Edge and Shore
Surveying the edges of place and practice
Sat 30 August and Sun 31 August 11am - 5pm
Friday 5th September 11am - 5pm and Saturday 6th September 12 - 5pm
Closing view 6- 8pm Saturday 6th September
Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP

Installation with passing view
22 - 30 September
The Control Room, North Cabin, Redcliffe Bridge, Bristol.

Friday 26 September 3 - 5pm and 6 - 8pm.
Saturday 27 September by invitation only
Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, Quay 2C, Kings Grove, Peckham, London SE15 2NB

Edge and Shore is a new durational work by visual artist Helen Carnac and dance artist Laïla Diallo. Emerging from a dialogue between the two artists about making and process, the work offers a contribution to thinking concerned with place, practice, making and moving. Their explorations inhabit a curious space between installation and performance.
Commissioned by Siobhan Davies Dance and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Photo: Gorm

I Wonder Who's There?
Jill Head
Special evening opening Friday 5 September 6-9pm
Saturday 6-Tuesday 9 September 11am-4pm
4 John Street GL5 2HA

Paintings, drawings and collages which 'play with character'. Jill Head is an artist based at SVA.

John Street Social Club
Friday 5 September 7-11pm
4 John Street GL5 2HA
Free entry

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 film clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

Mambo Mama
Saturday 6 September 9pm- 2am
4 John Street GL5 2HA
Tickets:£6 advanced £7 on the door.
Advanced tickets from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AQ

Mambo Mama is a celebration of exciting, complex, rhythmical patterns that have existed for over 30,000 years. With its roots set deep within the Voodoo religion, this musical journey will take you through the continents of Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean in a night of Afro-Latin, Boogaloo and Jazz.

Stroud Jazz Sessions presents Andy Novak
Thursday 11 September 8.30-11pm
4 John Street GL5 2HA
Tickets £5 (£3 performers) on the door

Pianist Andy Novak slams into our September jam session as special guest. Andy hails from Stroud and was a regular at Pete Rosser's early jazz workshops -- he is now based in Bristol and is widely acclaimed as a fine and eye-catching piano player.

As reviewer Mike Collins put it best: "It was the playing of Andy Nowak however that held this gig together and made it just a bit special. There are elusive qualities that mark any player out. A Pianist’s touch on the keyboard, their feel for rhythm and swing, the instinct of when to play and what to play, all combine to create an individual sound. In Andy there’s a light but assertive touch, seductive sense of groove and an instinctive sense and feel for space. He never over plays. The sound of bop inspired jazz is never far away and there’s a delightful instinct for developing melodic and rhythmic ideas in his solos."

'In between spaces' Jo Casling
'Some of Parts' Eley Furrell
Special evening opening Friday 12 September 6-8pm
Saturday 13 - Wednesday 17 11am-4pm
4 John Street GL5 2HA
Jo Casling will be exhibiting abstract paintings which explore remnants of imagined landscapes and Eley Furrell will be presenting four poems 'to chew on'. Jo, a painter based at SVA, collaborated with Eley in Open studios this year.

John Street Social Club with Jo Casling
Friday 12 September 7-11pm
4 John Street GL5 2HA
Free entry

An exclusive and free John street Special!..an evening combining poetry readings and images from Eley furrell, Jacqui Stearn, and Jo Casling taken from their succesfull Open studios show `In and deep`, followed by a gutsy night of gritty rockabilly vinyl sounds from DJs Jo Casling and special guest Richard Hawley…dirty dancing is compulsory! The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists 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...

John Street Blues
Thursday 18 September 8pm
4 John Street GL5 2HA

£5.00 on the door £3.00 concessions/members.
Musicians donate what you can.
John Street Blues is a monthly Blues night, in which musicians an non-musicians can enjoy blues music from every era. The night encompasses vinyl and digital music, film, and live jams and performances, in which anyone is welcome to participate. This month's event will feature Les Blanck's 'The Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins'.

Petrifaction by Numbers - Adam White
Special evening opening Friday 19 September 6-8pm
Friday 19 – Sunday 21 September 11am – 4pm
Open by appointment Mon 22 - Wed 24 September
4 John Street GL5 2HA

Adam White's creates innovative water colour on a vast scale with themes of 19th century science, derailed logic, scheming and subplots. Off-kilter evolution on an elastic leash. Paleontology without scientific explanations- hopefully you will learn nothing. Adam is an artist based at SVA.

