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  JSSC  

John Street Social Club
Friday 5th June 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

£1 membership on the door

 
  Situation Sounds poster  

Situation Sounds
Saturday 6th June 9-2am
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Situation Sounds are bringing you there funk slamming, disco grooving re-edit sound to the SVA. Those of you who were there will remember the memorable 5 hours at the recent Site festival after party, when Situation sounds took over the upstairs at the SVA ...this time we are downstairs to give you the extra room to do your thing, plus we are gonna add a little live element to the proceedings - introducing Dom Thompson on keys/bass, and James Payne on rhythm guitar!

Tickets £6 advance, £7 on the door
Advanced tickets can be bought from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ

 
  Tav Falco  

Tav Falco and the Panther Burns
with support Square Bomb and Dj. Set with Pavinyl

Tuesday 9th June 8pm
SVA, Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP

Equal parts primal, early rock'n'roll, deviant hill country blues & avant-garde art - Memphis, Tennessee's Tav Falco’s Panther Burns are ramshackle, raw, unholy & utterly amazing. It’s is not just Music… it is a state of mind. Tav Falco is one of the truly original and romantic voices in American music - the voice that America lost and found. He is tender and virile, flamboyant, witty and dangerous. Falco brings daggers back to the stage, and HE is the one who always holds out a hand to the enemy.

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

 
  Tristan Watson  

Stroud Jazz sessions presents Tristan Watson
Thursday 11th June 8.30 pm till 11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Tristan is a beloved Stroud musical hero who found his way into jazz via heavy metal as a youngster, before studying jazz at Leeds College of Music and bringing his beautiful, soulful, percussive guitar stylings back to the Stroud Valleys. His last appearance at Stroud Jazz Sessions was acclaimed as an engaging masterpiece so we look forward to more captivation on his return.Tristan's opening set will be followed by our usual energeti-frentetic jam, all welcome to play, sing or listen.

£5 on the door

 
     

John Street Social Club
Friday 12th June 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

£1 membership on the door

 
  Simon Munnery  

Mr Fluffypunk’s Penny Gaff
Simon Munnery sings Soren Kierkegaard

Saturday 13th June 8pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Penny Gaff? Scattered amongst the genteel music halls of Victorian London were their bawdy, low-life cousins, the ‘Penny Gaffs’- rough-house variety shows bringing colourful entertainment to the great unwashed. This month’s headliner is serial innovator and multi award-winner Simon Munnery - ‘One of the funniest, most original comedians of the past twenty years’ (Guardian). Last year, Simon came to SVA with the earliest, embryonic work-in-progress of this show, in which he endeavours to perform a selection of the 19th Century Danish existential philosopher’s writings, talk about them, and make them funny. Plus anything else in between. Now see the finished, polished article- a five-star Edinburgh sensation! A new stand-up show as recently seen/heard on Comedy Central’s Alternative Comedy Experience, BBC2’s Culture Show and Radio 4’s News Quiz. Plus Bill Jones, Uta Baldauf and Jonny holding things together. Plus films, competitions, prizes and spinning tunes until late.

Tickets: £8.50 advance £10 on the door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ

 
  B B King  

John Street Blues
Wednesday 17th June 7.30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

More blues at john street in Stroud, come with your stories in song and let your heart bleed...you’ll have an audience who’ll listen, some might even join in… John Street Blues is a regular night, in which musicians and non-musicians can enjoy blues music from every era. The night encompasses vinyl and digital music, film, and live jams and performances, in which anyone is welcome to participate.

Tickets: £5 on door

 
  Monks  

Music Doc presents
Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback

Thursday 18th June 6.30-8.30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback is a 2006 film directed by Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios about the seminal German-American beat band The Monks. The film was produced by Play Loud! Productions and shot on location in the USA and Germany between 1997 and 2002. In 2008 the filmmakers obtained the German TV Oscar, the Adolf Grimme Awards. Harvey Brook covering the often elusive and intriguingly complex underground music networks and movements, from grass roots and downward.

£3 on the door

 
  John Street social  

John Street Social Club
Friday 19th June 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

£1 membership on the door

 
     

Open Forum 2015-16
Matt Roberts Arts

Saturday 20th June, 2015 11am-6pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

As part of a national tour, Matt Roberts Arts is offering 8 one-to-one sessions with Josephine Breese, Breese Little gallery on developing a commercial practice, and 8 one-to-one sessions with Matt Roberts, on funding your practice. All sessions are free, and last 45 minutes.

To book please email: Openforum2015@mattroberts.org.uk
places are offered on a first come first served basis.

 
  John Street social  

John Street Social Club
Friday 26th June 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

£1 membership on the door

 
  Roberts and Robbins  

Remainder
Friday 26 June 6-9pm
1-30 June
Roberts and Robbins,
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
www.robbinsandroberts.com

Robbins and Roberts will be doing a series of experimental actions and performance-based work, in the gallery, at weekends throughout June. The remains of this experimental work will form a growing and changing installation that can be viewed from the, extensive, gallery windows throughout the week. The project will culminate in a open event the last weekend in June. Please see website www.robbinsandroberts.com for further details and image blog of remainder as it evolves. Join us for cocktails and to celebrate the culmination of a 3 week project, exploring memory,identity and self-image.

 
  John Street social  

John Street Social Club
Friday 26 June 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

£1 membership on the door

 
  Breathless Neville Gabie  

Breathless
Neville Gabie

Private view Friday 3 July 7-9pm
4-25 July
Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays 10am-4pm
Roberts and Robbins,
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
www.robbinsandroberts.com

Neville Gabie will be working with the young artists' group MOULD to create a new show which develops ideas from his popular 2014 artist residency, Collective Breath, at Womad Festival.

