The Fate of Neutral Norway
Friday 10th June 8pm

Neutral Norway is a poetry collective made up of Comrade Homeless, Abi Christmas, Dr Archie Fitz, Mia Mockery, James Child and Milly Blue based beside the seaside in Falmouth. Wriggling in words and writhing in rhythm. Lets all be poets. After the success of last years performance at the Site Festival, Neutral Norway Collective return to Stroud for another night of poetical debauchery. Expect walls plastered with art, ears filled with music and poetry readings spat straight from the mouth's of the Neutral Norway poets. Come armed with secret notebooks, we want to hear your words. Prose, without question, before hoes.
£5 Tickets are available on the door

www.neutralnorway.tumblr.com

Short Story Night
Sunday 12th June 8pm

A short fiction night organised by writer and artist Bill Jones, with stories ranging from the short to the very tall. Six authors, six stories, plus a spot for the very shortest of stories too. Featuring both established authors and new talent reading their own short stories, we aim to present a night of fresh and direct writing from the local area, with a mixture of stories true and fictional, funny and sad, stories that will pick you up and stories that will knock you down. There will also be a spot for the very briefest of stories, the kind who make for the door before you notice they’ve nabbed your purse and your auntie’s necklace. With a licensed bar and cabaret atmosphere, an entertaining time is promised for all! To submit your work for future events, please email your stories of 1,000 words or under (or under 350 words for the very short story slot).
£3 Tickets on the door

stroudshortstories@yahoo.co.uk

Making Words
Wednesday 15th June 11am

A one-day workshop/symposium where discussion will focus on the idea of making; making as thinking; embodied intelligence; material knowledge. Our conversation will be enriched by collaborative making – including lunch (alphabet soup anyone?). Participants will give concrete expression to ideas by literally making words using a variety of media, including letterpress printing. An Alias practice and reflection event led by Paul Harper and Helen Carnac. Practice and reflection aims to foster a critical community in which participants can engage in an open and inclusive dialogue about making.
£5 Booking essential

www.aliasarts.org
paul.tamsin@btinternet.com

John, Bob and Roberta

Thursday 16th June 8pm

Poetic and artistic trifling from John Hegley and Bob and Roberta Smith. A light hearted look at the life, times and rhymes of two men and Roberta. Concrete poems and vegetables with real fruit. Bob and Roberta Smith speaks of his career in art and signwriting and John Hegley speaks of his affection for handerchiefs and France.Really more suitable for over 16's on account of some rather not to be mentioned words.John Hegley, is a Site festival favourite and a scandously talented performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter.Bob and Roberta Smith's work involves installations made with personalised signs on scrap materials andwall based paintings on wooden panels as well as performance. Smith's DIY approach appropriates the languages of folk, punk and the alternative protest movements to personalise political sloganeering.

£10 Tickets from SVA. 01453 751440

Baggin' it. Stories from Mik Artistik
plus film: 'Who is Mik Artistik?'
Friday 17th June 8pm

In 1983 Mik Artistik began his ‘Brown Paper Bag’ series, where he would approach strangers, including, once, Paul Weller to ask if he could draw their portrait in biro on a paper bag. He would then sell the paper bag to the sitter. "Then one day I was in the laundrette with a mate of mine and I started to draw, I thought, shit I’ve just drawn somebody in pen. This is what I’m gonna do, I’m gonna make a living doing portraits. I thought I’m gonna go to Seacroft and see if I can sell some portraits. If I can make a living in Seacroft on a Friday night, I can make a living anywhere. We got off the bus at Seacroft and went into this pub. There’s a guy sitting opposite in commando pants and boots, I thought I’m gonna ask him if he wants a portrait doing. He said yeah, so I drew him, showed him what I had, and he went ‘it’s good that’. Basically it went from there, I just wandered round bagging people".
£5 Tickets from SVA 01453 751440

Poetry Pot Luck

Saturday 18th-Sunday 19th June 12–3pm

Four poets, one lucky dip, and the chance to be taken off for a private one-to-one poetry reading in the luxurious confines
of SVA. Taking your chances with the lucky dip you will find yourself randomly assigned a poet who will lead you down the passages to a private spot where he or she will share with you the finest of their verses. We promise a wide range of poets, from the ranting to the extremely polite, the florid to the practically fluorescent, poets as light as a sponge-cake, poets as serious as a table and chairs. Come and take pot luck! A poetry reading of a very private nature!This event has been organised by Bill Jones, a studio-holder at SVA. Each one-to-one reading will last between 5 and 10 minutes.
Free

Also see site festival

PROJECTS SPOKEN WORD EXHIBITIONS FILM MUSIC

see full site Festival programme at

www.sitefestival.org.uk