OPEN Ealing is launching its fundraising campaign for its move to premises in the heart of West Ealing with a night of stand-up comedy on Friday 2nd March from 7.30pm. There are three stand-up acts and it promises to be a great night. Full details at www.openealing.com. Tickets are £10 and call to reserve your tickets on 020 8579 5558
OPEN Ealing Poetry evening this Wednesday at 8pm
OPEN Ealing launches its first ever OPEN Poetry evening on Wednesday 15 February 2012, 8pm
A reading with SJ Fowler, Christodoulos Makris, Marcus Slease and Cherry Smyth, plus OPEN-mic session.
In what we hope will be the first of a regular poetry series at OPEN Ealing, join us for an evening of readings from our guest poets – and yourselves. Everyone is welcome to come along, whether to perform or simply listen. Admission is free.
SJ Fowler (www.sjfowlerpoetry.com) is the author of three poetry collections, Red Museum (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, 2011), Fights (Veer Books, 2011) and Minimum Security Prison Dentistry (AAA, 2011). He is the UK poetry editor of Lyrikline and 3:AM Magazine. He is a full-time employee of the British Museum and a postgraduate student at the Contemporary Centre for Poetic Research, University of London.
Christodoulos Makris is the author of the collection Spitting Out the Mother Tongue (Wurm Press, 2011) and the chapbook Round the Clock (Wurm Press, 2009). A chapbook / artist’s book with title Muses Walk – his contribution to the project ‘An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street’ – is due out in March. He was Dublin regional editor for Succour magazine, and ran the Poetry Upfront series of readings and events in north Co Dublin. For more go to http://yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
Marcus Slease was born in Portadown, N. Ireland in 1974. His latest publications are from Smashing Time (MIPOesias Chapbook Series, 2012), Hello Tiny Bird Brain (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2011), Balloons (Deadwood Press, 2011), and Godzenie (BlazeVOX, 2009). He has lived all over the world including: Seoul Korea, Katowice Poland, Greensboro North Carolina, Ogden Utah, Seattle Washington, Ankara Turkey, and Milton Keynes England. His current home is in London where he teaches English as a foreign language. He blogs at Never Mind the Beasts: www.marcusslease.blogspot.com
Cherry Smyth’s debut poetry collection When the Lights Go Up was published by Lagan Press in 2001. A pamphlet, The Future of Something Delicate was published by Smith/Doorstop in 2005, and a second poetry collection, One Wanted Thing, was published in 2006. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies, including The Anchor Book of New Irish Writing (2000) and Scealta: Short Stories by Irish Women (Telegram, 2006). She lives in London. See more at www.cherrysmyth.com
OPEN Ealing, 113 Uxbridge Road (opposite the fire station and on the corner with Culmington Road)
Tel: 0208 579 5558
Website: www.openealing.com
Tango lessons, poetry evening, Zumba, free music and more at OPEN Ealing in February
February sees OPEN Ealing launch its first ever OPEN Poetry evening on Wednesday 15th along with the opportunity to learn the tango – what more could you ask for? Well, actually, there’s also our regular First Friday free music this Friday followed in the evening by the launch of ealingfaces – an exhibition of portraits of local people. I was going to get my portrait painted but never did quite manage it!
First Friday music on February 3rd 12.30-1.30 with the Tribulus Quartet playing an oboe quartet and a piece by Benjamin Britten.
OPEN Poetry on Wednesday 15th February at 8pm entrance free. Readings by four poets and an open-mic session. More here
Tango lessons – if there is enough interest in learning to dance the tango OPEN will put on lessons on Friday evenings. Find out more here
And if it’s Zumba you’re looking for we have five Zumba classes a week on different days and at different time and you can follow one of the Zumba teachers on Twitter @ZumbaShaf
OPEN in West Ealing is one of Ealing’s top 10 venues
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?
Launch of OPEN Ealing’s daytime book club Wednesday 7th December 10.30am
OPEN has a coffee bar with comfy sofas and bookshelves – the perfect place to talk about books. So, we’re starting a morning book group with our first meeting on Wednesday 7th December 10.30am- 12noon. We’re at 113 Uxbridge Road (opposite the fire station)
Everyone is welcome: bring along your baby, if you like; come in after you’ve dropped the children at school or during your shopping trip; or just come along to get out of the house for a bit. And bring your friends too.
In the first meeting we’ll just have coffee and cakes and talk about the kind of books we like to read. And we’ll draw up a list of books for future discussion.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Angela
Unleash your inner art critic – for radio
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 be an exhibition to inspire you.
To criticize art properly on air, you need to understand the work and its importance and relay that to the listener, who cannot see it. This involves description, analysis and interpretation of the artwork.
We will also look at how critics decide what they really think about the artwork. Do you like or dislike it? Why? And how do YOU feel about whether the artist was successful in conveying an idea? You will present your own style arts programme review, where you’ll talk about whether an artwork is successful. This will involve looking at the use of formal compositional elements and principles of design and how these interact. The feelings invoked by each work of art will be based on your own personal experiences and judgement! The aim is that listeners will follow and trust your opinions and you can build up a following.
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Free lunchtime music, new art exhibitions and cheese tasting today at OPEN Ealing
Today sees OPEN’s First Friday for November kick off with free music at lunchtime from 12.30-1.30pm. Be ready for a relaxing hour of beautiful ballads from musical theatre, pop, jazz, and classics from Tonia Szkurhan.
In the evening we will be launching two new exhibitions – Trouble in Utopia and Sugar Sachets and City Scapes. One explores the boundaries between reality and articfice, whilst the other challenges us about what materials we can use and we can see the very first public exhibition by new artist Dean Moone.
And on top of all this, in the evening from 7pm onwards, we will be joined by Brent from the new Cheddar Deli in Northfield Avenue who will be talking about some of the fabulous cheeses he’s supplied for today’s First Friday event. And take it from me, Brent really knows his cheeses! So, it’s well worth coming along to taste a few cheeses and hear what Brent has to say about them.
Free folk music this Friday lunchtime at OPEN Ealing
Come along to OPEN between 12.30 and 1.30pm on Friday to relax and listen to local folk group Oddfellas play traditional folk songs and tunes from the British Isles on banjo, fiddle, guitar and more – and all for free!
Free opera workshop for children at West Ealing Family Day on Saturday 24th September
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 make, and what their costumes could look like. They will even have a go at conducting our professional musicians! The afternoon will finish with highlights of our opera ‘Narcissus and Echo’; a mythical tale of music, magic and mirrors. We hope that the children might let you on on some of the day’s discoveries so that you can enjoy the show as much as they will!
Opera Viscera are a team of young professional musicians, composers and designers who came to OPEN Ealing in July to prepare their new opera. They premiered their opera at OPEN to a packed audience and have since performed it at the Secret Garden Festival and other venues.
The workshop will be led by violinist Sarah Hill (pictured)- an experienced music teacher and workshop leader. If you’d like to book a place on this workshop please email westealingneighbours@gmail.com
David Highton
OPEN Ealing launches its autumn season of classes and courses for adults
OPEN Ealing has launched its autumn season of activities for adults. Coming up soon are:
5-week course on introduction to photography
12-week course in creative writing
12-week series of talks on the history of 20th century design
6-week course on printmaking
Alongside these are all sorts of dance and exercise classes for all ages from zumba and pilates to Glee Club, breakdance and ballet.
Visit our new website at www.openealing.com for full details.
David Highton