Exhibition
24th July - 1st August
This new exhibition will be a collection of both different shaped paper, card, cardboard, and fabrics all treated with a multi-textured mark making in screen-printing, pastel and drawing in , a real investigation of the work that Simon Packard does in large sketch books, often unseen.
Stroud's Bashiest Clubnight
Friday 31st July, 8pm til 1am
Strictly 18+
After years of road-blocking venues, packing out dancefloors and building a reputation as one of the town's most notorious underground parties, BAG A TINGS finally lands back at the SVA for a full tropical bass takeover.
Artist Residency
Tuesday 18th - Monday 24th August
Open Friday & Saturdays 10am -3pm
Georgia Williams will be using this residency as a space to build on a new body of work. ‘Time on paper’ is about artistic discovery and journey. As a practicing photographer for 8 years Georgia has returned to drawing as a new method of raw expression. Drawing is an act of becoming and a study of female experience.
Artist Residency & Exhibition
Tueday 25th - Monday 31st August
Open Thursday, Friday & Saturdays 10am -3pm
A collection of hand woven suspended sculptures exploring the relationship between maker and waste.
Clubnight
Saturday 12th September, 9pm - 1am
Oneness is a club night which celebrates the deepest and finest in underground worldwide dance music culture. Honouring the rhythmic lineage of reggae, jazz dance, hip hop, soul, disco, afro cuban, latin, spiritual house, broken beat, techno, UK Garage, Asian Underground, Eastern breaks, Grime and Drum & Bass.
Live performance
Saturday 26th September 8pm
Brunel Goods Shed
Live performance of Sax Pax for a Sax which was a collaboration album between the London Saxophonic and the blind musician, composer, and performer Moondog.
Artist Talks
Join us for our 10th Pecha Kucha Night at SVA on Tuesday September 29th.. 8 visual artists present their work in the brilliant 20/20 format : 20 images / 20 seconds per image - an exciting, generous, tender, performative, adrenalin rush dive into each artist’s practice with a full and engaged audience in the bar at SVA with mc Nick Grellier.
Live Music
Saturday 24th October, 7:30pm
Blending the lyricism of folk traditions with the rhythmic drive of contemporary jazz, Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging Artist Mali Sheard is a saxophonist and composer whose music is both evocative and adventurous.
Live Music
Friday 6th November, 7:30pm
Trombonist, composer, bandleader, and a Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging Artist, Christ-Stéphane Boizi is already making his mark on the London jazz scene, but his reputation is set to soar with the news that he has signed to Mark Kavuma’s Banger Factory Records label, with his debut LP As The Spirit Leads scheduled for release later in the year.
Womad Festival
23-26 july
Joicey collective will be running a tent at WOMAD festival this year, celebrating the musical talent of young women and non-binary people. Joicey will be running beginner DJing workshops throughout the daytime, with the aim of introducing young people to the world of Djing as well as performing in the dedicated ‘Launch-Pod’ tent in the evenings. Expect funky vibes, groovy tunes and a whole lot of laughs.
Womad Festival
23-26 july
Mould will be decorating and curating a tent at WOMAD festival, celebrating the creative talent of Stroud’s young people. The collective will bring a fun colourful energy within the venue as well as displaying some previous favourite projects, as seen at events around Stroud. Expect stripes, pizzaz and a large disco ball!
Jazz Club Stroud
Friday 17th July 8pm - 11pm
The jam is hosted by Stroud Jazz Collective and Stroud Valleys Artspace and has been born out of the former Stroud Jazz Sessions, celebrated for over a decade in Stroud.
Reggae Sound System
Sunday 12th July 2-7pm
Bristol-based Reggae label 'Poor Man's Friend' will be bringing their sound system to the Goods Shed along with their extended family for a night of Reggae music from across different decades played in a Rub A Dub authentic sound system style.
Artist Residency
7th -20th July
Rider Shafique is a multidisciplinary artist, vocalist, and photographer whose work explores British/Caribbean identity, diaspora, and the relationship between sound, memory, and visual culture. Jodi Hunt’s practice centres on identity, heritage, and storytelling through typography, image-making, and design.
Friday 3rd July, 7:30pm -11pm
Saxophonist David Kayode’s commanding tenor sound blends blend Yoruba tradition, carnival energy and contemporary jazz into a distinctly London sound that moves bodies and evokes ancestral stories.
A Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging Artist, mentored by Gary Crosby OBE and Camilla George, David has already performed with the Gary Crosby Sextet in the acclaimed Mingus Moves series, toured internationally with Moses Boyd, and collaborated with artists including Ni Maxine and Osibisa.
Black Sheep Live: Spoken word, live performance & DJs.
Saturday 27th June 4pm-1am
A music event celebrating the musical and cultural contributions of black people to British culture. High energy multi genre extravaganza, expect jungle (the father), garage (the son), dub (the Holy Spirit) and much much more.
Performance: Thursday 25th June 8pm
A live performance as a culmination of Bex Burch’s Goods Shed residency.
June 25, 2026 – June 27, 2026
A multi media disciplinary programme featuring a photographic work reflecting on the alienating experience of growing up black in the Cotswolds.
June 23, 2026 – June 25, 2026
Bex Burch joins us for a dive into the ‘unknown’, taking apart her techniques and instruments through deep listening to expand her practice in this special Stroud residency.
