La Provincia de Las Palmas Newspaper has published on the 8th February 2017 the following news: The maritime collectors paid tribute, at the British Club, to the journalist Juan Francisco Fonte for the 50th anniversary of the "Desde mi noray" column.
Last Wednesday, 25th of January, it took place, as always, our meeting around a book, On this ocassion our dear friend Professor Melvyn Elphee, delighted us with an outstanding presentation about the chosen book, that is, “The Great Gatsby”. The lost generation, the American dream, and Scott Fitzgerald´s specific visión about the society in those [...]
Once more we had a very successful session of the monthly POEMS OUT LOUD, held at the British Club, Las Palmas on 25th January 2017. The theme was DREAMS, appropriate for the reassessment of our lives that often accompanies the beginning of a new year. Twenty-two people attended the poetry session and poems were read [...]
As most of you know, on the 23rd of November, we agreed with all reading club members to have a Christmas “holiday” and put our sessions on hold during the month of December. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!!!! We take this opportunity to thank Margarita J. Curbelo for her outstanding presentation given to us about [...]
We held another successful poetry session on 12th December. it's called POEMS OUT LOUD because we read our favourite poems to each other. Some of us had lunch at the club first, which was a lively social occasion. Good food and good company. About 10 lunchers and 10 more poetry readers joined us at 4.0 [...]
Organized as always by Ms. Jeannie Van Rupuey. The theme on this occasion was Youth and Age. There was a record number of participants, in total 24 people. Interesting discussion and business as usual. Another enthusiastic and varied afternoon was spent in November. It was good to see so many people there. Great to see [...]
Book to read "Under the volcano" written by Malcom Lowry
Last Wednesday once againg, we held our monthly Reading Club meeting. We chose Ernest Hemingway on this occasion as our main discussion topic. The presentation and comments were held by Mr. Gerardo López Intelangelo and also Mr. Raúl Sánchez Quevedo, both great experts about the artist´s life. The chosen novel for this month´s Reading meeting [...]
