I have had several meetings with Régis Penalva at the Mairie as he wished
Foal to become involved with the Comédie du Livre (1st 2nd 3rd June), British
authors invited this year. I put forward three suggestions, a Quiz, a Round
Table and readings by British authors and poets from the BBC archives. Although
I made these proposals at least a month ago, time has flown by, Régis became a
proud father and took paternity leave and it is now too late to change the
schedules of the authors to organise the quiz and the round table. However, he
and Laurence Patri from the association “Coeur de Livres” do like my idea of
readings. The plan is to set up some computers at the Ville de Montpellier stand
so that people can come and listen (they would be informed that the selection
was made by Foal so our name and logo will be somewhere at least). I have
ordered the CDs and will make a first selection to be confirmed along with
suggestions from Régis P and LPatri.
The better news is that they are going to organise for Foal members two
breakfast meetings with two authors; Kate Summerscale and Roger Jon Ellory at la
Maison des Rélations Internationales (I attach the bios of the two authors).
This will be the Saturday and Sunday morning (2nd and 3rd June) so clear your
diaries as we will need a good turnout. The Mairie is going to order some of the
books of the two authors and donate them to Foal so that we can do some reading
before we meet the authors.
They will need to know numbers in order to know how much coffe to make and
how many croissants to order(!) so you will need to send me an email at foal@dbmail.com to confirm
your presence (lets say by the end of April).
