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The library is an authorised test center for the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test (the Test of English for International Communication). For more information please visit our TOEIC page or to sign up go to the official ETS website.

The library is sorry to inform you that this event has been cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions.

The garden club invites you to discover the beautiful gardens in the area!

The visit will start at 1:30pm, upon request of the company. It will be to Bouilhol Les artisans du végétal, Route de Grez Neuville, 49330 Sceaux d’Anjou. The wearing of a mask is mandatory throughout the visit.

They produce a wide range of flowers, from annuals to perennials, trees, shrubs and vegetables. They use integrated pest management methods in their cold glasshouses. You will be able to buy some plants from them at the end of the visit.

The visit will be only one week after the end of the current restrictions. However if all restrictions are not lifted by then, we may have to postpone the visit till May 20th (May 13th being a bank holiday). If things change, we will inform you as soon as possible.

This activity is open to library members and offers visits once a month to a garden between April and October. For more information and/or to sign up for this visit, please send an email to Sylvie Leys  at elliagardenclub@gmail.com.

The Textile Art & Craft Group and Marie-Paule Muller, leader of the group, have the pleasure to showcase their creations at the library from May 5 to June 22, 2021. Here is a sample from one of their projects.  We invite you to come and  discover their delicate work! If you would like to join the group, who meet once a month, don’t hesitate to contact the Front Desk at info@ellia.org.

“Springtime in the States” is a 3-day English-learning workshop for collégiens. Participants learn English in a fun, interactive way with games, songs and activities with lots of talking and moving around! The workshop will be at the library for three consecutive afternoons: Tuesday, May 4th, Wednesday, May 5th and Thursday, May 6th from 2 to 5 p.m.

Please contact the front desk to sign up by phone: 02 41 24 97 07 or email: info@ellia.org. Limited to 15 participants so sign-up fast! Cost is 75 euros (includes snack, materials and a one-time library membership).

Feel like you need some air! Believe us, we hear you! Get on those hiking boots and take some time to revel in the great outdoors! The Walk and Talk committee organises an easy walk once a month – (approximately 10 km, 4 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 be sure to sign up!

Open to library members only. Sign up by sending your name, email address and phone number (preferably cell phone) to the group leader by clicking here. You will be sent full details for the upcoming walk.

Join the library community for a special moment to talk about anything and everything…in English of course! For the time being, we are inviting everyone to come and socialize but will not be serving drinks in order to keep everyone safe! This is Coffee House with a “hold the coffee” protocol! Things will get better but meanwhile no coffee or tea!

Coffee House is free and open to all library members. Just drop by, no need to reserve!

Join the library’s community for a litter pick…everyone on their own to keep everyone safe! On Earth Day, starting at 3 pm from wherever you are, take a walk on the wild side (or in town!) and pick up any litter that you see. This is the largest global event in existence, why not be part of it and join the army of well-intended souls cleaning up the planet Earth all at the same time? Remember to wear gloves to protect yourself, sort the trash that you have found according to your local rules and take a picture of yourself with your mountain of trash to send to the library! We will print and post all pictures in the library on our screen so as not to print…after all, this is all about saving the planet.

For more information go to these links: Great Global Cleanup (earthday.org) and Great Global Cleanup.

This talk is free and open to the public. This will be a 40-minute talk followed by a question-and-answer session. Click here for Zoom link.

Join the library for a Zoom talk “A Look at America’s Family Farms” by Elisa Fertig, Agricultual Attaché at the U.S. Mission to the EU in Brussels, for the library’s third speaker event for the “Think Big, Think Green” speaker series.

More about family farms? Here you go! American families remain central to the U.S. agricultural economy – making up 98 percent of all farms and providing 88 percent of production.  The more than 2 million farms in the United States vary greatly in size and characteristics.  In this talk, we will explore the diversity of the American family farm and the key role families play in an agricultural economy.

Earth Day, April 22nd, is celebrated around the world as a moment to stop and think about how to best preserve the planet Earth. A non-profit organisation centralises the events that take place.

EARTHDAY.ORG’s mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day in 1970, EARTHDAY.ORG is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 75,000 partners in over 190 countries to drive positive action for our planet.

EARTHDAY.ORG is honored that the Biden Administration has decided to convene a global climate summit on Earth Day 2021. Many important environmental events have happened on Earth Day since 1970, including the recent signing of the Paris Agreement, as Earth Day continues to be a momentous and unifying day each and every year. We look forward to being a part of this historic climate summit and making active progress to Restore Our Earth.

More info here: About Us | Earth Day