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Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble
presented by Stroud Jazz Sessions
Thursday 29th May 8pm
SVA, Goods Shed
Station Yard, Stroud GL5 3AP

Gilad Atzmon is one of the UK’s finest jazz saxophonists, so it is an absolute honour to welcome him back to Stroud Jazz Sessions! He has been in the top cadre of jazz musicians for about 15 years now, playing everywhere, receiving great critical acclaim, and winning the 2003 BBC Jazz Album of the Year. Gilad plays fantastic, intelligent, powerful, muscular bebop which sings out more sweetly than almost anyone. His style is both uncompromisingly frenetic and breathtakingly elegiac, and weaves in his Middle Eastern and African influences with mainstream bop and a pinch of free. His live performances are a force even his albums cannot contain. And Gilad is a polymath, being a prolific and highly regarded political commentator and writer. Ahead of his concert, Gilad will give a talk - The Road To Bop, about his first encounter with jazz music and its impact on his ethical and philosophical stand. So with such insanely great credentials, Gilad will be rocking Stroud’s catskills to the core.

Tickets: £10 advance, £12 on door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here
or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AQ

Dakhla
Saturday 31st May 8pm
SVA, Goods Shed
Station Yard, Stroud GL5 3AP

Dakhla are a horn and drum based quartet playing original tunes that blend evocative harmonies, intricate rhythms and absorbing soundscapes. The band consists of Matt Brown (drums), Charlotte Ostafew (Bari Sax), Pete Judge (trumpet) and Sophie Stockham (alto sax); 4 musicians whose training and experience span jazz and classical backgrounds. Having been together for 2 years Dakhla have received glowing reviews from local press (Venue Magazine) and regular air play on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 6 and throughout Bristol and Somerset stations.Their first album ‘In the Land of Milk and Honey’ was self released in the winter of 2011, and has received glowing reviews. The second album ‘The Eye of Icarus’ was recorded with Jim Barr (Portishead, Get the Blessing) at J+J Studios, and released in spring 2013. The band have performed extensively in the UK and were recently chosen to play the Manchester Jazz Festival as a part of BBC Introducing’s ‘Best of New Jazz’ by Giles Peterson and Jez Nelson. That same gig was broadcast on various radio shows across the country. Dakhla is a band not to be missed!
“Uniquely fabulous and fabulously unique.” Tony Benjamin, Venue Magazine
“Really punchy, very powerful energetic sound.” Kevin LeGendre

Tickets: £8 advance, £9 on door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here
or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AQ

QuJunktions presents Lucky Dip Disco
Dance Party for Kids & Adults
Sunday 1st June 3-5pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Disco lights go on early doors for the Lucky Dip Disco: a daytime dance-a-thon to feature (!) mellow infants, pop crazed kids, self invented party games, light refreshments, day-glowers and bubble blowers, all hosted by Mr Manic aka sonic researcher, turntablist and award winning conceptual artist Janek Schaefer. Children from 0 to 10 years old and adults can all get involved in this afternoon knees-up, featuring stacks of up-to-date Pop Hits plus retro vinyl classics. Janek is passionate about sharing the whole history of dancing music for all age groups: 00s Top Pop, 90s electronic dance, 80s Retro Pop, 70s Epic Disco, 60s Classics, 50s Rock’n'Roll, 40s Jive, 30s Beebop, 20s Charleston. The children get to take part in choosing, handling and playing the vinyl, a wonderful way to connect with the music. Janek is super playful with audio, and sound toys, singing, musical pass the parcel and musical statues, dance with scarves, blow up microphones and air guitars all get thrown into this sweet mix-up. He promises never to play the Birdy Song or Agadoo, but old-style Hokey Cokey and the Conga are great fun in his experience.
Food and drinks will be available from the bar. Part of a series of Qu music events for the young at heart.

Tickets: £4 advance and on the door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here
or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AQ

John Street Social Club
Friday 30th May 7pm
SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA

A selection of Site Festival artists host John Street Social Club. The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists with visuals and audio to share in a non precious environment. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...
Free

Art/Design
A breakfast discussion exploring partnerships between contemporary artists and designers
Sunday 1st June 11am-1pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Over the last decade artist/designer collaborations have become more commonplace where fine artists have been used in a consultative roles with collaborations that may lead to designs that can be produced in multiple or in single iconic statements. The boundaries between disciplines are becoming more blurred where design concepts and contemporary art conceptual ideas are adopted and exchanged. Designer/artists breakfast begins at 11am. Participants are invited to interpret the materials provided (fresh coffee, fruit, eggs, salmon, juice, fresh bread, olives, chorizo, beans etc) with collaboration in mind, cross-fertilisation is welcomed.
Tickets: £5 breakfast included, booking essential

Oliver Marsden
Saturday 31st May 10am-41st-21st June
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 10am-4pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Oliver Marsden studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art in the mid nineties and has been exhibiting internationally since. Solo exhibitions include “In Praise of Light” at the Tado Ando designed Koumi Machi Kougen Museum, Japan, “Cult” Vigo Gallery, London, and “Illuminieren” Galeria Hilario Galguera, Leipzig. For him, painting is a physical and meditational practice linked to a search for an understanding of nature, energy and life. He creates sculptural paintings, which act to fuse a sensual appreciation of the natural and scientific, where the random and organic meets mathematic structure. It was under the guidance of Stephen Ives at the SVA Re.sound event in 2005 that he began experimenting with sound, combining harmonic sine waves, time delays, echoes, sub-bass, Buddhist chants, and binaural beats. He then focused on a deeper study of the qualities of sound, vibration and their influence on the physical world. This led him to discover Chaldini's sound figures and the Cymatics of Hans Jenny, Sacred Geometry, the Golden Section, and Kepler's Harmonices Mundi. The Dub paintings consequently evolved as he experimented with methods and materials. The resultant works celebrate light, spirals, and the intrinsic qualities of paint. Their name is a simple nod to the dub plate music producers and sound systems who inspire.

Meantime presents: Helen Carmel Benigson
Travelling to Africa via a Machine Called a Sun-Bed
Saturday 31st May
Saturday 7th, 14th and 21st June
10am-4pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Travelling to Africa via a Machine Called a Sunbed explores notions of a corrupted archive, travel, geography and the cyber-body and is based on the work and house/museum of the South African artist Irma Stern (1894 – 1966). The video was first conceived during a residency at the Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town in 2013 and then further developed at Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham. Previous versions of the work have been performed live at Performa 13, New York in November 2013 and at The Showroom, London in February 2014 as part of the LUX Associate Artist Program. Helen Benigson (born 1985) is an artist and rapper who lives and works in London. Her working method is interdisciplinary; recent projects take the form of performance, video installations, printmaking, text, sound, music and collaborating. In 2014, Benigson will be exhibiting as part of Hayward Touring exhibition Pre-pop to Post-Human: Collage in the Digital Age and she will have solo presentations at The Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Site Gallery, Sheffield.

EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING THIS WEEK

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

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

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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