May & Mark Darbyshire - They Are Content
Oct
30
to Nov 7

May & Mark Darbyshire - They Are Content

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Exhibition

30th October - 7th November

Along the way culture, particularly visual culture, drifted and became content which challenged old structures and allowed for new emerging opportunities.

This exhibition pitches ceramic objects made by and for May Darbyshire's Kingdom of Imagined Animals. These set before Mark Darbyshire's collection of found images, also of animals.

Our purpose: acknowledging we are content whilst detaching ourselves from the poverty of image streaming. All in the hope content will find at least a modicum of contentment. 

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Will Gregory Moog Ensemble
Oct
31
7:30 PM19:30

Will Gregory Moog Ensemble

Live performance

Saturday 31st October 7:30pm

Brunel Goods Shed

Synthesiser chamber ensemble perform classical transcriptions, new compositions and classic horror soundtracks for this special Halloween performance they will be reimagining John Carpenter’s iconic scores alongside Bach’s works and others.

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Tomorrow’s Warriors present: Christ-Stéphane Boizi Sextet
Nov
6
7:30 PM19:30

Tomorrow’s Warriors present: Christ-Stéphane Boizi Sextet

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. 

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Mississippi Records Presents: A People's History of Music
Nov
15
7:30 PM19:30

Mississippi Records Presents: A People's History of Music

Live Music

Sunday 15th November, 7:30pm

Eric Isaacson (the founder of the inspirational Mississippi Records label) is touring his latest project, an audio/visual show called A People’s History of Music. Prepare for a presentation of around 90-100 mins, which charts a moving and vital people's history of underground musical resistance.

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From That Land, Taqi Spateen
Nov
19
to Nov 25

From That Land, Taqi Spateen

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Exhibition

19th - 25th November
Thurs - Saturdays 10am - 3pm

‘From That Land’ is not merely the title of an exhibition, nor is it a simple answer to a geographical question. It is a condensed essence —a title for an unfolding narrative that branches into millions of stories about what takes place on that land, and what it truly means in the hearts and minds of its people.

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Cultivating Connections: Workshop - The hidden world beneath our feet
Nov
19
to Nov 20
Soil Tribes

Cultivating Connections: Workshop - The hidden world beneath our feet

Workshop

Thursday 29th October  4-6.30pm

Workshop with Sophie Ferrier. Bring a soil sample from your garden, allotment or favourite woodland. Put it under a microscope and make a print, a soil fingerprint unique to your patch of ground, as part of a growing archive of Stroud’s soils.

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Pecha Kucha Night
Nov
24
6:30 PM18:30

Pecha Kucha Night

Artist Talks

Tuesday 24th November, 6:30pm

8 practicing visual artists present their work to a sell out audience (standing room only the last few evenings) in the brilliant Pecha Kucha format - 20 slides rolling at 20 seconds per slide.

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Residency: Rider Shafique & Jodi Hunt
Nov
26
to Dec 6

Residency: Rider Shafique & Jodi Hunt

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Residency

26th November - 6th December

Thurs - Saturdays 10am - 3pm

Rider and Jodi will return to the SVA Gallery to continue developing our ongoing collaborative practice, exploring themes of British/Caribbean identity, diaspora, heritage, sound and memory. This residency will give us time and space to return to work, ideas and experiments we have developed through our previous collaborations, bringing together some of the threads that have remained open or unfinished.

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Sound Records presents: iO Pan and Jackson Almond.
Nov
28
7:30 PM19:30

Sound Records presents: iO Pan and Jackson Almond.

Live Music

Saturday 28th November, 7.30pm

Sound Records present an album launch double header. 

Kicking off the evening, mysterious Cheltenham Producer iO Pan presents his debut album ‘When The Lid Opens’. Followed by  Jackson Almond, s a Stroud based producer, composer and sound designer whose work moves between UK club music, experimental electronics and contemporary composition.

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Stroud Jazz Club with special guest David Mowat
Oct
23
8:00 PM20:00

Stroud Jazz Club with special guest David Mowat

Live Performance

Friday 23rd October 7:00pm

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.

