Exhibition at Westfield London: We Are LDN Summer. 4th August-10th August Benjamin Bridges – Coronal Loop. 152x122cm Oil on Canvas 2013 4th-10th August @Westfield London, Shepherds Bush. OPEN’s curator, Jack Jones has been hard at work these last few months on a number of different projects. Coming this August, in partnership with Westfield London, Jack is curating a special showcase of artists from across London. Which include some local Ealing artists. The London Collection was created to bring together the different projects Jack is currently working with in west London. We would love for your support and to celebrate this unique project. For more information, please visit the London Collection website, and join the facebook/twitter/mailing list to keep up to date! www.thelondoncollection.co.uk About the exhibition: WESTFIELD LAUNCHES WE ARE LDN SUMMER CAMPAIGNSix Weeks of Culture and Culinary Art at Westfield LondonTo celebrate the launch of Westfield’s ‘We Are LDN Summer’ campaign, running 16 July – 31 August, visitors to Westfield London will be treated to six weeks of London’s best in class of dance, music, art, food, children and fashion themed activity. 4th-10th “The London Collection” Curated by Jack Jones of The London Collection. The exhibition brings together a selection of established and emerging artists to promote the cultural richness and diversity that West London has to offer. This exciting collection will feature contemporary painting, photography and sculpture. “This exhibition is about showcasing artists work rather than working under a curatorial theme. I think this is an opportunity for the artists to demonstrate their talents to an entirely different spectrum of viewer and I didn’t want that opportunity to get interrupted by a concept. Each of these artists are incredibly talented and with their own distinct ideas. for more information about the artists and the upcoming event, please visit  www.thelondoncollection.co.uk for more information.” The London Collection was started to develop more opportunities to  exhibit artists in West London. In partnership with OPEN Ealing and HF-ArtsFest the London Collection works across multiple west London Boroughs working with local authorities and private businesses to establish a platform for Contemporary art.  Facebook: www.facebook.com/thelondoncollection twitter: www.twitter.com/Ldn_collection website: www.thelondoncollection.co.uk Below are some of the Artists exhibiting at Westfield London. From left to right: Martin Lau, Durbin Lewis, Benjamin Jasper Buckley, Alex Baker and Nick Pearson. In association with:           Copyright © 2014 OPEN Ealing, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have said that you would like to be informed about events at OPEN.Our mailing address is: 13 Drayton Green Road W13 0NG unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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Paul Conlan, one of the new Walpole councillors, has posted on the Ealing Today Forum that the votes have been counted and the proposed CPZ for the Fielding School area has been rejected. No further details yet available.

I wrote this short piece for our June newsletter:

‘One sure sign of regeneration?
Walking along Northfield Avenue the other day it struck me that a sure sign of an area changing is when estate agents come in to or leave a high street. Northfield Ave has loads of estate agents with new ones moving in regularly. Will a sign that West Ealing is on the up be when a new estate agent opens on the high street? Anyone willing to say when this will happen in West Ealing?’

Crossrail is already having a significant effect on house prices. You’ve only to look at the estate agents’ adverts in the Ealing Gazette to see the regular mention of Crossrail. Then someone recently said to me ‘we’re being gentrified’ referring to the nearly refurbished Grosvenor pub (which I like).  Change is a slow process but it’s happening in West Ealing.

What are the other signs of regeneration – an artisan baker, new restaurants, improved schools, more affordable housing?  I’m curious what others think or whether I’m imagining change is in the air.

Then I read an article in yesterday’s Sunday Times ( 15th June) about spotting the signs of gentrification.  Apparently, if there’s already a Waitrose and Carluccio’s you’re being gentrified. The signs it’s starting to happen include:

1. ‘When the local boozer suddenly gets rebranded as a gastropub’

2. Cupcake stands

3. Organic food outlets

4. Shops billed as ethical or sustainable open up

5. Companies that trade on being cool or hitting a zeitgeist

6. Charity shops moving out to make way for higher-value occupiers

7. Solicitors and accountants noving from the ground floor to the upper floors as rents rise

I can think of two such signs in West Ealing recently. The tired old boozer The Grosvenor being bought up and refurbished and offering decent food. The Warren Evans ‘green’ bed and furniture store opening in the last space on the ground floor of the old Daniels site.  What next?

The Dr Bike team does a fantastic job promoting cycling and checking out bikes.  If you want to get your bike health -checked or get advice on anything to do with cycling drop in to see them at their stall at the farmers’ market in Leeland Road on Saturday 14th JUne 9am-1pm