 
  John Street Social Club  

John Street Social Club
Friday 3 July 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

£1 membership on the door

 
  A night of electronic music  

The Front Room presents:
A night of electronic music

Saturday 4 July 8pm
SVA, The Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 2HA

The Front Room returns with an exciting night of electronic music, no longer in the small 'front room' of SVA but an incredible old warehouse. Acts includes Body Clocks, Leiik, Bunki and DA Rico. Body Clocks "unique sound is created through layering and looping beats with ambient soundscapes, live double bass and guitar. Blues and classical influences are merged with experimental electronic elements, resulting in a truly immersive, yet danceable sound." Leiik " exudes a brooding sense of longing and intimacy throughout as subtle electronics build to reach the most moreish of conclusions" Just Music That I Like. Bunki is an ex-Goldsmiths, London-based producer. "This eerie, haunting and strangely captivating debut EP marks Bunki out as a definite face to watch in 2015." DIY. DA Rico is a Sheffield/Stroud producer drawing from jazz, dub, breakbeat and hip hop. "Just wonderful, wonderful stuff” - Christian Carlisle, BBC Introducing in Sheffield.

http://nxrecords.bandcamp.com/track/words-over-yourshttps://squareglass.bandcamp.com/album/bunki-ep

Tickets £6 advance, £8 on the door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ

 
  Oliver Stanton and Twice William Quartet  

Stroud Jazz sessions presents
Oliver Stanton and Twice William Quartet

Thursday 9 July 8.30 -11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Stroud Jazz Sessions is delighted to host master bebopper Oliver Stanton on saxophone as special guest, appearing with his quartet Twice William. Oly and his blue suede shoes have enthralled and enraptured us during his regular recent appearances at the jam session, along with quartet colleagues Aidan Pope on guitar, Tom Sladen on drums, and James Owston on bass. Oly, Aidan and Tom spend their last summer in the Forest of Dean before taking up places at Birmingham Conservatoire to seek jazz providence. This performance represents a great chance to hear them before their exuberant, energetic and free souls are subverted by the dark and powerful forces of formal jazz tuition...

Twice William's opening performance will be followed by our usual energeti-frenetic jam for all-comers to play, sing, or listen. Join us at Stroud's monthly jazz hub, the 2nd Thursday of every month.

£5 on the door

 
  John Street Social Club  

John Street Social Club
Friday 10 July 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

£1 membership on the door

 
  Liz Bentley  

Mr Fluffypunk’s Penny Gaff featuring Liz Bentley
Alternative Cabaret with a spoken word spine!

Saturday 11 July 8pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

Roll up, Roll Up for another Penny Gaff with your delightful host, Mr Jonny Fluffypunk, Stand-up poet. Sit-up storyteller. Give-up guitarist. Armed with her Casio keyboard and ukulele, Liz Bentley has has had three successful Edinburgh shows and has been featured at events such as Ledbury Poetry Festival, London Literature Festival at Southbank and Alternative Village Fete, National Theatre. Through her experiences of mental health and multiple sclerosis, she strives to smash the apartheid between disability and mainstream arts. '£500 a line and other poems' (the title of her latest book) was a tongue-in-cheek response to the pressure of winning a £5000 writing commission from Shape (disability arts) as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Her show CBT, Crash Bash Trash (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – Can Tick Box/Can’t Tick Box) toured the UK in 2011. Her latest show is AAA Rating (Age Anxiety and Alzheimers). 'A peculiar cross between Tracey Emin and Josie Long' (The Scotsman), 'Truly the most indefinable act I have ever seen. I wouldn't want to have missed it' (Three Weeks), 'Bentley is beguiling. Such an exhilarating experience' (Chortle).
More to be confirmed plus films, competitions and prizes!

Tickets: £8.50 advance £10 on the door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ

 
  SVA members supper club  

SVA members supper club
Wednesday 15 July 7pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA

A night of Thali cusine bringing members together in a convivial atmosphere hosted by specially chosen culinary experts. Our chef is the wonderful Sally Kinnear. These supper clubs are open to full and associate members only. Our new SVA Associate Membership is open to everyone.If you enjoy SVA’s artistic and educational programme as an artist, participant or audience member then we’d love you to join up as a member to get some extra benefits and also to help support SVA with its future work. If you would like to join or need to renew your membership (it’s only £2.08 a month) check the website or email:briony@sva.org.uk. We have limited places so please book your place by Monday 13 July 12 noon.

Tickets: £15 booking online in advance essential
Membership £25 per year
Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ

 
  John Street social  

John Street Social Club
Friday 17 July 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

£1 membership on the door

 
  Speedy  

Studio Nine presents Speedy
a Harold Lloyd classic with live piano from Albert Lamb

Saturday 18 July doors 7.30pm
Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP

Speedy is a 1928 silent film that was one of the films to be nominated for the short-lived Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy. The film stars famous comedian Harold Lloyd in the eponymous leading role, and it was his last silent film to be released in theatres. The plot revolves around Harold 'Speedy' Swift's attempts to save the last horse-drawn streetcar in New York. The film contrasts the speed of life of the contemporary city with the pace of yesteryear, represented by this non-motorized mode of transport. Yankees star Babe Ruth plays one of 'Speedy's' hapless passengers.

Albert Lamb will be creating an appropriate musical accompaniment to bring out all the humour and emotion in every scene. He promises to really make these movie swing.

Tickets £6 advance, £7 on the door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ

 
  John Street social  

John Street Social Club
Friday 24 July 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and audio to share. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...

£1 membership on the door

 

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