OPEN Ealing’s Jack Jones and friends spent part of Saturday painting a mural on the shutters boarding up the boarded up baby e shop on Ealing Green
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‘ Yesterday we took to the streets to help reconstruct our community that has been rocked by this weeks events. I turned up at Baby e with a bag full of paints and we all set to work.
We were later unexpectedly joined by “bake for a better britain” who had made some amazing anti riot cup cakes and they did a great job of providing a happy atmosphere and conversation to the public while we busied ourselves with pots of paint and composition tweaking.
The pizza place next door even came out with pizza for everyone, which was equally amazing as the cup cakes. We had set up paper for the public to draw on, and who left many encouraging messages of support. thank you to everyone who came out yesterday to support us. For the first time in a while, I’ve been proud to say I am from Ealing.
You can read the full story and see the photos taken during the day at http://openealing.com/wordpress/
David Highton
That’s lovely. OPEN has been such a positive, happy and obviously artistic and energetic thing in Ealing/West Ealing this year. It reaches out to the community in a different way to WEN which seems particularly relevant at the moment. I think it’s brilliant and hope OPEN continues and develops.
And that David has worked his socks off to help get it off the ground is also greatly appreciated.