Open Southall Creative Community Hub
Open Southall is a community hub for creatives of all ages and experience to make and sell ceramics, screenprints, textiles and fashion. We’ve time and space for shows, events, relaxing and coffee.
About the Project Creator
OPEN Ealing is a not-for-profit arts organisation founded in 2010 by a group of six multidisciplinary artists, community engagement professionals and local residents. Our aim is to introduce a refreshing cultural space(s) and facilitate a diverse platform for creative engagement and enterprise in the community by bringing artists, performers, art groups and residents together; achieved through collaboration. We’ve delivered daily dedicated art classes, events and activities for anyone aged 3 months to 90+ in our current Ealing Broadway venue since February 2020.
Expanding to Southall will enable us to offer affordable routes to other arts and crafts studios currently not available in the Borough.
We've opted to crowdfund for some equipment across all three main studios (ceramic, sewing and screen printing) so that the community always has access to equipment and to demonstrate that a collaborative approach often delivers successful, sustainble solutions.