CURRENT ACTIVITIES

Wednesday 13th The next English-speaking luncheon will be held together with the Lugdumen Visits group on Wednesday, 13th November from 12.15 p.m. at the restaurant Café du Soleil, 2 rue Saint Georges, Lyon 5ème and will be followed by a visit to an exhibition at the Galerie 41, at 41 rue Saint Georges, where we will have the chance to discover and admire some of Pierre Mouriquand’s lovely paintings. 

  Car parking is available along the Saône and the metro station Vieux Lyon, Ligne D, is nearby.

The restaurant offers a three-course menu with ‘Suggestions du Moment’ for 29€ pp, plus drinks. If you would like to join us, please             send as soon  as possible the reply slip below to Margaret Marret, by email or by post, to be received no later than Wednesday 6th November

marret.m@orange.fr   /   68 rue Lafayette, 69600 Oullins

Member’s name: ………………………………………………………………………………………

Guests: ……………………………………………………………………….……No. of people: ….…

E-mail: …………………………………………… ………………... Tel. No: …………… 

Wednesday 13th Lugdumen

See information above

Thursday 14th Poets circle. In October we had a special meeting with Marie Scimia who translates Bob Kaufman's poem into French. Bob Kaufman was a poet belonging to the American Beat Generation "whose work explored and influenced culture and politics in the post-World War ll era" (Wikipedia). Marie explained the way she translates this kind of modern poetry and she made us translate a poem of which we compared our different versions. 

    Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 14th November at our usual time 3.30pm at la Mairie 6e room 11.

    Our topic: BLUE or/and inspired by our last meeting about Bob Kaufman: BLUE O'CLOCK.

    The group recommends that you go on our AFGB website to find all their poems:                                     sites.google.com/view/fgblyonorg/home/association-france-grande-bretagnelyon-rhône If you are interested to join their monthly meeting,  please contact Dietmar Kornrumpf: dkornrumpf@web.de

Friday 15th Ciné Club People who are interested in watching an English speaking and interesting film, one at least, a month should send their address to Georgette in order to be informed as soon as possible!

The next session will be on Friday 15 November – Time and place will be disclosed on Tuesday 5th November.

Georgette would appreciate those on the group mailing list letting her know whether they are planning to attend or not by phone, text or email.

If you are interested in joining us and wish to be placed on the participants list, please send a message to slgeorgette@yahoo.fr, you will be welcome

Monday 18th Afternoon Conversation group

The group normally meets on Monday afternoons. The next meeting will be on Monday 18 November at 3 pm at “Les Maréchaux" 4 Av. Maréchal de Saxe.

For information, please contact Josette Cassuto on 06 30 33 49 18 or by e-mail at josette.cassuto@gmail.com

Friday 22nd Book Circle.    On  Friday November, 22nd,  the members of the book circle will discuss “Some things like these”, a short novel by Claire Keegan. The novel tackles the issue of Magdalen laundries in Ireland that used to hide unmarried girls after giving birth, through the story of a coal merchant in the 1980’s amidst a moral and social dilemma.

Our meeting will take place at 2PM at La Mairie du 6e, 37, rue Bossuet (back entrance), room 10, 4th floor. 

Metro line A - stop Massena, Bus 38, Parking LPA Morand, Place Maréchal Lyautey. 

For more information, please contact Véronique Pams, veroniquegpams@yahoo.fr

November 25th Early evening group

The early evening conversation group will meet at the Gourmet Bar at the Confluence. 

The next meeting will be on Monday 25 November at 4.30 pm at Confluence Gourmet Bar.

If you wish to join this group, please contact Annick Serret by e-mail at annick.serret@gmail.com

or tel. 06 63 35 89 06

Wednesday 27th French Conversation Group

This group will be of particular interest to English speakers who want to improve their French, and to French speakers who will be able to exchange ideas and points of view on various topics with them, in French.

Meetings normally take place at Michèle Baldwin’s flat. 

The next meeting will be on Wednesday 27 November.

Please contact Michèle Baldwin for details at mb69007@gmail.com or 06 70 66 36 13

 Thursday 28th Scrabble

Our next Scrabble meeting should take place on Thursday 28 November at 3pm at Andree Moratin's house.

Please contact Christine Olley if you would like to join the group and to find out the dates and meeting places for future event: christine.olley@hotmail.fr