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Mould presents Amélie Saturday 7 September 7.30pm Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP Join us for a beautiful cinematic experience of Amélie. Prepare yourselves for an evening of French food and fancies, don your beret and your onion necklace and join us for a fantastic film full of whimsical fun and frolics. Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, this magical comedy earned overwhelming acclaim nationwide! A painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe, Amélie makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better! From then on, Amélie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness ... in the most delightfully unexpected way! But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others? Tickets on the door: £5, concessions £3 |
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Sherlock Jr. & Our Hospitality a Buster Keaton double feature with live piano from Albert Lamb Sunday 8 September 7pm Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP A special double feature of two of Buster Keaton’s shortest and most admired feature films. When it was first released Sherlock Jr. was a flop with the public and with many critics but recently Time magazine put it on its list of the All-time 100 Movies. The classic dream sequence is surreal and profound but also elegantly funny. Our Hospitality, a film about Buster getting caught in a southern family feud, is one of his most charming and compelling comedies with some very sweet gags and a fabulous, daring climax. Albert Lamb is, in his usual way, preparing new scores for both of these films, creating an appropriate musical accompaniment to bring out all the humour and emotion in every scene. He promises to really make these movies swing. Two comedy masterpieces for the price of one! Tickets on the door: £6 |
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Stroud Jazz Sessions presents Pete Rosser Thursday 12 September 8.30-11pm Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP Stroud Jazz Sessions is delighted to host Stroud piano legend Pete Rosser as special guest on Thurs 12 Sept! Pete is stupenderosserly superb, being Gloucestershire's finest, most polyrhymthic and inventive piano player. Pete luxuriates in Monk, Garner, Tyner, Hancock, Jarrett… to produce an awesome and engaging bebop finish. Pete may even play accordion and transport you to tangoed gipsy lands if you're nice to him! To experience this spectacle, join us at 8.30 in the Brunel Goods Shed for Pete's special guest set, before we open up for our usual energeti-frenetic jam - all welcome to sing or play. Tickets £4 (£3 performers) |
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Artist Hub SVA starting Friday 13 September 11am - 12 noon A series of weekly Friday morning coffee breaks for artists to meet, share ideas and find out more about what's going on at SVA. |
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Deadly Creature Presents: Charlie Boyer And The Voyeurs and Sheena Saturday 14 September 8pm-11pm 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA A special edition of Deadly Creatures Presents, headlined by Charlie Boyer And The Voyeurs from Heavenly Recordings. A night full of pure uncontrollable musical energy that shall not fail to get you moving. With support from Sheena and visuals provided by our very own Harvey Brook and Raoul Hodgson. DJ set from Harvey Brook between the two bands. Charlie Boyer And The Voyeurs charlieboyerandthevoyeurs.tumblr.com/ www.sheena-band.co.uk Tickets: £6.50 in advanced from Trading Post or online £8 on the door |
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Reel Collective presents Flicker John Street Social Club event Friday 20 September 7pm 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Everyone is welcome to an evening of creative films, visuals and music for young people, organised by a group of 15-17 year olds as part of the SVA. We are looking for short films of around 30 secs to 4 mins long made by people of up to 18 years old. We would love to see what you have been doing over summer, so send us phone or camera recordings of anything interesting things you see or do! Then everyone can see your piece of work projected at Flicker! Send us your films via facebook as youtube or vimeo links or send them in the post to the SVA before 16th September! More info here: reel collective Free entry |
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Matt Fawke's Ultra Modern John Street Social Club Friday 27 September 7pm SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA An informal meeting to assess the moral and cultural value, or otherwise, of current pop videos with particular reference to dance moves, outfits and colour. The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share in a non-precious environment. Drop in after work to unwind in the chilled out atmosphere after the long week to soak up the tunes and bubbling visuals. Free entry |
