Disfrutar
The Museum in the Park
Stratford Park, Stroud, GL5 4AF
1st February-4th March
Tues-Fri 10am-4pm. Sat-Sun 11am-4pm

This exhibition is the culmination of a 12 month residency in which Quercus, have been working in and responding to, the Museum’s forgotten walled garden. The exhibition celebrates the garden in its current state but also examines gardens imagined and metaphorical, places of life and death, change and preservation, the fecund and the barren.

Quercus is a group of five sculptors based at SVA: Ann-Margreth Bohl, Alison Cockroft, Emily Joy, Aimee Lax and Anna Usborne. These artists work with diverse methods, materials and themes but remain united through their appreciation of hands-on craft based making skills, despite much of their work being highly conceptual and ideas-led.

Art Doc. Jazz on a Summers Day
SVA Thursday 2 February 8pm-11pm
Tickets: £3 on the door

Perhaps the greatest Jazz film even made with stunning performances by: Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, Anita O’Day, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Mahalia Jackson and others.
“As generous a dish of top jazz music as any cat could take in one gulp” New York Times
“Stunning documentary account of the 1958 Newport Jazz festival, featuring an incomparable line-up of musicians and lovingly filmed in the idyllic setting of Rhode Island on a beautiful (yes, you guessed it) summer’s day” Film4

Films are screened in lounge setting with licenced bar.
Screening starts at 8.30pm

Soundclash

SVA Friday 3 February 9pm-1am

OK. It’s Soundclash time again. Here’s the deal. Two men playing interesting records at a reasonable volume. We’re here to enjoy ourselves, so pretty much anything goes. Nice sounds for nice people. There will be sofas to sit on and cheap drinks at the bar. Entry is free and it’s a Friday night, so really there’s no excuse.

Come join us.

Keith Allen presents Barry Peters

SVA Saturday 4 February 8.30pm-1am
Tickets: £8 advanced £10 on the door

The belts are staying in the sex games drawer because i've only gone and managed to persuade the legendary 7 piece that is THE JOHNSONS .......yes ...you read it right.....THE JOHNSONS .... to step in at the last moment ....... I've never let you down .... this really is top drawer ...THE JOHNSONS....... EATONSQUARE ... .and a D.J

Country/ Folk / Psychobilly

Go to http://www.myspace.com/xthejohnsons

Stroud Jazz Sessions with Kevin Figes
SVA Thursday 9 February 8.30pm-11.00pm
Tickets: £4 (£3 musicians) on the door

The elementally epic saxophonist Kevin Figes is back to complete the second part of his winter residency at Stroud Jazz Sessions. Kevin held a workshop for the January session, and now returns to further excite our jazz taste-sensors with a full-on take-no-prisoners jam to make use of all that has been learnt and consolidated! As usual open to all comers.

SJS is every 2nd Thurs of the month at SVA

The Super Funky Kids Disco Club
SVA Friday 10 February 7pm-11pm
Tickets: £4 advanced tickets only

An event aimed at all those Funky kids out there who are hungry for new fresh beats. The event, organised by Joe Arthur, Harley Kuyck-Cohen and Imogen Piper, has ambitions to give us a night full of poppin’ sounds and heavy riddim tunes. Be prepared to dance all night long (all night) at this under 18’s event. This is an alcohol free event, but don’t worry there’s plenty of badass times to go around - with a tickling cat theme that plays in your mind. Come to Super Funky Kids Disco Club, you’ll be catnip to not.

Advanced tickets from Trading Post

ALIAS Seminars
Disfrutar Seminar 1: Art and Landscape
SVA, Saturday 11 February 11am - 4pm
Talks 11-2pm. Walk and viewing of exhibition 2-4pm.
Free event. Light lunch included. For bookings contact: office@sva.org.uk 01453 751440

A discussion on art and landscape, in conjunction with the Quercus exhibition ‘Disfrutar’ at the Museum in the Park. Invited speakers are Dr Neil Armstrong (Founder and curator of Tremenheere Garden, Penzance) and Clive Adams (Director of Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Hornton Forest Park, Exeter)

Stroud Short Stories:Love and Other Blows of Fate
SVA Sunday 12 February 8pm-11pm
Tickets: £3 on the door

