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			Canterbury Tales Monday 6th May feast 6pm, screening 8.30pm Knapp House Barn, Slad, Stroud GL6 7JZ Tickets: Feast and film £30. Film only £10 Book Now “I told these tales for the joy of telling them.” Pier Paolo Pasolini Join us in the rustic splendour of the 18th century Knapp House barn for an unforgettable evening of film and feasting featuring a rare 35mm screening of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s bawdy romp through the Middle Ages. Get in the mood for the film with a Bacchanalian extravaganza of frolics, flames and feasting: gorge on wood-roasted hog with fruits of the forest and field – a sumptuous medieval banquet to celebrate nature’s bounty and fecundity, washed down with wine, gaiety and song as musicians stroll among the revellers. Sated and content, enter the majestic barn to watch Pasolini’s unique take on Chaucer’s Tales. Derided as apolitical soft-porn by some on its release, I Racconti di Canterbury was the second part of the Italian’s Trilogy of Life, and won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1972. Pasolini defended his film, saying that his intent was to celebrate life in all its carnality and physicality. If that was the aim, then the film was an unbounded success, placing farting, drinking, sex and sodomy centre stage. Pasolini even has Tom Baker – subsequently Dr Who – being masturbated by the Wife of Bath, and a finale featuring devils farting friars out of their backsides. The medieval feast will be created by Stroud Bakery’s Sally Kinnear who buys meat from producers she trusts, combining it with local seasonal vegetables and dairy to make hearty plates for feasting, all served with her speciality artisan long-fermented rustic loaves.

			The Cube hosts John Street Social Club with Graeme Hogg and David Hopkinson Friday 10th May 7pm SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA www.cubecinema.com Free entry Graeme Hogg will present Haiti Street Radiophonia, a 40 minute performance of Field recordings made in Haiti during February 2012. Mixing together sounds from Voudou rituals, short wave radio sermons, people singing, street sounds, environmental audio and sounds of encounters during carnival in Jakmel. A colourful, intense and intriguing sonic experience capturing an essence of Haitian spirit. Mr_hopkinson's computer is a project by artist and computer owner, David Hopkinson. The Computer sings surprisingly emotional reinterpretations of indie-rock classics from the final few decades of the last Century - a time before auto-tune emerged to muddle recordings of human vocal skill and mask error and emotion. As a solo performer, the easily anthropomorphised laptop has taken his routine of unexpected takes on familiar tracks, plus jovial between song banter, up and down the UK and beyond, with and without mr_hopkinson in tow. Referencing - and being - antiquated technology The Computer still blinks with apparent hope into the future, and has enjoyed numerous plays on late night radio 1, BBC 6music and XFM, recently appearing in the "Man vs Machine" episode of Colin Murray's Soundscape series. The Cube is a Microplex Cinema,arts venue, adult creche and progressive social wellbeing enterprise in central Bristol. 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.

			Negative Space presents Come And See (Idi I Smotri) Selected by Siobhan Hapaska Wednesday 8th May 8pm Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP Tickets: £4 (non-members)/£3 members Book Here Selected by Siobhán Hapaska to accompany her Site Festival installation, Elem Klimov's visionary 1985 epic is a startling and shocking evocation of the destablising effects of war. Taking its title from the Biblical story of the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, the film shows the physical and psychological devastation wrought by Nazi death squads during their occupation of Byelorussia in 1943, when over 600 villages were burned to the ground. One of Soviet cinema's most obdurate talents, Klimov waited nearly a decade for the film to be approved. The result is a film of astonishing candour, with Klimov even casting an inexperienced schoolboy in the central role of a rural teenager who finds himself conscripted into the Soviet Army, before becoming caught up in a nightmarish sequence of events in which moments of tenderness and absurdist humour are shattered by eruptions of extreme violence. With the forests and open plains of Belarus rendered in hallucinatory colours, the result is both brutal and strangely beautiful – at least up until a devastating climax which prefigures the Chapman brothers's version of Hell. As the writer Ales Adamovich, who co-wrote the screenplay with Klimov, explained: "This is something we must leave after us. As evidence of war - and as a plea for peace."

