May 2008 Archives

A month-long calender of events for older people begins on Saturday as the 16th annual 50+ Festival gets underway.

Every year in June CIP Arts Team in conjunction with the Older People's Festival Committee put on a celebration of the borough's 50+ community including workshops and opportunities, healthy living and information days, trips down memory lane and windows of opportunity to tomorrows' world.

This year the Hounslow Chronicle's own Eddie Menday (pictured) will open the festival at the Paul Robeson Theatre.

Monday, June 2

Griffin Park Jazz Club, The Hive, Brentford Football Club, Braemar Road. Bob Dwyer's Hot Seven. £5. Doors 7.45pm, show 8.30pm. Call 07804 107 574. See www.hivemusic.org

Friday, May 30
The Globe, 104 Windmill Road. Terry Donovan Band. Free. 9.30pm. Call 020 8580 0086. See www.globemusiclondon.com

Saturday, May 31

The GB's. Free. 9.30pm. The Globe (as above).

Thursday, June 5

Tim Hain & Sunnyside Up. Free. 8.30pm. The Globe (as above).

Events

Tuesday, June 3

St Paul's Church, St Paul's Road, Brentford. Nimble Fingers Art and Craft Group. 1-3pm. See www.parishofbrentford.org.uk

Saturday, May 31
Watermans, 40 High Street. Brentford Biopsy with Christian Nold.Would you like to take part in creatively documenting and reimagining Brentford? Share your personal stories of the local area and create some novel maps. Free. 1-5pm.Weekly until June 15. Call 020 8232 1010. See www.watermans.org.uk

Exhibition

From Wednesday, June 4

Visions of Freedom, by Behnam Askari. Irani-born Askari's eclectic art, using oils, watercolours, acrylics and materials. Free. Noon-9pm. Until June 29.Watermans (as above).

Until Sunday, June 1

Gunnersbury Park Museum, Gunnersbury Park, Popes Lane. The Brentford Triangle: celebrating Robert Rankin. Free. 11am-5pm. Call 020 8992 1612.

Family Fun

Sunday, June 1

Little Red Hen, by Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company. Will anyone help Little Red Hen plant her grain of wheat? Puppets, storytelling and music. Suitable for three years and up. £6/4.50.Watermans (as above).

Saturday, May 31

May Half Term Drama Zone Performance. See the results from an intense week of drama workshops. £2. 5pm.Watermans (as above).

Everyone's heard of Pop Idol, but the Chronicle has launched a four-week contest which will leaf the others behind

Welcome to Tree Idol, where we're asking readers to nominate their favourite tree to be in the running to win £50 to spend on their garden.

Teachers got a soaking at Smallberry Green Primary School's annual fair last Friday.

The splat the teacher stall was one of the most popular attractions at the event in Turnpike Lane, Isleworth.

Quick-thinking pensioners foiled two con men targeting their homes over the weekend.

On Friday (23), at about 3.30pm, a fraudster posing as a policeman struck at a house in Layton Road, Brentford.

Lunchtime Concerts are arranged usually once a month, mainly for the benefit of members of the local community dining at the St.Paul's Open House Cafe, but anybody is welcome. The concerts start at 1.00 pm and generally run for 45-60 minutes. There is no fixed charge for admission but a donation of £2.50 is suggested.

The Cafe opens every day from 12.00 noon. A two-course lunch can be had for under £5; tea is available after the concerts.

2008

June 18th Emako Endo and Yoshiko Endo (Piano duets))

July 16th Fran Clark Duo (Jazz singer)

August 13th No concert

September 17th Isobel Peaty (Piano)

October 15th Megan Vaughan-Jones (Organ)

November 19th Rachel Pickering (Organ)

December 10th Music Students from Roehampton University

2009

January 14th 2009 London College of Music Chamber Choir

February 18th Maria Yugina (Piano)

March 18th Hazel Morgan (Soprano)

For further information call Mike Ryan, Concerts Organiser at mike@36culmington.com

Lunchtime Concerts are arranged usually once a month, mainly for the benefit of members of the local community dining at the St.Paul's Open House Cafe, but anybody is welcome. The concerts start at 1.00 pm and generally run for 45-60 minutes. There is no fixed charge for admission but a donation of £2.50 is suggested.

The Cafe opens every day from 12.00 noon. A two-course lunch can be had for under £5; tea is available after the concerts.

2008

June 18th Emako Endo and Yoshiko Endo (Piano duets))

July 16th Fran Clark Duo (Jazz singer)

August 13th No concert

September 17th Isobel Peaty (Piano)

October 15th Megan Vaughan-Jones (Organ)

November 19th Rachel Pickering (Organ)

December 10th Music Students from Roehampton University

2009

January 14th 2009 London College of Music Chamber Choir

February 18th Maria Yugina (Piano)

March 18th Hazel Morgan (Soprano)

For further information call Mike Ryan, Concerts Organiser at mike@36culmington.com

Volunteers are needed for a sponsored walk in aid of the elderly.

The event, organised by Age Concern Hounslow, will take place in St Paul's Park in Albany Road, Brentford, on June 18 at 11am.

Local youngsters took to the water for an evening of kayaking, canoeing and general fun on the Thames.

Upwards of 20 youth turned out to the Brentford Boating Arch, in the Kew Bridge, on Wednesday evening, for the opening night of a summer-long water sports program sponsored by the Brentford Community Sports Trust.

Award-winning comic Shazia Mirza this week joined the campaign to save Watermans - offering to perform in the car park of the centre if the funding crisis continues.

Speaking at the venue, where she is honing her act ahead of this summer's Edinburgh Festival, she described it as a vital breeding ground for new comedians.