Exhibition
30th October - 7th November
Along the way culture, particularly visual culture, drifted and became content which challenged old structures and allowed for new emerging opportunities.
This exhibition pitches ceramic objects made by and for May Darbyshire's Kingdom of Imagined Animals. These set before Mark Darbyshire's collection of found images, also of animals.
Our purpose: acknowledging we are content whilst detaching ourselves from the poverty of image streaming. All in the hope content will find at least a modicum of contentment.
Live performance
Saturday 31st October 7:30pm
Brunel Goods Shed
Synthesiser chamber ensemble perform classical transcriptions, new compositions and classic horror soundtracks for this special Halloween performance they will be reimagining John Carpenter’s iconic scores alongside Bach’s works and others.
Clubnight
Saturday 31st October 8pm
Haloweeeeeen! The hallowed season! And as always we will turn to our witches for spiritual guidance in ritualistic dance and cauldron grooves
Live Music
Friday 6th November, 7:30pm
Trombonist, composer, bandleader, and a Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging Artist, Christ-Stéphane Boizi is already making his mark on the London jazz scene, but his reputation is set to soar with the news that he has signed to Mark Kavuma’s Banger Factory Records label, with his debut LP As The Spirit Leads scheduled for release later in the year.
Live Music
Sunday 15th November, 7:30pm
Eric Isaacson (the founder of the inspirational Mississippi Records label) is touring his latest project, an audio/visual show called A People’s History of Music. Prepare for a presentation of around 90-100 mins, which charts a moving and vital people's history of underground musical resistance.
Exhibition
19th - 25th November
Thurs - Saturdays 10am - 3pm
‘From That Land’ is not merely the title of an exhibition, nor is it a simple answer to a geographical question. It is a condensed essence —a title for an unfolding narrative that branches into millions of stories about what takes place on that land, and what it truly means in the hearts and minds of its people.
Workshop
Thursday 29th October 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
Friday 19th November 4-6pm
A hands-on interactive experience that turns the natural electrical signals of plants and fungi into live ambient music.
Live Performance
Friday 20th November 8pm
A musical collaboration with nature. Living organisms, like plants and fungi, produce unique electronic signals that can be converted into sound and music: a process called biosonification.
Workshop
Monday 23rd November 9.30am-12.30pm
Workshop with Michael Peters. We pull everything together - samples, song and visuals into the finished piece.
Artist Talks
Tuesday 24th November, 6:30pm
8 practicing visual artists present their work to a sell out audience (standing room only the last few evenings) in the brilliant Pecha Kucha format - 20 slides rolling at 20 seconds per slide.
Residency
26th November - 6th December
Thurs - Saturdays 10am - 3pm
Rider and Jodi will return to the SVA Gallery to continue developing our ongoing collaborative practice, exploring themes of British/Caribbean identity, diaspora, heritage, sound and memory. This residency will give us time and space to return to work, ideas and experiments we have developed through our previous collaborations, bringing together some of the threads that have remained open or unfinished.
Live Music
Saturday 28th November, 7.30pm
Sound Records present an album launch double header.
Kicking off the evening, mysterious Cheltenham Producer iO Pan presents his debut album ‘When The Lid Opens’. Followed by Jackson Almond, s a Stroud based producer, composer and sound designer whose work moves between UK club music, experimental electronics and contemporary composition.
Teaming up with Tarsier Creative, d&b audiotechnik and SVA with funding from PRS Foundation, we produced a series of pre-recorded performances from Jazz Stroud artists that were booked to play in 202O, but were cancelled due to the pandemic. We released them over November 2022.
MOULD
Thursdays 4 - 6pm
A contemporary arts youth collective in conjunction with SVA celebrating the next generation of creative talent. 15-21, self-directed. Get in touch via Instagram @mould_collective.
MOJAM
Thursdays 7-10pm
Weekly open mic and improv for under 25s. Get in touch via Instagram @mojamlive.
JOHN STREET SOCIAL
Fridays 7 - 11pm
John Street Social is a series of Friday night club socials hosted by different artists with visuals and audio to share.
Mega Mega - Site Festival 2021 documentaries
Deepbed Radio Summer Programme
Artist Films - Site Festival 2022
Young Artist Residency #6
‘Felt Nice’ : an exhibition by Hurtence June 2021
Coming from Radio Heaven : Radio Droogdok 2020