Drawing a Veil - Zoë Heath
Special evening opening Friday 19 September 6-8pm
Friday 19 – Sunday 21 September 11am – 4pm
Open by appointment Mon 22 - Wed 24 September
4 John Street GL5 2HA

Zoe Heath's work is influenced by the surface texture, traces and marks from found objects. Layers of painting, drawing and print are built and then eroded to reveal a narrative from these objects. Zoe is an artist based at SVA.

John Street Social Club
Friday 19 September 7-11pm
4 John Street GL5 2HA
Free entry

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists 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...

Mr Fluffypunk’s Penny Gaff
featuring Rob Auton and Liz Bentley
Alternative Cabaret with a spoken word spine!
Saturday 20 September 8pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Tickets: £7 advance, £8 on door.

Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street. Stroud GL5 1AQ
Roll up, Roll Up for the 2nd Penny Gaff with your delightful host, Mr Jonny Fluffypunk, Stand-up poet. Sit-up storyteller. Give-up guitarist. This month's featured artist is Rob Auton who will be bringing 'The Face Show' to SVA. This show is about faces. This show is suitable for people who have a face or have seen someone with a face. Following on from 2012's The Yellow Show, a show about the colour yellow, and 2013's The Sky Show, a show about the sky, Rob turns his attention to faces with 2014's The Face Show. 'A talent to watch’ (Independent). ‘We need him’ (Scotsman). 'That's just sad' (Vanessa Feltz). 'Once immersed in his borderline autistic world there are all sorts of bizarre pearls of wisdom to behold.' (Brighton Argus on 'The Sky Show')

Armed with her Casio keyboard and ukulele, Liz Bentley has has had three successful Edinburgh shows and has been featured at events such as Ledbury Poetry Festival, London Literature Festival at Southbank and Alternative Village Fete, National Theatre. Through her experiences of mental health and multiple sclerosis, she strives to smash the apartheid between disability and mainstream arts. '£500 a line and other poems' (the title of her latest book) was a tongue-in-cheek response to the pressure of winning a £5000 writing commission from Shape (disability arts) as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Her show CBT, Crash Bash Trash (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – Can Tick Box/Can’t Tick Box) toured the UK in 2011. Her latest show is AAA Rating (Age Anxiety and Alzheimers). 'A peculiar cross between Tracey Emin and Josie Long' (The Scotsman), 'Truly the most indefinable act I have ever seen. I wouldn't want to have missed it' (Three Weeks), 'Bentley is beguiling. Such an exhilarating experience' (Chortle).
More to be confirmed plus films, competitions and prizes!

The Design Studio
Kathryn Clarke and Liz Lippiatt
Friday 26 September - 1 October
Opening Friday 26 7-9pm
Saturday 27 - Wednesday 1 October, 11am-4pm
4 John Street GL5 2HA

A unique show from two designers who have worked both together and alongside each other for many years. Liz designs and prints the finest silk velvets making beautiful fashion accessories and cloth for couture. Kathryn works with sheepskin and fine English wools making bespoke clothing and bags. Liz and Kathryn have studios at SVA.

John Street Social Club
Friday 26 September 7-11pm
4 John Street GL5 2HA

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists 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

Mississippi Records on tour
'A Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music according to Mississippi Records' (A film & talk presentation)
With live acts: Marisa Anderson, Lori Goldston and Dragging An Ox Through Water

Monday 29 September 7pm
SVA, Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP

Tickets: £7 advanced £8 on door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here or in person from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street. Stroud GL5 1AQ

