Category Archives: News

Thank you and enjoy the school holidays

30 October 2022Newswebmaster

Our Halloween Party was a big success and lots of fun!
Thanks to everyone who participated and a big thanks to all of the volunteers, bakers, and pumpkin bringers! We had 7 new families join the CEL and the bake sale earned 180€!

The CEL Board wishes you all a fun and happy Halloween!

We will be open on Friday 4th November 14:30-17:30 ONLY
We will be closed on Saturday 5th November

Get in to the mood for our Halloween Party at Friday Fun

25 October 2022Event, Newswebmaster

Come find out what makes this witch twitch this Friday for Friday Fun! We’ll follow it up with a fun monster counting activity. Reading will start at 3:30 🕞

Halloween Party … and recruiting new members

15 October 2022Newswebmaster

Our Halloween Party on 29th October will be the last chance to get access to over 8000 books for just 50Euro a year!

For new members the yearly fee will rise to 70Euro from 1st Novmeber – so make sure you let your friends know that they need to join NOW to secure the 50 Euro rate for future years.

We are still looking for people to help us out with the bake sale for our upcoming Halloween party on October 29th at the library! Please send an email to Liz.weiser@celstuttgart.de to sign up!!

And finally come along with your friends to our Halloween at the CEL – Saturday October 29th from 13:00 to 17:00 pm for storytime, games, crafts, and treats!
Everyone in a costume gets a treat! It’s free for members and 5€ per family for non-members.

Summer Holidays – Fridays 14:30-17:30 only

29 July 2022Newswebmaster

School holidays have started and CEL will be open on Fridays 14:30-17:30 only

We are still hunting for volunteers for 19th and 26th August – so please check those dates before you come in. (and if you are a volunteer and can help, please sign up)

Wishing all our members and volunteers a relaxing, fun and hopefully Covid-free summer – safe travels and don’t forget our summer reading challenge.

Slightly later opening this Friday afternoon (15th July)

13 July 2022Newswebmaster

We have managed to find a volunteer for this Friday afternoon – but one who is coming from another committment and can’t be there before 15:00…

We will be open as normal on Friday morning and Saturday afternoon.

CEL Summer Picnic

11 July 2022Event, Newswebmaster

Don’t forget this Saturday is our Summer Meet-up at the Katzenbacher Hof from 11-3! Hope to see you all there!

CEL Summer News-Summer Reading Challenge and Summer Get-Together

27 June 2022Event, Newswebmaster

Here is what is happening at CEL this summer!

Our Summer Reading Challenge starts next week and goes until September 11th when the German school holidays end. We have a variety of reading logs available to choose from for all ages. There is a really cool Read Around the World log, too!

All participants can show their reading log to the volunteer at the desk and receive a prize anytime in that first month of the Fall semester. All ages are welcome – read yourself or have someone read to you! We hope you have a good summer of reading! ☀️🏖📚💕

We would like to invite all members to join us at the Katzenbacher Hof on Saturday July 16th from 11-3. There is a cash only food and beverage kiosk, picnic tables and a large playground. We will have a few organized activities and plenty of time to socialize with and meet other members. We hope you can join us!

Regarding Corona Regulations- masks are now optional at CEL. Please, only visit the library if you are healthy and symptom free.

German summer school holidays begin on July 27th until September 11th. During this time we will try to be open on Friday afternoons depending on volunteer availability.

Wish you all a sunny summertime and happy reading! ☀️📚🏖🌻🌈

The CEL Board

CEL Holiday Opening

1 June 2022Newswebmaster

The CEL will be closed for the school holidays beginning Saturday June 4th until Sunday June 19th. We will be open in the holidays on Friday afternoon June 10th and 17th from 2:30-5:30. We are open this Friday June 3rd for our regular morning and afternoon hours. Regular library hours will resume on Friday June 24th. Wishing you all a safe and fun break!

(Don’t forget to let us know if you would like to join our volunteer team – and help keep CEL open through the summer holidays)

Workshop – Violet Van winkle is an inventor with a flair for the air!

16 May 2022Event, Newswebmaster

“If only the kids at school knew that Violet could create flying machines- glorious contraptions like the tub-bubbler and the Wing-a-ma-gig- they might not tease her the way they do. Could the upcoming Air Show be her chance to show her stuff?”

Dear CEL Members,

Join us Saturday afternoon on June 25th Start time: 3pm for a workshop which will include: listening to a read-aloud of the book “Violet the Pilot”, discussing themes in the book, such as staying true to yourself and not giving up, as well as creating paper airplanes!

Please send an email to workshops@celstuttgart.de if you a are CEL member and your primary school aged child/children would like to attend. Don’t forget to include the first and last name along with their age. There are 8 spots available for this workshop. Hope to see you there!

Kind regards,

Michele with CEL

CEL will be closed tomorrow afternoon – Saturday 29th April

29 April 2022Newswebmaster

Sadly our volunteer for tomorrow has had to cancel due to illness and we haven’t been able to find a replacement at short notice .

Obviously if you are helping out at the Spring Clean in the morning then you can return your books, but you have to clean as well – the more hands the merrier!
(and there are donuts!)