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			Stroud Jazz Sessions presents Karen Street Thursday 9th April 8.30-11pm SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Tickets £5 (£3 performers) on the door We host Karen Street on hyper-jazzed accordion this Thursday as special guest at our Stroud Jazz Sessions. She is an outstanding, inventive, stylish, original player, and the gypsy, folks, roots and jazz concoction will make for an incredibly exciting, charged, sophisticated and bon-viveur performance and jam like no other! After Karen's performance our usual energeti-frenetic jam is open to all comers.

			ryotaro, Keiko Yamaguchi with Sean Roe host the John Street Social Club Friday 10th April 7-11pm SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA £1 membership on the door Fresh from their performance in Paris we are pleased to be able to host MIDI accordionist ryotaro and dancer Keiko Yamaguchi visiting from Kyoto, Japan. ryotaro uses MIDI-accordion; intermixing accordion, synthesizer and programmed sounds to create his improvisations and write his compositions. Keiko Yamaguchi is a dancer, actress and theatre director based in Kyoto who has worked with prominent Japanese directors Yukichi Matsumoto (New National Theatre Tokyo) and Matsuda Masataka. Though they are from different fields, their chemistry meets and merges together. Sean Roe will be playing a selection of rare Japanese records from his collection - expect shamanistic chanting, psychedelic folk screamers, prog rock and some bubblegum pop! He will also be screening video clips and slideshow from a recent trip to Japan.

			Man Up, Jonny Fluffypunk! Saturday 11th April 3pm SVA, Goods Shed rehearsal space, Stroud GL5 3AP Tickets: £5 advance, £7 on door Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ Bohemian layabout, armchair revolutionary and poet Jonny Fluffypunk has become a father. Who is he to shape a young life? Man Up, Jonny Fluffypunk! - part lo-fi spoken word theatre, part stand-up, part publicly-funded cry for help. Man Up is a funny and poignant little show about big dreams and little victories, about fatherhood and insecurity, about finding the hero within, however unpromising the exterior. A defiant expedition to the heart of the struggle for self-belief, even, armed only with a cardboard suitcase. Warning: Contains anarcho-syndicalism and amateur puppetry.

			Carnage Cabaret Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip, Hamish Guerrini and Andy Dunn (Mad Cows), Guy Thompson, (UK Air Guitar Champion) plus a few little surprises… Saturday 11th April 8pm til late SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Tickets: £8 advance, £10 on door Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ Hamish Guerrini, the legendary White Rabbit of The Rabbit Hole, presents Carnage Cabaret. Live music, comedy followed by carnage disco…it’s cuddly, ludicrous, toxic but above all Hamishesque! Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip are edgy, funny, poetic and intoxicating and play rock and roll stand up. They’re SVA regulars and have gained a hard core following, after some incendiary performances over the years. It’s a longstanding love affair basically. They’ve appeared on Channel 4’s Random Acts and are bringing their unique madness to other festivals this year including Bath Comedy Fest, Photo Book with Martin Parr, Fire in the Mountain, Glastonbury and Brighton Fringe. Guy Thompson, the UK Air Guitar Champion, who is just back from the World Air Guitar Championships in Norway, will be rocking the stage and giving the audience something they’ve never seen before.

			Police and Thieves - Mockers Club Night Saturday 11th April 9pm till late Twisted Fix, 27a Nelson Street, Stroud GL5 2HH Tickets: £5 on the door The infamous Mockers club brings us a night of Police and Thieves with Pavinyl and Nick Solidkick, dress appropriately.

			Clotted Art Teas Saturdays 11th, 18th, 25th April, 2nd May 3.30-4.30pm T. 01453 299901 or 07773 327513 info@andrew-wood.com Tickets: £12 advance Andrew Wood invites you to his studio in the centre of Stroud where Colour & Form are cooked in the Juice of the Imagination. Cream teas will be served. Only by appointment

	Exhibitions

			BRICKHOUSE presents: Its Only Bondage Was the Circling Sky Andy Holden, with Ivy Leeson and Secluded Brontë www.andyholdenartist.com www.brickhouseprojects.org 7th-19th April Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm SVA, Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP 7th April-2nd May Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm Roberts and Robbins SVA, 4 John Street,Stroud GL5 2HA For this two-part exhibition Andy Holden presents two collaborations which both expound on the impact of technology on the landscape and mental ecology of rural Britain; firstly with the implementation of the enclosures act in the 1830’s and secondly with the introduction of broadband to the provinces at the end of the twentieth century. BRICKHOUSE is a London based curatorial project founded by Guy Gormley and Thomas Bush.

			MycoCulture The Art, Design & Cultivation of Fungi Saturdays 11th and 18th April 10am-3pm or by appointment Unit 23, Merrywalks, King Street, Stroud GL5 3DA Exhibition and launch of the Fungusloci micro-farm by artist and permaculture practitioner Dominic Thomas.

			After the Animal 1st-30th April 29 High Street, Stroud GL5 1AJ Is mankind’s fascination with all that is wild a focused way of understanding ourselves? An experimental project space in an empty shop in Stroud High Street provides the starting point for artists to explore this idea further.

			We Are All Haunted Animals Adam White and Amaury Blow 4th April-31st May Ale House, 9 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Giant innovative watercolours developed over 20 years by humble watercolourist Adam White and animal inspired sculptures pieces by Amaury Blow.

			Cream 1st April-31st May Tuesday to Saturday 11am-11pm, Sundays 11am-9pm Closed Mondays Bisley House, Middle Street, Stroud, GL5 1DZ www.robbinsandroberts.com www.bisleyhousecafe.co.uk An exhibition of work by artists Lorraine Robbins and Soozy Roberts, including photographs, drawings and collage, within a relaxed cafe/bar/restaurant setting.

			Alchemy Gloucestershire Printmaking Cooperative 10th March-26th April 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.museuminthepark.org.uk This exhibition explores the alchemy of printmaking offering visitors an insight into how prints are created and what Fine Art Printmaking is all about.

			Stanley Kerr 11th April-25th April Kendrick Street Gallery, 20 Kendrick St, Stroud GL5 1AA Portraits, flower and landscape paintings

			MOULD TV 1st-30th April MOULD TV returns to Site, reviewing, interviewing and documenting Site artists, events and participants all from their pop up TV studio. Don’t be shy if you see them! MOULD is a youth arts collective comprising of a range of creative activities from film through to fashion. The collective aims to bring contemporary arts to a younger audience through creating, curating and facilitating youth art events and projects.

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