Leiden Toastmasters

January 26th is a special theme evening for our next Club meeting.  We will have our usual mix of speeches and Table Topics, flavoured with the “Tall Tales”  theme.

And as always, there will be plenty of time for socialising before and after the meeting.

The meeting will take place at ourt usual venue Buddhas in Leiden and starts at 8pm.

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

Leiden Toastmasters goes “Pancakes Galore!” at the next club meeting on Thursday 12 January.

Please note that this meeting is at a different location due to renovations at our usual home. But as always, we will have scintillating speeches, triumphant Table Topics and effervescent evaluations.

Please join us at 20:00 on Thursday at Pannekoekenhuisje Oudt Leyden,  Steenstraat 49 in Leiden.

Join us on November 24 for another evening of speeches, evaluations and impromptu TableTopics!  The meeting will features four prepared speech projects:

1. An “Icebreaker” by Barbara Rogoski
2. An “Organize Your Speech” project by Marlies van Venrooij
3. A “How To Say It” project by Miguel Gil Biraud, and…
4. A “Persuade With Power” project by fellow Toastmaster Kees van der Waal.

That’s what the next meeting of Leiden Toastmasters is all about: body language.  Most of what we communicate does not come from the words we choose, and most of the non-verbal communication is achieved by what we do with our bodies while we’re speaking.

Given that, wouldn’t you like to know better how to send the right message?  The message you want to send?

Join us on November 10 at Buddha’s Restaurant in Leiden for a much-anticipated educational session about body language by our extraordinary fellow Toastmaster, Peter Zinn, plus the usual Toastmasters programme of prepared speeches, impromptu Table Topics and evaluations.

Our next club meeting on 27 October takes a spooky twist with a thoroughly Halloween-themed evening!  No doubt Toastmaster-of-the-Evening Natalie Wanga will have something special in store for us as we settle in for a full program of 4 prepared speeches, table topics, evaluations and more!

And if that wasn’t enough…. this week bring us — for the first time ever — the Battle of the Two Meulemans!  Dirk and Emma will go head-to-head as they each deliver us a speech for CC Project #3.

So be afraid, be very afraid… but not too afraid to come to Leiden Toastmasters this Thursday evening at 20:00 at Buddha’s Restaurant in Leiden! 

It’s finally here!  Our own official Leiden Toastmasters banner!

Join us on Thursday 13 October @ 20:00 at Buddha’s Restaurant in Leiden for our next club meeting, at which not only will the new banner be unfurled for the first time, but we will have:

• an official visit from Area Governor Ingeborg Kuyvenhoven
• three brilliant prepared speeches
• evaluations, naturally
• and everyone’s favourite…. Table Topics!

We look forward to seeing you at Toastmasters!

On Thursday 22 September, Leiden Toastmasters will be meeting at Einstein’s which is across the canal from our usual venue of Buddha’s Restaurant.

Our meeting on 8 September was the first ever Speech Contest for Leiden Toastmasters. Four contestants battled it out for the title in the Humorous Speech Contest, followed by another four contestants displaying their prowess with impromptu speaking in the Table Topics Contest.

This week will see another glittering line up of members aiming to improve their public speaking skills with prepared speeches and other roles.

So please come along and join us on Thursday for speeches, fun and socialising. The program starts at 20:00 at Einstein’s inLeiden.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

OnThursday 8 September, Leiden Toastmasters will hold its first ever Speech Contests!

First, four contestants will do their best to make us laugh in the Humourous Speech Contest.

That will be followed up by another four contestants displaying their prowess with impromptu speaking in the Table Topics Contest.

Come join us on Thursday for some high-quality speeches and a lot of laughter! The program starts at 20:00  on Thursday evening at Buddha’s Restaurant in Leiden.

See you there!

If you go down to the woods today, you better go in disguise.
If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise….

The next meeting of Leiden Toastmasters on August 25th will be one BIG surprise, because everything from the speech titles to the meeting theme is:

Richard Turner will lead us through an exciting and fun evening of surprise speeches, unexpected questions and enlightening evaluations.

So please join us at Buddha’s Restaurant in Leiden, starting at 19:30. Come along and take part; visitors are always welcome to come and see how a Toastmasters meeting works.

At our most recent meeting on August 4th, Emilia Ipate led the meeting that was themed “Famous Quotes,” in which we got the chance to learn some more about our fellow Toastmasters by hearing some of their favourite famous quotes.  In the three speeches of the evening:

• Emma Meuleman explored the question of whether we were rational creatures in her speech “Are we rational?“
• Luca van Veen demonstrated some interesting facts about alcohol in her speech “Strong Stuff“
• and Ryan Sutherland tried to persuade us all to use bicycle helmets in his speech “Cycling in the Netherlands.”

Finally, Finne Boonen kept us all thinking and laughing with her famous-quotes-related Table Topics.