A once in a blue moon showcase that features a brand new live film/talk/slide show presentation by Eric Isaacson (Mississippi Records label boss and store owner) plus THREE live acts, all of whom have released records on the Mississippi Record label. Marisa plays emotive acoustic and electric whirlwinds, Lori wanders across borders with her atmospheric cello playing and DAOTW gloriously ruptures songs rooted in folk and country traditions. After the hugely successful ‘I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore: Mississippi Records and Alan Lomax archive’ Tour Qu Junktions is super proud to bring you this exciting Mississippi Records bundle. Mississippi Records is modern day record phenomena, where there is never a dull moment and run with the care and passion that it is hard to suppress. Based in Portland, Oregon, USA it is a very local shop and a very outernational record label.
Eric Isaacson who helped set up and runs a lot of the Mississippi Records labels and shop activities is also a wonderful, playful and sincere guide through the highs and lows of music history with a keen eye on the marvellous outsider types. For this tour he will introduce a brand new show film/talk presentation and his fellow travellers are three musicians with super strong ties to the label, all on the bill and performing.
Marisa Anderson is a composer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist inspired by Delta blues, West African guitar, country and western radio from the 60s and 70s, gospel, noise, rhythms, cycles, mortality and praise.
Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic is full, textured, committed and original. Collaborations famously include Nirvana, David Byrne and Cat Power. Lori also co-founded Black Cat Orchestra.
Brian Mumform’s Dragging an Ox through Water perform songs rooted in folk and country traditions, though ruptured, complicated, and complimented with broken textures of feedback, drones, tape hiss, and homemade oscillators. Brian has collaborated with TJO, Chris Johanson, John Wiese, Makino Takashi, John Butcher, Gino Robair, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Vic Chesnutt, Pete Swanson, and many others.

Watch Mississippi film clip
WATCH LORI GOLDSTON VIDEO
WATCH MARISA ANDERSON VIDEO
WATCH/LISTEN TO DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER

Back Stories' Simon Ryder
'Outside Studios' Dug Mackie
Private View Friday 3 October 7-9pm
Saturday 4 - Sunday 5 October 11am-4pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA

Simon Ryder will be exhibiting of limited edition prints, engravings, enamels and printed objects each with its own unique backstory. These stories will be told in a performance talk on the Friday evening, after which the editions will be on sale both in the gallery and online at www.theplanchest.com. Design Director of Outside Studios Dug Mackie will show a collection of images of unusual exhibitions, unique museum galleries and interpretive design.Both artists are based at SVA.

Mister Messy hosts John Street Social Club
Friday 3 October 7-11pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
£1 membership

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists with visuals and audio to share in a non precious environment. The format: decks, laptop, and a selected number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

Art/Design with Simon Ryder and Dug Mackie
A breakfast discussion exploring partnerships between contemporary artists and designers
Sunday 5 October 11am-1.30pm
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Tickets: £5 breakfast included. Booking essential - email: office@sva.org.uk or tel 01453 751440

Over the last decade artist/designer collaborations have become more commonplace where fine artists have been used in a consultative roles with collaborations that may lead to designs that can be produced in multiple or in single iconic statements. The boundaries between disciplines are becoming more blurred where design concepts and contemporary art conceptual ideas are adopted and exchanged. Simon Ryder/artNucleus is "an artist working in the public realm through residencies and commissions." Dug Mackie is a director of Outside Studios which is "a developer, designer and deliverer of the unexpected in museum galleries, science centres and leisure attractions". Designer/artists breakfast begins at 11am. Participants are invited to interpret the materials provided (fresh coffee, fruit, eggs, salmon, juice, fresh bread, olives, chorizo, beans etc) with collaboration in mind, cross-fertilisation is welcomed.

Stroud Jazz Sessions presents Phil Mercer
Thursday 9 October 8.30-11.30pm
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Tickets £5 (£3 performers)

We have esplendido jazz ahead - for this month's Jazz sessions we have the excellent local sax-star Phil Mercer gracing the Stroud Jazz Sessions hub-ship again. 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 runs his own jam session in Cheltenham on the last Thursday of each month at the Abbeymead community centre, runs the CAJE Big Band, and also can be heard playing for Crescendo Big Band and numerous small groups. Phil’s opening set will be followed by our usual excitable jam to keep us warm and happy as Autumn becomes pre-eminent! All welcome to perform or sing.

Mould hosts John Street Social Club
Friday 10 October 7-11pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA

Come as your 3 year old self for Mould's 3rd birthday party and join in the party games. Mould, in conjunction with SVA, is a youth arts collective dedicated to bringing contemporary arts to a younger generation. Mould hopes to make art a more accessible medium for young people through organizing talks, workshops and group projects with a variety of both artists and creative thinkers. 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...

