What’s On
Upcoming Events
Exhibition
24th July - 1st August
This new exhibition will be a collection of both different shaped paper, card, cardboard, and fabrics all treated with a multi-textured mark making in screen-printing, pastel and drawing in , a real investigation of the work that Simon Packard does in large sketch books, often unseen.
Stroud's Bashiest Clubnight
Friday 31st July, 8pm til 1am
Strictly 18+
After years of road-blocking venues, packing out dancefloors and building a reputation as one of the town's most notorious underground parties, BAG A TINGS finally lands back at the SVA for a full tropical bass takeover.
Artist Residency
Tuesday 18th - Monday 24th August
Open Friday & Saturdays 10am -3pm
Georgia Williams will be using this residency as a space to build on a new body of work. ‘Time on paper’ is about artistic discovery and journey. As a practicing photographer for 8 years Georgia has returned to drawing as a new method of raw expression. Drawing is an act of becoming and a study of female experience.
Artist Residency & Exhibition
Tueday 25th - Monday 31st August
Open Thursday, Friday & Saturdays 10am -3pm
A collection of hand woven suspended sculptures exploring the relationship between maker and waste.
Clubnight
Saturday 12th September, 9pm - 1am
Oneness is a club night which celebrates the deepest and finest in underground worldwide dance music culture. Honouring the rhythmic lineage of reggae, jazz dance, hip hop, soul, disco, afro cuban, latin, spiritual house, broken beat, techno, UK Garage, Asian Underground, Eastern breaks, Grime and Drum & Bass.
Live performance
Saturday 26th September 8pm
Brunel Goods Shed
Live performance of Sax Pax for a Sax which was a collaboration album between the London Saxophonic and the blind musician, composer, and performer Moondog.
Artist Talks
Join us for our 10th Pecha Kucha Night at SVA on Tuesday September 29th.. 8 visual artists present their work in the brilliant 20/20 format : 20 images / 20 seconds per image - an exciting, generous, tender, performative, adrenalin rush dive into each artist’s practice with a full and engaged audience in the bar at SVA with mc Nick Grellier.
Live Music
Saturday 24th October, 7:30pm
Blending the lyricism of folk traditions with the rhythmic drive of contemporary jazz, Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging Artist Mali Sheard is a saxophonist and composer whose music is both evocative and adventurous.
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.