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The Performance Exchange
11th-13th May
Friday 6pm-10pm, Saturday 10am-9pm
Sunday 10am-5pm
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The Performance Exchange brings together an exciting and ambitious weekend of performance art, screenings, discussions and an exhibition of performative works. Curated by Soozy Roberts, the weekend will explore the exchange between audience, artist-led spaces, performers and site. Artist led performance groups will include O U I Performance, Tertulia, CAZ Project Space, tactileBOSCH, ]performance s p a c e [ and Connection/time. Performance works from Poppy Jackson, Paul Hurley, Victoria Gray, Nathan Walker, Phil Owen, Rebecca Weeks and Ian Whitford and many more. Using the Goods Shed as the base for the weekend, performances and exchange will take place throughout the town and in various venues. Visit blog for more details and meet at the Goods Shed at start times. theperformanceexchange.tumblr.com

Minima: Nosferatu
Sunday 13th May 7.30pm
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP

Minima’s music is an audacious 21st-Century interpretation of the images of silent and avant-garde film. Formed in 2006, Minima perform in cinemas and arts centres, as well as music and film festivals and unexpected venues. Minima’s repertoire includes silent feature films: surrealism, horror and science fiction, as well as silent short films, animations and improvised performances. One of the band’s scores is for the 1922 horror classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, and this year is the 90th Anniversary of the film’s release. One of the silent era’s most influential masterpieces, Nosferatu’s eerie, gothic feel - and a chilling performance from Max Shrek as the vampire - set the template for the horror films that followed. Based on the Dracula story, this is a true spine-tingler with many now iconic scenes of the blood-sucking count. Darkly humorous and tender too - this is a story of yearning and the search for fulfilment.

Tickets: £4 advance, £5 on the door Trading Post 01453 759116 or online at www.sitefestival.org.uk

Wasteland and beyond
Wednesday 16th May 8pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Wasteland has been an ongoing transient art project in different sizes, forms and locations. This time it will be a social club event. Set in the Wasteland landscape artists are invited to present and experiment with they work. It’s an underground project open to failure and the chaotic process of creativity. Wasteland is inviting the audience to be part of this space and experience with cake, drinks, conversation and who knows what else could happen.It will be an evening filled with sounds, movement, chaos, video, words, objects, ideas, dialogue and what you bring to it. Everyone is welcome to bring a cake, a clock, a friend, a memory, a toothbrush, a record, a book, a broken toy, an image, a paperclip, a pencil, a song any thing for the wasteline... Wasteland is also breaking back into the airwaves so listen out on our blog for our radio shows.
Tickets: £3 on the door wastelandsocialclub.tumblr.com

Negative Space presents
This Our Still Life plus Q&A with director, Andrew Kötting
Thursday 17th May 7pm
SVA, 4 John St, Stroud

Acclaimed artist-filmmaker Andrew Kötting introduces a screening of his 2011 film This Our Still Life, a startling and poetic reflection on life at his ramshackle home-from-home in the Pyrenees. Again featuring his 23-year-old daughter Eden, who suffers from Joubert syndrome and memorably took part in 1996’s round-Britain ‘road movie’ Gallivant, it’s a film realised with typical visual invention and absurdist humour. A radical and compelling voice in contemporary filmmaking, Kötting has most recently collaborated with writer Iain Sinclair on Swandown, a film which documents their navigation of inland waterways from Hastings to Hackney in a swan-shaped pedalo and is due to premiere at this year’s Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Manchester. As Sinclair himself commented of Kötting in a recent review of This Our Still Life, “There is no one quite like him in cinema”.
Tickets: £6 (non-members), £5 (members) on the door

Simon Munnery and John Hegley
present an evening of Comedy and Character
Friday 18th May 8pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

As well as performing as themselves, the pair will present other selves which they will inhabit. Mr Munnery, The Urban Warrior and Hegley: a Unicorn and his old Sports Master (Gym). Both will also appear in a short drama, wherein costume and scenery are provided by the assembled. Plenty of joining in. Some melancholy. No hamsters. Sony Radio Award-winner Simon Munnery is known for his unique experimental style, surreal humour and sartorial appearance with his tragically unfashionable glasses and makeshift props. The writer, performer and Site Festival favourite John Hegley has been described as the Spike Milligan for our time. His surreal poetry is often heard on BBC radio and he has published ten books.
Tickets: £10. Booking is essential as places are limited. Trading Post 01453 759116 or online: www.sitefestival.org.uk

Before you Leave
18th-21st May 10am-6pm
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP

Following the successful group pop up show Roots curated by Tamzin Malleson at the Stroud Music Centre last November, many of the artists involved are collaborating again. Another pop up, this exhibition is entitled Before You Leave. Exhbiting artists are Abigail Fallis, Tamzin Malleson, Colin Glen, Polly Glen, Jo Fry, Micha Leese, Tam Ingles, Simon Noble, Lorraine Robbins, Manuel Huertas, Oliver Marsden, Ralph Mcartney and Julie Howe. As with Roots the participating artists respond to the title of the show through their chosen medium. They will tie their work in with the venue – the restored Brunel former Goods Shed alongside Stroud train station. This is the perfect site for any visitors wishing to come along and experience the eclectic mix of work presented by these artists, all bought together by friendship and their passion for the Stroud area. Curated by Briony Fforde and Jo Fry.

Butch Queen, First Time in Drag The Club Night
Saturday 12th May 10pm-3am
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA

This is a call out to all lovers of gay culture/music, this is Stroud’s only gay club night! Come down and wear your most outrageous outfits, dance your butt off, and lip sync for your life. With a selection of fierce DJs, playing the best in dance, pop, disco, and classics. A party celebrating all things gay.
Tickets: £4 advance, £5 on the door from Trading Post 01453 759116

Sue Freeborough talk
Tuesday 15th May 7pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
A presentation by this intriguing artist. Freeborough's work draws parallels between the uncertainty of outward appearances and how ideas are perceived when transformed into sculpture. Sue Freeborough’s wry comments on the human condition are supported by a thoughtful and intellectual approach to her work and an interest in scientific research. Many of her sculptures use classical imagery as a starting point from which to make contemporary statements. The exhibition includes a series of new works inspired by a recent residency in Uganda, supported by the Ruwenzori Sculpture Foundation. Using a variety of local materials including bark-cloth and salt, Freeborough explores the human condition in an African context.

Sue Freeborough will be exhibiting her work 21st May-29th June at Gallery Pangolin,9 Chalford Ind. Estate, Chalford, Stroud GL6 8NT. Visit www.gallery-pangolin.com

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