What's On

Performers of all ages and abilities are invited to enter the annual competitive Ealing Festival of Music, Dance and speech which will take place in April and May 2010.

The Ealing Festival, which encourages the study and performance of dance, instrumental, pianoforte, vocal, speech, verse and drama, is inviting people to read their syllabus and apply for classes.

Police will be out in force this weekend combating night-time violence with patrols of crime hotspots and targeting uninsured cars and unlicensed drivers during the day.

The Ealing Specials, as part of 'Operation Spring Hope', will be out on the streets of Ealing, equipped with an automatic number plate reader and uninsured drivers could be handed a £200 fine, six points on their licence or have their car taken away.

A piano festival commemorating the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth will take place at St Barnabas Church, Pitshanger Lane on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 February.

A total of 38 pianists will be performing mini-recitals of between 15 and 40 minutes, covering all of Chopin's solo piano music.

Are you running the London Marathon in April and do you live in the borough of Ealing?

If so, why not share your training achievements and challenges with your local paper, The Ealing Gazette?

Businesses are being encouraged to recruit trainees as part of the National Apprenticeship week celebrations.

A special breakfast business event will take place at Pitzhanger Manor, Walpole Park, Mattock Lane on Friday February 5 between 8-10am.

The public and interested organisations are invited to attend a specialist Scrutiny Panel meeting examining the current proposals for the redevelopment of Ealing Broadway station.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday January 26 at Ealing Town Hall from 7pm.

Ealing Transition along with Patrick Holden, president of the Soil Association, will be holding a talk on the future of agriculture in the UK.

Following the Government's publication of its food strategy, the boom in population and increasing pressure on natural resources, the event will seek to discuss and address how people will feed themselves in the future.

A popular fundraising event which was cancelled last year due to 'excessive' hall hire costs will now be setting up at a church in Hanwell.

The annual Animal Welfare Bazaar which raises much needed funds as well as giving information and advice to visitors, will be going ahead at Hanwell Methodist Church, Church Road, on Saturday March 6 to the delight of the organisers.

Guests are invited to attend a performance of 'Carols from around the world' on Saturday December 19.

The Christmas carol concert includes Polish, Latvian, French, English, German as well as a Latin American performance by the Colla Voce Singers, a young talented choir of students and recent graduates from various universities and music colleges.

Guests are reminded of a special art exhibition displaying the work of a teenager who tragically died last year.

The three day 'we cluster and we stick' exhibition in memory of Rosie Dwyer, 19, will take place at the Chelsea College of Art and Design at 16, John Islip Street Pimlico.