Events - 22 Jan 25

Get on those hiking boots and take some time to revel in the great outdoors! The group “Walk and Talk” organises 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 your stamina up !

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.

Come and explore the transformative power of music through the lens of fiction.
Follow characters as they attend historical performances of patriotic songs.
Observe how these events form an intersection of the personal and collective
experiences. Music can bring a political ideal to life while resonating with our
most private dreams and hopes. In a literary context, these iconic interpretations
are both moments of truth and mythical constructions.

Join us for an evening of discussion and live musical illustrations (performed by the speaker on his electric keyboard). Works by Sherman Alexie and Richard Powers will provide us with examples.

Nathanael De Vries teaches drums at the Conservatoire d’Angers (CRR) and a
course on popular music at Université Catholique de l’Ouest (UCO). From 2019 to
2022, he ran Lit Me with Music, a blog dealing with musical references in works of
fiction.

This event is free and open to the public as part of the nationwide 2025 Nuits de la Lecture program.