Rabbit

Open from 29th May - 30th June for Site Festival weekends and events.Alice Hodge and Lorraine Robbins create the pop up cafe.

‘Rabbit’... hop into John Street for carrot cake, art and more.

SVA

Glowing Pathfinder Bugs - A Squidsoup project

Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th May 11am-4pm at SVA

Using the shared environment of a sandpit, Glowing Pathfinder Bugs allows virtual creatures and real people to coexist and communicate.

www.squidsoup.org/bugs

Create your own Travel Journal

Wednesday 2nd June 11am-1pm at SVA

Following in the footsteps of athropologist and explorer Kitty Lake, come and create your own travel journal/diary that will transport you to deserts and mountains, to blue skies of remote island adventures in mysterious muddy patches closer to home.

£4 per child. Booking necessary

Orchestra

Friday 4th June 6pm-9pm
Saturday 5th June 11am-4pm

Orchestra is an audio/visual installation by Ben Byford. Orchestra displays the hidden in plain view, explores people's expressions of themselves, and interprets sound as music between the lines of everyday speech into a musical whole.

Mezz #07 - Mikhail Karikis

Thursday 10th June 7.30pm

Coined by critics as a sound alchemist, Mikhail Karikis uses his voice as sculptural material. Pulling sounds from his gut, from a growl to a pure high tone, he explores the voice and its relationship to his body. more

£4 Tickets from SVA

666 - 6 artists, 6 days, 6 private views

Friday 11th - Sunday 13th June 7pm-9pm
Friday 18th - Sunday 20th June 7pm-9pm

Six artists - Matt Curtis, Nadine James, Helen Kincaid, Lorraine Robbins, Dan Sparkes and Ronan Shoemacker who share the shop front studios at the SVA will be showing their work in a series of one night only Private Views.

Bluebird - Puppet Show

Saturday 12th June 11am, 4pm and 5.30pm

Bluebird is a devised Bunraku-style puppetry performance based on the Maeterlinck play The Bluebird. Aimed at children (perfect for 5-8 year olds!), Bluebird is the story of a brother and sister who go on a magical journey in search of the Bluebird of Happiness. Their adventure takes them on a journey to many different lands that are terrible, tempting and wonderful. Through their journey, they discover that true happiness was closer than they ever suspected.

£4/£3(c) Tickets from SVA

or Tel 01453 751440

Soundclash

Saturday 12th June 9pm - £3 on the door

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.

John Street Open Studios

Saturday 12th-Sunday 13th June 11am-6pm
Saturday 19th-Sunday 20th June 11am-6pm

SVA studio members will be opening their spaces to the public. Visitors will be encouraged to fully explore the studio working environment and to engage artists in conversation.

The studios provide a collaborative working environment and home for artist groups including Quercus, artNucleus, Studio Seven and Unit 4.

Journey to Lalibela, Ethiopia

Saturday 12th - Sunday 13th June - 11am-6pm
Saturday 19th - Sunday 20th June - 11am-6pm

Following on from last year’s ‘The Seven Poets’ Coat’s Project’, International artist Sally Hampson will create a site-specific installation, ‘Journey to Lalibela, Ethiopia’ as part of ‘The Kitty Lake Collection 1904-2001’ project.

Wupadupa

Wednesday 16th June 8pm

A very special music night with the Wupa dupa musicians collective. a night of honest lyrics, harmonic textures, astoundiing voices and blissful melodies, from Weston Green, Carrie Tree, Hot Tin Cat and Martha Tilston and maybe a little more...

Expect lush music, caberet tables, cushions and free cake!

£6/£5 Tickets from SVA

The Jazz Session

Thursday 17th June 8.30pm

This new jazz night is for players and listeners alike. Stroud has a great range of jazz players, and you will find them here! This night will feature a performance by the house band and guest soloist and a stonkingly energetic jazz jam for all players and singers, aficionados and improvers, to participate in. All are welcome, to listen or perform.

£4/£3 musicians - Tickets are available on the door

Common Ground

Friday18th June 6.30pm-9pmFree

Common Ground presents new performance works by a group of artists firmly rooted in the visual art and action-based tradition. Coming out of Cardiff’s energetic performance art scene - the work promises to be at turns affecting, unsettling, amusing, restful, loud and intriguing.

Communion

Saturday 19th June 3pm

‘I hear voices, whispers on the wind, calling... no-one is visible - nothing but grass and sky, the water at my feet.’
Communion, the performance: images, music and words - a collaboration between Suze Adams (artist), Robert Perry (composer) and Anna Saunders (poet) plus friends.

...check out the future