chat with others, have a cuppa and enjoy the company! Coffee House is free and open to all library members. No need to reserve! Donations welcome as always!

“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 2:15 to 3:45. Note that the group will be meeting at La Cour…23 rue de la Roe. No need to sign up, just come and enjoy!

The Saturday Reading Group is for anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people. For this meeting, the group will read Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese.

Indian Horse is in the form of a memoir written by Saul at the New Dawn Centre, as an alternative to him telling his story to the group there. Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his story. For him, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he’s sent to residential school, salvation came for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battled obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar.

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.

Treat yourself to an afternoon of a collective reading of one of Shakespeare’s plays. This activity consists of watching a BBC production on DVD and then reading relative scenes. This is a great activity for lovers of language and fans of the great wit. Free and open to all library members. For more information or to sign-up, please contact the group coordinator here. The number of participants is limited.

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 library members. No need to reserve, just come and enjoy! If anyone has some extra yarn please bring it in.