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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.

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.

The garden club invites you to discover the beautiful gardens in the area! Some members enjoy having lunch at a restaurant prior to the visits and others only take part in the visits.

The September visit will be at the Jardin Bio at the Maison de l’Environnement (https://www.angers.fr/vivre-a-angers/la-nature-a-angers/la-maison-de-l-environnement/le-jardin-bio/index.html), with optional lunch beforehand at Bistrot Jules (reservation for noon).  The diverse Jardin Bio includes a vegetable garden, flowered areas, insect hotels & nesting boxes.  Our guided tour (in French) will last one hour and during the tour, the gardener will explain the bio techniques they use in the garden.  The visit is free but you must sign up by August 29^th at the email address shown below.

The “Garden Club” 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 Diane Bonneau  at gardenclubellia@yahoo.com.

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

• conversations while playing the game,
• comments and remarks before, during and after the game,
• second thoughts,
• not taking oneself too seriously,

…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!

The garden club invites you to discover the beautiful gardens in the area! Some members enjoy having lunch at a restaurant prior to the visits and others only take part in the visits.

 In August, the Garden Club will hold their annual picnic at the Parc des Vallées in Seiches-sur-le-Loir (https://www.intramuros.org/publication/decouvrir/2425).  Starting at noon, bring something to eat and/or to drink, and feel free to bring enough to share with others.  Also, the Guinguette du Pere Chapuis, located onsite, has a fairly large menu

of both food and drink 

(https://www.facebook.com/guinguetteduperechapuis).  For your own comfort, please bring a chair, dishes/glasses/cutlery/napkins etc., and if you have a small, folding table, that would be tremendously useful.

The “Garden Club” 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 Diane Bonneau  at gardenclubellia@yahoo.com.

After 30 years of loyal service as Director, Phoebe will be retiring in July, 2023. Come and celebrate with the libary gang! There will be drinks and nibbles and fun and laughter!

Phoebe has asked for no gifts. Your best gift to her has been your being part of the library. However, if you would like to recognise her work she requests that you donate to the library. For more information about how to donate please click here to donate by check or cash or click here to donate online.

This event will take place at the Cloître Saint Jean in back of the Musée Jean-Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, 4 Boulevard Arago, 49100 Angers.

Please rsvp to info@ellia.org.

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.

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 Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra

(Also adapted as a film in 1996) Sleepers is the true story of four young teenagers who live in Hell’s Kitchen, in Manhattan. Just like any other teenagers who are their age, Michaël, Lorenzo, Tommy and John enjoy living in Hell’s Kitchen, where they feel like absolute rulers until one day, when they accidentally kill a man. Following a court decision, the four kids are sent to the Wilkinson Home for Boys, where they will be living the worst ill-treatment in their lives. The guards will go so far as beating and abusing them. A few years later, torture is over and the kids have become adults. Payback time is soon. One night, as Tommy and John enter a bar, in downtown Manhattan, they come across one of the guards from the Wilkinson Home for Boys. They come up to that guard and decide to kill him. They go as far as shooting seven bullets inside the bar itself, where other patrons enjoy their afterwork drinks. From now on, the plot is all about who is going to win, as Tommy and John are sent to court. As strange as it may seem, one of their friends (Michael), who is a lawyer, will not be defending them. Michael will be on the other side (the guard) whereas an alcoholic lawyer will defend the shooters. Why so? Read the book, watch the film and you will learn the whole truth at the very end of the story.

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.

The garden club invites you to discover the beautiful gardens in the area! Some members enjoy having lunch at a restaurant prior to the visits and others only take part in the visits.

The July visit will be at the Jardin des Plantes in Nantes with (optional) lunch beforehand at the Café de l’Orangerie in the Jardin.  The Jardin des Plantes in Nantes is one of four “grands” botanic gardens in France, having more than 10,000 species of plants, 800 square meters of greenhouses, and 50,000 flowers.  If you are interested, you must sign up before June 15 at the email address below.

The “Garden Club” 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 Diane Bonneau  at gardenclubellia@yahoo.com.

fully booked and reservations are now closed

“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 at 1PM. The place will be Le Jardin du Musée des Beaux-arts (entrance either through the Musée itself or Boulevard du Roi René or 47 rue Toussaint)

Don’t forget to bring your own picnic!
No need to sign up, just come and enjoy!