The Galleries Association 20.........................................................Portobello Dance 21..........................................Piers, what’s on your mind? 22..................................................................Martin Gale 23-24.....................................................Tavistock Festival

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Galleries on the Tour

David Hill Gallery 345 Ladbroke Grove, London W10 6HA davidhillgallery.net

Design Museum 224-238 Kensington High St London W8 6AG designmuseum.org

Elephant West 62 Wood Lane London W12 7RH elephantwest.art/

Frestonian Gallery 2 Olaf Street W11 4BE London frestoniangallery.com

Graffik Gallery 284 Portobello Road W10 5TE London graffikgallery.co.uk Japan House 101-111 Kensington High St London W8 5SA japanhouselondon.uk

The Muse Gallery 269 Portobello Road W11 1LR London themuseat269.com

Serena Morton Gallery 343 Ladbroke Grove London W10 6HA serenamorton.com

Unit One Gallery|Workshop 1 Bard Rd, London W10 6TP unit1gallery-workshop.com

Whitewall Galleries Central 100 Westbourne Grove London W2 5RU whitewallgalleries.com

Portobello Dance is a community initiative on the international stage.

Through dance education and events, our established organisation runs and participates in a variety of activities – locally, nationally and beyond.

Based in North Kensington’s diverse Notting Hill, Portobello Dance School is a popular weekend destination offering children from 3yrs to adults training in Classical Ballet, Tap and Street.

With our open doors policy, over 150 budding dancers pass through for classes each week. The school’s high achievers often move onto further training, or auditioning for the commercial dance world.Our professional dance trainers and visiting tutors encourage appropriate exams, such as the British Ballet Organisation’s (BBO) curriculum – for which the pass record is exceptional.

Annual school performances allow families, the local community, sponsors and patrons to experience our work, whilst a variety of local and national events showcase the school through its Student Performance Group. Widening our mission, the school Outreach programme takes our training and mission to other schools around the Boroughs of London.

We encourage students to visit inspiring dance events including ‘Classically British’ (part of Black History Season) which highlights the overwhelming talent of the UK’s multicultural choreographers and dancers, often featuring upcoming talent from the school.

Our vision is to provide access to excellence, so whether you’re interested in our school or how we promote dance beyond it, simply step in!

Summer School

Mon, Jun 7, 2021 9:30 AM Thu, Sep 30, 2021 6:00 PM Join us for our annual summer school

Classically British 2021

Friday, October 1, 2021 7:00 PM 10:00 PM Classically British 2021 is a unique and intimate virtual performance featuring a dynamic range of contemporary and classical dance.

PIERS, what’s on your mind? COMMUNITY

So Piers, what’s on your mind?

We are talking the day after the 4th anniversary of Grenfell and also the day after Boris put us all into the delay on the opening up…uh both of which are discombobulating. I mean… I suppose I might talk about the covid thing. This morning seems to be full of emails and phone calls about things being postponed… things being put back. Uhm, Because of course we had all been getting set. We were about to work with the thrilla at maxilla and the rotten hill gang at an event next weekend at the Maxilla. One of Dj’s has obviously lost his forty something disco at the maxilla. Portobello Live and indeed the Tavistock Festival (now on the 25th July - no tickets required; www.thetavistockfestival. london) all look like they’re all going to have to be postponed. so that’s a lot of running around uhh, with people having to change their plans. People running venues desperately trying to fit people in right now. So that’s been a disappointment. Does appear however that Kensington and Chelsea Art Week will going ahead as planned next week. A lot of that of course is outside with the public art trails. And then yesterday which was a backing hot humid day. We had the whole neighbourhood preparing for the Grenfell 4th anniversary. That was discombobulating… we went on a silent walk which we haven’t done for fifteen months, although actually a few of us went out unofficially on a walk this time last year. A lot of people found the walk even more moving than usual… oddly enough I found I was slightly out of practice for the walk although the silence was welcome its… I find it very difficult the walking around slowly, because its not in my nature so… uhhm and its an interesting time in the neighbourhood in Latimer….uh anniversary day. because there’s an element of the… being a village en fate. The whole neighbourhood comes together, you know you see people dressed in green walking past the house from an early, quite early hour on the day of the anniversary the market goes quiet. But at the end of the day its all about a tragedy… atrocity, in which 72 people died and one interesting thing is that the… since last March we have moved into the second phase of the enquiry and there was more anger expressed from the platform than is usually expressed at the silent walk because the silent walk is supposed to be commemorating those that lost their lives. And the other thirty days of the month are there to campaign for justice and the fact that the cladding hasn’t been removed from… is it a million peoples homes? Yep. So its… the fourteen of June is quite a big day in the neighbourhood and here we are on the fifteenth reflecting back.

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