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Flower Festival PITSHANGER LANE W5 > St Barnabas parishioner Sue Hudson stands next to her 1930s display (“industrial strikes, coal into electric, plus a bit of Hollywood glamour”) at the church’s Flower Festival held at the weekend. > see pages 6-7
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Ann (in red helmet below) and photos from previous Make it Ealing events
Ann Hunter, Make it Ealing – bringing Sports Xtreme to Ealing Green on 24-25 September
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“We saw this weekend as a great opportunity to promote all sports [in Ealing]”
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his is a massive weekend for sport in Ealing, with the Ealing Half Marathon on Sunday 25. Is that why you chose this weekend for Sports Xtreme Ealing? > Absolutely. The Ealing Half Marathon is a such a key date in the Ealing calendar now, and is the best half marathon in the UK. We saw this weekend as a great opportunity to promote all sports and give people the opportunity to try a huge range of activities for free. The weekend will help cement sport in Ealing. Our event gives Ealing sports clubs, gyms, fitness groups and health food businesses a great chance to promote and market their businesses. If you’d like to get involved or learn more please contact the Make it Ealing team: info@makeitealing.co.uk. How does this event tie in with your day-to-day remit to increase footfall for businesses
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in Ealing Broadway? (Note to readers: Make it Ealing is the business improvement district supporting businesses in central Ealing). > The aim of our year-round events and arts programme is to draw footfall to the town centre, help promote our local Ealing town centre businesses and ensure Ealing thrives as a place to do business and as a leading place for creative arts and culture. We hope this event
showcases Ealing at its best and will draw local residents to the town centre and visitors from neighbouring centres to enjoy Ealing. The past two autumns you’ve put on similar kinds of sporting events – what’s different about Sports Xtreme Ealing 2016? > Each year we continue to build the event in size and promotion. This year it’s the range of activities which make it ‘Xtreme’. There will also be a competition on the skateboard ramp between some
of the UK’s leading pros – I’m sure their tricks and skills will be pretty extreme! The event offers a huge range of activities all for free – come down and enjoy the day with us! You’re a keen cyclist yourself, but how extreme is “Xtreme”?! > Let’s just say a recent trip to Switzerland where I mountain-biked down a black ski run got the pulse racing! makeitealing.co.uk @makeitealing makeitealing – interview by Carlene Bender
Sports Xtreme Ealing will be an event for the whole family to enjoy next weekend – see details on page 4
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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.” @SoundBiteEaling
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”.
End of the Ealing art trail BEECHMOUNT AVE W7 > Ealing-based art-makers felt another surge of love from the local community as the second weekend of the Borough of Ealing Art Trail (BEAT) ended on Sunday. The_Ealinger stopped by the home studio of Jessica Rose, our Q&A featured artist last week, to see her paintings and prints up close and to have a chat about the success of the BEAT. Let’s have it again next year!
See my video interview with Jessica Rose: tinyurl.com/Ealinger-Jess
Top: one coming, one going. Met Val on her way out of Jess’s home as I was going in. Above: on-site framing service thanks to Jess’s partner, Wayne. At left: we incorrectly captioned this photo last week. Jess is standing in front of one of her etchings.
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Floral art at St Barnabas PITSHANGER LANE W5 > The Borough of Ealing Art Trail (BEAT) last weekend also included stop number 43 – the St Barnabas Church Flower Festival. Organised by Anne Hamerton, the 20 or so displays around the inside of the church itself each depicted a different period in the church’s century-long memory. The specially selected music chimed in with the theme, too.
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FLORAL ART (continued) Opposite and below: St Barnabas parishioners and visitors take a closer look at the flower displays. @Barnabites
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See my close-up video of Sue Hudson’s 1930s display (from page 1): youtu.be/n6lw6Ea11mU
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WIN A £150 ADVERTORIAL Subscribe to The_Ealinger for a chance to win a Q&A (see pages 2-3) Online readers click here: eepurl.com/bLdZQb Congratulations to W7-based architect William Hardman, who won the September prize draw for a free Q&A double-page feature. Look out for William’s feature in an upcoming edition of The_Ealinger.
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NORTH ACTON PAVILION W3 > The_Ealinger freelancer Joanna Dudzinska went along to the opening of the East Acton Old Town – New Town Exhibition on Saturday, which “celebrated the end of a 16-month project documenting East Acton heritage through film, art, photography and live presentation”.
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Below: Director and project manager Rachel Pepper explains what happened during the project, as Ealing Mayor Dr Patricia Walker, who had earlier opened the exhibition, listens.
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Bottom: some of the portraits on display; while a visitor is inspired to take his own photos. East Acton Heritage
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Join our West Ealing meetup BROADWAY W13 > Exciting news for West London’s rapidly expanding home-based businesses: a schedule of activities is being launched at the new West Ealing Workspace as it is being refurbished, starting with our very own Contactus magazines monthly business meetups. The meetups will now alternate between Acton and West Ealing in the last week of the month. See you on Fri 30 Sep.
Keep up-to-date with news about the West Ealing Workspace on Twitter: @EalingBlueprint
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*this is a free networking event for Ealing business-owners, supported by Ealing Council via Ealing Blueprint*
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ealingconnect.co.uk Thank you everyone who attended Ealing Connect’s evening networking earlier this month. Next event: Wed 21 Sep, 1–2.45pm. @EalingConnect
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