			Folk in a box Saturdays 11th May 11am-2pm SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA Saturday 18th May 10am-4pm Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP folkinabox.net Folk in a Box is a unique one-on-one music venue and performance space. It is a bespoke wooden box with a little front door for audience members and a little back door for performers. (The back door also doubles up as a whisky bar!) It can be set up anywhere. You will be invited as an audience of one to enter the Box and be give your own special song, performed by one musician. It’s simple, but works like a charm. Folk in a Box has been designed by architects David Knight and Cristina Monteiro, following specifications of the mastermind musician Dom Coyote. Folk in a Box has been to all sorts of places – Tate Britain, SouthBank Centre, BAC, music festivals, back streets, high streets, hill tops and front rooms. Internationally Folk in a Box has made it's mark and was on display in Venice last year as an invited participant at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

	GIGS

			Qu Junktions presents Blast This..... Bass Clef with Dirty Talk DJs, Katapulto and Qu Djs Saturday 11th May 10pm-3am SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA qujunktions.com £8 on the door, £6 in advance Book Now or from Trading Post 26 Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AQ A hot box club night of bass, beats and pieces featuring a line-up of choice party pedigree from Bristol and beyond. London's Bass Clef (Punch Drunk) leads the dance with a live soundsystem set of Dubstep, Caribbean rhythms, hypnotic brass and classic ‘hands in the air’ rave anthems. Bass Clef is rooted in deepest London and has a very distinct but ever morphing sound and live stage show. Ralph Cumbers aka Bass Clef has been unnervingly productive recently, laying down solo and collaborations on tape and 12” under numerous different guises, many on his own Magic + Dreams cassette label. Dirty Talk DJs are Bristol's go-to crew for partymaking, electronic funk treatment and LCD disco dynamics. Katapulto (live) is a Polish explosion of electronic body pop and hyper-colourful visuals, while weaving it all together on the decks are the Qu Junktions DJs, playing everything that moves. Qu Junktions, a musical adventure operation based in Bristol, tour, produce, curate and dream up ways of making musical as alive and enthralling as possible. Established in 2004 by Mark Slater and Chiz Williams, it is now a three-way collaboration with John Stevens.

	EXHIBITIONS

			Open Studios Weekend one 11 th-12th May 11am-6pm Weekend two 18 th-19th May 11am-6pm 72 artists will be opening thier studio doors in 36 open studios locations around the five valleys for two weekends showing their work. It's a fantastic insight into a diverse range of artists practice, to talk to artists and find out more about thier parctice and to buy work diirectly. Visit the Open Studios 'Taster' exhibition to see work by all the particaipating artists from 4th-19th May in the Subscription Rooms in Stroud. Download the Open Studios Directory from here Browse the Directory online here

			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

			Jordan Baseman Green Lady Saturday 4th, Sunday 5th, Monday 6th May Saturday 11th-Sunday12th May 11am-4pm INDEX \| gallery, Brewery Lane, Thrupp, Stroud GL5 2BN www.indexgallery.co.uk Jordan Baseman’s films seek to entertain, emotionally engage and challenge audiences through narration, storytelling, personal experience and belief. Recorded interviews are edited to make it seem as if the participant is speaking directly to an audience: timbre, cadence and vocabulary are reconstructed to emphasise personal accounts of individual, intimate experience. At INDEX Baseman will screen Green Lady with a programme of shorter films. Green Lady is a visual and emotional assault: a bombardment of colour and light, painstakingly built frame by frame. The visual material is syncopated to the narrator’s speech patterns, mirroring her emotive tale of watching her mother die.Using interviews, 16mm film and in-camera editing, Green Lady celebrates the collision of representation and abstraction within a constructed narrative.Green Lady was developed and produced as a result of Jordan Baseman’s 2011 residency at St John’s College, University of Oxford. Programme running time : approximately 50 minutes Screenings on the hour. Jordan Baseman will give a talk at INDEX on Thursday 9th May at 7-9pm.

			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 with Mould TV , Simon Brundret and Sarah Dixon. Other work will be on show including Victoria Garden's bold bird motif paintings, Catell Ronca's collages, Sam Marsh and Ed Lawrenson's "Polyrhythmic Snarl" and Dan Sparkes.

			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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