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The Mayor’s SoundBite DEAN GARDENS W13 > Ealing mayor, Councillor Dr Patricia Walker, poses with two of Mike’s Donkeys at Saturday’s West Ealing SoundBite Festival. > see pages 4-5
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Q&A Hanwell-based Jessica Rose is a painter and printmaker specialising in watercolours. Last weekend and next weekend, Jessica can be found at stop number 32 on the first Borough of Ealing Art Trail (BEAT). She tells us what it takes to be an artist in Ealing...
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hat has the public response to BEAT been like? > It’s always a bit worrying when you do events like BEAT that you’ll be sat twiddling your thumbs for four days but luckily the response to the event has been great and loads of people came to my studio. I thought I had over-baked because my kitchen worktop was groaning with biscuits for my visitors, but by the end of the first weekend of BEAT they’d all gone! Why did you decide to take part in BEAT – what are
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you hoping to get out of it? Do these types of initiatives actually help local artists? > The great thing about BEAT is you get to meet your customers and sell to them directly. I really enjoy chatting to people about my work and find it very rewarding when they buy a picture they’ve fallen in love with. Run through for us what goes on in a typical day in the life of a full-time painter in Ealing
in 2016. (And explain how you deal with missing your former career as a BBC journalist.) > A piece of work can take a long time in gestation – I’ll do plenty of research and sketches and then experiment with different media to see what works best for the subject I’m currently inspired by. I don’t paint all day every day because if I did I would be buried under a mountain of unsold pictures. I spend a lot of time marketing my pictures and finding new customers. Just for
fun, I also use my old journalism skills to produce local news reports (old habits die hard) – you can read them at: facebook.com/EalingEye. jessicaroseartist.co.uk @jessroseartist jessicaroseartist – interview by Carlene Bender
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Below left: St Mary’s Church, Bunny Park, Hanwell Below: Jessica with her recently framed paintings Bottom: Hanwell Lock More BEAT: p10-11
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SoundBite in the rain DEAN GARDENS W13 > Every serious festival needs a bit of rain and mud, and the weather willingly obliged on Saturday for the West Ealing SoundBite Festival. Hundreds of fun-seekers turned out in their raincoats and boots to sample the live music, crafts, cookery classes, fun rides, climbing wall, small business stands, and the food. After last year’s SoundBite had to be cancelled when police closed the park because of a crime overnight, it was good to see the community out together again. According to Julian Ward, whose Hilltop Roti shop came down Drayton Green Road to take a Caribbean food stand as well as to stage several cookery demos, “I needed to be involved in this event.”
In photos, below: SoundBite Festival organisers Faye, Simon and Caz sort out the balloons. Bottom: Dave “Sticky” Raven on board the Red Routemaster “wifi bus” sharing his paper-reuse skills with little Stephanie. Dave’s West Ealing based project, Sticking Together, explores the “creative potential of rubbish”.
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SOUNDBITE (continued) Below: Taking refuge from the rain in the performers tent; the climbing wall; Zeina from the Let’s Get Cooking tent. Bottom left: Leona Ward from Hilltop Roti serves up a Trinidadian chicken and channa dhalpuri roti. Bottom right: Hilltop Roti chef Julian Ward with local photographer Nicola Gaughan before his fish-filleting cookery demo.
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#Tweetup at Trailfinders VALLIS WAY W13 > Bruno, the giant huggable mascot for Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club, had his hands full at last Tuesday’s Ealing Tweetup hosted at the club’s Vallis Way headquarters. The #EalingTweetup, organised by local PR Michael Greer, occurs every six weeks or so at a different venue in Ealing, and is an opportunity for local tweeters to meet up face to face.
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EALING TWEETUP (continued) Below: the final group of die-hard tweetup-ers, minutes before the 11pm closing time – including @EalingSoup, @MGreer_PR, @BodyWorks_, @OfficialHayleyS, and @JonBall. Opposite: photos from the night, featuring #EalingTweetup guests; @ealingtfrugby players, and Viv @LiveInLevis in a crunch with Bruno. At right: Ealing Trailfinders looked after their guests very well.