Studio Nine presents
Wednesday Night at the Fights
Wednesday 15 October 7pm
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Tickets: £5 on the door

Studio Nine presents Chaplin vs Keaton, the fight of the (last) century! Chaplin's masterpiece The Immigrant is up against Keaton's fabulous The Goat with live SVA audiences getting to vote for who wins. The New Champ each Wednesday night climaxes the show with their own Surprise Classic short comedy. Live piano with silent comedy works best with an audience that has had time to coalesce into a bonded group. To help with this process we are featuring, before the main bout, what we are calling Selected Short Subjects. These include a 'Story Behind The Song' reading (a tale called 'Hollywood Beauty'), plus a few songs with lyrics by Leo Robin and also (uniquely) a bit of live cartooning, showing off one of Albert's failed comic strips, The Nudists. Book yourself in now for an evening where our own elderly polymath, Albert Lamb, will be offering Stroud something completely new and different in the fun department.

Robbins and Roberts present
'Playing with the Gods', Clare Bottomley
Private View 17 October 6-9pm
18 October – 1 November
Tuesday - Saturdays 10am-4pm
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

This first event at Robbins and Roberts is an exhibition of photographs by young artist, Clare Bottomley. 'Playing with the Gods' is an exhibition of photographic works by award winning artist Clare Bottomley who documents herself, family and friends in poses that often reflect upon religious iconography, addressing uncomfortable issues in society. Clare was awarded the prestigious Deutsch Bank Award in 2013 whilst completing her MA at RCA, London, where she also received the RCA Fine Art Bursary in 2012. Robbins and Roberts is a new gallery project at SVA, John Street, Stroud. Artists, Lorraine Robbins and Soozy Roberts will be taking over the running of the recently refurbished and purpose designed gallery space in the centre of town, from October, hosting a series of challenging and critically considered exhibitions and events.

Robbins and Roberts host
John Street Social Club
Friday 17 October 7-11pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
£1 membership

A John Street Club special with Gender Bender Twist. 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 selected number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities..

Gifts for Mother Mnemosyne
an exhibition by Emily Joy
Private View 17 October 6-9pm
18 October – 9 November, Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 4pm
The Museum in the Park, Stroud
Stratford Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 4AF
6 November - 28 November, Thursday – Friday 11am – 4pm
Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP

Stroud based artist, Emily Joy will be ramming over 10 tonnes of earth to make a new series of sculptures for her solo exhibition at the Museum in the Park and the Goods Shed. ‘Gifts for Mother Mnemosyne’ will explore how the past is recalled through the imperfect copy that is memory, language and image, and will be complemented by talks, film screenings, tours and a programme of workshops which will direct the form of a major new piece of work. The exhibition at the Museum in the Park also includes ceramics, drawing and projection, which combine to create a sense of character, a wanderer or traveller searching for a home. A major new rammed earth sculpture, formed using an old boat, will be created in the Goods Shed. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Studio Nine presents
Wednesday Night at the Fights
Wednesday 22 October 7pm
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Tickets: £5 on the door

Studio Nine presents Chaplin vs Keaton, the fight of the (last) century! Chaplin's masterpiece The Immigrant is up against Keaton's fabulous The Goat with live SVA audiences getting to vote for who wins. The New Champ each Wednesday night climaxes the show with their own Surprise Classic short comedy. Live piano with silent comedy works best with an audience that has had time to coalesce into a bonded group. To help with this process we are featuring, before the main bout, what we are calling Selected Short Subjects. These include a 'Story Behind The Song' reading (a tale called 'Hollywood Beauty'), plus a few songs with lyrics by Leo Robin and also (uniquely) a bit of live cartooning, showing off one of Albert's failed comic strips, The Nudists. Book yourself in now for an evening where our own elderly polymath, Albert Lamb, will be offering Stroud something completely new and different in the fun department.

