Workshop
Thursday 19th November 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.
Workshop
Friday20th November 4-6pm
Living organisms, like plants and fungi, produce unique electronic signals and data that, when connected to modular synthesizers and other equipment, can be converted into sound and music: a process called biosonification. With this immersive workshop, you can experiment with those sounds! Suitable for all ages.
Live Performance
Friday 20th November 8pm
Plants Can Dance (and Mushrooms Sing) is a musical collaboration with nature hosted by Brian d'Souza (aka Auntie Flo) and Lamine Toure, co-founder of Repot plant shop.
Workshop
Monday 23rd November 9.30am-12.30pm
Workshop with Michael Peters. We pull everything together - samples, song and visuals into the finished piece.
Workshop
Wednesday 21st October 9.30am-12.30pm
Workshop with Michael Peters. Learn how to sculpt the raw recordings into usable drum and synth sounds that knock on a wall gets shaped into the actual kick drum of the finished song.
Workshop
Tuesday 20th October
Workshop with Esther Campbell and Chiz Williams from Kitchen Table Photo Club. Explore the ground beneath you through the lens. Bring old cameras and photos and join in a Fantasy Camera workshop and become part of the club.
Residency
6th -17th October
Rory Thomas Lawton
An explorative immersive sound journey hidden within soil and nature to elevate imagination and deepen listening.
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.
Workshop
Thursday 24th September 4-6pm
Workshop with Gail Ilieve. Japanese moss plant workshop - the traditional art of wrapping a plant’s root system in a mud ball and lush live moss to create living art.
Live Performance and Installation
Thursday 17th September
Sound artist, composer and nature beatboxer Jason Singh presents a live improvised performance developed in response to Squid Soup’s Infinite installation.
Picnic
Thursday 10th September 4-6pm
Picnic and introduction to Zero Dig with Mould Artists Collective with Sophie Ferrier, artist and soil activist and Gail Ilieve, horticulturist. Film production session with Eoghan Mcdonnell.
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.
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.
