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Stroud Jazz Sessions presents Stuart Kingston
Thursday 10 April 8.30-11pm
4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA

May dawns, and it’s a j-fine month for Jazz and the Site Festival with the extemporise-sensational bass clarinettist and saxist Chris Cundy as our special guest! Chris tears up convention, and forces his passion and soul through his free improvisations: from Nofit Circus and jester contemplation, to his painting, soul Cold Specks, electro Gannets and celebrated Guillemots. The night will feature Chris’ performance then we’ll enjoy the world of Standards collide with Uncharted Free in chaot-energeti jam madness. One not to miss! All welcome to play, sing or listen. For more info check out his website, some contemporary classical samples, and an improv set to his drawings.
Tickets £4 (£3 performers) on the door

Jacqueline Kroft & The Sensations
Friday 9th May 8-9pm
Ale House, 9 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Jacqueline Kroft & The Sensations will be performing songs from her new CD 'Woven', a delicately crafted, multi-layered, alternative pop/jazz funk album from an accomplished and inventive artiste.
Free

Stand + Stare presents:The Eye Of The Hare
by Pip Heywood
Sunday 11th May 8pm
St. Lawrences Hall
The Shambles, Stroud GL5 1AP
www.standandstare.com

Pip Heywood has worked as a documentary film editor for over 30 years. With this autobiographical piece, he applies that craft to live performance. He explores the threads of continuity in his family, a serious accident, and the act of story telling itself. As he cuts and splices, the multi-layered story of his life unfolds through personal archives, paintings and poetry.
Tickets: £6 advance, £8 on door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here
or in person from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street. Stroud GL5 1AQ

The Bristol Art Library
Saturday 10th May 11am-5pm
Duffle, 2 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The Bristol Art Library is a fully functioning public library housed in a wooden cabinet the size of a small suitcase. Annabel Other is the Head Librarian. The library’s volumes cover a wide range of subjects, from palaeontology to astronomy, with 170 books (13x10cm) made by artists from all areas of the arts and sciences.

Open Studios
Saturday 10th-Sunday 11th May 11am-6pm
Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th May 11am-6pm

84 artists open their studio doors in 55 locations in the Stroud Valleys over 2 weekends. To help plan your Open Studios weekends visit the Taster exhibition in the Subscription Rooms and pick up an Open Studios directory. For this year’s Open Studios, artists will be combining creative forces with writers and poets in their studios.Participating artists and writers are: Aimee Lax, Philip Rush, Liz Lippiatt, Dennis Gould, Zoe Heath, Rick Vick, Jo Casling, Jacqui Stearn, Alison Cockroft, Adam Horovitz, Emily Joy, Colin Glen, Eley Furrell, artNucleus, Ryan Kouroukis, Jill Head, Billy Head, Rita Fenning, Maria Butunoi, Katherine Durrant, Richard Fenning, Alasdair Fenning, Peter Fenning, Mark Amis, Lucia Daramus, Soozy Roberts, Jonny Fluffy Punk, Sally Hampson, Bill Jones, Marion Fawlk, Naomi Wilkinson, Jon Hastings, David Slattery, Mould, Copeland Book Market, Stroud Artists Books, The Bristol Art Library, Neutral Norway, Maggie Shaw and Uta Baldauf.

John Wood and Paul Harrison - In Some Film
Friday 9th May 6-9pm
10th-25th May
Everyday 11am-6pm
SVA, Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The Site Festival 2014 will be opening with an exhibition of new work by John Wood and Paul Harrison in the Brunel Goods Shed in Stroud.This show will include 7 new video works linked by a sense of foreboding and violence, undercut by a lack of spectacle and drama. The show will also include over 50 small drawings and 5 large-scale drawings. Much of the work takes, as a starting point, a generic cinematic moment. This moment is then extended through repetition or super slow motion to become the entirety of the work. It is no longer just a part of the plot. It is the plot.

