OUR PATCH SPRING 2018
NEWS IN BRIEF
Riverside Studios
Ealing Filmworks
A new wave of silver screens is poised
to turn West London into La La Land.
Tim Harrison reports from the front row
will be spoilt for choice as two further
projects broaden the local movie
options. The complete rebuilding of
Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios is
still on course for a 2018 opening, with
the new multi-arts centre including
a 200-screen cinema and a compact,
intimate screening room.
The project will create a lively mix
of spaces for performing arts in all its
forms, offering ‘a turning point in how
audiences experience the arts using all
forms of modern technology’ with three
studios for television, theatre, dance,
opera, music and comedy.
To celebrate its roots it will also
include a permanent exhibition of the
buildings’ heritage, not to mention
a bakery, brasserie and fine dining
restaurant, each with a dedicated bar,
and a new river walkway.
Another new cinema is coming
to Ealing Br oadway, with a planned
opening date in 2019 being mooted by
developers St George. But that seems
ambitious, given that the project has
been delayed by more than a decade.
The proposed scheme would see an
eight-screen Filmworks cinema, 209 new
homes, and 36,000 sq ft of retail space
for shops and restaurants. The new
cinema complex will have 1,045 seats,
a groundfloor café and a first-floor bar.
The old cinema was knocked down in
2009, apart from its art deco frontage.
Of course, west London already has
a popular crop of existing movie houses:
Vue Westfield, which has 17 screens
and nearly 3,000 seats; Vue Shepherds
Bush at the W12 shopping centre,
Shepherds Bush Green, with 12 screens;
Vue Fulham Broadway with nine
screens; and Cineworld at 142 Fulham
Road, with six.
MIND YOUR KEYS & PEWS
Melodious voices will echo round
St Peter’s church, Chiswick, on
Saturday 24 March as the Addison
Oratorio Choir performs Schubert’s
Mass in E flat.
The Brandenburg Sinfonia,
conducted by David Wordsworth,
accompanies. The mass premiered in
1829, the year after Franz Schubert’s
death. The Addison performance
features five top-notch soloists.
Also on the bill, which begins at
7.30pm at the church at the junction
of Southfield Road and St Alban’s
Avenue, is The Heavens and the
Heart by James Francis Brown, a
piece with three psalm settings.
Advance tickets £13 (concs £11,
U16s £3). The concert is supported
by Horton and Garton. More details:
www.addisonsingers.com
TALES OF EMERY WALKER
Come enjoy tales of friendship,
socialism, gender equality, celebrities,
arts and crafts and scandal! The talk
– titled Emery Walker and the Arts
and Crafts Movement – will be held
at Scott Hall in 47 St Peter’s Grove,
Hammersmith, on Wednesday
March 21. Doors open at 7pm, talk
at 7.30pm. Tickets on the door or
from the Carpenter’s Arms in Black
Lion Lane. £5 to include a glass
of wine or a soft drink. For more
details, email: [email protected]
or call 07710 313 419.
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