What's On in Ealing

Every Friday we bring you our top picks of events in Ealing happening over the coming weekend.

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Events coming up in Ealing

'A Sense of Wonder': The Curious Robot World of Matt Dixon, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery

Within utopian and dystopian landscapes, encounter the robots as they experience the best of human emotions: wonder, kindness, empathy, friendship, and love.

Experience this audio-visual exhibition's otherworldly soundscape which spans 100 years of music by leading artists from Kate Bush to The Beatles, Radiohead to Billie Eilish, Brian Eno to Willy Wonka… all interspersed with birdsong in a garden-like setting.

'A Sense of Wonder' is gathered together from the digital paintbrush of Matt Dixon, who created his first robot character as part of the series Transmissions in 2006. He has been exploring this preternatural world ever since, including the design of the O2 robot mascot Bubl. Be among the first to play the beta version of his new robot video game, ahead of its international launch.

Poets Talking : Katharine Towers & Zaffar Kunial

Two highly acclaimed and prize-winning English poets Katharine Towers and Zaffar Kunial come together to share their poems and talk about the roots of creativity, language and what it means to be a poet in England today. Join us for the first in a series of poetry events this year in collaboration with the University of West London's English & Creative Writing Programme.

Katharine Towers was born in London and lives in the Peak District. Her work reflects her interest in the natural world and her love of music. Both BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 have used her poems which have also appeared in The Guardian, Poetry Review, Poetry London and numerous anthologies including the Forward Book of Poetry. Her first collection, The Floating Man (2010) won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. It was also on the shortlist for the Ted Hughes Award, New Work in Poetry; and for the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. The Remedies (2016), her second collection, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her most recent 2021 collection Oak was a Poetry Book of the Month in The Guardian. A poem from The Floating Man appeared as a Poem on the Underground. Her work is published by Picador Poetry.

"Quite how she manages the balancing act between entertainment and something that comes close to a prayer, that catches in your throat, is beyond me."  Kate Kellaway in The Observer

Zaffar Kunial was born in Birmingham and lives in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. He published a pamphlet in the Faber New Poets series in 2014 and was Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust the same year. In 2011 he won third prize in the National Poetry Competition with 'Hill Speak'. He is the author of one full-length poetry collection, Us (2018), which made the shortlist for both the Costa Poetry Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. In Us, Kunial, the son of an English mother and a Kashmiri father, takes his own identity as his central subject. Faber & Faber published his new collection, England's Green in 2022. Zaffar is one of this year's winners of the prestigious Windham Campbell Prize.

"Witty, playful and heart-breaking by turns . . . a wonderful poetic of loopholes, portals and translations, and of the magic in-between." Sinead Morrissey, Chair of the Judges, T S Eliot Prize

Tickets: £10 per person which includes welcome refreshments

ROALD DAHL'S MATILDA THE MUSICAL, Waterman's

The Tony and Olivier award-winning stage musical and the classic children's book has been given the big screen makeover.

Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical is an inspirational musical tale of an extraordinary girl who discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.

Showing is at 1pm on Saturday 7th January. Get tickets here.

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