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	MUSIC EVENTS

			John Street Social Club hosted by Punk in Africa Friday 16th May SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA matsulimusic.bandcamp.com electricjive.blogspot.co.uk junkroomrecords.blogspot.co.uk The screening of Punk in Africa on Thurs 15th May will be followed on Friday 16th May with an evening of music and images celebrating the underground music scene in 1980's South Africa. With DJing by Matt Temple (Matsuli Music & Electric Jive blog) and Sean Roe (Jun Kroom Records) and a slide show of rare documentary photographs from 1980's South African underground music scene taken by Jane Meyer. Plus live music video clips and surprise guests. Free

			Sufi evening Sunday 18th May 8pm Weaving Shed, 29 High Street, Stroud A Sufi inspired evening woven by Simon Leach, oud player and multi instrumentalist together with poets Marianne Fawlk, Jay Ramsay, Gabrielle Bradford Millar, Clare Marsh and Cheryl Cordery. Free

	FILM SCREENINGS

			Punk in Africa Thursday 15th May 8pm SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA Three chords, three countries, one revolution… Punk in Africa is the untold story of the multi-racial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. In these societies, the punk subculture represented a genuinely radical political impulse, playing out against a backdrop of intense political struggle, economic hardship and even civil war. Today, an emerging generation of bands continue to draw on this legacy to confront the political challenges of contemporary Zimbabwe and the uncertain identity issues of the Afrikaans minority in South Africa. Featuring music, interviews and rare and unseen archive footage. “…bursting with the heyday of the multiracial punk scene …a loving emphasis on the surprising- and often overlooked - role that punk music played in Africa…” Nat Geo MusicTickets Tickets: £5 on door

	EVENTS

			Mr Fluffypunk’s Penny Gaff featuring Mik Artistik's Ego Trip Bringing Obscure Art to the Masses Saturday 17th May 8pm SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Roll up! Roll up! Stroud’s new alternative cabaret with Mik Artistik, Rachel Pantechnicon, Uta Baldauf and Al Cummins. Stand-up poet, sit-up storyteller and give-up musician Jonny Fluffypunk has been dragging his art around the poetry, comedy and alternative cabaret circuits for over 10 years. He has invited Mik Artistik's Ego Trip to perform their rock and roll stand up show. It's edgy, funny, poetic and rocky with strange, silly and beautiful songs that will stick in your head. Tickets: £8 advance, £10 on door. Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street. Stroud GL5 1AQ

			Sideboard Sue and Jonny Fluffypunk's Moving Artshow 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.

			Neutral Norway presents a workshop Saturday 17th-18th May 11am-6pm Duffle, 2 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Combining poetics and aesthetics is an integral part of the NN ethos: creating posters as artwork,spreading poetic terrorism with haiku stickers and pasted poems onto lampposts and shop fronts, photocopying zines to hand out at events.With this in mind, NN would like to invite you to zine-making-cut-and-pasting-collage-sticking-poetry-spitting-mad-typing workshop in Duffle as part of the 2014 Site Festival. Everything you need to create your own zine will be provided, but please bring your own words. NN will also be trailing the portable poetry recording booth and will be playing back some almost-live readings throughout the day.

			Navigable Waters Sunday 18th May 6.30pm SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA An evening of short talks and open discussion with four artists, Emily Joy, Ralph Hoyte, Colin Higginson and Simon Ryder, currently making work in response to inland waterways. The evening starts with a look at how artists and waterways have crossed paths over the years, from the traditional ‘castle and rose’ motifs on narrow boats to the activist artists of the 1950s and 60s. The four artists, each with a different and distinct practice, will then talk about their work and how they see it in this context, opening into a discussion about how artists can navigate such waters. Presented in association with the Canal & River Trust. Tickets: £4 on door

	EXHIBITIONS STARTING THIS WEEK

			What Do I Do Now? Saturday 17th May 10am-11pm Sunday 18th May 11am-5pm Studio One, SVA, Goods Shed Station Yard, Stroud GL5 3AP E. annajjacob@gmail.com A collection of work from teens and twenty-somethings, or anyone who has come of age right into the recession. The bleak job market and lack of opportunities can be majorly depressing, especially when you're stuck at your parents’ house or existing on dwindling benefits on top of it all. However, hard times can sometimes be the perfect catalyst for creativity, sanctuary can be found in the creative arts. This exhibition of art and written words with live music - held in a studio shared by some of Stroud's young artists, writers and musicians - is a celebration of that.

	EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING

			Open Studios 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. Open Studios Artists and Writers Collaboration Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th May 11am-6pm Open Studio locations, Stroud 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 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.

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

			Zombie Licks Lorraine Robbins 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.

			Peter Stiles - Ourselves We Find at Sea 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.

	MORE EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING THIS WEEK

			Royal Mould Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th May 11am-6pm SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Redhanded 10th-31st May Ale House 9 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA The Grassheads are coming! Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th May 11am-6pm Stroud Valley School Castle Street, Stroud, GL5 2HP Come and See - Stroud Artists' Books Saturday and Sunday 10th-11th and 17th-Sunday 18th May 11am-6pm SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Open Studios Taster Exhibition 3rd–31st May Monday-Saturday 10am–5pm, Sunday 11th & 18th May 10am–4pm The Subscription Rooms, George Street, Stroud, GL5 1AE T. 01453 760900 www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk ArteFact or Fiction… Bohl-Grellier 1st-31st May Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-4pm, Bank Holiday Monday, 11am-5pm The Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF T. 01453 763394 www.paulgrellier.co.uk www.annmargrethbohl.com

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