Pizza and board games
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Join us for our ever-popular game night and pizza party! Cost is 7 euros (covers pizza and non-alcoholic drinks, 5 euros for native English speakers and children under 13). Event starts at 6 pm sharp. Last entry at 6:15 pm. First come, first serve with 40 participants max. Children under 13 need to be accompanied by an adult. |
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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The film club presents “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
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The film club presents a film in English once a month on a Saturday afternoon. This showing will be of Girl with a Pearl Earring, a 2003 drama film directed by Peter Webber from a screenplay by Olivia Hetreed, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Tracy Chevalier. Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he painted Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) in the city of Delft in Holland. Other cast members include Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, Essie Davis, and Judy Parfitt. 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.
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Presentation on Angers’ Sister Cities
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Did you know that the city of Angers has 10 different twin towns spread throughout the world? Every year the city hosts three young people to serve as “ambassadors” to live in Angers for the year, working for the city to foster partnerships and to share their culture with local Angevins. On February 9th, our three ambassadors : David Tristan of Valencia, Spain, Caroline Wielage of Osnabrück, Germany, and Emily Persons of Austin, Texas will each give a short presentation about their hometowns with time for a question and answers afterwards. |
Textile Arts & Crafts Workshop
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If you enjoy exploring all forms of textile and multimedia art, this activity is for you. We experiment with many different techniques (embroidery, weaving, patchwork, quilting, collages…) and we take pleasure in sharing and exploring various types of work together. Lately we have completed individual and shared projects which may be displayed. No previous expertise required. Just come and join us! |
Write Here, Write Now!
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Welcome to “Write Here, Write Now”! Writing and sharing : join this series of workshops for people who love to write in English and don’t mind sharing what they’ve written (although this sharing is not mandatory). We’ll explore different themes and genres. Keenan Brown, a library volunteer, will guide you through different ways to stimulate your writing, keep you inspired, all in the company of lovers of literature. “You can make anything by writing” (C.S. Lewis). Following Lewis’s invitation, let’s explore the world at large, as well as your own secret gardens through words…while discovering the unknown realms of the writing of others. Workshops will be run Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the library once a month. They are free for library members (maximum of 10 participants). For more information and/or to sign up, please contact the group leader. |
Anglofams Winter Playdate at Dreamland
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Anglofams is an international community designed to connect English-speaking families with kids of all ages in the area. Parents can share stories and resources, seek advice, and provide a casual, social environment for their children to meet other bilingual kids. February’s meet up will be at Dreamland. (Located in Centre commercial de l’Atoll between Intersport and Darty.) This event is open to all library members. Families are asked to cover their own cost of entrance. To sign up, please e-mail the group leaders here. We kindly ask that you RSVP by January 27th. |
Bridge Club
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Come and play (simple) Bridge (cardgame) at the library! Engage in a brain-stimulating sport: the Mini Bridge Exclusive Society. Discover, learn and play Mini Bridge in a relaxed, casual and informal ambiance. Mini Bridge, as developed by MBES allows and encourages
…in a nutshell, MBES (Mini Bridge Exclusive Society) proposes a different concept from the competing conventional Bridge Clubs. Feel free to sign up and come and discover this new activity for library members! It is free and open to members of the library. Please contact the library to join! |
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. ______________________________________________________ |
Readings for the “Nuit de la Lecture”
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41 years ago, the Fete de la Musique was launched in France, and has now gone global. Eight years ago, France launched a national festival called “La Nuit de la Lecture”. The library is honored to be able to participate once again in this event which takes place in bookshops and libraries throughout France and runs over a couple of days to celebrate reading in general! Click here for full program in France. The library’s event will highlight readings from 10 most-loved library books. Each reader will explain why they choose their book followed by a discussion period. Free and open to the public, no reservation needed. Come and enjoy!
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