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!
Sing Palestine event at OPEN Ealing 18th November
Dear All, here are details of a very special event indeed. We hope you will support it.
Only 100 tickets so it is advisable to buy in advance.
Jean Fitzpatrick
Friends of Nablus And Surrounding Areas (FONSA) and Friends of An-Najah University (FAN)invite you to
SING
PALESTINE
Friday 18th November- doors open 7.00pm
OPEN Ealing, 113 Uxbridge Road London W5 5TL
The An-Najah musicians
4 musicians playing the oud, the Arabic flute, and more, will be coming from Nablus especially for this event to enchant you with their traditional songs and music
Leon Rosselson
Singer songwriter who has written many songs for Palestine
Refreshments, raffle, the opportunity to buy olive trees for Nablus. The certificates make great Christmas gifts!
All proceeds will be used to plant trees in vulnerable villages within the Nablus area and to buy equipment for the new Nablus teaching Hospital
Tickets: £12
Come and watch a special open rehearsal at OPEN Ealing this Thursday evening
It was an invitation no business man could resist…3 attractive women who refused to tell him what the job entailed’. Your chance to see a special public OPEN rehearsal of Peter Harrison’s All Those Endearing Young Charms, directed by Ealing-based Anthony Shrubsall, before it goes to this year’s Windsor Fringe. Thursday 29th September at 7.30pm. Tickets £4. Call OPEN on 020 8579 5558 to reserve a ticket.
It was an invitation no business man could resist. An invitation to be interviewed at a secret location for a very important post. Intriguingly, there was mystery about his interrogators, 3 attractive women who refused to tell him what the job entailed. When he learned the truth it was too late…
Anthony Shrubsall is a freelance theatre director based in London. His most recent production Richard Tyrone Jones Has a Big Heart premiered at the Buxton Fringe this summer while LANZA with the opera singer Andrew Bain, ran at the Kings Head, London from December 2010 to January 2011.
His production of Security, a one woman show commissioned by BAC and Birmingham Rep was written and performed by renowned spoken word artist and performance poet Zena Edwards. The show premiered at Battersea Arts Centre and toured nationally and internationally in 2009, a year which also which saw Security published in book form. In June 2010 the show was the first ever UK production invited to Japan for the highly prestigious Shizuoka Performing Arts Festival.
A former Artistic Director at the Drayton Court Theatre, London, Anthony has written and published on Samuel Beckett, Theatre d’Complicite’s Jos Houben, Harold Pinter and Vsevolod Meyerhold, respectively. He is a member of the Director’s Guild of Great Britain.
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
Open Day at OPEN Ealing 11am-5pm today
Drop in today to OPEN Ealing any time between 11am – 5pm and find out about our autumn season of classes for photography, printmaking, creative writing, ballet, zumba, yoga, pilates and much, much more.
OPEN Ealing is at 113 Uxbridge Road (opposite the fire station).
Free live music from singer songwriter Robert Lane 12.30-1.30 this Friday at OPEN Ealing
OPEN Ealing launches its first ever First Friday Music event this coming Friday with an hour of free live music from Midlands-based singer songwriter Robert Lane. Come and join us on Friday (2nd September) between 12.30 – 1.30pm for an hour of relaxing music during your lunch break.
David Highton
Come and see local artist David Stokes at OPEN’s contemporary gallery tonight and until 30th August
Local artist, David Stokes an abstract impressionist, launches a one man show at the OPEN contemporary gallery tonight (Friday 19th August) from 6-9pm and then Monday to Saturday 11am – 5pm.
The show features ‘Violet’ from the 2008 series alongside more recent work referencing the countryside close to his home and places he has visited. The show runs until 30 August 2011.
David Stokes has lived and worked in Ealing for twenty five years and has a studio in Norwood Green. He studied Art and Design at Stafford College of Art and Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic.
OPEN Ealing is at 113 Uxbridge Road, Ealing W5 5TL (opposite the fire station). Telephone 020 8579 5558.