Oliver Offord hosts John Street Social Club
Friday 24 October 7-11pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
£1 membership

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 selected number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

Hot Feet EP Launch
with Cocos Lovers and The Magic Lantern
Saturday 25 October 8pm
Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
Tickets: £8 advanced £10 on door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here or in person from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street. Stroud GL5 1AQ

As part of a UK tour, local band Hot Feet launch their eagerly awaited second EP, Mist Is Dust. Their set will be preceded by the intimately mesmerising songcraft of The Magic Lantern, fresh from the release of his second album, and followed by Kentish afro-folk 7-piece Cocos Lovers, who run the Smugglers record label on which all three artists are releasing their new material. This is sure to be a journey of musical splendour - start the evening quietly listening; finish with raucous dancing and hollering!

Stroud Short Stories
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Sunday 26 October 8pm
Tickets: £5 on the door

Stroud Short Stories returns with another night of surprises as ten specially selected local authors read their tales. Previous nights have included wild animals in the house, wayward girl-guides and passionate encounters in the bookshop, so come prepared for anything! To submit for future events, please email your stories (under 1500 words) to stroudshortstories@yahoo.co.uk or visit our website stroudshortstories.blogspot.com

Studio Nine presents Wednesday Night at the Fights
Wednesday 29 October 7pm
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Tickets: £5 on the door

Studio Nine presents Chaplin vs Keaton, the fight of the (last) century! Chaplin's masterpiece The Immigrant is up against Keaton's fabulous The Goat with live SVA audiences getting to vote for who wins. The New Champ each Wednesday night climaxes the show with their own Surprise Classic short comedy. Live piano with silent comedy works best with an audience that has had time to coalesce into a bonded group. To help with this process we are featuring, before the main bout, what we are calling Selected Short Subjects. These include a 'Story Behind The Song' reading (a tale called 'Hollywood Beauty'), plus a few songs with lyrics by Leo Robin and also (uniquely) a bit of live cartooning, showing off one of Albert's failed comic strips, The Nudists. Book yourself in now for an evening where our own elderly polymath, Albert Lamb, will be offering Stroud something completely new and different in the fun department.

Bandit 13 Superstition
presented by Maidenhill School, SVA and longtrainride.co.uk
Thursday 30 October Doors open 7pm
Goods Shed, Station Yard, Stroud GL5 3AP
Tickets: Adults £12 Children and concessions £6
Advance tickets from Trading Post & Maidenhill School

Bandit the music workshop is back with a new theme of 'Superstition' meaning that the students will write songs about certain points in time. Special guests will be talking and performing on the subjects. BandiT is a three day rock and pop workshop for 70 students aged 7 to 17. 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 27-29th October with the final performance at SVA. Applications are still being accepted for bandit 13. Click the link to go to the Bandit website and down load the application form http://banditmusicprojects.co.uk/

Site Festival Open Studios hosts
John Street Social Club
Friday 31 October 7-11pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
£1 membership

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 selected number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities..

Site Festival presents
Autumn Open Studios
Friday 31 October 6-9pm
Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 November 11am-6pm

Various artist studios and venues across the Stroud District
Looking for gift inspiration? Artists are opening for a special autumn Open Studios weekend where you'll find contemporary hand-crafted unique presents for the upcoming festive season. Featuring a selection of Site Festival Open Studios artists across the district, visitors will be spoilt for choice by the variety of work for sale, with a collection of work that ranges from ceramics, paintings, textiles, jewellery, prints, and many more. An online Open Studios directory showing which artists are open will be available at www.sva.org.uk (Photograph by Nigel Noyes)

Studio Nine presents
Wednesday Night at the Fights
Wednesday 5 November 7pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
Tickets: £5 on the door

Studio Nine presents Chaplin vs Keaton, the fight of the (last) century! Chaplin's masterpiece The Immigrant is up against Keaton's fabulous The Goat with live SVA audiences getting to vote for who wins. The New Champ each Wednesday night climaxes the show with their own Surprise Classic short comedy. Live piano with silent comedy works best with an audience that has had time to coalesce into a bonded group. To help with this process we are featuring, before the main bout, what we are calling Selected Short Subjects. These include a 'Story Behind The Song' reading (a tale called 'Hollywood Beauty'), plus a few songs with lyrics by Leo Robin and also (uniquely) a bit of live cartooning, showing off one of Albert's failed comic strips, The Nudists. Book yourself in now for an evening where our own elderly polymath, Albert Lamb, will be offering Stroud something completely new and different in the fun department.

