Working together to make West Ealing a better place for residents, businesses and visitors.
Tweet The first floor studio at OPEN Ealing was absolutely packed last night with over 100 people coming for the premiere of Opera Viscera’s Narcissus and Echo. I make no claim at all to be able to write a review of the opera’s music and song but having managed to squeeze in right at the back I …
Tweet Hello everyone. We hope that you are all keeping sane and well during lockdown. There is no shortage of news to report this month from the first steps towards a new Local Plan to several major planning applications in West Ealing and Southall that have just been submitted. We start with the borough-wide news. …
Continue reading “Planning update – Ealing Matters Newsletter”
Tweet WEN is delighted that the arts organisation OPEN Ealing now has a permanent new home in Dickens Yard. OPEN started life in what was A2Dominion’s old headquarters on the Uxbridge Road opposite the fire station. There it grew and thrived and became a key arts venue for all of Ealing with a wide range …
Tweet A Freedom of Information (FOI) reply has revealed plans to create a 50 bed frailty/elderly unit within refurbished parts of the closed down EDGH. The FOI reply document arrived on 21 February 2018. The FOI planning document is dated 16 June 2017. This document has the snappy title of ‘Client section (call-off) of a …
Continue reading “Closure plans for Ealing Hospital revealed”
Tweet Most of us have probably never come across the Solace Centre in West Eaing. It’s tucked away at the end of Bowmans Close and well off the beaten track. Yet, this mental health drop-in centre is suddenly at the centre of a storm with the Council threatening to close it as part of budget …
Continue reading “What future for West Ealing’s Solace mental health drop-in centre?”
Tweet Music Saturdays at OPEN Ealing Vivian Dubois and Tom Collins are a dramatic cabaret act like no other. Using song, story and playful anecdote Viv and Tom will guide you through the different worlds they inhabit. One minute you may be in occupied France, serenaded by Edith Piaf, the next, in a dimly lit …
Continue reading “Two great evenings out in Ealing coming very soon”
Tweet I’ve booked my ticket for the opening night of the new play Orbits at the Drayton Court and there’s loads more events coming up as part of this annual autumn festival: World premiere of new opera – Galileo WW1 in poetry and prose Violin masterclasses Local history talk on transport through the ages Films…. …
Continue reading “Opera, drama, music and more at the Ealing Autumn Festival”
Tweet I spoke to Anthony Shrubsall, chair of OPEN Ealing for an update on the latest plans for OPEN and the planned community café on the Green Man Lane Estate. ‘We are going into partnership with A2 Community Involvement (A2 Dominion are the developers) with a view to substantial use of the cafe theatre space …
Continue reading “OPEN Ealing arts project needs your support”
Tweet The Ealing Autumn Festival is a celebration of arts, culture and heritage in venues across Ealing. This year, in celebration of Benjamin Britten’s centenary, the Festival is giving Ealing its first ever opera to be staged as the composer intended – Noye’s Fludde. Visitors can look forward to over 30 events in 12 venues …
Tweet Heathrow’s proposals to expand Heathrow has been in the news a lot recently proposing a third and possibly fourth new runway. The proposals are being considered as part of the Davies Commission set up by the Government to examine whether and where additional airport capacity is needed in the UK . Heathrow has outlined …
Continue reading “Plans to expand Heathrow and what it might mean for West Ealing”