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	spring 2011

			Stroud Jazz Sessions SVA Thursday 13 January 8.30pm-11.00pm. Stroud and its surroundings have a great range of jazz players. This night is for their coming together. Feature a performance by the house band and guest, an interval with eclectic jazz records to mull over, and a stonkingly energetic jazz jam for all players and singers, aficionados participate in. All are welcome, to listen or perform. Second Thursday of every month at SVA £4 (£3 musicians) on the door

			Keith Allen presents John Otway SVA Friday 14 January 8.30pm- 1am. An evening of cooking, live music,pencil case and other stuff presented by Keith Allen with special guest John Otway. “if immigration ask you whats englishness...tell em John Otway...your in!!...” John Cooper Clarke.... “as mad as chutney”...Elvis Costello.... “a proper rock star....” Mark E Smith.. £7.50 advanced from Trading Post £9.00 on the door

			Negative Space. Unrelated + short SVA Thursday 20 January 8pm - 11pm £3.00 on the door Fired by a passion for all aspects of the moving image, and in the belief that there remains an audience for non-mainstream film and video, Helen Kincaid and Rupert Howe present a programme of artist films, films by new directors and lost classics from beyond the multiplex. Our third screening showcases Joanna Hogg’s drama Unrelated, winner of the 2009 Guardian First Film Award. The story centres on Anna, a fragile 40-something caught up in an impulsive, erotically charged liaison with her friend’s teenage son while holidaying at an Italian villa. What emerges is a compelling portrayal of family dynamics and human failings which challenges the staid visual and dramatic conventions of British drama. Films are screened in lounge setting with licenced bar.

			Art Doc. Latcho Drom+ short SVA Sunday 23 January 8pm - 11pm £3.00 on the door Latcho Drom, directed by Tony Gatlif, describes the travels, singing and dancing of Romany groups from Rajahstan (India), Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and Spain. The film illustrates the variety of conditions in which the Romany people live--earthbound nomads in the hot deserts of Asia, ironsmiths and abjectly poor tree-dwellers in the frozen plains of Eastern Europe, and craftspeople and traders in the hills and seasides of north Africa and western Europe.

			Mezz #10 Philip Warnell SVA Thursday 27 January 8pm - 11pm £3.00 on the door The inside of our bodies is the chosen territory of Phillip Warnell, whose work explores not only the physical aspects of this container (through the use of ingested cameras) but also the body as a site of meaning, of thought and representation. Read More

			Wasteland Social Club SVA Friday 28 January 8.30pm-1am £3.00 on the door (£1.00 for those with homemade cupcakes) An evening of social interaction, sonic indulgence with visual and performative art works that invite the audience to be part of the whole in an evening of events. This is an experiment in which new works and collaborations may or may not happen. Performances from Suzie Roberts, Rebecca Weeks, Ian Witford and more... read more

			Artists Talk. David Behar-Perahia SVA Monday 31 January 8.00pm-10.00pm. £3 on the door David Behar-Perahia is a French/Israeli multi-faceted artist working in diverse media: video, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance, mostly within a site-specific approach. In his work he is observing the notion of “place” to discover the layers that compose a local context, while relating to the cultural, social, historical and physicalgeographical aspects. His background in Science and Architecture enables him to approach localities in a unique way. During the last decade he has exhibited extensively in Israel, the UK, France, Italy (including the 53rd Venice Biennale) and Greece. David’s talk will focus on his current work as Artist in Residence at Gloucester Catherdral.

			Stroud Jazz Sessions with James Chadwick SVA Thursday 10 February 8.30pm-11.00pm. £4 (£3 musicians) on the door This month we welome James Chadwick as special guest on guitar. Stroud and its surroundings have a great range of jazz players. This night is for their coming together. Set in the comfortable subdued lounge setting, each will feature a performance by the house band and guest, an interval with eclectic jazz records to mull over, and a stonkingly energetic jazz jam for all players and singers, aficionados participate in. All are welcome, to listen or perform. Second Thursday of every month at SVA

			Sound Clash SVA, Resound Audio Lounge Friday 11 February 9pm-2am. Free before 11pm £3.00 after Step inside the sonic collider and witness long-cherished musical divisions put asunder! Trampled underfoot! Left torn and frayed! Hosted by crash-happy DJs Pavoid (Mockers) and Rbot (Resound) – plus a selection of hand-picked guests – previous altercations have included rock’n’roll versus electro, teenagers versus old timers, mp3 versus vinyl. No previous musical experience necessary. Come listen as the sparks fly…

			Negative Space. Soi Cowboy + short SVA Thursday 17 February 8pm - 11pm (screening starts at 8.30pm) £3.00 on the door Our fourth screening will be British director Thomas Clay’s poetic and provocative Soi Cowboy, which takes its name from the red light district in Bangkok where much of the film is set. In a style reminiscent of both David Lynch and acclaimed Thai auteur Apichatong Weerasethakul, Clay slowly reveals the disturbing and complex background to a relationship between a Thai girl and her farang partner. Hailed as “defiantly unBritish and unparochial” by The Guardian, it’s a brave, intelligent film which refuses to be reduced to a single interpretation – and marks the emergence of singular filmmaking talent. Films are screened in lounge setting with licenced bar.

