Garden Club visit
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The garden club invites you to discover the beautiful gardens in the area! The annual picnic is back! Everyone brings food and drinks to share! This free 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. |
TOEIC test on this date is cancelled
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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. If you would like more information about future tests please send an email to Peter Bolos at collections@ellia.org .
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Intensive English workshop for “collégiens” has been cancelled
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“Sea, Sun and Fun”, a 3-day English-learning workshop for collégiens. has been cancelled due to Covid-19. |
Garden Club visit
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The garden club invites you to discover the beautiful gardens in the area! This visit is to Carbay Hills (near Pouancé) with 5 hectares of aromatic and scented plants for the manufacture of cosmetics. This free 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. |
Annual General Meeting to take place online
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The 2020 Annual meeting will be held online with Zoom*. Please use this link to join the meeting. Agenda:
Please remember that only members with a current membership may vote during this meeting.If you would like to check your membership validity, please contact the front desk. If you are not able to attend please fill out a proxy (click here) to allow your vote to be counted. **Zoom is a leader in video communications with an easy cloud platform for video and audio conferencing. You can use it for free but you will need to download the software beforehand. Click here to start…don’t worry about using your “work email” any email address is fine. To see if your computer or other devices are compatible go to https://zoom.us/test for a quick test. |
Books and Tea
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“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 the tea shop in town called “Les Casse-Croûte de Suzy”. No need to sign up, just come and enjoy! |
TOEIC test on this date is cancelled
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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. If you would like more information about future tests please send an email to Peter Bolos at collections@ellia.org .
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Library opens during regular hours to borrow and return books!
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Circulation & activities: what happens when and for whom…Hours through July 31st: Circulation & activities: The library is only open for the circulation of materials until July 31st and will reopen on September 1st after the summer break. Only ten people will be authorized at a time to access the collection. Masks are mandatory. Activities: No group activities will take place in the library until September. Selected activities are available online. See the listing of events below for more information. |
Saturday Reading Group
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The Saturday Reading Group is for anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people. This session will be held online with Zoom. Please click here to join the meeting with a Zoom link. The June read for the group is Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson. In six masterly stories, delve deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. “Nirvana,” which won the prestigious Sunday Times short story prize, portrays a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finding solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous” – first included in the Best American Short Stories anthology – a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. 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.
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It’s time for…Coffee House!
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Ready for Coffee House on Zoom? Coffee house is going online until further notice…this time by video conferencing so now you can come in your pyjamas! Book your Friday mornings between 10 and 11. These coffee houses will be simple gatherings and chats…sorry you will have to make your own coffee :( but we can recommend some nice coffee roasts! Your coffee house host will open up the session at 10. You can connect via Zoom* by clicking here. *Zoom is a leader in video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing. |