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Saturday 24th September at St James Church from 1pm -3pm Opera Viscera and OPEN Ealing present a workshop afternoon of music, drama, and design;exploring the process of making an opera (a story with music). Throughout the afternoon the children will help our performers choose how their characters might move on stage, what sounds they might …
Sitting quietly at the reception desk at OPEN Ealing this morning I heard wafting down two flights of stairs the unmistakeable sound of an opera singer practising her scales. She is the lead singer with Opera Viscera, a group of graduate musicians who have moved into OPEN Ealing for three weeks to compose, rehearse and …
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Sergeant Pinder Chana of the Walpole Safer Neighborhood Team and Patrick Chapman, of Walpole Residents’ Association discuss local policing priorities in the wake of concerns about drug-dealing anti-social behaviour in West Ealing Many people are unsure how our Safer Neighbourhoods Teams (SNTs) fit in with the other police teams – and who to contact for …
As a consultation on library services in the Borough draws to a close, and the threat of library branch closures looms, James Guest of Ealing Fields Residents Association breaks down the costs of Ealing Libraries, and find that the Council needs to take a closer look at libraries’ considerable overheads if they want to make …
Ealing’s Local Development Framework (LDF) is a statutory planning requirement for the future of Ealing. Local Authorities all over the UK are at various stages of implementing their LDFs, which in Ealing’s case will replace its UDP as the planning ‘bible’ for Ealing in 2013 – for the years 2011 to 2026. The most important …
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West Ealing has a surprisingly long and interesting history. Ealing is derived from the Saxon “Gillingas” and is recorded as a settlement in the 12th century. It was originally in the middle of a great forest to the west of London. Iron-age pots have been found near Horsenden Hill.
10,000 signatures for Ealing nature reserve presented to London Assembly 21 September 2021 Press release from the campaigners: Campaigners asking for Local Nature Reserve (LNR) status for a series of urban meadows in Ealing, West London presented their petition to London Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon today. The Warren Farm Nature Reserve petition was launched in …
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The Friends of Victoria Hall have sent out this appeal for donations to save it: The Friends of Victoria Hall (FoVH) urgently need your help to keep the Victoria Hall open for community use. The Hall was the centre of civic life in Ealing for 125 years until it was shut down in 2019. It …
GREENFORD, HANWELL, NORTHFIELDS, PERIVALE, PITSHANGER, WOOD END & WEST EALING The council is proposing to cut funding for seven out of 13 libraries in the borough. It has put forward the idea of Community Managed Libraries (CML). In the CML model the community charity organisation is responsible for the financing, operation and staffing of the …
We’ve covered the efforts made by users of the Solace Centre to keep it open in the face of closure in previous posts. There are various options now available and we hope the Council will agree to continue funding the centre whilst these options are explored in detail. Ealing Council’s cabinet will consider proposals next …
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