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The English-language Library feels strongly about supporting students during this difficult period and supporting them NOW. We have set up special study hours for students only in the library on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings from 9:30-12 until further notice.

Students are welcome to come and use our space. No reservations needed, 20 max. To check about space availability, please call the library just before coming. If you are not yet a member of the library, no problem! Note that ALL students, teachers and administrators of both universities are eligible for free membership.

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

The February read for the group is Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person — no mean feat for a black woman in the ’30s. Janie’s quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.

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 reading scenes from favorite Shakespeare plays. This is a great activity for lovers of language and fans of the great wit. Free and open to all library members. During the current sanitary crisis, the number of participants is limited. For more information or to sign-up, please contact the group coordinator here. This session will be held on Zoom.

Join the library for a Zoom talk with Henri Landes, first speaker for the library’s “Think Big, Think Green” speaker series. Now is the time to think about how our choices in buying and producing food impact sustainability.

Henri Landes is Cofounder and Director of the Landestini, (www.landestini.org) a non profit organization which aims to reconnect people to land and nature. Education and awareness raising on sustainable food production and consumption are among its primary activities. Henri Landes also teaches environmental and agricultural policy at the Institute of Political Sciences, Sciences Po Paris. Having grown up in San Francisco, he is now living on a farm in Auvergne, France.

Henri Landes is most interested in how to relocalize the food system and change consumer behavior in order to preserve public health and the environment. In this talk, Henri Landes will do an overview of food, agricultural and environmental policy in France and the United States, and focus as well on education and on how to foster stewardship and engagement at the individual level. As comparisons between the two countries and cultures will be numerous, this talk will also be the perfect occasion to analyze and anticipate the new environmental era of President Joe Biden.

This talk is free and open to the public. There will be a 40-minute talk followed by a question-and-answer session. Click here for Zoom link. The library will also be projecting this event on a screen in the library for anyone who prefers to see it in our space. Limited to 15. First come first serve.

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!

If you would like to do textile arts while speaking in English, this activity is for you!

Participants will create textile pieces of their choice using any technique that suits them: embroidery, patchwork, quilting, weaving, collages. Our 2021 project is underway and is to create around 30 squares. It will also be an opportunity for each person to learn new techniques. Join us and contribute to this unique project!

Covid protocol require that you bring your own materials. Open to library members. If possible, please sign up at the front desk.

The English-language Library feels strongly about supporting students during this difficult period and supporting them NOW. We have set up special study hours for students only in the library on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings from 9:30-12 until further notice.

Students are welcome to come and use our space. No reservations needed, 20 max. To check about space availability, please call the library just before coming. If you are not yet a member of the library, no problem! Note that ALL students, teachers and administrators of both universities are eligible for free membership.

The English-language Library feels strongly about supporting students during this difficult period and supporting them NOW. We have set up special study hours for students only in the library on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings from 9:30-12 until further notice.

Students are welcome to come and use our space. No reservations needed, 20 max. To check about space availability, please call the library just before coming. If you are not yet a member of the library, no problem! Note that ALL students, teachers and administrators of both universities are eligible for free membership.