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
Thursday 22nd May 8-11pm
The new electronic jazz improvisation session returns for a special Jazz Stroud addition in the round at the Goods Shed including special guests for a night of spontaneous improvised electronic jazz fusion.
Jazz Stroud - Live Music
Friday 23rd May 8pm -2am
Fresh off the back of their 2nd birthday in Bristol, Analogue Lounge takes over The Goods Shed. Brought to life by SpaceJams and The Brakery Collective, the night blends open jam sessions, deep vinyl selections, immersive set design and a community feel that’s made it a cornerstone of the Bristol music scene.
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
Saturday 24th May 7pm
Accompanied by his cheerful choir, The Sounds of Joy, Alogte Oho takes his listeners on a journey like no other – lilting from low slung reggae based numbers to upbeat songs played in traditional local rhythms.
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.
Jazz Stroud DJs
Sunday 25th May 9pm -1am
Tropical Yard – Lady Kamikaze, Duncan Brooker and Liam Large – all in attendance for the first time at SVA John street
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
Tuesday 24th June 7.30pm
New York’s Grammy nominated Max ZT (House of Waters), and Tokyo/Black Country’s lauded Dan Whitehouse combine their inventive energy to create stunning live performances.
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.
Live Music
Friday 2nd May
A night of potent Bealtaine celebrations, welcoming in the summer time with audio visual wonders. With Mermaid Chunky, Wicker Mantomime, Bunny Ladd and Joicey DJ collective.
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
Friday 20th December
7pm John Street
8pm Goods Shed
DARKEST NIGHT, Mermaid Chunky’s most unknown annual MEGA MEGA event. They do it every year, it’s epic, as told in the books of legend ('remarkable' The Guardian). If you are wicked you will come.
Live Music
Saturday 9th November 8pm
Sound records presents a night of musical mayhem... Unicorn Ship Explosion's album launch plus Lara Jones and sm^sher. With full visual show and supporting DJs, this is a one off happening of monumental proportions.
Live Music
Saturday 19th October
Speakers Corner Quartet preview their forthcoming November residency at London’s ICA with an exclusive first performance of their new immersive live show, Out There In Here, at the Goods Shed.
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.
Exhibition
Friday 3rd - Saturday 11th May
On the opening night of Beltaine Dew, Vomiton will present the Amplexus performance, surrounding themes of clowning, the anonymous and amphibian extinction. In strange new beginnings we explore the relationship between fertilization and the behaviour of frogs.
Live Music
Friday 3rd May
A night of potent Bealtaine celebrations, welcoming in the summer time with audio visual wonders.
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.
Call Out & Exhibition
23rd-26th September
At The Bureau for the Validation of Art, the Officials offer artists the opportunity to submit their work for Validation. The Bureau are yet to find anything that isn’t Art, and in this Public Exhibition you are invited to submit work to the show for validation.
Performance and Projections
Friday 9th April 8-8.30pm
Saturday 10th April 8-8.30pm
Sunday 11th April 8-8.30pm
Brenda and Anna will be sharing the work which they will be developing during the 3 week residency for this public event which will include improvised performance, projection, sound and installation.
Tickets £4
Booking essential
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.
Exhibition
23rd- 25th April 10am-3pm
Richard Layzell; renowned artist, Creative Ecologist and course leader for Print + Time Based Media, will be in residence from April 23rd to 25th in and out of the gallery.
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.
Artist in Residence
Saturday 11th - 18th January
Malgorzata Zajac is the artist in residence. Symbol and mark making, ritual and an spall, drowning dreams coming true.
Performance / club night
Saturday 9th November 8pm
A performance and club night to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down with live performance, music, visuals and film inspired by the political history, sub-culture and club scene of this enigmatic city. Part of Berliner Zeitgeist
