For information, please contact Josette Cassuto on 06 30 33 49 18 or by e-mail at josette.cassuto@gmail.com
Thursday 8th Poets Group
In January our topic was SLEEP. Anne found Hamlet’s famous to be - or not to be soliloquy "to die – to sleep, no more; and by sleep to say we end...” In her poem Anne compares sleep to an unknown journey. “ you never know where it will take you”. Georges in his poem Sleeping Beauty rewrites the famous fairy tale. Jacqueline in her two poems characterizes the two ways of sleeping: in Wintertime and in Summertime. Sylvie M. asks herself why she wakes up at exactly 4:44 at night. Sylvie D. came with P. Neruda’s Cat's Dream in which he describes a cat’s way of sleeping and dreaming. Joseph in his poem Full of Sleep can’t get any sleep because of so many thoughts. Dietmar in his poem Sleep From the Cradle to the Grave characterises the way we sleep from birth to death. Georgette finds that the Arms of Morpheus are like medicine, “a drug to bring her back to earth and to face life again”. Françoise found Sleeplessness by Tim Gronek. Someone can’t find sleep though counting sheep.
The group recommends that you go on our AFGB website to find all their poems and if you are interested, join their monthly meeting.
Our next meeting will be on Thursday 8 February at 4 pm. I hope you'll be present in room No.11 at la Mairie du 6e, 37 Rue Bossuet 69006 Lyon
Topic: An old fairy tale updated: 21st century version.
Please contact Dietmar Kornrumpf: dkornrumpf@web.de
https://sites.google.com/view/fgblyonorg/home/association-france-grande-bretagne-lyon-rhône
Wednesday 14th 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 Wednesday 14th February at 2.15 pm.
Please contact Michèle Baldwin for details at mb69007@gmail.com or 06 70 66 36 13
Thursday 15th Ciné Group
Our next meeting will be on Thursday 15 February place and time will be sent later.
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 participant list, please send a message to slgeorgette@yahoo.fr, you will be welcome.
Thursday 15th English Speaking lunch
There will be English-Speaking lunch on Thursday 15 February at 12h15pm.
Venue : Brasserie Bouillon Barate - 25, Rue du Bat d'Argent 69001 LYON
Formule du jour 24,90€. Please register before Monday 12 February
For more information, please contact Arlette Souvignet: ma-svt@wanadoo.fr
Friday 16th Lugdumen
On Friday 16 February at 2:30 pm we'll visit a temporary exhibition at the Lugdunum Museum uphill Fourvière, 17 rue Cléberg (previously called Musée Gallo Romain): “Les aventures de Brickius Maximus” an amazing historical reconstruction of the antique city of Lugdunum, with 19,000 Lego bricks assembled by a team of 100 volunteers.
Access: Funiculaire F2 Fourvière + 4-8 min walk downhill.
To avoid climbing back the steep hill, we recommend walking down to the F1 funiculaire at Les Minimes for the return trip. Car park in rue Roger Radisson.
We’ll meet inside, near the ticket office.
Entrance fee: €7 full price, €4,5 with carte Musées, free entrance for senior visitors over 65.
The museum is fully adapted to wheelchairs, with an access ramp from the street.
Please register before Wednesday the 14th of February by mail to Sylvie Maupeu sylvie.maupeu@laposte.net
Thursday 22nd The English Scrabble group will meet at Arlette Duclos’s home on Thursday 22 February at 2:30 pm. Please contact Christine Olley if you would like to join the group and to find out the dates and meeting places for future events.
Email christine.olley@hotmail.fr
Friday 23rd The novel "Lessons" by the 1998 Booker prize winning and widely awarded author Ian McEwan, has been chosen as the book to be discussed on Friday 23 February at 2pm. It is the story of a baby-boomer who drifts through an unchosen life while global events are succeeding from the Cuban missile crisis, the fall of Berlin wall, to Covid and climate change. Ian McEvan explores the issue of the link between History and ordinary people’s lives, asks if lessons could be learnt or not…
For more information, please contact Véronique Pams, veroniquegpams@yahoo.fr
Our meeting will take place 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.