It’s a social evening with a chance to meet neighbours and swap ideas for how you’d like life to be in our town. Everyone welcome so do pass this on to neighbours, friends – anyone who has an interest in West Ealing. Nibbles and drinks supplied. Just turn up. Location: OPEN Ealing, 113 Uxbridge Road (corner of Culmington Rd), London, W5 5TL Time: 7.30pm-9.30pm Organised by: West Ealing Neighbours – the event is also a chance to catch up on our current activities
Why join a gym when you can spend Saturday climbing trees? West Ealing locals get their wellies on…
Barn Dance/Ceilidh in the heart of West Ealing – easy steps, lots of people – come alone, come with family, come with friends. Steps called from the front. Get it right, get it wrong, bring all your left feet. Nibbles included in £8 adult ticket (advance booking) – bring your own beer/wine. Kids of all ages welcome – admission free/donation up to age 16. Local Ealing ‘live’ folk band will be out in full force, wrangled by folk professional Laurel Swift. Sat 4th Feb 2012, 7.30-10.30. St James’s Church (behind Sainsbury’s in W Ealing), St James’s Ave, London W13 9DL. Book in advance Gill Witcomb, 020 8568 4276/gillroy66@tiscali.co.uk. Adults £8 if booked in advance, £9 on the door, kids (up to age 18) voluntary donation Please forward this to anyone/any organisations you think might be interested.
Saturday 21st January 2012 St James Church – top of St James Ave, Ealing, W13 9DL £10 per ticket to include main meal Programme: 6.45pm – arrival 7.00pm – dinner is served – chilli con carne + jacket potatoes (please ask for vegetarian meal) 7.30pm – quiz starts 9.00pm – tea/coffee + homemade cake (£1.50) 10.15pm – finish (hopefully on time!) Please bring your own drinks (alcohol is fine) Donations of raffle prizes appreciated – thank you! Tickets from Martyn Clarke – martyn237@yahoo.co.uk or 020 8997 2540. All tickets must be purchased and paid for by 10pm Thursday 19th January so we can purchase enough food. Please either bring a team of up to 8 people, or we can allocate you to a team.
OPEN Arts Centre and the Drayton Court pub both feature in this personal Ealing Top 10 choice by Janan Jedrzejewsk. What floats your boat in West Ealing? Can we find 10?
THURSDAY DECEMBER 1st. 2011, 6.00 – 9.30pm. Cost: £25 At OPEN Ealing Arts Project, 113 Uxbridge Road, London, W5 5TL Refreshments and course materials will be provided. Numbers are limited so please reserve a place by emailing chrissie.kravchenko (AT) btinternet.com with your contact details. Find your VOICE and make your CHOICE Estelle Lovatt is a freelance art critic for broadcast and print including BBC Radio 2′s flagship arts programme `The New Arts Show With Claudia Winkleman’ and `Art of England’ magazine. In this workshop she will coach budding art critics how to write art reviews specifically for radio. Art criticism for radio involves a specific way of both looking at and describing a work of art. The workshop will look at how the spoken (versus the written) critique is presented, script layout and writing for the programme host. The venue for the workshop is the OPEN community art gallery, where there will [...]
Hi, just went to a meeting – 13 Ealing churches are opening their doors to increasing numbers of rough sleepers in the borough, from Jan to March 2012. They are short of single fitted sheets, blankets and overnight (and other) helpers. Video below is well worth watching. More info on their website: http://ecwns.org.uk/index.html
More info: http://www.classiccinemaclub.co.uk/index.html
This report is from Ann Clifford, about her experience as a Street Pastor in West Ealing: ‘Street Pastors have been patrolling in Ealing Broadway for two years now. I joined a year ago and as a resident of West Ealing, was extremely excited when, three weeks ago, we had our first patrol in West Ealing. What is a Street Pastor? A Street Pastor is someone who’s main role is to make themselves available to care, listen, support and help all people on the street, particularly the young and vulnerable. We also pick up bottles so they cannot be used as weapons. You’ll be surprised to learn that amongst other things, we carry with us space blankets, spikies (a device you put on a bottle to stop it being spiked), and of course flip flops. Why flip flops? I