Meet-Ups
Featured
Exhibition
9th-31st August
In the long shadow of Parisian salon exhibitions and the RA, Stroud Summer Show has invited all makers and artists to submit work to this group show, for the community, in the community and by the community.
Live Music
Saturday 31st August 9pm-3am
Continuing his quarterly residency with Jazz Stroud, Footshooter invites Tim Garcia from Música Macondo to the SVA for another late session of eclectic grooves.
Exhibition
6th-14th September
An exhibition of responses, as part of Stroud’s Wool and Water Festival from ‘Walking the Land’, an artist collective who connect art, landscape and community.
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th September 12-4pm
Exhibition
Stories of the canal told by community voices, an installation and soundscape to invite, inspire and involve, part of the Wool and Water festival.
Tuesday 10th September 6pm
Meet Up
The first networking event of the online collaboration forum; Collective. Welcoming individuals from all areas of art and media.
Friday 13th September 7.30pm
Talk
A sharing event with Uta Baldauf, Katharina Child and Jo Leahy reflecting on their trip to Berlin in June and the recent Berliner Zeitgeist talk at the Goods Shed.
Thursday 19th September 8pm
Live Music
Folk Troubadour Rory Mcleod returns to Stroud with his unique mix of travelling songs and political commentary, with Marianne Parrish, Nancy Trotter Landry and Rob Pearson, and Boss Morris.
20th September - 12th October
Exhibition
Milligan Beaumont (Artist in residence) will be working on a special commission to be exhibited next year in London and welcomes fellow embroiderers to take part in beading her newest epic kimono.
Talk
Friday 20th September 6pm
Introduced by Dr John Cussans as part of the ongoing series: Invisible College Stroud Presents The Art, Ecology and Science Fiction Talks.
Thursday 3rd October 8pm
Live Music
Open rehearsal with Albino Tarantino; a Stroud based Latin Blues band.
Sunday 27th October 10-4pm
Talk
A one-day symposium exploring how different models of creative engagement enable individuals and communities to reimagine social and cultural narratives.
Thursday 7th November 8.30pm
Spoken Word
Lemn Sissay, acclaimed poet, playwright, author and broadcaster in conversation with Adam Horovitz about his extraordinary memoir “My Name is Why”. Part of the Stroud Book Festival.
Every Thursday 7 – 9pm
Run by artists, untutored, bring your own materials, drop-in class, during term-time only. We simply share the cost of the model. £5
For more information email:
Melvyn Warren-Smith
Andy Lovell
Monthly meet-up
Mothers Who Make is a monthly peer support group for mothers who are artists & makers, in any discipline and at any stage on their creative paths.
This group will start again in September.
For more information please email: rebeccakstapleford@live.co.uk.
Monthly meet-up
Life coach and group leader Anna Rae-Jones of www.everyleaf.co.uk leads free monthly Street Wisdom Wanders, every 3rd Saturday of the month. Each event will enable participants to practice mindfulness exercises, see Stroud town centre on market day with fresh perspective, do an individual quest in order to find answers and meaning, followed by sharing as a group at the end.
The next wander will be taking place on Saturday 21st of September from 10am – 1pm.
Free tickets are available via the street wisdom website: www.streetwisdom.org