Residency
Monday 27th April - Saturday 2nd May
Corpsing Theatre Company, led by Middleton Maddocks, creates experimental, collaborative work blending performance, autofiction, and everyday life.
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.
Saturday 2nd May 6pm -1am
Brunel Goods Shed
Mermaid Chunky LIVE + Joicey DJs + Special Guests
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.
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.
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!
Saturday 23rd May 7pm
Brunel Goods Shed
Hailing from Recife, Brazil, Coco dos Pretos have proven themselves as a symbol of resilience, and cultural significance. Since 2006, the group has pioneered an innovative approach to the traditional coco rhythm, expanding and refining its sound while staying rooted in ancestral heritage.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clubnight
Saturday 25th April, 8pm - 12:30am
Berlin based Broken Noise returns to its UK roots on the 25th of April. Expect a full night of live and DJ sets.
Wednesday 22nd April 7pm
Radical Stroud will be commemorating the centenary of the General Strike in April and May.
Exhibition
Wednesday 22nd - Sunday 26th April, 10am – 5pm
Radical Stroud will be commemorating the centenary of the General Strike in April and May.
Residency
Open Friday 17th and Saturday 18th April 10am-3pm
Playful and approachable artworks on show featuring installation, film and photography exploring themes of body/object/space.
Sunday 12th April 1pm -1am
Carmen, Chaka, Vanessa Carr, SU!N, Medina, Joicey Collective, Allexa Nava, Let Spin, Ancient Infinity Orchestra, Marysia Osu, Laura Jurd (Quartet), Cassie Kinoshi - Seed.
Saturday 11th April 1pm -3am
Bex Burch + guest, Bel Cobain, The Vernon Spring, Jason Singh, Analogue Lounge, Dom R, Allysha Joy, Neue Grafik, Neffa-T, Ostad + Sask, Chunky, Dubbu, Cosmic Terraza, Big Sis DJs, Moina Moin, Sandi, Footshooter, Tim Garcia, Lex Blondin
Friday 10th April 6.30pm -2am
We’re excited to announce that there will be a touch of the WOMAD spirit at Jazz Stroud 2026. The inimitable Falle Nioke and New Regency Orchestra - headline for a Womad Friday night takeover, with more to be revealed in the weeks ahead.
Plus Joicey Collective, Tropical Yard / Liam Large, Lovellious & Santa Leticia.
Thursday 9th April 7.30pm
Following an illustrious stint as founding member of The Comet Is Coming and Soccer96, the producer and synthesist Danalogue heralds a new chapter, with his debut solo single, Sonic Hypnosis. .
Festival
9-12 April
Cutting-edge UK Jazz — emerging talent, celebrated names, and a wide range of genres
Multi-Venue Magic — new spaces across Stroud, from the Goods Shed and SVA to hidden gems throughout town
All-Access Weekend Tickets — one ticket, every show
Indoor & Outdoor Stages — intimate gigs, open-air concerts, and town-wide vibes
Artist Residency
Tuesday 31st March - Monday 13th April
The Art of Sound, will take place alongside the Jazz Stroud Festival and will explore the visual language of sound through installation and material practice.
Saturday March 28th, 7pm-10pm
Experimental music series 'Terror Management' returns to Stroud, hosting free-improv duo 'Crosspiece' ('Cauis Williams' and 'Theodora Laid' a.k.a 'feeo'), London, post-industrial experimentalist 'No Home', and the debut performance of Stroud based duo 'Family Romance LLC' ('enys mottet' and 'Oscar Woolley')
Jazz Stroud Live Music
Friday 27th March 8-11pm
A electronic jazz improvisation session with special guests for a night of spontaneous improvised electronic jazz fusion.
Friday 27th March 4pm – 5.30pm
This hour and half workshop is based on embodied play, stories and imagination making practises. It’s for people that like to play, chat and make. We’ll be creating books and designing cameras like bodies. Under 18's to be accompanied by participating adult.
Sunday 22nd March - 3:30pm to 5pm
Four short films make by KTPC + Q&A with Esther May Campbell and Chiz Williams + KTPC youngsters.
Saturday 21st March, 7pm
Brunel Goods Shed
“Slow Change” explores landscapes of memory in the music of Steve Reich and his wider musical world. Performed by Phaedra Ensemble, the programme is built largely around the string quartet, tracing how repetition, transformation, and memory continue to resonate in contemporary music.
Saturday 21st March 3pm – 4.30pm
This hour and half workshop is based on embodied play, stories and imaginative making practises. Its for children aged 6-10 years old that want to be behind the lens and in front of it.
Jazz Club Stroud
Friday 20th March, 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.
19th - 28th March
Over a two week period Kitchen Table Photo Club are creating all kinds of situations to exhibit photographic prints and make images in Stroud. Workshops and film screenings too. KTPC are hands on at SVA.
Clubnight
Saturday 14th March, 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.
Friday 13th March, 6pm til Late
DJs Jack Duplock, Vinyl Richie and Ben Pearce playing warm global grooves. Top class cocktails as always from @craftedbyori
Hope to see you there!
Stroud Film Festival
Sunday 8th March, 4:30pm - 7pm
A visually striking documentary about a young Orthodox nun confronting her past.
Sunday 8th March, 3-6.30pm
Join the girls for a day of tunes and good vibes in honour of international women’s day! Playing everything from to funky house to samba, expect high energy and lots of dancing.
Stroud Film Festival
Sunday 8th March, 12pm - 2pm
Four short films exploring why people take the extra step. Plus Q and A.
Stroud Film Festival
Friday 6th March, 7:30pm - 9pm
A collection of tasty short films from the youth of Stroud.
Exhibition Opening Night: Friday 6th March 6- 8pm
Gallery Opening Times: Friday - Sunday, 10 am till 4pm
An exhibition of sunset paintings, serene and dusky to fiery and explosive.
Stroud Film Festival
Tuesday 3rd March, 6:30pm - 10pm
Come down to SVA for an evening of beautiful short films, candid conversations and a great growing community of creatives living in and around Stroud.
Stroud Film Festival
Sunday 1st March, 4:30pm - 7:30pm
A meta-fictional journey through the ideas and concepts of the late critical theorist Mark Fisher.
Saturday 28th February, 2pm - 10pm
Join us for a vibrant celebration of culture, community, and solidarity! We’re transforming the SVA into a hub of Latin American life, all in support of the UNHCR Venezuela Crisis appeal.
Artists Talks
Tuesday 24th February, 6.30-9pm
A special Pecha Kucha Night with 8 lens-based artists presenting 20 images of their art practice for 20 seconds per image.