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MARCHWOOD CRESCENT W5 > Classical music singing group The Sixteen visited Ealing Abbey Roman Catholic church last Thursday evening as part of their Choral Pilgrimage, a tour of Britain’s finest cathedrals. Local writer Rory Thomas covered the event for The_Ealinger (see review, facing page). At the close of the two-hour performance, says Rory, “The choir received a wave of applause, which, given the length and enthusiasm, was a clear indication of the audience’s deep satisfaction and joy.”
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THE SIXTEEN (continued)
The Deer’s Cry: The Sixteen Pilgrimage Choral Choir at Ealing Abbey Review and photos by Rory Thomas
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eldom is one given opportunity to step outside the quickening rate of modern society, and instead linger for a moment in a place of quiet tranquillity, veiled from the rumbling traffic, ominous sirens, and the scream of passing trains. Last Thursday night, thanks to marketing manager Jessica Tomkins, I attended The Sixteen Choral Pilgrimage Concert of ‘The Deer’s Cry’ at Ealing Abbey, to discover that such moments are indeed possible. This was a deeply powerful and majestic evening of music from William Byrd and Arvo Pärt, given by a relatively small yet immensely talented group of singers. During the performance, which lasted around two hours, I cast about to see how my counterparts in the audience were reacting to the performance. Of about 300, many were simply motionless, unshifting, with eyes closed and heads bowed, listening, seemingly arrested by the force and beauty of the performance. I saw some were crying, not from sorrow I claim, but from a feeling of a kind of heightened melancholic elation. Never did the power of the music appear to be felt more keenly than in the penultimate piece Tribue, Domine, which seemed to soar above us like some great bird, lifting us up one moment and letting us fall gracefully in the next, down into the well of our ringing hearts. By the end of the performance, the audience were like seated statues, frozen, like pious monastics in solemn prayer. In the interval I managed to speak with the associate conductor of The Sixteen, Eamonn Dougan, to find out what it means to perform at Ealing Abbey: “This is the sixteenth year of our choral pilgrimage,” he said, “and for me, it’s one of the best sounds (acoustically). It’s a joy and a privilege. I’m sure William Byrd was writing his music exactly with these buildings in mind. I don’t know how he does it, but each year, Harry Christophers (founder and conductor) puts together rewarding and exhilarating programmes.” When asked about what this music meant to Eamonn personally, he said: “Difficult to put that into words… but, this evening, standing before that beautiful crucifix, I can look up and it’s extremely powerful. You don’t have to be a person of faith to appreciate this music, you just have to listen, and it’ll speak to you”. @TheSixteen
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On the BEAT art trail PITSHANGER LANE W5 > Art lovers in Ealing were on Friday evening celebrating the start of two weekends of the borough’s first art trail – BEAT (Borough of Ealing Art Trail). Below: stop number 45 – Cinnamon Cafe, where the Tuesday Morning Art Group, led by professional artist Pamela Lloyd Jones, set up its display. @EalingBEAT
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BEAT (continued) BRENTHAM CLUB W5 > Meanwhile, a short distance away, the Tuesday Afternoon Art Group, also led by Pamela Lloyd Jones, had created a pop-up exhibition space in the cafe at the tennis club. Painters Carina Chou-Warry and Dhuria Mia were on hand to talk about the art, and what happens in their painting classes, which are also held at the Brentham Club. Below: Dhuria (left) and Carina at art trail stop number 40. Below right: the sign says the show is not to be missed. Bottom left: vintage tennis racket on display too. Bottom right: Dhuria’s magical painting of a boat on Mayaro beach in much-loved Trinidad.
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Networking ‘with a spin’ THE MALL W5 > Anita Wong’s first after-hours event last Thursday, “An Evening of Networking” saw over 20 local and not-so-local business-owners meet up to find out about one another, to share contacts and to offer feedback. The Ealing Connect event took place at Tribeca Studios in Ealing Broadway, and was a mix of informal networking and an hour-long speed networking session led by Alex Molokwu of Co Work Hub. The speed networking actually took place on stationary bicycles – the ones used in the gym’s spin classes! @EalingConnect
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EALING CONNECT (continued) Below: connecting while networking. Opposite page: Ealing Connect founder Anita Wong waves a hello as guests arrive for the evening’s event.
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