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			BRICKHOUSE & The Copeland Book Market Saturday May 4th 4-9pm Sunday May 5th 1-6pm Duffle, 3 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HE www.brckhs.co.uk www.copelandbookmarket.com Collaborators BH and CBM present a series of workshops, readings and talks held inside a temporary market. Throughout the project publications from the CBM's participant publishers and artists, as well as local practitioners work, will be on display and for sale. The Copeland Book Market is looking for submissions of books from local artists to include in the display, please email submissions or enquiries to info@copelandbookmarket.com. Programme of FREE events taking place inside the market: Saturday May 4th 7pm Clinic poetry collective readings to launch their 3rd publication 8.30pm Michael O'Mahony / Patchfinder spoken performance Sunday May 5th 4pm Self publishing and book making workshop with Oliver Griffin(CBM) artist 5pm Talk by Lewis Chaplin, co-founder of fourteen nineteen

			BRICKHOUSE /Top Nice Site Festival Party Saturday 4 May 9pm-3am SVA, John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Free before 11pm RSVP essential: site@sva.org.uk £5 on the door after 11pm www.topnice.org BRICKHOUSE is an experimental curatorial project founded in London in 2009 producing exhibitions, events and artists books. Top Nice is a Stockholm and London based club night and record label founded in 2006. BRICKHOUSE has invited London based artist Mike Levitt to make a site specific temporary installation in the SVA for the event. Top Nice will host the Site Festival opening after party with music from Patchfinder w. Vera Modena (LIVE), Michael O’Mahony (LIVE), Nathan Cash Davidson (LIVE RAP), Daniel Harle of Dux Content (DJ), Endgame (DJ) Mike Levitt (DJ) and Top Nice residents (DJ).

			Peace, Love and Potatoes John Hegley and Andrew Bailey Sunday 5th May 7.30pm SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Tickets:£8/£10 Advanced tickets can be bought online Or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street. Stroud GL5 1AQ John Hegley brings you songs, pictures and poems, pithy, passionate and poignant. Occasionally simultaneously. Devised for adults, but tolerable to some nine year olds. Andrew Bailey, the King of Dysfunctional Doo Woop will be joining John to take you on an audio visual journey into the absurd.

	EXHIBITIONS		starting this week

			the sky has to turn black before you can see the stars Siobhán Hapaska Opening night: Saturday 4th May 6-9pm 4th-12th May Saturday 4th 10am-3pm, Sunday 5th, Monday 6th-Sunday 12th 11am-6pm Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP INDEX is proud to open the 2013 Site Festival with a newly commissioned installation by Siobhán Hapaska, made specifically for the Goods Shed in Stroud. Five uprooted olive trees, each suspended within a cube of scaffolding, are yoked to motors, creating unsettling yet magical vibrations. The ropes that shackle the trees to the corners of each cube suggest subjugation, hinting that the trees are being somehow enslaved. Yet their vigorous shaking is defiant rather than compliant. The trauma of uprooting clashes with this exuberant and abundant movement – a continuous ecstatic last gasp, extending the possibility of change and hope. www.indexgallery.co.uk

			10x10 John Wood and Paul Harrison Opening night: Saturday 4th May 7-9pm Sunday 5th May 12 noon-3pm Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May 11am-6pm Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May 11am-6pm SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA 10x10, An office block, 100 floors, 10 colours, 1 person. John Wood and Paul Harrison have been working collaboratively since 1993 producing single screen and installation based video works. The work investigates the relationship between the human figure and architecture, developed through short form video (20 seconds – 3 minutes) with particular emphasis on actions being formulated and resolved within a given duration. Each work holds to an internal ‘logic’, action related to duration. Within this ‘logical world’ (architectural space, the gallery space, the business office, the laboratory) action is allowed to happen for no logical reason, a tension exists between the environment and its inhabitant, play is encouraged and influences are intentionally mixed – art history, slapstick, Open University instruction, drawing, science... John Wood and Paul Harrison are represented by Carroll/Fletcher, London. harrisonandwood.com

			Love and Other Utopias Madescapes Opening night: Saturday 4th May 8-9pm Saturday 4th-Wednesday 8th May 10am-4pm Unit 6 Merrywalks, Stroud GL5 1RR Each artist is camped out in one of the canvas bivouacs, taking part in a networked game of Civilisation 5. The artists have made a pact to help each other achieve a joint win by diplomatic means, ie; no war. We feel that although a utopia may be beyond a planet of seven billion inhabitants, we 3 ought at least to be able to achieve it, if only for a few days, if only in a fantasy landscape. We propose to inhabit the space until this is achieved (predicted three to four days), at which point the performance is complete, and we leave the installation. MadeScapes.com

			Unit 56 4th-31st May Opening night: Saturday 4th May 7-9pm 56 High Street, Stroud GL5 1AS An eclectic and diverse mix of artists will be bringing guerrilla TV, dog in a trash can and painting by numbers to the high street. Mould TV will bring you the latest interviews, news, art and more. Visit us throughout the festival for further information about Site and top events for those young at heart. Sarah Dixon will inviting you to 'Paint by Numbers' and posing the question is "Every Man a Rembrandt?". Victoria Garden will be exhibiting a collection of bold bird motif paintings alongside Catell Ronca's collages. Other work will be on show including Sam Marsh and Ed Lawrenson's "Polyrhythmic Snarl", Simon Brundret and Dan Sparkes. Pick up a fringe programme and check website for more details.

			Open Studios 'Taster' Exhibition Opening Night Saturday 4th May 7-9pm Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Special Sundays openings in May, Sundays 5th 2-4pm, 12th and 19th 11- 4pm The Subscription Rooms, George Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 1AE Tel:01453 760900 www.subscription.rooms@stroud.gov.uk The Open Studios Taster Exhibition at the Sub Rooms Stroud has returned to the Site Festival once again. Showcasing the work of the Open Studio Artists, this exhibition provides a perfect opportunity to plan your visits to the studios and homes of local artists and to see and buy their original artwork.

	View or download Site Festival Programme and Open Studios Directory here See Site Festival Programme with downloadble PDF www.sitefestival.org.uk See Open Studios Directory with downloadble PDF www.sitefestival.org.uk Links www.sitefestival.org.uk www.indexgallery.co.uk www.stroudartsfestival.org
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