Stroud Short Stories returns with ten authors reading their short stories in a special, love-themed event for Valentine’s. Expect tales of passion and tales of woe, of love lost and lust regained, of true love and false hopes (and perhaps a small sprinkling of smut). With headliner Jane Bailey, author of Tommy Glover’s Sketch of Heaven.
www.stroudshortstories.blogspot.com

Negative Space presents Werckmeister Harmonies
SVA Thursday 16 February 8pm-11pm
Tickets: £4 (non-members) /£3 (members) on the door

A mysterious and magical epic from celebrated Hungarian director Bela Tarr, in which the arrival of two bizarre circus attractions - the stuffed corpse of a huge whale and a character with magnetic powers known as The Prince - sparks unrest in a provincial town. Shot in black and white, and composed of long, often wordless takes, it’s a fascinating example of why Tarr is regarded as one of European cinema’s most original and enigmatic talents.
“Unique, mesmeric and sublime.” - The Guardian
Screening starts at 8.30pm

Mockers presents 555 (the lesser evil) with Keb Darge
SVA Friday 17 February 9pm-3am
Tickets: £5 advanced or £6 on the door

Pavinyl & Solid kick Nick’s unique mix of raucous 45s have been keeping Stroud’s music scene pounding for the past 5 years. For Mockers 5th Year Anniversary Party they are joining forces with world breaking DJ, Keb Darge who will be celebrating his 55th birthday with us. Mr. Darge has carried the torch all the way through the Acid Jazz of London’s Wag Club and Deep Funk of Madame Jo Jo’s and back to the Wigan Northern Soul scene of 70’s. He now champions the new R&B and Rockabilly sounds that rumble through the underground club scene of today. If there is one evil you need in your life make it the lesser one - 555.

Advanced tickets from Trading Post

Resound Bites
SVA Wednesday 22 February 8pm
Tickets: £3 on the door

Resound Bites is a new serries of smaller one night events spread through out the year giving us more of the same. It starts 2012 with what will be the first performances to re-draw, re-align and re-animate the lines on musical maps. We aim to profile a wide range of soundscapes, field recordings and installations. Some familiar and some new faces will be presented throughout the year, all of which will challenge, intrigue and fascinate you.

Resound is SVA's annual three day exploration of the sonic arts that includes installations, live performance, music, djs,workshops and talks. This years Resound Festival will take place at SVA on the last weekend in March.

Birds Nest
SVA Friday 24 February 8.30pm
Tickets: £5 in advance £6 on the door

Calling all fellow woodland creatures and friends! ‘The Bird’s Nest’ is back and the twigs and branches are being foraged and lain at SVA. This time, Hot Feet shall be joining forces of the forest with some good friends from Brighton and London to bring you musical magic and wonderment. Playing in the nest so far shall be.. Emily and the Woods and Hour Hands. Granduloso!

The birds are twittering, chirruping and hooting, huddled up amidst their winter, ivy-spun nests, the deer and the hares are bounding through the frozen leaves in the stark, barren thicket and the sounds of clip-clop folk, blues, roots n roll are rattling the skeletal branches and rumbling the tawny floors of the forest.

We hope to see you there sporting your finest pair of ears, your most fabulous tail, whispiest set of whiskers and preenest suit of feathers, ready to pound your hooves, shake your tambers, and howl, hoot and stomp! Cooo Kawawww.

Advanced tickets from Trading Post

Alias Hubs

SVA every Friday 11am - 12 noon
A series of regular Friday morning coffee breaks. Alias Hubs function as a focus for a network between artists and artist groups. The hubs aim to be an informal place to meet where interests can be profiled and discussed.
www.aliasarts.org

Creative Writing with Rick Vick

every Tuesday 6.30 - 8.30pm
£50 for 10 weeks or £6.50 drop in
All comers are welcome from nervous beginners to published authors and poets.

Site Festival 1-31 May 2012
The Site Festival is a contemporary arts festival, which aims to showcase artist-led projects with a full and exciting programme of visual arts, performance, music, screenings, open studios, artist talks and workshops.

New Dates for Site Festival
The Site Festival now in it’s 16th year, is to be moved from June to 1st -31st May to create more partnerships with other educational and arts organisations and to avoid calender clashes.

see calendar for up-dates