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Causeway, a pop up art restaurant
Friday 25th -26th May
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP

Designer Anna Usborne, from SVA, has teamed up with local architects Millar Howard Workshop to make a pop up restaurant in the Goods Shed as a place to meet, eat and encounter art. They have designed and made a series of cast concrete tables and produced the Star Chair, designed by architect Dave Wilson at Millar Howard Workshop. Together these elements aim to respect the building's historic industrial past whilst offering a contemporary intervention in the Goods Shed.
Hobbs House Bakery will be providing the food. They can chart five generations of bakers in the family, from early 20th Century roots in Gloucestershire right through to Tom Herbert, father of 4 aspiring, potentially 6th generation bakers. Born with flour on their fingers Tom Herbert and his brother Henry have recently been seen on their popular TV series The Fabulous Baker Brothers.

Friday 25th May 7pm-9pm
(please arrive at 6.30pm)
Tickets: £30 for evening meal and music event
Book online: www.sitefestival.org.uk
A hot meaty feast cooked by Tom and Henry Herbert, Hobbs House Bakery. Further menu information available from site@sva.org.uk. The evening will then cool down for a gentle and contemplative piano recital. After your bellies are full you are welcome to stay on for Communio, a night-long concert for a resonant piano with Oogoo Maia. Your ticket to the meal will include this. (see below for further info).

Saturday 26th May 9am-12 noon
Bacon baps, coffee and tea will be on offer all morning. Just drop in.

Saturday 26th May 7pm-9pm
(please arrive at 6.30pm)
Tickets: £30 for evening meal and music event
Book online: www.sitefestival.org.uk
A hot meaty feast cooked by Tom and Henry Herbert, Hobbs House Bakery. Further menu information available from site@sva.org.uk. The evening will continue with a very special performance from the ambient jazz duo Eyebrow with film artist Kathy Hinde. Your ticket to the meal will include this. (See Site Festival programme for further info).

Second Hand Identity
An experimental performance project
Saturday 26th May 11am-5pm
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP

Ed Patrick (Kid Carpet) and Jet McDonald collaborate on a new performance experiment. Second Hand Identity changes with every show. Charity shops and car boot sales are gleaned to provide all the characters and props which are sold, auctioned or somehow got rid of by the end of the piece. One performance may be about Princess Diana and located on a chessboard, the next could be about He-Man and set in Skegness. Somehow the story and songs remain the same.

Eyebrow and Kathy Hinde
Saturday 26th May 8pm
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
www.soundcloud.com/eyebrowband
www.kathyhinde.co.uk

Following on from their performance at last year’s Site Festival, ambient jazz minimalist duo Eyebrow and film artist Kathy Hinde take on the broader canvas of the Goods Shed space. Eyebrow are Pete Judge (trumpet and electronics) and Paul Wigens (drums and percussion). Their individual CVs include work with BBC Jazz award winners Get the Blessing, Three Cane Whale, Super Furry Animals, Nicholas Roeg, Gary Lucas, Can’s Damo Suzuki and Stroud’s own Jazz-Punk legends Blurt. Eyebrow’s music weaves trance-like percussive rhythms with economical and affecting melodies underpinned by electronic yet organic and other-worldly soundscapes. Kathy Hinde’s visuals respond to the minimal, haunting and captivating soundworld of Eyebrow with footage she has filmed searching for shifting visual patterns, dances, and poetic patterns that occur in the everyday world.
Tickets: £4 in advance £5 on the door
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Meantime Project Space presents
a weekend satellite residency: Kate Lepper
A Preliminary Consultation for Tactile Love Propaganda
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th May 11am-5pm
www.katelepper.com

What is the relationship between object-based art practice and social responsibility? Is there political meaning in an artist’s will to proliferate well-being via aesthetic objects alone? What can the desire to generate visual nourishment via aesthetic propositions offer ‘real’ world strategies to visualise and realise alternatives?

Stroud Short Stories
Sunday 27th May 8pm
SVA, John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
stroudshortstories.blogspot.co.uk

Stroud Short Stories returns for another glittering night of short fiction, featuring ten authors reading their own short stories and with special guest Tania Hershman. With all the stories selected from submissions, we will be presenting a night of fresh and direct writing from the local area, with a mix of established authors and new talent. There will be longer stories that will wrap you up in their coat and offer you their last cigarette, and shorter stories that would rather punch you on the nose. Subjects on previous nights have included daleks, freight trains and bad girl guides, not to mention celebrity gardeners and a case of overwhelming lust in a bookshop. A night of surprises and top-notch writing is guaranteed. This event is organised by Bill Jones, a studio-holder at SVA. To submit for future events, please email your stories of 1500 words and under to: stroudshortstories@yahoo.co.uk.
Tickets: £4 on the door

Mezz #18 part 1
Ben Rivers, Two Years at Sea
Monday 28th May 8.30pm
Apollo Cinema, Stroud
www.mezz.info

Ben Rivers' acclaimed feature-length film Two Years at Sea is to be screened at the Apollo Cinema in Stroud. Shot on 16mm, Rivers' film follows the solitary existence of Jake, a man who lives alone in a remote Scottish forest. Filmed over the course of two years Rivers documents over a series of long, often static shots the minutiae of Jake’s self-sufficient relationship to his environment focusing on the rhythms of Jake's life in and around his ramshackle house. The film concludes with a mesmerising close up of Jake's face as he sits gazing into a bonfire, an image that darkens as the night draws in and Jake slips into a sleep, the screen filling with the blackness of underexposed celluloid. An extraordinary film portrait that recalls Thoreau’s words from Walden “… him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.” Presented by Mezz in association with PhotoStroud.
Tickets: Standard price £8.
Take your Mezz #18 part 2 ticket to Apollo, Stroud for a special ticket price of £6.10

Mezz #18 part 2
Ben Rivers in conversation with Benjamin Cook (LUX)
Tuesday 29th May 7.30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
www.mezz.info

Ben Rivers will show and discuss his short films at SVA with Benjamin Cook, director of the LUX. The subject of Rivers’ films is often those who choose a way of life that quietly, but resolutely, refuses to submit to the demands of conventional living. Shooting with a Bolex camera onto 16mm film, he will often hand process the films in his kitchen sink, the splash and mark of this process remaining as traces on the image. The films in which hecollages together footage and sound with a distinct lyrical rhythm and eye have been attracting much attention within the art world and awards at international
film festivals. Presented by Mezz in association with LUX.
Tickets: £4.50 on the door

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