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You can sign up to take your TOEIC test here in the library. To sign up please consult the ETS website.

Midsummer picnic and pool party, generously hosted once again by June Duckworth will take place on August 3rd. For more information, for the schedule for 2017 and/or to sign up for visits please send an email to gardenclub@ellia.org.

Atelier d’anglais pour collégiens “Sea, Sun and Fun”

Parler, jouer, chanter en anglais… des activités ludiques pour amener les adolescents à s’imprégner de la culture anglophone. Durant trois après-midis pendant les vacances scolaires de 15h à 18h, les collégiens peuvent pratiquer l’anglais dans une ambiance conviviale et découvrir qu’il est amusant de parler cette langue !
Cet atelier, encadré par des anglophones, s’adresse aux adolescents qui souhaitent améliorer leur communication orale en anglais.

Inscription et tarif: le nombre de places est de 15 avec un minimum de 6 inscrits. Le coût de l’atelier est de 75€ (inscription à la bibliothèque, goûter et matériel pédagogique compris). Un chèque de 75€ sera demandé à l’inscription, mais ne sera encaissé que le 1er jour de l’atelier. Inscription à l’accueil de la bibliothèque.

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. This event takes place on the second Tuesday of the month. Click here to send an email to the coordinator for more information and the full schedule and to sign up!

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 the garden of the Manoir de Châtelaison.

The owners of this 15th-century manor have created a series of interconnected gardens, divided by hedges of charme, buis and If, with water pools, fountains and cascades and mosaics; giving the impression of much more than 8000 sq. metres of space.  The visit is accompanied by Mr Gentilhomme and costs 5 euro.

For more information and/or to sign up for this visit please send an email to gardenclub@ellia.org.

Join us for a July 4th concert and bring-your-own-picnic party!

Members and friends of the library are invited to a July 4th celebration at the Domaine de Bré including concert and picnic! Come for an evening on Tuesday, July 4th…bring your own picnic basket and plates, glasses and silverware…a drink will be offered free. Concert starts at 5 and will be followed by the bring-your-own picnic in the beautiful garden of Bré.

The concert will be performed by
Javier Oviedo on the saxophone and Marie-Danielle Mercier on the piano and is part of the SOIREES MUSICALES at the Domaine de Bré.

Program:

·         Gabriel PIERNE – Canzonetta

·         Enrique GRANADOS – Trois Danses Espagnoles

·         Hector BERLIOZ – Le Spectre de la Rose

·         Jacques IBERT – Histoires…

Suggested donation = 15 euros, contribution given wholly to the musicians.

For directions please click here.
Please reserve by sending an email to info@ellia.org by June 29th.

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!

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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The June read for the bookclub is “Summer” by Edith Wharton.

‘Can’t you see that I don’t care what anybody says?’ Charity Royall lives in the small New England village of North Dormer. Born among outcasts from the Mountain beyond, she is rescued by lawyer Royall and lives with him as his ward. Never allowed to forget her disreputable origins Charity despises North Dormer and rebels against the stifling dullness of the tight-knit community surrounding her. Her boring job in the local library is interrupted one day by the arrival of a young visiting architect, Lucius Harney, whose good looks and sophistication arouse her passionate nature. As their relationship grows, so too does Charity’s conflict with her guardian; darker undercurrents start to come to the surface. Summer is often compared to Wharton’s other New England story, Ethan Frome, and it shares the same intensity of feeling and repression. Wharton regarded it as one of her best works, and its compelling story of burgeoning sexuality and illicit desire has a strikingly modern and troubling ambiguity.
For any enquiries about joining the bookclub please send an email by clicking here.

Harriet Springbett’s debut novel, Tree Magic, was published by Impress Books earlier this year. A coming-of-age novel set in Dorset and the Charente, it has charmed adults and teenagers alike, as can be seen from the reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. In Tree Magic we see how troubled teenager Rainbow comes to terms with her gift for communicating with trees. She must struggle to reinvent herself and piece together her broken family.

“Tree Magic is a beautiful and universal tale of loss, love and learning to find a place in a world without roots.” Storgy Magazine 

If you’d like to meet Harriet and get your copy of Tree Magic signed, come and meet her in the English language library in Angers at 10 a.m. on Friday 23^rd June. She’ll be reading from her book and talking about the journey to publication, which will be of particular interest for unpublished writers on the same path.

Harriet lives in Poitou-Charentes with her French partner and teenage daughters. She is working on her 4th novel and also writes short stories and blogs about writing and cultural events in France on Harriet Springbett’s Playground.

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! This is the last pizza and board games evening before the summer break…stay tuned for dates for the fall…