Mowat is a self-taught jazz composer, band-leader, trumpeter, improviser, promoter, curator, mentor and project creator, social-justice activist, spoken-word poet and tour organiser. He sees music as an expression of soul and a practitioner of the art of bringing diverse people together to create community through music.

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Craig Crofton Quartet Presents: John Coltrane Centenary Celebration
Oct
16
7:30 PM19:30

Craig Crofton Quartet Presents: John Coltrane Centenary Celebration

Live Performance

Friday 16th October 7.30pm‍‍

As the jazz world approaches the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth, saxophonist Craig Crofton brings a powerful and deeply personal tribute to the Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud, celebrating the life, music, and enduring legacy of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

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Cultivating Connections: Hear the Ground workshop -Sound hunting
Oct
1
4:00 PM16:00
Soil Tribes

Cultivating Connections: Hear the Ground workshop -Sound hunting

‍‍Workshop‍‍

Thursday 1st October 4-6pm

With Rory Thomas Lawton and Michael Peters

Using a geophone, a microphone that listens underground, we’ll record the hidden sounds of the soil and build them into a track that joins musicians from around the world and for sound art installation at SVA.

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Pecha Kucha Night
Sep
29
6:30 PM18:30

Pecha Kucha Night

Artist Talks

Tuesday 29th September

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. 

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Sax Pax For A Sax - Moondog & The London Saxophonic with Will Gregory
Sep
26
7:30 PM19:30

Sax Pax For A Sax - Moondog & The London Saxophonic with Will Gregory

Live performance

Saturday 26th September 7:30pm

Brunel Goods Shed

13 piece ensemble with 9 saxophones, led by Will Gregory, explore the canon of influential American composer Moondog (aka The Viking of Sixth Avenue), the blind American musician and composer, who influenced everyone from Leonard Bernstein to Philip Glass.

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Talk: Everything We Do is Music, Elizabeth Alker
Sep
20
1:30 PM13:30

Talk: Everything We Do is Music, Elizabeth Alker

Talk

Sunday 20th September 1.30pm

In Everything We Do is Music, Elizabeth Alker shines a light on the fertile ground that exists between the borders of classical music and pop. She showcases the innovators of the former and their fans and collaborators in the latter, and explores how together these artists challenged the notion that such musical worlds are mutually exclusive.

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Richard King: Travels over a feeling - Arthur Russell -A Life
Sep
19
3:00 PM15:00

Richard King: Travels over a feeling - Arthur Russell -A Life

Talk

Saturday 19th September 3pm

Travels Over Feeling, the result of extensive research by author Richard King, brings together the largely unseen handwritten scores, lyrics, photos, letters and drawings found in both Arthur’s archive and other private collections, alongside wide-ranging original interviews with his collaborators, contemporaries, family and friends.

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Jason Singh - 'Oneness' Clubnight
Sep
12
to Sep 13

Jason Singh - 'Oneness' Clubnight

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.

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Squid Soup: Infinite
Sep
11
to Sep 20

Squid Soup: Infinite

Installation

11th - 20th September

Pioneers in the use of light, sound and technology, Squidsoup’s artworks combine physical and dynamic digital spaces with novel and intuitive forms of interaction to produce responsive and beguiling environments.

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Matthew Harris - The Cellophane Wrapper and Other Items
Sep
3
to Sep 12

Matthew Harris - The Cellophane Wrapper and Other Items

Exhibition

3rd - 12th September
Thursdays - Sundays 10am - 3pm
Private View: Friday 4th September, 6pm - 8pm

Matthew will be exhibiting a series of works made intermittently over the last twenty years. Using what he refers to as a process of ‘call and response’ these small works use combinations of found materials to develop images that over time have formed the starting point for groups of larger works on paper and in cloth.

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Georgia Williams
Aug
18
to Aug 24

Georgia Williams

Artist Residency

Tuesday 18th - Monday 24th August
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. 

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BAG A TINGS
Jul
31
to Aug 1

BAG A TINGS

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.

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Simon Packard
Jul
24
to Aug 1

Simon Packard

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.

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Joicey collective at WOMAD
Jul
23
to Jul 26

Joicey collective at WOMAD

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.

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Mould collective at WOMAD
Jul
23
to Jul 26

Mould collective at WOMAD

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!

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