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The garden club invites you to discover the beautiful gardens in the area! 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 gardenclub@ellia.org.

Come join the Drama Club which is open to adults and university students, with or without acting experience. It consists of miming, improvising, and acting out published works of theater, such as sketches and plays.

Meetings take place at the library twice a month (except during school holidays) on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 7:30 p.m. 

This activity is open to library members, the cost is 90 € for the 2018-2019 school year. Sign up at the front desk. Take the stage and break a leg!

For music lovers who are not necessarily musicians, the library presents a series of sessions aimed at illustrating English Classical Music in its most beautiful forms. Each session will focus on a composer, with a short presentation of their work as well as listening to select pieces and videos. The point is to share comments and criticism as a group. This session will feature Elizabethan music and Shakespeare songs.

These sessions are free and open to the public. For more information or to sign up please contact the group coordinator here.

The Internet is wonderful and can answer all your questions. For most of us, it is the main source for news. Indeed, we have immediate access to plenty of media from different parts of the world. But can they all be trusted? Using different sources and media, the press review helps you to find your way through the news and be well-informed. This is an informal sharing and discussion of the news in English. Please feel free to bring in an article that you would like to share with the other members of the group.

Meetings are held on Saturdays from 2 to 3 pm. Upcoming dates are March 16^th, April 13^th and May 18^th

This activity, free for library members, is organized by freelance journalist and library volunteer: Isma Hassaine-Poirier.

The library is open this afternoon from 1 to 6 pm, but unfortunately regular activities such as Coffee House and Knit and Natter are cancelled.

The library is closed today for the bank holiday. Please remember that you can borrow eBooks at anytime. Click here to check out our eBook collection.

The film club presents a film in English once a month on a Saturday afternoon. This showing will be of “Much Ado About Nothing,” a 1993 British/American romantic comedy film based on Shakespeare’s play. Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. The film was directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars along with Emma Thompson, Robert Sean Leonard, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, Keanu Reeves, and Kate Beckinsale. Watch the trailer here.

Screening begins at 3 o’clock sharp and will be followed by a discussion in English. This activity is free and open to all library members. If possible, please reserve by signing up at the front desk. 

Treat yourself to an afternoon of a collective reading of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”. This 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 by emailing group leader John Barritt here.

American author, Jake Lamar, will talk about his play, Brothers in Exile, featuring the three most important African-American expatriate writers of the post-World War II era in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Chester Himes.

Jake Lamar is the author of a memoir, six novels, numerous essays, reviews, short stories and a play. He is a recipient of the Lyndhurst Prize (for his first book Bourgeois Blues), a prestigious French National Book Center grant (for his novel Postérité), France’s Grand Prix for best foreign thriller (for Nous Avions un Rêve, French translation The Last Integrationist), and a Beaumarchais fellowship for his play Brothers in Exile.

Although inspired by people and real facts, Brothers in Exile is a work of fiction. The story revolves around Wright’s death and an official inquiry by the French authorities into Himes’ and Baldwin’s potential involvement. Lamar invents circumstances for the trio but builds those circumstances around the information that he has learned from reading about their fraternal affection and fierce rivalry. Click here to listen to the French radio adaptation of Brothers in Exile aired on France Culture.

This talk is free and open to the public. No reservations necessary, but seating is limited. The Speaker Series has been made possible with the support of the Embassy of the United States of America, France. / Avec le soutien de l’Ambassade des États-Unis d’Amérique.

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 library members. No need to reserve, just come and enjoy! If anyone has some extra wool please bring it in. The Knitting group has a project knitting twiddle muffs and are looking for bits and pieces of washable wool.