			Keith Allen presents Son of Dave SVA Saturday 19 February 8.30pm- 1am. £8.50 advanced £9.00 on the door An evening of cooking, live music, pencil case and other stuff presented by Keith Allen with special guest Son of Dave, a notorious Modern Bluesman and entertainer. Former Crash Test Dummies guitarist/ mandolin player Benjamin Darvill is Son of Dave. He brings the Blues kicking and howling into the 21st Century without thievery or pretension, creating sweet Devil music with just his bare lips and hands. It starts with a beat box amplified by an old Astatic microphone, the harmonica follows and with a stomp of the foot a husky loop is captured. A true bluesman Son Of Dave sings from the heart, bitter words of women, ditties of Hellhounds and tales of the good ol’ Hollywood lifestyle. A modern funky one-man blues beat-box harmonica explosion. Advance Tickets from Trading Post

			Art Doc. I am Cuba SVA Thursday 24 February 8pm - 11pm £3.00 on the door Filmed by legendary Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov in Cuba on the brink of revolution this beautifully shot film is an epic poem to communist Kitsch – a dramatic journey through the decadence of Batista’s Havana and the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people. The astonishing, acrobatic and groundbreaking camera work takes the viewer on a sweeping ride. ‘A world cinema classic’ Peter Bradshaw The Guardian. ‘Cinema’s singular dream is to deliver such visions as this’ Time Out Films are screened in lounge setting with licenced bar.S

			Blurt SVA Friday 25 February 8.30pm £8.50 in advance and 10.00 on the door Stroud’s prodigal son, Ted Milton returns to the own with his iconic eighties band, Blurt. Milton, like his namesake the poet, is a man with his own unique creative expression. Puppeteer-turned-eccentricsaxophonist Ted Milton is perhaps the epitome of warped genius. His nearly tuneful squawks and lyrics shouted like a newspaper seller are as extraordinarily inspired as his song titles, which include ‘My Mother Was a Friend of an Enemy of the People.’ Founded in Stroud in 1980 the band’s compositions are based on repetitious and infectious grooves of solid robotic drumming and minimalist guitar patterns, topped with wild bursts of free form sax and dramatically demonic vocals to form their inimitable trademark. A cult underground institution. Advance Tickets from Trading Post

			Friday I’m In Love Stroud House, Station Rd, Stroud 28 February - 12 March 10am-4pm Private View Friday 4 March 6-9pm Artists Talk Monday 7 March 2.30pm A Stroud College exhibition and talk The lions have taken over the circus, the penguins are ruling the zoo, the kids have crashed the royal wedding: the future’s looking decidedly dodgy. Every Friday morning for 8 weeks 40 students from 3 different courses at Stroud College (1st year Extended Diplomas in Art & Design, Fashion & Clothing, and Graphics & Illustration) worked in small groups on a collaborative fashion editorial project. This is an exhibition of the resulting photographs, plus installations created from the clothes and props produced for the shoots. Prepare to be in love!

			Art Doc. Darwin’s Nightmare SVA Thursday 3 March 8pm - 11pm £3.00 on the door Darwin’s Nightmare written and directed by Hubert Sauper, deals with the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. “If Sauper is fired up by anti-globalist conviction, his instincts as an artist and as a man rule out any kind of rhetoric or cheapness.” New York Times “Darwin’s Nightmare strings together cruel ironies into a work of harrowing lucidity. It illuminates the sinister logic of a new world order that depends on corrupt globalization to put an acceptable face on age-old colonialism.” Village Voice Films are screened in lounge setting with licensed bar.

			Monks Milk SVA, Friday 4 March 8pm-1am. Free Launch party and live performance to celebrate the release of Monks Milks debut single.

