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Treat yourself to an afternoon of a collective reading of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry the Fourth. The 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. The activity is free for library members. Please sign up at the front desk.

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!

Austin, Texas has been twinned with the city of Angers since 2010 and the two cities have been strengthening links through cultural projects.

For the 2017 edition of the Premiers Plans, the library is honored to work with the team to welcome two special guests,

Paul J. Stekler

and David Wingo,
for an informal talk in English on Friday, January 27th from 10 to 11 am. This activity is free and open to the public.

If you would like the full program for the Austin events please click here.
Paul J. Stekler is a political documentary filmmaker, a professor, and currently the Department Chair, Wofford Denius Chair in Entertainment Studies, at the University Of Texas at Austin. He is a well known documentary filmmaker whose critically praised and award-winning work includes George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire; Last Man Standing: Politics, Texas Style; Vote for Me: Politics in America, a four-hour PBS special about grassroots electoral politics; two segments of the Eyes on the Prize II series on the history of civil rights; Last Stand at Little Big Horn (broadcast as part of PBS’s series The American Experience); Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics (broadcast on PBS’s P.O.V. series); and Getting Back to Abnormal.
A thoroughly modern artist whose music is steeped as much in classic pop and American folk music as shoegaze rock, David Wingo’s stunning and unusual film scores belong to some of the most memorable independent American movies of the last two decades, including Jeff Nichols’ Mud, Midnight Special, Take Shelter and Loving. Described by GQ magazine as the “guy who creates today’s most haunting movie soundtracks”, Wingo’s career began when he developed music for David Gordon Green’s student films, and then on Green’s first feature, the indie break out George Washington. Wingo’s career had led him to collaborations with other celebrated musicians, including bands Explosions In The Sky on the Manglehorn soundtrack, and Lusine (Jeff McIlwaine) on Snow Angels. His award-winning film compositions have been called “imaginative and immersive” by Rolling Stone Magazine, his music described as “lustrous Pop Americana” by Pitchfork. In 2012, Wingo was nominated for the World Soundtrack Academy’s Discovery of the Year Award for his Take Shelter score.

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! Coffee house is every Friday except during school holidays.

The next film club event will be a showing of “Secrets and Lies” by Mike Leigh. A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone’s secrets are exposed.

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

The January read for the bookclub is “The Vegetarian” by Han Kang, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016. Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more ‘plant-like’ existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye’s decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister’s husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming – impossibly, ecstatically – a tree.

For any enquiries about joining the bookclub please send an email by clicking here.

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! Coffee house is every Friday except during school holidays.

“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 to 3:30 at “Les Casse-Croûte de Suzy” 3 rue de l’Espine. No need to sign up, just come and enjoy!

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! Dates for 2017 are January 17th, February 7th, March 14th, April 4th, May 16th and June 20th.