Lunel: projects galore and a unique Game Night this Friday at the solidarity café Le P’tit rendez-vous

Cathy Morange et Chantal Berthet invitent à participer à la première Nuit du jeu de société. Midi Libre – JPS

Trois mois après son installation dans le quartier de la Roquette, l’association multiplie les initiatives autour de l’accueil, du bien-être et des jeux de société.

The thirty volunteers of the young associative café Le P’tit rendez-vous have a smile. Launched at the Old Station, the structure has benefited, for three months, from its installation in a historic location in the Roquette district: the Gérard-Bonnet room. A “refuge” which now allows him to see far and undertake. So, this Friday evening, from 9 p.m. to midnight, Le P’tit rendez-vous is launching its first Board Game Night for adults and accompanied teenagers. « We have selected around twenty party, card or board games that we know well, people will choose their game and facilitators will explain the simple rules that we have published. The idea is always to encourage exchanges, particularly intergenerational ones, explains Chantal Berthet, president of the association. Passionate about board games, she will participate with another enthusiast, Mathieu. And if the formula is successful, it could lead, one day, to a festival. « It’s one of our flagship projects,” says Chantal Berthet. But it’s not the only one.

Well-being centers and creative workshops

In 2024, the associative café also wants to launch a wellness center. « Once a quarter, we would like to set up facial reflexology, massage, yoga or stretching sessions for women, explains Cathy Morange, secretary of P’tit rendez-vous. The association also plans, twice a year, emotion management courses dedicated to children. In the meantime, the association already offers gentle gym training every Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m. 

A discovery of quilling

Le P’tit rendez-vous also wishes to strengthen its creative workshop division which, every Thursday afternoon, is already a hit. « In addition to creating African paintings, an activity that we are asked to continue, we are launching, this Thursday, January 11 afternoon, a discovery of quilling. These are strips of paper that we assemble using a tool and with which we make a multitude of things, explains Cathy Morange. Conference-debates are also planned as well as work around the history of the Gérard-Bonnet room and, by extension, the Roquette district. A work for which all the memories of the city are strongly encouraged to join Le P’tit rendez-vous.

Relaunch the associative café

But, in 2024, the association intends, above all, to succeed in getting its basic idea of ​​an associative café off the ground: « We are open every Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. but for the moment, people are having trouble getting through the door. But we want to get them to come, sit down, talk to each other, play together over coffee, insists Chantal Berthet. The association hopes that in good weather, the possibility of taking a few tables outside will reverse the trend. « We are very well established, it’s a neighborhood full of life with people who are fighting for more activity and we are listening to them,” say the volunteers. . They also invite all Lunel residents to discover Le P’tit rendez-vous.
 

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