Gifts for Mother Mnemosyne
an exhibition by Emily Joy
18 October – 9 November, Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 4pm
The Museum in the Park, Stroud
Stratford Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 4AF
6 November - 28 November, Thursday – Friday 11am – 4pm
Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP

Stroud based artist, Emily Joy will be ramming over 10 tonnes of earth to make a new series of sculptures for her solo exhibition at the Museum in the Park and the Goods Shed. ‘Gifts for Mother Mnemosyne’ will explore how the past is recalled through the imperfect copy that is memory, language and image, and will be complemented by talks, film screenings, tours and a programme of workshops which will direct the form of a major new piece of work. The exhibition at the Museum in the Park also includes ceramics, drawing and projection, which combine to create a sense of character, a wanderer or traveller searching for a home. A major new rammed earth sculpture, formed using an old boat, will be created in the Goods Shed. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

John Street Social Club
Friday 7 November 7-11pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
£1 membership

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists with visuals and audio to share in a non precious environment. The format: decks, laptop, and a selected number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

Robbins and Roberts present
Robert Frogley: Painting Upside Down
Private view Friday 7 November 6-9pm
Saturday 8-Saturday 22 November
Tues, Friday and Saturday 10-4pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA

At 70 years old Robert Frogley has a long lifetime of art, working in the converted summerhouse at his home and on short courses at college. His current works are lively, vibrant abstract paintings, in acrylic on canvas. Robert draws inspiration from his visits to Cathedrals and churches, making onsite sketches and photographs. Back at the studio he transforms the architectural forms of the buildings, and the hues of the stained-glass windows in to joyous paintings bursting with colourful motifs and patterns. This exhibition will also see the launch of the publication of a collection poetry and writing by talented young art student,Tom Bergin, who is studying for the level 3 Extended Diploma in Art and Design at SGS College, Stroud.This poetry project is being kindly supported by SGS College.

El Vine Club
with special guest DJ The Fat White Duke aka James Endeacott
Saturday 8th November 8 til Late
SVA 4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
Tickets £6 in advance from Trading Post £8 on the door

El Vine Club is here to remind you of your own mortality, an annual opportunity to exercise your demons, wake the dead and indulge ones greatest fears. Come Suited and Booted appropriately. Get down with the dead with special guest DJ The Fat White Duke aka James Endeacott; The Libertines. ,Tindersticks, The Strokes, Rough Trade...

Plus Resident Djs Resident Djs Harvey Brook and Oliver Offord.

Studio Nine presents
Wednesday Night at the Fights
Wednesday 12 November 7pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
Tickets: £5 on the door

Studio Nine presents Chaplin vs Keaton, the fight of the (last) century! Chaplin's masterpiece The Immigrant is up against Keaton's fabulous The Goat with live SVA audiences getting to vote for who wins. The New Champ each Wednesday night climaxes the show with their own Surprise Classic short comedy. Live piano with silent comedy works best with an audience that has had time to coalesce into a bonded group. To help with this process we are featuring, before the main bout, what we are calling Selected Short Subjects. These include a 'Story Behind The Song' reading (a tale called 'Hollywood Beauty'), plus a few songs with lyrics by Leo Robin and also (uniquely) a bit of live cartooning, showing off one of Albert's failed comic strips, The Nudists. Book yourself in now for an evening where our own elderly polymath, Albert Lamb, will be offering Stroud something completely new and different in the fun department.

Stroud Jazz Sessions presents Dan Messore
Thursday 13 November 8.30-11.30pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
Tickets £5 (£3 performers)

Special guest Dan Messore is creating quite a buzz so it's great to host him at Stroud Jazz Sessions! Dan's guitar playing channels the greats like Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny, and reaches across to more rhythmic and latin genres like Charlie Byrd. Dan's collaboration with Iain Ballamy has set critics' hearts racing, his eclectic album with Little Arrows was nominated for the Welsh Music Prize 2013, and he frequently plays with Stroud Jazz favourite Jake McMurchie in Michelson Morley. Join us for a great performance set from Dan, which opens up into our energeti-frenetic jam - all welcome, singers, players, listeners. Stroud Jazz Sessions is a hub for all interested in jazz. 2nd Thurs of the month at SVA.

