ESC site newshttp://esc-duesseldorf.de/news/2024-03-19T10:13:44ZUpdates on events by the English Speakers' Circle.Discussion evening – or Scrabblehttp://esc-duesseldorf.de/news/event/233/15 Jun 2024: Choose between playing English Scrabble and discussing the talks
and/or theatre performance we had during the spring.Britain through the poetry of Roger McGoughhttp://esc-duesseldorf.de/news/event/232/11 May 2024: The Liverpool poet Roger McGough wrote about ordinary things: milk bottles, bus conductors and a new cathedral. Peter Lancashire reads and interprets some poems and a silly song. Participation is expected.The fabulous palace and forest of Fontainebleauhttp://esc-duesseldorf.de/news/event/231/13 Apr 2024: To walk through Fontainebleau Palace is to walk through the history of France. Residence for the French monarchs from Louis VII to Napoleon III, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981. Hunting ground of the kings, the forest later became an arcadia for the people. Jadwiga Bobrowska will talk about the history of the palace and the forest and give you practical tips about how to get there and what to see.Belfast Girlshttp://esc-duesseldorf.de/news/event/230/A historical drama by Jaki McCarrick
15 Mar 2024: Premiered in London in 2011, the play is set in 1850 when five young women seek to escape the famine in Ireland aboard a ship bound for Australia. As they sail toward the promise of new lives in Sydney, they struggle to leave their pasts behind.
Please note: This is a Matinée performance specially for the ESC with prices below the normal public price. It is also NOT a VHS cooperation event, and is NOT in Saal 1 of the VHS venue (WBZ).
Transport: 5 minutes’ walk from the metro station, Ronsdorfer Straße, which is 3 stops (4 minutes) beyond the main station on the U75 line.
Cross the road to the left and walk 100 metres along Ronsdorfer Straße.On being a Kiwihttp://esc-duesseldorf.de/news/event/229/9 Mar 2024: An illustrated talk by ex-pat New Zealander Suzette Mitchell, touching
on her early life, career and venturing out into the world.