Fair Shares Life History Project

3 October - 15 October
Monday-Friday 9.30am-5pm. Saturday 10am-2pm

29 High Street, Stroud

Fair Shares is a local charity where members volunteer their time and skills to help each other out. At the end of last year a project was launched to record the lives of some of our older members. Each person was matched up with a suitable Fair Shares member who would record the other’s life. For all those involved it has been an emotional journey, with some unexpected outcomes. This is a public exhibition of the work produced alongside photographs, films and personal memorabilia.

Stroud Jazz Sessions: Jake McMurchie special guest
Thursday 13 October 8.30pm

Jake McMurchie will be hitting it hard on the jazz platform for our October Stroud Jazz Session! Jake is the solid sax-man from Get The Blessing who won the 2008 BBC Jazz Award for best album. It promises to be an awesome evening. Book your seats on the couch and on the stage!!
Tickets: £4 (£3 performers) on the door

Soundclash
Friday 14 October 9-12pm

Soundclash returns to SVA with a brand new format – a themed “listening” session hosted in a lounge setting. Featuring rarities, b-sides and left-of-centre curios from the sonic archives, our first experiment will take SPACE as its theme, exploring the outer reaches of the sonic cosmos from radical rock’n’roll to eccentric electronics. Sounds by Pav and Rupert. Visuals by Oogoo.
Free to members

Stroud Short Stories
Sunday 16 October 8pm

Stroud Short Stories returns for another sparkling night of short stories read by their authors. This time we promise used car salesmen and children looking to swap parents, beds in forests and lust in coffee shops, Chris Moyles, daleks and finding the ANSWER TO EVERYTHING. With headliner Roshi Fernando, prize-winning author of Homesick.

Visit: www.stroudshortstories.blogspot.com
Tickets: £3 on the door

Negative Space. The Portuguese Nun + short
Thursday 20 October 8pm (screening starts 8.30pm)

Negative Space screenings continue with The Portuguese Nun, the UK debut of American-born, Paris-based director Eugène Green. At once meditative and enthralling, its visual style reminiscent of past masters such as Bresson and Ozu, the film is both a lyrical study of Lisbon and subtle reflection on the workings of cinema as it follows the on- and off-set encounters of a French actress shooting an art movie based on the story of a 17th century nun.
“Mesmeric, subtly comic and weirdly gripping” - The Guardian.
Tickets on the door: £3/£4

BandiT
Wednesday 26 October 7.30-10.30pm

BandiT is a three day rock and pop workshop for 40 students aged 8 to 16. Students throughout the community come together to form bands and to be creative in writing, recording and performing. The prime function of the workshop is to give young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to gain experience in musicianship, creative song writing, recording techniques and performance skills. The Workshop project will be held at Maidenhill School on 24th-26th October with the final performance at the SVA.
For further information please contact longtrainride.co.uk.
Tickets: Adults £6 Children and concessions £4 from Kanes Records and Maidenhill School

Under the Hare & Sun.
An evening with Rainer Rappmann
Thursday 27 October 7.30-10pm

Taking part in a three-day Action with Joseph Beuys in the 1980s, author Rainer Rappmann has dedicated his life to promoting and extending the work of this iconic 20th-century artist. The ideas and ideals behind Beuys’ Free International University (FIU) live on today through the internationally renown FIU Press, founded by Rappmann. He co-founded and taught at the Free School Achberg (Waldorf School) and the Achberg Beuys Symposium. With his intimate knowledge of Beuys’ work, Rainer Rappmann is bringing to Stroud an evening of films, photos and talk around Joseph Beuys’ ideas on Social Sculpture. This will be an exceptional chance to encounter the work of Joseph Beuys and to hear Rappmann before he moves on to the Museum of Wales, Cardiff to take part in the programme of events surrounding a major exhibition on Beuys and the Celtic Fringe.
This evening has been initiated by Worth Attention (www.worthattention.com) and Simon Ryder.
Tickets: £4 on the door

Halloween -
Mockers Raving Looney Party -
Vote Mockers!
Saturday 29 October 9pm til late

With Halloween approaching I guess its time for the “Mockers raving Looney party”. The Campaign to keep music evil “vote mockers”. With djs lord pavinyl of Nicosia, Lord bucklenick of Chelsea and introducing lord krock of stoke Newington. Expect a night of debauched Halloween tunes monster go go beats and hammer house visuals by vdj oogoo voodoo.A classy night of excellent vintage. Campaign rosettes available on entry.
Tickets: £5 advance from SVA or Trading Post

