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If you would like to do textile arts while speaking in English, this activity is for you!

Participants will create textile pieces of their choice using any technique that suits them: embroidery, patchwork, quilting, weaving, collages. Our 2021 project is underway and is to create around 30 squares. It will also be an opportunity for each person to learn new techniques. Join us and contribute to this unique project!

Covid protocol require that you bring your own materials. Open to library members. If possible, please sign up at the front desk.

Join the library community for a special moment to talk about anything and everything…in English of course! For the time being, we are inviting everyone to come and socialize but will not be serving drinks in order to keep everyone safe! This is Coffee House with a “hold the coffee” protocol! Things will get better but meanwhile no coffee or tea!

Coffee House is free and open to all library members. Just drop by, no need to reserve!

Note that the library is closed for the holiday season from Saturday, December 19th at 6 pm to Tuesday, January 5th at 1 pm.

Warm wishes from the library! See you in 2021!

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 yarn please bring it in.

Join the library community for a special moment 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!

With the lockdown, Books and Tea of December 17th will meet by Zoom.  Please click here to join the meeting. Enjoy yourselves!

“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 will meet from 2 to 3:30 pm at the tea shop in town called “La Cour”. No need to sign up, just come and enjoy!

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.

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.

Looking for that good old Christmas spirit…? Join the members of the English-language Library for Christmas caroling on Zoom (not our favorite way to carol, but better than nothing)!

This year we will be singing from home. Wear your red santa hat (or reindeer antlers) and meet online  by clicking on this Zoom link.

No need to sign up, just come and sing to your heart’s content! If you prefer not to sing but would like to listen to everybody else making a fool of themselves, feel free to join in on the fun!

If you would like to practice beforehand, click here for a list of our favorite songs. We will be calling out the numbers of carols and everyone will just have to sing along as best as possible!

Vous recherchez ce bon vieil esprit de Noël…? Rejoignez les membres de la Bibliothèque Anglophone pour chanter des chants de Noël sur Zoom (ce n’est pas l’idéal pour chanter, mais c’est mieux que rien) !

Cette année, nous chanterons de chez nous. Portez votre bonnet rouge de Noël (ou des serre-têtes bois de renne) et connectez-vous en cliquant sur ce lien Zoom.

Pas besoin de vous inscrire. Venez chanter à votre guise ! Si vous ne voulez pas chanter et préférez simplement vous amuser des personnes qui s’éclatent, n’hésitez pas à vous joindre à nous !

Si vous souhaitez vous entraîner à l’avance, cliquez ici pour une liste de nos chansons préférées. Nous vous indiquerons les numéros des chants et il vous suffira de chanter du mieux que vous le pouvez !

The Saturday Reading Group is for anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people. Considering the current situation, the discussion will be online using ZOOM. Please click here (Meeting ID: 813 2873 3373).

The December read for the group is Educated by Tara Westover. Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag”. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father’s junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

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.