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Into The Woods Dramarama Youth Theatre Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine Friday 27 September 7.30pm, Saturday 28 September 1.30pm and 8pm Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP Scratch the surface of a Grimms fairytale and you find a wealth of uncomfortable possibilities, dark archetypes and psychotic little girls. Inspired by Bruno Bettleheim’s psychoanalytical take on fairytales ‘The uses of Enchantment’, Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece unleashes some of the essential human truths held within those ancient tales, and has a lot of fun doing so. As the nights are getting cooler, please feel free to bring blankets and cushions to make it cosier. Tickets: Adults £12.50 U18s £6.00, Family (2 adults, 2 children) £32 from Star Anise Café or from SVA online |
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The Diamond Road Show Sunday 29 September 8pm Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP The Diamond Road Show is the work of Hamburg-based artists Digger Barnes & Pencil Quincy. The show sits in between concert and cinema. It is a travel through dream structures, events and unfoldings that inventively blend road-movie aesthetics with experimental film techniques. The soundscape is created by Digger Barnes; a one-man-band, storyteller and outlaw. Each song a cinematic and atmospheric journey itself drawing on influences from Americana, film-soundtrack and folk music. The visuals are created by low-brow Pencil Quincy and his Magic Machine. Quincy combines early cinematic and animation technology with his imimitable, vaudeville style. Tickets £7 in advance online or from Trading Post or £9 on the door |
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John Street Social Club with Uta |
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Resound presents: Petrels Petrels sound is dense and dark, sometimes soaring and always with movement and space. Using a variety of hi and lo-fi electronics and acoustics, Petrels ‘wall of sound’ gives you intensity and breadth Tickets are £3 on the door |
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Stroud Jazz Sessions presents Nick Dover Thursday 10 October 8.30-11pm Goods Shed, Station Yard, Stroud GL5 3AP Stroud Jazz Sessions is delighted to host the fine saxophonist Nick Dover as special guest for the October Jam. Nick is a superbly talented composer, teacher and soloist, from Bristol, diving and weaving artful interpretations of modern and bebop jazz numbers. See you there for our usual energetic jam and performance mashup night! Stroud Jazz Sessions is a hub for all to listen or perform jazz, 2nd Thurs of each month at www.sva.org.uk. Tickets £4 (£3 performers) |
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John Street Social Club with Harvey Brookes Friday 11 October 7pm SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share in a non precious environment. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities... Free entry |
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John Street Social Club presents From Cuban Son to Tango Nuevo and from Llanos Orientales de Colombia to New York Minimalism DJ Thomas (Dominic) will be playing an eclectic mix of digital and analogue discs and magnetic tape that represents a far from exhaustible geographic and temporal tour of the the Americas. |
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Neutral Norway presents NN2 book launch Saturday 19 October 7-10.30pm After party at SVA 10.30pm till late Goods Shed, Station Yard, Stroud GL5 3AP Neutral Norway, a poetry and arts collective launch their 2nd book NN2 which follows on from the success of their first book, NN1 last year which intermingled collaborative wording and explored relationships with other artistic disciplines. Combining poetics and aesthetics is an integral part of their ethos; creating posters as artwork, spreading poetic terrorism with haiku stickers and pasted poems onto lampposts and shop fronts, and cut, paste and photocopy zines to give out at events. With an endless artistic curiosity Neutral Norway are continuing to be drawn to the aesthetics of paper, the traditional press; the cutting and pasting of zines, and the influence the physical presence of a book can have on the poetry itself. NN2 is the first book to be published by NNpress which aims to get voices heard and make an accessible platform for new and exciting poetry. Neutral Norway's core collective is Aimee Ballinger, Deva O'Neill, Percy Currie, Alfie Prendergast, Michael Milner and Hannah Levene. Tickets: Book launch £3 concessions/£5 on the door |
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John Street Social Club The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share in a non precious environment. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities.. Free entry |
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BandiT presents Worlds Cities Bandit is here again and this is Bandit 11 with the theme of World Cities meaning all students will be writing songs about Cities around the world! The workshop is held at Maidenhill School in Stonehouse for three days then with a final performance to the public at the SVA’s Good Shed. www.banditmusicprojects.co.uk Tickets: £12/ £6 concessions from Trading Post or book here |