			Celt Islam with support Jon Sterckx - Drumscapes - Visuals by Skulpt SVA Saturday 5 March 8.30pm £8.00 in advance and 9.50 on the door Muhammad Abdullah Hamzah aka”Celt Islam” is an English Muslim, Sufi and a member of the northern British alternative dub/breaks outfit “Nine Invisibles ” and ” Analogue Fakir ”. Celt-Islam uses a fusion of music from Dub/Electro/Drum and Bass and collaborates it with Islamic/world grooves to create a Dub driven dance crossover.Celt Islam creates music in quite a diverse range of styles and genres. He produces Sufi inspired Global Grooves to create a sometimes Meditative Dub that transfixes everybody who comes across it, to Electro-Dub driven Drum and Bass to satisfy the dance world. Drumscapes range from highly energised rhythmical journeys to atmospheric percussion soundscapes. Advance Tickets from Trading Post

			NWTC- New World Transitional Collective. 'Let's Cycle to the Stars...Shall We? SVA, Sunday 6 March 8-10.30pm. Booking essential A journey into space with theatre, poerty and installation. Join the New World Transitional Collective with A.Corbett, U.Baldauf and H.Morrison in thier intergalactic performance ''Let's Cycle to the Stars...Shall We? in search of a new planet to inhabit. Step into thier space suits and enter their pedal-powered space ship to embark on a voyage of discovery. As you unlock the burning desire for exploration that drew mankind into space, like moths to an enticing but deadly flame, you will wonder about the fragile world we live in and its' future... Maximum 25 seats and must be over 8 years

			Stroud Jazz Sessions with Andy Hague SVA Thursday 10 March 8.30pm-11.00pm. £4 (£3 musicians) on the door Andy Hague, the exceptional trumpeter and drummer from Bristol, is guest soloist at Stroud Jazz Sessions’ special guest performance and jam! Andy will perform a set at 8.30, and then will form the core of an energetic and up-beat jam session open to all. Andy Hague has a formidable reputation as a composer and arranger, a big-band leader, a stunning trumpeter, and a fiendish drummer... from appearances on Portishead recordings, to festivals and theatre across the UK, BBC Jazz Notes, and numerous gigs throughout the region. It is a delight to welcome Andy to SJS. Stroud Jazz Sessions is every 2nd Thursday of the month at Stroud Valleys Artspace. Each night features a special guest soloist performance, eclectic jazz records, and a stonkingly energetic jam set, and acts as a hub for those interested in listening or performing jazz to come together.

			Groove Lounge SVA Saturday 12 March 9.30pm-3am Tickets on the door £4.00 before 10.30pm and £5 after Groove Lounge ....We don't have a rigid music policy. We play a broad mixture of the very best black/dance music. Our spectrum goes from vintage rare funk and northern soul to latin, hammond, two step and all kinds of quality new releases. Groove Lounge is the place for music you won't hear in mainstream clubs. Resident dj Richard Ballinger is uncomprimising in their choice of music and along with a host of invited international DJs, play the very best rare funk, soul and latin.

			Mezz #11 3x3 - 3 films, 3 curators, 9 texts SVA, Thursday 17 March 7.30pm. £4.00 on the door Grace Davies, Suzanne Mooney and Uriel Orlow have each chosen an artist’s film and written a short text on all three films that we have compiled into a handmade booklet (edition of 50). We start the evening with The Future’s Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us by Beatrice Gibson from 2010: Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia) from 1971: Chris Marker’s La Jetee from 1962 Accompanying the screenings is a handmade booklet (edition of 50) in which each curator has written a short text on all three films. More

			Sound Clash SVA, Resound Audio Lounge Friday 18 March 9pm-2am. Free before 11pm £3.00 after Step inside the sonic collider and witness long-cherished musical divisions put asunder! Trampled underfoot! Left torn and frayed! Hosted by crash-happy DJs Pavoid (Mockers) and Rbot (Resound) – plus a selection of hand-picked guests – previous altercations have included rock’n’roll versus electro, teenagers versus old timers, mp3 versus vinyl. No previous musical experience necessary. Come listen as the sparks fly…

			Art Doc. Bird on a Wire:Up-close and personal portrait of genius SVA Thursday 7 April 8pm - 11pm (screening starts at 8.30pm) £3.00 on the door A candid 1970s documentary on Leonard Cohen not seen for 36 years shot during his 1972 European tour. ‘it’s about the music, of Cohen at the peak of his power, mesmerising audiences with beautiful, sad songs. And then, on the final night of the tour in Jerusalem, it all gets too much. Cohen breaks down on stage; he’s crying, the band’s crying, the audience is crying, I’m crying. I don’t know why, but I am. You know what? It’s OK to cry’ Sam Wollaston The Guardian. Films are screened in lounge setting with licenced bar.

			Mockers Uncensored with special guest Jazzman Gerald SVA Saturday 9 April 9pm-3am. £4.00 before 10pm £5.00 after “Are you a mod or a rocker?” Ringo Star: “No I’m a mocker.”Special Guest “Jazzman Gerald”. Go Go Caged Girls & Vdj Oogoos’ Projections provide the back drop. Pavinyl & Solid Kick Nick spin a soundtrack of Debauched 60s Go Go Beats, Hammond Groove’s, Crazy Rock ‘n’ Roll, Tittyshakers, Stompin Blues, Grinding R&B and Scorching Soul. Plus an anything - goes dress code makes this the place for the sole purpose of dancing and having fun. “A classy night of excellent vintage”

			Animal in the Landscape Works in progress by Nadine James and Lorraine Robbins SVA April 9 - 13 11am-5pm Preview Friday 8 April 7-10pm Shy Shop Front Studio residents, Lorraine and Nadine offer a sneak peek at their work in progress. The exhibition will include new work for sale as well as work still in development. A chance to see to see Nadine’s latest watercolours of local landscape and animals inspired prints and sculptures by Lorraine.

