Walpole Park Area Guide

Are you looking to find a choir? The Ealing Rock Choir is led by vocal teacher Nicola Cain. The Ealing branch is part of the unique national singing family that is Rock Choir. Whilst retaining our focus on Ealing community causes and events, all the local London choirs come together in regional and even national groups for bigger events, such performing en masse at the 10,000 seat Wembley Arena, achieving album sales that enter the charts, nationwide flaskmobs and Guinness World Records and helping to raise millions for charity. Joining this incomparable musical national treasure is very easy, there are no auditions, there's no need to read music and we're open to everyone in your local community! To book your FREE singing taster session go to https://www.rockchoir.com/join. Here is a quote about our choir - 'Rock Choir is a great experience of great music, friendship and for me personally has been a confidence booster.' - John (Rock Choir Member) Rock Choir is a winner of the Red Ribbon 'Big Heart' Award [https://rockchoir.com/awards-achievements/]. and holds 1 former and 2 current Guinness World Records. The choir is also credited with single handedly starting the contemporary choir movement.

I Shop Therefore I Am - the '90s, Harvey Nicks - and Me Absolutely irresistible. Joanna Lumley A book with all the grit, gossip, beauty and brutality of retail. I couldn't put it down! Michelle Ogundehin Join acclaimed author, retail pioneer and one of the UKs most innovative businesswomen Mary Portas as she shares the inspiration behind her bold new memoir. With her signature wit and no-holds-barred honesty, Mary charts her transformation of Harvey Nichols from a tired, fusty department store into a fashion powerhouse, as she juggled the challenge of two young children and a sceptical all-male management team.. Mary will discuss how, armed only with the blank canvas of a shop window and her own creativity, she reimagined what luxury and style could be. Hear about the vivid world of 90s Britpop and retail, fashion-world revelations, and the highs and lows of a career that shaped the high street Mary Portas is one of the UKs most prolific businesswomen and creative leaders. A regular on our TV screens, her proudest achievement to date is the creation of twenty-six Marys Living & Giving shops for Save the Children. She is the author of Shop Girl , Work Like a Woman and Rebuild: How to Thrive in the new Kindness Economy . In association with Marys Living and Giving, Ealing. Event duration: 1 hour

A DEADLY EPISODE 'Easily the greatest of our living crime writers Sunday Times Join the bestselling author for an evening of crime as he discusses a life in writing and the latest in his bestselling series featuring Inspector Hawthorne. A Deadly Episode finds Hawthorne visiting a film set only to find himself investigating the murder of the actor who plays him in the dramatisation of previous Hawthorne/Horowitz novel The Word is Murder . Anthony Horowitz has written over 50 acclaimed novels including the Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders , the Detective Hawthorne series and the hugely popular teen spy Alex Rider series. He is also responsible for creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War . In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature. In conversation withLorraine Heggessey. This event is supported by St Benedict's School, Ealing [https://www.stbenedicts.org.uk] Event duration: 1 hour

Honoured: Survival, strength and my path to politics The most unusual and shocking story of a standing MP I have ever read. Thank the stars for Naz Shah, a true heroine of our times. - Lemn Sissay You will be knocked sideways by this book. - Andrew Marr Honoured is an unflinching, unforgettable story of survival, resilience and political awakening by Naz Shah, Labour MP for Bradford West. By the age of five, Naz was used to the sight of her father beating her mother. At six, her father left the family for a teenage neighbour. At twelve, she was sent to Pakistan for protection from her mother's new abuser, only to be forced into marriage at the age of fifteen. Within a couple of years, her mother would be in prison, jailed for murdering the man who had subjected her to years of physical and sexual torture, and Naz and her two younger siblings would be left to fend for themselves. It was then that Naz campaigned with the Southall Black Sisters to get her mother released and a political career was born. In Honoured , Naz reveals how growing up she was sustained by the ever-increasing strength of her Islamic faith and guided by its values of justice and compassion allowing her to find purpose and the determination to stand up and claim space in a world that rarely offers it. Naz Shah has been the Labour MP for Bradford West since her election in 2015 in a bruising battle with George Galloway's Respect Party. Honoured is her first book. Event duration: 1 hour

THE ENGLISH HOUSE 'Cruickshanks enthusiasm for Englands vernacular architecture shines through every infectious sentence of this glorious book... A triumph.' The Times The distinguished art historian and television presenter tells the story of the English house through eight highly contrasting buildings. It's the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitalfields, built for a Huguenot silk-weaver subsequently becoming a synagogue. It's also the story of a row of two-up, two-downs in Toxteth; a block of flats in London's East End; the house Ideal Home described in 1926 as Britain's 'first modern house' in Northampton; and Chichesters superbly elegant early eighteenth-century Pallant House. Together these buildings reveal the ways in which English homes have developed and changed over the past few centuries and what they can tell us about the lives of their first occupants: their aspirations, their struggles, their place within society and relationship with their local community. Dan Cruickshankis an architectural historian and television presenter. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and has sat on the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group, and the Architectural Panel of the National Trust. His previous work includes the BBC television programmes Civilisation Under Attack (2015) and At Home with the British (2016), and the books A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings (2015) and Spitalfields (2016). Event duration: 1 hour

Gloria Antonio Vivaldi A Little Jazz Mass Bob Chilcott Water Night Eric Whitacre