Culture & Learning
Culture & Learning
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Chiswick Book Festival Wednesday - Monday 10-15 September
This, the 17th Chiswick Book Festival, will feature a rich array of speakers, including Gill Hornby, Jeremy Hunt, Kathy Lette, Axel Scheffler, Lyse Doucette, Alan Johnson, William Dalrymple, Reeta Chakrabarti, Jeremy Vine, Jeffrey Holland, Anton du Beke, Alan Rusbridger, Andrew Lownie, Asia Mackay, Julian Borger, Laurence Rees, Petroc Trelawney, Joan Smith, Rupert Gavin, Rose Sandy, Robert Ross and Taylor Downing.
The Festival is a non-profit-making community event raising money for local and reading-related charities.
Multiple venues. You can browse the brochure and book tickets on the Festival website:
You can also download the brochure or pick up a printed copy at Ealing bookshops, libraries and other venues around west London.
Why not sign up for the Festival newsletter to hear more, including programme updates, offers, news from community partners and highlights about Chiswick’s literary heritage?
Click here: www.chiswickbookfestival.net/join-our-mailing-list/
Torin Douglas, the arts broadcaster, will be addressing the Ealing Arts & Leisure AGM, talking about the role of culture and creativity in local communities, and the benefits of groups getting together.
As the Director of the Chiswick Book Festival, he will describe how this event has helped ‘break down the silos and bring together’ the disparate local organisations, which has led to Chiswick’s Sunday markets and other commercial benefits. And he’ll tell us how the Chiswick festival has helped Ealing re-launch its own book festival.
The AGM on 1 October is primarily for EA&L members, but if you would like to come and hear Mr Douglas please contact the EA&L secretary:
MANY DATES
Friends of Marcq-en-Baroeul
EALING’S TWIN TOWN IN FRANCE
The Friends of Marcq is a local group promoting friendship and activities between Ealing and Marcq-en-Baroeul, which is close to Lille, so easily accessible. Knowledge of French is not necessary for many of the organised events. We offer exchange visits to France for language and cultural weekends. There are also French classes at various levels, and a variety of activities throughout the year in Ealing.
Enquiries: 07887 877630 • 020 8568 6159 • info@fomeb.eu • www.fomeb.eu
Facebook: Les Amis d’Ealing/Friends of Marcq • www.facebook.com/groups/3139986216275513
Northfields Community Library Various days and times
Come along to Northfields Community Library – your welcoming community hub run by volunteers. We host a variety of regular events & activities for all ages. These include:
Author talks, Rhyme time, Digital Skills training, Knit & Natter, Book Clubs, Ealing Repair Cafe, Shared Reading Group ... amongst others.
There is something for everyone. Just get in touch!
Northfields Community Library, 255a Northfield Avenue, W5 4UA
020 8579 2394 • getintouch@northfieldscommunitylibrary.org.uk
www.northfieldscommunitylibrary.org.uk • Facebook: @northfieldscommunitylibrary
LOOKING AHEAD
Colette Wilson French Cultural Courses November – January
Pioneering Women Artists in a Man’s World: Camille Claudel and Gwen John
The course covers the work of sculptor Camille Claudel and painter Gwen John. Both worked in Paris, and were trailblazers in their own time but virtually forgotten after their deaths until they were rediscovered by feminist critics in the 1980s. Small, friendly group. Notes included.
Tuesday 11 November - 27 January, 2.30-4.30pm. Venue near Pitshanger Lane
£150 for 10-week course
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French Shorts:
An Introduction to French Literature from the 17th to the 21st Century
The course covers a number of short stories by well-known French writers including e.g. Moliere, Voltaire, Balzac, Flaubert through to contemporary writers e.g. Annie Ernaux, Faiza Guene. Texts are discussed in their historical, social and artistic contexts. Comprehensive notes provided and some loans of books.
Wednesdays 5 November - 28 January, 2.30-4.30pm. Venue near Pitshanger Lane
£160 for 11-week course
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
VitalityLeap - Firesidelodge Weekend 4-5 October (sign up by 28 September)
Reiki 1 Course
Reiki is an ancient Japanese self-development, meditation and healing method. It creates more balance, refreshes your energy, and helps with stress release. You receive the level 1 attunement, and learn how to use Reiki on yourself, friends and family. After the course, you may join our regular Reiki Share.
Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 1.30-6pm (Sunday morning self study). Fireside Lodge, Hanwell
£220
07766 464623 (Andrea) • Fireside.Andrea@gmail.com • www.firesidelodge.co.uk/reiki1.html
Regular & Continuing events
Ealing Readers Mondays
We are an informal book group, and we welcome new members. We read and discuss a wide variety of books, with the majority being contemporary fiction. Once a year we read a play, followed by a theatre visit.
Castle Inn, 36 St Mary’s Road, W5 5EU. Please enquire for meeting time.
Hazel Williams: hazannewilliams@gmail.com
Ealing Over 60 Network (EON) Mondays
FRIENDLY INFORMAL OLDER PERSONS’ SOCIAL CLUB
We offer a regular, varied programme every Monday except Bank Holidays and in August: social gatherings, discussions, talks by outside speakers, quizzes, films, art/craft sessions, music, poetry appreciation, etc. Disabled-friendly venue near Ealing Broadway station. Free car park.
1.30 for 2pm. Ealing Quaker Meeting House, 17 Woodville Road W5 2SE
Optional door donation up to £5 to cover room hire, etc.
020 8810 6753 • arratoon.arratoon@gmail.com
Historical Association: Ealing Branch Tuesdays
Our talks are open to everyone who is interested in history – world, national and local – and its relevance to our own times. We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Please see our website www.ealinghistory.org.uk for up-to-date details and access to meetings.
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9 September: Free Trade or Tariffs? The British Experience, 1780-1914 by Professor Anthony Howe
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7.30pm. Ealing Green Church, The Green, W5 5QT
Free for Historical Association members and students. Visitors £5.
Enquiries: 07950 137970 • Tony_Sullivan@hotmail.com • www.ealinghistory.org.uk
Rainbow Poetry Group Tuesdays
If you enjoy poetry on a wide range of subjects, we invite you to our informal monthly meetings (on the second Tuesday). We bring, read and discuss published poems, with a specific theme each month. Next meetings: 12 August (Music), 9 September (A Bird).
2.30pm. Hanwell Community Library, Cherington Road, W7 3HL
Enquiries: 020 8567 4397 • donkennedy@f2s.com
Ealing Yoga, Meditation & Philosophy Centre Wednesdays & Thursdays
Mixed-level Meditation
This is a mixed-level class, suitable for those who have experience of meditation and those new who wish to learn how to meditate.
For new students, the first sesssion is a ‘taster.’ Thereafter, it is recommended that new students commit to and pay in advance for all the remaining five sessions in the first half of term, to gain maximum benefit from the classes.
6-7.30pm Wednesdays 10 September - 3 December (no class on 29 October)
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Philosophy & Meditation
This class is suitable for those who have some knowledge of Yoga Philosophy in its various forms, and also experience of meditation and Pranayama techniques.
8-9.30pm. Thursdays 4 September - 4 December (no class on 30 October)
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All above: Block booking 5+ sessions £12 (members £10) per session, or £13 per session drop-in
Ealing Quaker Meeting House, 17 Woodville Road, Ealing, W5 2SE
07918 622995 • enquiries@ealingyogamedpc.org.uk • www.ealingyogamedpc.org.uk
Facebook: Ealing Yoga Meditation & Philosophy Centre
Ealing u3a Thursdays & other days
TALKS PROGRAMME and 55 INTEREST GROUPS
U3A is an organisation for those retired or no longer in full-time work. Members organise activities for each other. U3A offers the opportunity for those with a thirst for knowledge and learning to continue their educational, creative and social interests in a friendly, encouraging atmosphere. Talks programme, visits and 55 interest groups meeting in venues around Ealing.
Talks: most Thursdays 10am. Ealing Green Church, W5 5QT
Visitors £3
07504 667005 • membership@u3aealing.org.uk • www.u3aealing.org.uk
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