SITE Festival
Open Studio weekend 2: 20th -21st June, 11am -6pm
Open Studios is part of the wider programme of Site Festival, allowing artists to explore, develop projects and open their work up to the public.
13th-14th & 21st-22nd June
Zerodig, Oakbrook Farm
What's living in your soil? Come and find out.
Bring a soil sample. From your garden, allotment, a favourite woodland, or beneath a tree you know well. Sophie will put it under the microscope so you can see what's actually living in it. You can also make a print from your sample - a kind of soil fingerprint, unique to your patch of ground. Come back the following weekend to collect it, and your print will become part of a growing archive of Stroud's soils.
SITE Festival
Open Studios weekend 1: 13th -14th June, 11am - 6pm
Open Studios is part of the wider programme of Site Festival, allowing artists to explore, develop projects and open their work up to the public.
13th-21st June
SVA John Street Gallery
Nik Ramage is a mechanical sculptor, bringing odd ideas to life with moving parts and found objects. For his residency at SVA, he will show Double Take, a two-week show of mechanical oddities and everyday objects having unexpected encounters.
June 11, 2026 – June 21, 2026
At Lansdown Gallery representing the 2026 routes, the SITE Exhibition features all artists taking part in our Open Studios. It’s a unique opportunity to see artwork from each artist, arrange visits to suit your interests and get a preview of what to expect.
Installation
10th - 21st June
Traditionally trained as a fine art painter, Sickboy turned to street art in 1995 and rose to fame for his symbology and text based work on the streets of Bristol, cementing his position as one of the biggest names of the British street art movement.
Artist talk and Artwork Reveal
Wednesday 10th June 7.30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
Book online
Join Sickboy to discuss the benefits and challenges faced making use of empty shops on a meanwhile basis. Sickboy is passionate about community and inspiring people to create, this topic will be discussed from an artist’s perspective. Highlighting to property owners the benefit of activation and the ease of collaborating with artists to bring the community together and support local businesses operating in the town centre.
Artwork on show until 21st June
Saturday 6th June, SVA John Street
Dom R, from Analogue Lounge (Bristol) will be hosting the official afterparty for Brian Jackson’s upcoming performance in Stroud. Following his upcoming album release, Brian Jackson will be performing in the round at The Goods Shed, courtesy of Church of Sound and Jazz Stroud.
Saturday 6th June, The Goods Shed
One-half of the legendary duo Gil Scott- Heron and Brian Jackson, Brian tours with a show that is a mix of his most recent work and the iconic, most requested tunes in the Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson catalogue – songs like Winter In America, We Almost Lost Detroit and The Bottle, with Brian generously sharing stories and anecdotes about life as creative brothers in an era eerily similar to today.
Wednesday 3rd June 6.30pm – 8.30pm
You are invited to join a conversation between ‘rock enthusiasts’ that explores alternativeways of sensing the narratives of deep time below our feet, that challenge the hierarchy ofthe animate-inanimate divide.
Exhibition
29th May-7th June
Ann-Margreth Bohl invites you to imagine rock strata as an active and lively materiality through photography, performance, 16mm film, embroidery, and drawing.
Festival
Friday 29th to Sunday 31st May
Seasoning Festival returns for its most ambitious edition yet.
Saturday 23rd May 1-11pm
Brunel Goods Shed
A Day of Latin Rhythms in Stroud!
Join us on Saturday, 23rd May for an incredible celebration of live Latin music and beats, brought to you by Jazz Stroud, Worm Discs, and CoCo Dos Pretos. We’re transforming the Goods Shed into a vibrant hub of sound, dance, and authentic flavors from afternoon until late!
Friday 15th May 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Brunel Goods Shed
ROLL UP! ROLL UP! IT'S MR FLUFFYPUNK'S PENNY GAFF!
Time for another of the Stroud's favourite increasingly-irregular Alternative Cabaret. Comedy! Poetry! Music! Theatre! Magic! Weird Shit!
Exhibition
Friday 15th to Saturday 23rd May
Room For More is a two-person exhibition by Tilly Trevitt and Helen Hardaker. This work was created through collaboration, from shared values of care, generosity and the transparency of effort, chaos and imperfection.
Live Music
Friday 8th May
Ishmael Ensemble returns to Stroud on Friday 8th May 2026 for a special in the round performance at The Goods Shed, joined by The Rituals Orchestra and a host of guest vocalists.
Saturday 2nd May 6pm -1am
Brunel Goods Shed
Mermaid Chunky LIVE + Joicey DJs + Special Guests
Clubnight
Friday 1st May, 8pm - 12:30am
Stroud's favourite house, disco and techno night relocates to SVA for a one off psychedelic party on Beltane. The special guest this time is dance legend Justin Robertson.
Residency
Monday 27th April - Saturday 2nd May
Corpsing Theatre Company, led by Middleton Maddocks, creates experimental, collaborative work blending performance, autofiction, and everyday life.
Workshop
Sunday 26th April, 11am - 4pm
Artist, community compost activist, and soil advocate Sophie Lilian Ferrier will be guiding the young people of Stroud through an explorative and creative worm tunnel, connecting workshop participants with Soils and the microorganisms that live underground supporting our food systems, and our everyday consumption.
