Luncheon Club
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Do you love French food and restaurants? Would you like to speak English more, but in a relaxed environment? Join the Luncheon Club! Enjoy a meal and great conversation in English once a month at a local restaurant. This activity is open to library members. Spaces are limited. For more information or to sign up, please contact the group coordinator here.
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Christmas Caroling
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Looking for that good old Christmas spirit…? Join the members of the English-language Library in Angers for Christmas caroling on Sunday, December 8th. All you need to do is to wear red and green WARM clothes and a red santa hat if you have one! Meet at the library at 3 pm before going out to carol in Angers. You are welcome to bring a cake, cookies or other lovely things to eat to share with the fellow carolers…the library will make hot apple juice and tea! No need to sign up, just come and sing to your heart’s content! Free and open to the public! Schedule is
(from 15h30-16h45 the library will be locked up). Click here if you would like the words to the Christmas carols that we sing. |
Reading Shakespeare
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Treat yourself to an afternoon of a collective reading of one of Shakespeare’s plays. 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. Free and open to all library members. For more information or to sign-up, please contact the group coordinator here. The number of participants is limited. |
Thanksgiving Potluck
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In the spirit of the sharing of the first Thanksgiving, the library is organising a potluck, bring-a-dish-to-share Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, November 28th! We all have so much to be thankful for! Meet at the library with your special dish to share, this is all about the harvest and giving thanks for all that we have. This event is free! It is all about sharing! Seating is limited so please reserve by sending an email to info@ellia.org if you would like to join the festivities. |
Reading Shakespeare
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Treat yourself to an afternoon of a collective reading of one of Shakespeare’s plays. 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. Free and open to all library members. For more information or to sign-up, please contact the group coordinator here. The number of participants is limited. |
Walk and Talk
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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. |
Take your TOEIC test
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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. |
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. For this meeting, the group will read “Outlawed” by Anna North. “The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada’s life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows.
She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she’s willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all.” 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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The film club presents “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
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The film club presents a film in English once a month on a Saturday afternoon. This showing will be of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. Watch the trailer here. The film will be followed by a discussion in English. This activity is free and open to all library members. |
Book Club reads “Enter Ghost”
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The November read for the book club is “Enter Ghost” by Isabella Hammad. “Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost centers a West Bank production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Sonia, a Dutch Palestinian actress, leaves behind a messy relationship in London to visit her sister in Haifa, a city she hasn’t seen since childhood summers, and finds more than the emotional break she bargained for.” The Book Club is full for the 2024-2025 year. If you would like to join the waiting list, please send an e-mail to reception. We also invite you to consider joining Books and Tea or Saturday Reading Group! |