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?
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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The Ladykillers, Third Man, If … cinema treats in Ealing
Come along to our second Tweetup – 10 November at the Star and Anchor
It’s that time again! After our very successful Tweetup in June, West Ealing Neighbours is having another one! The Star and Anchor is hosting our the event on Thursday, 10 November from 7:30pm.
It’s a chance to have a drink and a chat with your neighbours in West Ealing, meet some new people, and maybe even make a connection or two! We’re inviting local tweeters, bloggers, foodies, councillors and personalities. There will be locals to talk to about the arts in Ealing, including local film, reading and music. Or, if you’re interested in the bricks and mortar of our community, you can talk to people about local planning issues and regeneration. Maybe there’s a fantastic local restaurant you want to tell everyone about?
We’ll also be hosting a book swap where you can bring along the books you want to share with others, and find some new ones to read!
So come on down to the Star and Anchor (they’re will be probably be nibbles!)- it would be great to see you there and have a drink with you!
Date: Thursday, 10 November, 2011
Time: From 7:30pm til late
Where: The Star and Anchor, 94 Uxbridge Road, West Ealing, London, W13 8RA
Who’ll be there: Members of West Ealing Neighbours, and other West Ealing and Ealing locals
Update on policing in West Ealing
Dean Gardens– Action Group update
We reported, in September, on the first Joint Action Group meeting held to coordinate the response of the Police, Council and other local agencies to the incidents involving the young night-time group that is new to this area. Now, a third but totally unconnected incident has occurred in the small hours of the morning on Wednesday 19th October. As the second, follow-up, JAG meeting was already scheduled for today, this latest incident was included on the agenda. This note summarises the overall situation and the main outcomes of the meeting for the local community.
Fundamentally, West Ealing is part of a residential area, not a centre for ‘gang behaviour’ or any other illegal activity. Already, during the daytime the park is busy with families, many enjoying the children’s facilities. The situation at night is also improving, particularly at weekends.
The increased police resources on the ground have already had a positive effect. Their numbers will be even higher this weekend with the aim of further increasing visible law enforcement. Nothing is being left to chance and residents will be very pleased to hear that the police are, and will be, taking a very firm stance. The work of the plain clothes and SNT officers gathering intelligence is continuing in parallel to this. The latest incident is being investigated by a special dedicated police unit.
As planned, the Council, Fire Brigade and Police have started their coordinated review of commercial premises in the area to ensure that licensing, planning and food health and safety legislation is being strictly enforced. Local Shisha and Khat café outlets are a particular focus, and already we are delighted that operators are cooperating by signing a Responsible Retailer Agreement. This is a key first step in the drive to minimise any local ‘under the counter’ sales. Again, in parallel, local outreach organisations such as St Mungo’s and Ealing
Council Adult and Children’s Services are also involved to help cushion any impact on the genuinely homeless and disadvantaged.
In summary – progress has already been achieved. The recent incident is unconnected with the past pattern and is being investigated very thoroughly. We can all continue to help. If you are aware of any anti-social behaviour or drug related incident, you can report it by ringing 101 (this number is for all calls to the police other than emergencies – for which please ring 999). 101 will get you through to the Metropolitan Police who will pass the details to a duty officer in Ealing for collation by our intelligence team.
If you have any additional queries, you can contact our local Walpole Police SNT on 020 8721 2949
Thank you.
Patrick Chapman, Walpole SNT Focus Panel
Chair
21st October 2011
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.
Dog Ownership Information Day – today in Dean Gardens 12 noon – 5pm
Ealing Council’s Community Safety team will be in Dean Gardens this afternoon from 12 noon to 5pm to give out information about how to look after your pet’s health and will be offering dog microchipping. The aim of the day is to encourage responsible dog ownership following some recent incidents in our parks where dogs have been out of control.
West Ealing Folk class restarts at Drayton Court, Mon Sept 12
If you’re a late bloomer, returner, beginner or just curious – and you have some kind of musical instrument (guitars, ukes, whistles, harmonicas, fiddles, accordions, flutes, and anything else you can think of, all welcome) – consider coming to learn some lovely simple old trad tunes at your local pub/hotel on Monday nights. You don’t need to be able to read music. These term-time classes restart on Mon Sept 12, 7-9pm but you can join any time. We learn new tunes every week. More here: http://ealingsessions.wordpress.com/about/
Fancy volunteering for some apple and pear picking?
WEN Abundance are coming into our exceptionaly busy phase with apples and pears coming out of our ears ready to be picked. If you are free, particularily during the daytime this week or next I would love to hear from you.
Most of our picking takes place in private gardens, we have equipment for you to use and will offer safety guidelines too.
We use the fruit in a variety of different ways from juicing through to making our own jams and chutneys. Any money we make from the sale of the produce is ploughed back into the project to help us buy equipment.
So if you want to help us reduce waste please offer up some of your spare time.
Contact me on here, or by email to wenabundance@gmail.com