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This is a special moment when the community comes together to talk about anything and everything (in English of course!) over a cup of coffee or tea. Coffee House is free and open to all library members. Just drop by, no need to reserve!

As part of the Printemps des poètes, the City of Angers and the library invites you to write a poem in chalk on the sidewalk (like “Ma rue par Achbé”) on Thursday, March 14th and Friday, March 15th. Come to the library to borrow some chalk and write a poem on the sidewalk!

Dans le cadre du Printemps des poètes, la Ville d’Angers et la bibliothèque vous invite à écrire un poème à la craie sur le trottoir à la manière de « Ma rue par Achbé » les jeudi 14 et vendredi 15 mars. Venez à la bibliothèque pour emprunter de la craie et écrivez un poème sur le trottoir ! 

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. Please attend regularly on the following dates: March 13th, March 27th, April 3rd, April 24th, May 15th, May 22nd, June 5th and June 12th.

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 aiming at illustrating  the heritage of English Classical Music in its most specific and beautiful forms, mainly vocal music. Each session will focus on a composer, with a short presentation of the work and the composer, followed by the listening of selected pieces through  selected  videos, often with different interpretations. The point is to share comments and criticism with the group members.

These sessions are free and open to the public. For more information or to sign up please email the group leader here. This session will discuss Henry Purcell’s The Indian Queen.

Love those French restaurants? Feel like you need to speak English more but in a relaxed atmosphere? Join this club which schedules a lunch in a great local restaurant. Click here to send an email to the coordinator for more information and the full schedule and to sign up!

Take a talented trio; Lisa Robertson a Canadian poet, Michel Saulnier a musician and Francky Criquet a painter, put them in the same room in front of an audience and see what happens! That’s the idea behind a happening, put the raw ingredients together and let inspiration strike, creating a unique, one-time-only performance that is not to be missed!

This event is part of the Printemps des Poètes 2019 (the French national celebration of poetry) which has been organized with the collaboration of the MIEL (Maison internationale des écritures et des littératures) and the support of the Ville d’Angers. There will also be poetry recitals by MIEL members.

This event will be in French and English, it is free and open to the public, no reservations necessary but seating is limited. Refreshments and conversation to follow.

Success, success, success… We are constantly bombarded with the notion of success! As a woman, how successful do you feel? Let’s dive into this compelling topic that many women struggle with by asking ourselves thought-provoking questions and having deep conversations. Who knows, it might impact us and our lives in ways we never thought of… Join Aïda Guèye, a Certified Life Coach who is passionate about empowering women to live their best, most authentic life along with other women to celebrate International Women’s Day!

Program:
3:00 to 4:30 pm – Workshop
4:30 to 5:00 pm – Refreshments & Conversation

Free for library members. Limited to 10 participants. Sign-up by phone 02.41.24.97.07 or email info@ellia.org.

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.

The library is proud to announce the first talk in the Spring 2019 Speaker Series – Explorations in American Culture.

In honor of International Women’s Day two remarkably accomplished women, Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, will be talking about their new, critically-acclaimed English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex,” sixty years after its initial publication.

Both women are professors, political activists, writers and intellectuals who have worked together on an astonishing variety of projects. They met while attending Douglass College (Rutgers University) in the 1960s and have been friends and working partners ever since. They have both lived in France for over 40 years, teaching literature and American civilization and writing English grammar and other books for French speakers. In the 70s, they both studied and got degrees in linguistics, one at the university of Vincennes, and the other at Nanterre, in Paris. They both had long and active teaching careers at Sciences Po. They’ve published a series of grammar books, “My English is French”; a video series, “Magic English” for children; “Focus on American Democracy” explaining the American system of government, and several French cookbooks on American food. They also pursued many translation projects, from French to English, covering topics such as social science, art, and feminist writings.

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.

This is a special moment when the community comes together to talk about anything and everything (in English of course!) over a cup of coffee or tea. Coffee House is free and open to all library members. Just drop by, no need to reserve!