'Kitty Lake's journey to the Outer Hebrides in 1931

'The Weaving Shed' , 29 High Street, Stroud

4-26 November Weds-Sat 10am-3pm

Sally Hampson will venture up and across to the Outer Hebrides, in the footsteps of Kitty Lake's journey in 1931, guided by her journal into 'a landscape of colours, textures and the peaty brown Hebridean sheep, entwined in the cloth, the rhythm of the timeless cycle, and the sound of peddle looms echoing round the valleys'. On her return 'The Weaving Shed' will be set up in an empty shop in The High Street, Stroud, a reconstruction from 1931, with looms, shuttles, fleece dye plants, Sally will endeavour to weave cloth from Kitty Lake's, journals 'fulfilling her dream of being a village weaver'.

Stroud Jazz Sessions with Nick Malcolm
SVA Thursday 10 November
8.30pm-11.00pm £4 (£3 musicians) on the door

The delightful Stroud Jazz Session will feature the fantastic trumpeter Nick Malcolm as special guest at our daring dazzling jam night! His own quartet has made a big impression at The Vortex, Manchester Jazz Festival and Ealing Jazz Festival during the summer of 2011 and will be touring nationally in 2012 to coincide with the release of their first album.
Stroud Jazz Sessions is every 2nd Thursday of the month at SVA. Each night features a special guest soloist performance, eclectic jazz records, and a stonkingly energetic jam set, and acts as a hub for those interested in listening or performing jazz to come together.

Robinson In Ruins + short

Thursday 17 November, 8pm (screening starts 8.30pm)

Following his acclaimed meditations on urban landscape, London (1994) and Robinson In Space (1997), Patrick Keillor’s latest poetic, provocative “cine-essay” reflects on the hidden histories of the Oxfordshire and Berkshire countryside. Images of ruined country houses and wooded landscapes contrast with an allusive voice-over narration – spoken by Vanessa Redgrave - which muses on subjects such as the protests at Greenham Common airbase and the anti-Poor Law uprising.

Tickets on the door: £4 (non-members)/£3 (members)

Sound Clash presents Voodoo & Hoodoo, Myths & Magick

SVA Friday 18 November
9pm-12 midnight free to members

A series of sonic upsets. Every month. In Stroud. Halloween may be over, but the spooks still come out at night .. Soundclash! presents an evening of magic-themed sonic exotica in a lounge setting. Monster mash-up by Pav and Rupert. Visual voodoo by Oogoo. Potent potions at the bar.

Things from Far East: A Talk by Eunju Yoo

SVA Thursday 24 November
8pm-11pm £3 on the door

Eunju Yoo is a South Korean artist based at SVA. She is a performance and film director running an art production called Take New Take (previously, Under the Bridge). For more info:www.underthebridge.tistory.com.

The talk will be introducing the contemporary arts in South Korea; the changes of the last 15 years.The economic and political environments has been fluctuated in the last 15 years and the dynamic social waves have heavily influenced the new art kids and institutions in South Korea. While the world kept eyes on Kim, jongil’s odd kingdom behind his consistent permed hair and the blend gray suits, South Korea has been writing its own history in their shadow. And, their contemporary arts reflects the past and present of the society.

Keith Allen presents an Irish night
with Paula Flynn and the Strypes

SVA Friday 25 November 8.30pm-1am
Tickets: £8 advanced £10 on the door

Paula Flynn a native of Forkhill, Co. Armagh, shot to fame following her cover of David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’, which was featured in a television ad in 2007, immediately starting a buzz among those who saw it to find out who owned the haunting voice. She has performed with Jinx Lennon at home and abroad, and names among her influences Patsy Cline, Hank Williams and Bjork. “Quite simply the most amazing voice I have ever heard” Jinx Lennon.

The Strypes are a 4-piece beat group from Cavan. They beat group! They winkle pick! They turtle neck! They got love if you want it! “The most amazing act to come out of Ireland since Ronan Keating” Dylan Moran

Plus Eatonsquare with Matt Eaton and Keith Allen who will be performing the first of their monthly operas. Chadwick's truly revolutionary pizza ovens will be cooking till late.

Advanced tickets from Trading Post