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			Olympic Creations and Beyond A Talk by Kirsty Limburn and Sue Austin Wednesday 29th May 7pm SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA An evening hosted by Artbridge, an education programme supported and funded by Artshape and Arts Council England that is helping 30 artists who face disabling barriers to a full-time art education. Kirsty Limburn will give a short introductory talk about the project. As a lead artist for Artbridge, Sue Austin will talk about her role and the work she created for LOCOG, the Paralympic Flame Festivals. 'Creating the Spectacle!' is a ground breaking series of live art and film events that record an underwater wheelchair as it flies through the water with its human occupant. Sue Austin continues to develop this piece and a theoretical framework that explores life on wheels and its transformative qualities. Sue Austin is a multimedia, performance and installation artist. Over an extended period of time her practice has operated as a vehicle to open up a thinking space around the materiality of the wheelchair. This is being used as a metaphor to raise questions about the value of diversity to society through raising the profile of ‘difference’. It promises to be an evening filled with imagination and enlightenment. Tickets on the door £4

			LISTENIN Sat 1st June 7.30 pm SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA ListenIn is a night of competative poetry from six of the hottest, young(ish) poets ever to grace Stroud's stage (and that's saying something).Never has so varied a voice collected under one roof. Featuring multi-slam winners of the spoken word. Come and listen as they pour treacley words of longings, passions and pithy observations over your eardrums. Be warned, 'THIS IS NOT A SLAM, THIS IS AN EVENING OF CONSIDERED POETRY WITH THE CUT AND THRUST OF COMPETITION.'"Will there be blood?" I hear you yell. No, not actual blood, though a poetry punch-up on the car-park could be arranged at the right price.Come and judge for yourselves (literally), and be part of the start of something really rather special. All this for a fiver, surely that can't be right! £5 entry

	EXHIBITIONS

			Ali Kayley and Dan Glaister From Purgatory to Paradise: an Indulgence 16mm film work Thursday 30th - Friday 31st May 4-9pm; Saturday 1st June 11-4pm Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP Friday 31st May - Saturday 1st June 11-4pm Knapp House Barn, Slad, Stroud GL6 7JZ Walk from Purgatory to Paradise Saturday 1st June 2pm Knapp House Barn, Slad, Stroud GL6 7JZ bindlestifffilm@gmail.com / 01435 759520 From Purgatory to Paradise: an Indulgence chronicles the flight from Purgatory on 16mm film. A figure treads a path that is well-worn and ancient yet elusive, a path that is both mythical and material. Following on from the Site 2012 showing of the Conquistador films, Ali Kayley and Dan Glaister return with two 16mm films and a performance. From Purgatory to Paradise takes as its starting point the existence of a small copse named Purgatory near Slad. Three miles to the north, near Painswick, lies Paradise. In the Middle Ages, sinners hoped to avoid going to Purgatory after their death by purchasing indulgences or pardons, chits of paper bearing extravagant promises. It was a transaction fraught with uncertainty: would the Indulgence help the soul escape Purgatory and find peace? Developed during a month-long residency at Meantime in Cheltenham, From Purgatory to Paradise traces the physical and the metaphysical journey between the two points, a trace that is there but momentarily, persisting even after the film has moved on, a retinal memory. In the same way that the film references and gives flesh to myth and superstition, so the walk between the two points at the very end of the festival takes this handed-down notion and does it for real.

			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.

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