Meet-Ups
Featured
Talk
Friday 18th October 6pm
Meet Ania Pilipenko as part of Berliner Zeitgeist and Creative Spaces, Creating Communities in Stroud.
Exhibition
18th - 26th October
Periscope are inviting young artists and creatives to collaborate in a three week project curating an exhibition of work made in Periscope’s public, immersive creative space in Stroud.
Live Music
Saturday 26th October 10pm till late
The Uplifter + Stroud = MAGICAL MUSICAL VIBRATIONS!
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.
Exhibition
1st-16th November
This year is the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the UK is exiting the EU. We are planning to create an exhibition of mail art that responds to the theme of 'Falling Walls', inspired by the historical event and artists are invited to respond.
Clubnight with performance
Saturday 2nd November 9pm
A catwalk extravaganza! Hosted by Sean and Megan.
Film
Sunday 3rd November 4pm
As part of Berliner Zeitgeist we will be screening a film about the monitoring of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, the GDR’s secret police.
Film
Wednesday 6th November 6.30pm
Special screening plus Q&A with star of the film Nima Gurung, visiting from Nepal, and director Zara Balfour.
Live music
Thursday 7th November 8pm
Come and listen to Albino Tarantino rehearsing and jamming... Imagine a night out with Tom Waits and Ry Cooder to see Santana playing at The Buena Vista Social Club.
Spoken Word
Thursday 7th November 8.30pm
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.
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
Talk
Sunday 10th November 2pm
As part of the Stroud Book Festival we are pleased to present three leading voices in contemporary poetry in a powerful set of readings exploring overlapping themes of myth, magic, fable and feminism.
Live Music
Thursday 14th November 8pm
Tonight features Robert Perry and Periscope Ensemble in a musical conversation.
Talk
Friday 15th November 6.30pm
Hosted by Angela Findlay at John Street Gallery : an event with soup and bread, a presentation and conversation around a table.
Live Music
Saturday 16th November 7.30pm
"Round Up" sees Bristol group Ishmael Ensemble team up with d&b audiotechnik for a unique 360 degree soundscape experience.
Talk
Saturday 23rd November 6pm
Mark Pilkington will be presenting Radionics and Witchcraft, as part of the Art, Ecology and Science Fiction series with Dr John Cussons.
Exhibition
29th November - 1st December
Artist, printmaker and tufter Jessie James will be exhibiting her new carpets in the John Street Gallery for one weekend only.
Film
Sunday 1st December 6pm
A romantic fantasy film in which the angel chooses to become mortal so that he can experience human sensory pleasures.
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.
The next group will be on the 25th October at 10am, upstairs at SVA.
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 Friday 15th November from 10am – 1pm.
Free tickets are available via the street wisdom website: www.streetwisdom.org
Every Wednesday 7.30pm (term time only)
Open it to anyone interested to learn about flamenco in general so anyone can join either with guitars, clapping, playing cajon or singing. Upstairs in SVA.
Pay as you think.