			Stroud Jazz Sessions with Johnny Faull SVA Thursday 14 April 8.30pm-11.00pm. £4 (£3 musicians) on the door Johnny Faull, is guest soloist at Stroud Jazz Sessions’ special guest performance and jam! Johnny will perform a set at 8.30, and then will form the core of an energetic and up-beat jam session open to all. Stroud Jazz Sessions is every 2nd Thursday of the month at SVA. Each night features a special guest soloist performance, eclectic jazz records, and a stonkingly energetic jam set, and acts as a hub for those interested in listening or performing jazz to come together. For more information join the ‘Stroud Jazz Sessions’ Facebook Group at on.fb.me/ey856j

			Sound Clash SVA Friday 15 April 9pm-1am. Free before 11pm £3.00 after A series of sonic upsets. Every month. In Stroud. Soundclash! - an alternative music space of multiple dimensions. Step inside the sonic collider as we go head-to-head with 45s, CDs, MP3s - from 50s exotica to 00s electro, anything goes! Hosted by crash-happy DJs Pavoid (Mockers) and Rbot (Resound) – plus a selection of hand-picked guests – previous altercations have included rock’n’roll versus electro, teenagers versus old timers, mp3 versus vinyl. No previous musical experience necessary. Come listen as the sparks fly…

			Negative Space. The Arbour+ short SVA Thursday 21 April 8pm - 11pm (screening starts at 8.30pm) £3.00 on the door The Arbour is the latest project by artist/filmmaker Clio Barnard which examines the life of acclaimed playwright Andrea Dunbar, who died in 1990, using startling docudrama techniques dubbed “verbatim cinema”. Thanks to a lack of independent screens and limited distribution outside London, alternative cinema has become more or less invisible in non-urban areas such as Stroud. Fired by a passion for all aspects of the moving image, and in the belief that there remains an audience for non-mainstream film and video, Helen Kincaid and Rupert Howe present a programme of artist films, films by new directors and lost classics from beyond the multiplex.

			Birds Nest SVA Friday 22 April 8.30pm £5.00 on the door Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny & Fairport Convention, Blind Willie Mctell, home brewed chai, the forest and the beacon and the long, long grass, Sweden (home from home), Joanna Newson, cats and geese and books of birds, the walk by the cellophane stream and the hopping crow, Papa’s resonator... The Bird’s Nest is back for another night of folk,blues ‘n’ roll. The event organised by Marianne Parrish and Jack Page of locally based band Hot Feet, promises to lead you into a woodland wonderland featuring some of the hottest local musical talent.

			Mezz #12 Guy Sherwin SVA, Thurs 28 April 7.30pm £4.00 on the door “The action of light on photo-sensitive emulsion arrests a fleeting event. Chemical changes take place that turn light into dark and dark into light. The camera gathers the light, the projector throws the light out onto the screen.” For Mezz #12, we are pleased to bring one of the key artist film-makers who came out of the Structuralist film movement in the 1970s – Guy Sherwin. more

			Keith Allen presents John Cooper Clarke SVA Friday 29 April 8.30pm-1am. £8.50 advanced £10.00 on the door An evening presented by Keith Allen of cooking, live music from Pencil Case and special guest, John Cooper Clarke (aka The Bard of Salford, punk poet extraordinaire). John Cooper Clarke made his name as the support act for seminal punk bands such as the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks and Siouxsie and the Banshees in the 1970s. His biting, satirical and very funny verse served up with rapid-fire delivery quickly gained him crowds of fans and gigs of his own to headline. Since the punk days, he has been recognised as one of England’s most important poets and performers and, never one to rest on his laurels, continues to write and perform new, vital poetry. “He defies definition, a man who models himself on Homer Simpson but is the thinnest man in the world, a poet who writes about darkness and decay but makes people laugh, a human cartoon, a gentleman punk, a man who has stayed exactly the same for 30 years but never grown stale. John Cooper Clarke is a true original. Catch him if you can.” The Scotsman Advanced tickets from Trading Post

			Disco Sucks SVA Saturday 30 April 9pm-3am £4.00 advanced or before 10pm £5.00 after Royal Wedding weekend Disco Sucks! Dress Code: Wedding Guest. Get those dresses and tuxedos to the dry cleaners. Carnations optional. Black Box Soundsystem, underground disco music, revelry & Dad dancing.
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