Nickotine and Alfohol host
John Street Social Club
Friday 14 November 7-11pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA

Short film clips of all descriptions are mixed skillfully and seamlessly into an audio visual sensory montage. 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...

Memory, Story, Forgetting
Talk by Mark Currie
Saturday 15 November 4pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA

Tickets: £7 /£5. Tickets can be bought online here
Mark Currie will present a talk about language, time and the self, at SVA. There will be the opportunity to view the large scale sculpture work in progress in the Goods Shed and food will be provided after the talk. Mark Currie is professor of contemporary literature at Queen Mary University of London and Author of ‘About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time’, ‘The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise’ and others. His work has concentrated on questions about time in philosophy, fiction and narrative. This talk has been organised by Emily Joy in conjunction with her exhibition 'Gifts for Mother Mnemosyne' at the Museum in the Park and the Goods Shed.

Studio Nine presents
Wednesday Night at the Fights
Wednesday 19 November 7pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
Tickets: £5 on the door

Studio Nine presents Chaplin vs Keaton, the fight of the (last) century! Chaplin's masterpiece The Immigrant is up against Keaton's fabulous The Goat with live SVA audiences getting to vote for who wins. The New Champ each Wednesday night climaxes the show with their own Surprise Classic short comedy. Live piano with silent comedy works best with an audience that has had time to coalesce into a bonded group. To help with this process we are featuring, before the main bout, what we are calling Selected Short Subjects. These include a 'Story Behind The Song' reading (a tale called 'Hollywood Beauty'), plus a few songs with lyrics by Leo Robin and also (uniquely) a bit of live cartooning, showing off one of Albert's failed comic strips, The Nudists. Book yourself in now for an evening where our own elderly polymath, Albert Lamb, will be offering Stroud something completely new and different in the fun department.

Mould presents
Short Film Showcase 2014
Thursday 20 November 6.30pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
£3 on the door entry free for film makers.

An eclectic mix of movie making by young people will be showcased including feature, documentary, animation and - a new phenomena - flash films captured on mobile phones. If you are young, if you are free, if you could potentially become a short film maker then fulfill your potential and join Mould in broadcasting the flips and clips of the lively fledglings of Stroud. Whether you have a passion for filming or you are yet to discover it, this is a chance to send in a short clip to SVA from any technical device you prefer, e.g camera, phone, iPod. Your film will be screened at a live film event at SVA on the 20th November. Deadline for collection 10th November ... The call is out! Supported by Stroud Arts Festival.

Human Ocean
John Street Social Club
Friday 21 November 7-11pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
£1 membership

A John Street Social Club evening of live poetry, dance, stand-up, music and video art to exhilarate the nerves and bring poetry leaping off the page and onto the stage. Featuring: Sam Bloomfield, Nick Clements, Herewood Gabriel, Jay Ramsay, Richard Austin, DJ’s Kodo and Luke and special guests.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 selected number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

Blurt
Saturday 22 November 8pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
Tickets: £8.50 advanced £10 on door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here or in person from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street. Stroud GL5 1AQ

Stroud’s prodigal son, Ted Milton returns to the own with his iconic eighties band, Blurt. Milton, like his namesake the poet, is a man with his own unique creative expression. Puppeteer-turned-eccentricsaxophonist Ted Milton is perhaps the epitome of warped genius. His nearly tuneful squawks and lyrics shouted like a newspaper seller are as extraordinarily inspired as his song titles, which include ‘My Mother Was a Friend of an Enemy of the People.’ Founded in Stroud in 1980 the band’s compositions are based on repetitious and infectious grooves of solid robotic drumming and minimalist guitar patterns, topped with wild bursts of free form sax and dramatically demonic vocals to form their inimitable trademark. A cult underground institution.

John Street Blues
Thursday 27 November 8pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
Tickets: £5 £3.00 concessions/members
John Street Blues is a monthly Blues night, in which musicians an non-musicians can enjoy blues music from every era. The night encompasses vinyl and digital music, film, and live jams and performances, in which anyone is welcome to participate.

John Street Social Club
Friday 28 November 7-11pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
£1 membership

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists with visuals and audio to share in a non precious environment. The format: decks, laptop, and a selected number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...