Live Music

Saturday 31st May 8pm

Daniel Inzani is a composer, pianist and band leader based in Stroud, UK. For the past 2 decades Inzani has performed with dozens of bands from Bristol’s underground alternative and avant-garde scene, blending classical, jazz, contemporary, improvisation, unusual harmony and rhythms as a band leader and collaborator.

Live Music

Friday 30th May 8pm

UK-based newcomer Sam Judd will be combining leftfield electronica, techno & breakbeats with enveloping sonic landscapes and evocative compositions. Memory Play (Josef Kašpar) performs an immersive and hypnotic live techno show that pushes at the boundaries of the genre.

Jazz Stroud - Reggae Dub System

Sunday 25th May 2pm - 8pm

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.

Free

Once the Carnival parade lands at the Goods Shed we will open the bar up for an afternoon cocktails and a DJ set with Joicey DJ Collective. Joicey is an SVA led project which provides DJ skills, training and peer to peer support for women and transgender people in Stroud and Gloucester.

Jazz Stroud Live Music and Dance

Saturday 24th May 2pm

Big Afon Sistema Procession through town, all invited and all welcome to join the parade!  Starting from St. Laurence Church, Stroud 

Jazz Stroud Live Music and Dance

Saturday 17th May 11am -4pm

In the run up to the carnival, SVA is working with local artists and schools to produce a programme of costume-making workshops and dance classes.

Jazz Stroud Live Music and Dance

Saturday 10th May 11am -4pm

In the run up to the carnival, SVA is working with local artists and schools to produce a programme of costume-making workshops and dance classes.

Pantomime

Friday 2nd May

Prepare yourselves to be transported back in time to the giddy heights of the 1970s folk revival, but not as you know it. Mystery, ritual, lust, mild nudity, corn rigs, barley, and some good old traditional family fun , The Wicker Mantomime is the perfect night out.

Live Music

Friday 25th April 7.30pm

6161 is a surge of fiercely drum led and brass heavy alt jazz, its the brand new project of Matt Stockham Brown who has previously received critical acclaim winning a Montreux Jazz Festival talent award in 2019, releasing two albums with Run Logan Run and most recently a 5 star Guardian review with Daniel Inzani’s triple release.

Live Music

Friday 14th March 7pm

Winner of the Aga Khan Music Award, Soumik Datta reveals a brand new immersive in-the-round experience in partnership with Loss><Gain, SVA, Goods Shed Immersive Productions and d&b audiotechnik.

Live Music

Saturday 12th October

Cosmo’s music ranges widely from celebratory anthems to soulful elegies to riotous party numbers, to sparse electronic production, to haunting polyphonic songs that have grown out of field recordings of birds, whales, fish, frogs, and fungi, and more.

With support from Daniel Inzani.

Live Music

Saturday 5th October 7.30pm

September 2024 sees the release of Ishmael Ensemble’s third longplayer ‘Rituals’, which marks a significant leap for the Bristolian musicians.

Friday 5th July 6.30-8.30pm

The Jonkunoo & Masquerade Project with Annet Richards-Binns, showcases the rich history, cultural significance, and contemporary relevance of Jamaican Jonkunoo.

Cabaret

Saturday 27th April 8pm

Enter the ‘bizarre and beautiful’ world of Fool’s Moon: a theatrical cabaret night where the mischievous come out and play.

Performance

Friday 24th April 7pm

Richard Layzell; renowned artist, Creative Ecologist and course leader for Print + Time Based Media, will be performing about many of his ecological experiences over the past two years.

Performance

Wednesday 4th March 7.30pm

The Pied Piper of Hamelin reimagined through live music and shadow puppetry.

Live performance

Friday 21st February 7.30pm

Vital. Original. Bold. A live performance of HOME, a work-in-progress pitch for a contemporary feature film.