An exhibition catalogue will be available with text from Simon Munnery, writer and experimental standup comedian.John Wood and Paul Harrison are represented by Caroll/Fletcher in London.

John Wood and Paul Harrison Q&A with Simon Munnery
Saturday 10th May 4.30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 3AP
Tickets: £4 book in advance

Brickhouse Stroud 2014
PoohStyx
9th-31st May
Thames & Severn Canal, Stroud
Rob Chavasse, Ben Sansbury, Lewis Teague Wright

Ksenia Pedan
SVA courtyard, 9th-11th May

Zombie Licks
Lorraine Robbins
Friday 9th May 6-9pm
10th-25th May Everyday 11am-6pm
Saturday 7th, 14th and 21st June 10am-4pm
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Nestled in the refurbished top floor, above SVA's new gallery, Lorraine Robbins presents an intimate series of drawings, collages and playful sculptures. A space where intimate fantasy mingles tentatively with the confusion of reality, where vivid acid colours meet with sugar candy pastels in an ecstatic embrace.

Polyrhythmic Snarl
Sam Marsh and Ed Lawrenson
Friday 9th 6-9pm, Saturday 10th 10am-4pm, Sunday 11th 10am-4pm
39 King St, Stroud GL5 3DA

www.samarsh.com
www.edwardlawrensonpainting.com
Expect to see swirls and daubs intertwined with colour and pattern as 'Polyrhythmic Snarl' returns to Site festival in 2014.New diamond, circle, triangle and kite shaped paintings will be on show along with a light box piece and erotic pottery.

Peter Stiles - Ourselves We Find at Sea
Friday 9th-Sunday 11th 10am-4pm
Thursday 15th-Sunday 18th 10am-4pm
Thursday 22nd-Saturday 24th 10am-4pm
39 King St, Stroud GL5 3DA
www.peterstiles.co.uk

Peter Stiles has painted pictures of a small area of Devon since 1980. For 15 years he only painted from observation. The forms and colours of the landscape have become the building blocks that he uses in order to construct his compositions which can be compared to the way in which a musician produces variations on a theme. The exhibition will include paintings, sculpture and a text by Paul Harper.

Viewpoints
Suze Adams, Joanna Greenhill and Brenda Miller
Friday 9th May 6-9pm
Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th May 10am-4.30pm
Discussion: Sunday 11th May 2-4pm. Refreshments provided.
Unit 9 Merrywalks, Stroud GL5 1RR

A series of reflections on landscape through video and associated works which address the physical and psychological aspects that connect us to the environments we inhabit, offering considered responses to site and place today.

Sideboard Sue and Jonny Fluffypunk's Moving Artshow
Saturday 10th-Sunday 11th May
Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th May
Stroud Town Centre
www.soozyroberts.com www.jonnyfluffypunk.co.uk

Sideboard Sue and Jonny Fluffypunk's awesome accessible artshow is coming to a town near you! Peruse the musings of stand-up poet and sustainable nihilist Jonny Fluffypunk and interact with Sideboard Sue's pop-up exhibition and art class.

Royal Mould
Saturday 10th-Sunday 11th May 11am-6pm
Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th May 11am-6pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Royal Mould presents a postal exchange of artworks created by Mould and the mould network of Stroud. Look out for the Royal Mould post machine and contribute your own postal artwork. The Royal Mould post room will be open on the open studio weekends. Mould is a young artists group for 15-21 year olds whose remit it is to bring contemporary art to a younger audience.

Redhanded
10th-31st May
Ale House
9 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Work by Zoe Benbow, Alison Cockcroft, Aimee Lax, Isla Pearson, Sally Hampson and Esther Caplin, Noela Bewry and Maggie Shaw. Redhanded currently has a new temporary art space in King's Cross, curated by artists Sally Hampson and Esther Caplin in partnership with SVA. Redhanded is profiling work and projects that have been supported by SVA in Stroud and will build connections with artists, artist led projects and communities based in London.

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