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Art Doc Presents Searching for Sugar Man Thursday 7 November 7.30pm 4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA Searching for Sugar Man is a documentary film directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts of two Cape Town fans in the late 1990s, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true, and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Rodriguez's music, which never took off in the United States, had become wildly popular in South Africa, but little was known about him there. On 10 February 2013, the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary at the 66th British Academy Film Awards in London, and two weeks later it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood. Tickets: £5 on the door, £4 members |
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John Street Social hosted by Kate Merry Kate Merry (DJ Good Doggy), a DJ with a particular penchant for 80s and 90s RnB and dancehall riddims. |
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Stroud Jazz Sessions: Phil Mercer Thursday 14 November 8.30-11pm SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Esplendid jazz ahead, next Thurs we have the excellent local sax-star Phil Mercer gracing the Stroud Jazz Sessions hub-ship. Phil is a fantastic interpreter of jazz standards and tells it like life really means it in the bebop, swing, straight, latin, and nicey nicey ballad styles. It’ll be a delight to have Phil in the house! Phil’s opening set will be followed by our usual excitable jam to keep us warm and happy during the darker months! All welcome to perform or sing. Each Stroud Jazz Session features a special guest soloist performance, eclectic jazz records, and a stonkingly energetic jam set. These monthly sessions act as a hub for those interested in listening or performing jazz to come together. Tickets: £4 (£3 performers) |
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John Street Social Club with the Harper Sisters Friday 15 November 7-11pm 4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share in a non precious environment. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities.. Free entry |
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Convergence and Space Sculptors Paul Grellier and Ann-Margreth Bohl will be working together for the first time in an experimental process of combining their diverse creative practices. Over a 3 week period they will make the Goods Shed their studio, with the intention to respond to each other’s ideas, the building and its environment to create this exhibition. Whilst they have no strict plans for how this process will unfurl, they anticipate using a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to create a world within this amazing architectural space. Private view Friday 15th Nov 6-9pm |
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John Street Social Club with Mambo Mama |
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Deadly Creatures Present A year anniversary edition of Deadly Creatures will be headlined by Filthy Boy from Stranger Records plus support from Sheena.There will also be visuals provided by our very own Harvey Brook and Raoul Hodgson. Plus DJ sets throughout the night. Tickets: £7.50 advance, £9 on the door Book here |
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John Street Social Club with Marco Friday 29 November 7-11pm 4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share in a non precious environment. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities.. Free entry |
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The Common - In front of the Mirrorball Ep launch |
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Creative Network • Workshop 1: Visual Research • Workshop 2: Reading Room Booking in advance is essential. For bookings and more info on workshop content contact SVA |
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Weaving workshops with Sally Hampson October and November 2013 29 High Street, Stroud Following on from the success of the Introduction to Weaving Workshops, Sally Hampson will be starting new workshops in October and November. The workshops will cater for complete beginners new to weaving and also those who have already taken part in the initial workshops. Weave your own samples for a potential scarf, shawl or blanket, learn about our indigenous weavers from the Outer Hebrides and their tweed weaving tradition If you have some weaving wool or bits of fabric you have lovingly gathered and saved in the hope of ‘one day...’ now is your chance. If you want to experiment with your own collection of treasures, tickets, postcards and precious, detritus gathered on a journey that has remained in a shoebox, liberate them into a woven diary. The looms will be set up for you so you can get weaving straight away. You will explore techniques to create different weave structures, texture and surfaces. Learn how to set up a loom yourself and how the loom works. Next stage workshops for those who have completed the Introduction to Weaving Workshops and want to take their weaving to the next stage can learn more and work towards a finished piece. Infomation and bookings contact Briony at SVA: 01453 751440 or office@sva.org.uk |
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