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The garden club invites you to discover the beautiful gardens in the area! This free activity is open to library members and offers visits once a month to a garden between April and October. The visit on this day will be slightly different as it will be at the Domaine FL, a winery and will include a lunch.  For more information and/or to sign up for this visit please send an email to gardenclub@ellia.org.

This will be the last Garden Club event of the year…stay tuned for wonderful visits starting in the Spring of 2019!

Come join the Drama Club, a new activity at the library starting this September! 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: October 3rd, October 17th, November 7th, November 21st, December 5th, December 19th, January 9th, January 23rd, February 6th, February 27th, March 13th, March 27th, April 3rd, 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! 

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

The September read for the group is “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold. The group will be discussing the 2009 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

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!

For music lovers who are not necessarily musicians, the library presents a series of sessions aiming at illustrating  the heritage of English Classical Music in its most specific and beautiful forms, mainly vocal music. Each session will focus on a composer, with a short presentation of the work and the composer, followed by the listening of selected pieces through  selected  videos, often with different interpretations. The point is to share comments and criticism with the group members.

This session will focus on Handel’s opera “Giulio Cesare in Egitto”.

These sessions are free and open to the public. Please let Michel Cartillier know if you will be present by sending an email to this address.

Time to get outside! Get on those hiking boots and take some time to revel in the great outdoors! The idea is to organise 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 you going ! Maximum group is 20 so make sure to sign up!

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

Once a month on a Friday evening the library will offer a theme-based “Afterwork”. This is an activity for young professionals, students at the university level and anyone who would like to network in English. The season kicks off on September 21st from 6-7:30 pm with a Texas theme. So put on your cowboy boots and come by the library! No reservations needed! 5 euros per person at the door to cover the cost of drinks and nibbles.

The September read for the bookclub is “American Pastoral”.

American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour “Swede” Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov’s happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the “indigenous American berserk”

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

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…come and join us for the first Coffee House after the summer break! This event is free and open to all library members. Just drop in, no need to reserve!