Site 2014 Programme

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Welcome to the Site Festival 2014
John Wood and Paul Harrison • Gilad Atzmon • Oliver Marsden
Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip • Simon Munnery • Meantime • Helen
Carmel Benigson • Janek Schaefer • Brickhouse • Rob Chavasse
Ben Sansbury • Lewis Teague Wright • Top Nice • Copeland Book
Market • Lorraine Robbins • Bristol Art Library • David Pearson
Deadly Creatures • Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs • Filthy Boy
Sam Marsh & Ed Lawrenson • Jonny Fluffypunk • Sideboard Sue
Stand + Stare • Punk in Africa • Dakhla • Anthony Abrahams
Ralph Brown • Jon Buck • Daniel Chadwick • Lynn Chadwick • Ann
Christopher • Abigail Fallis • Damien Hirst • Steve Russell • Neutral
Norway • Gavin McClafferty • Jun kroom Records • Simon Ryder
Son Yambu • Qu Junktions • The Cube • Lucky Dip Disco • Weaving
Shed • Redhanded • Walking the Land • Peter Stiles • Bohl-Grellier
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Jacqueline Kroft & the Sensations • Suze Adams • Joanna Greenhill
Brenda Miller • Lou Spira • Royal Mould • Anna Jacob • Pip Heywood
Aimee Bea Ballinger • Rachel Pantechnicon...
Events Adverts
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Further Information
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www.sitefestival.org.uk
John Wood and Paul Harrison, 100 Falls, 2011, Single channel HD (16:9) 33':40"
Courtesy of the artists and Carroll/Fletcher
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WEEK 1
Thursday 1 st – Sunday 4 th May
Highlights
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May
1 st- 31 st
May
3 rd- 4 th
May
As We Walk Out
Laurie Lee Centenary P.4
ArteFact or Fiction…
Bohl-Grellier P.5
Deadly Creatures present
Launchsite 2014 P.6
WEEK 1: Thursday 1 st – Sunday 4 th May
Shadow and Line
Stroud International Textiles
27th April-26th May
Museum in the Park
www.sitselect.org
Nine nationally acclaimed artists exhibit work on the theme
of ‘Shadow and Line’. Peter Archer; Hilary Bower; Caroline
Bartlett; Linda Brassington; Penelope Jordan; Joy Merron;
Elizabeth Turrell; Keith Varney and Jilly Morris.
As We Walk Out
Laurie Lee Centenary Walks
A programme of walks and journeys made in the
footsteps of Laurie Lee
www.walkingtheland.org.uk
The walks follow some of the roads, tracks and trails familiar
to Laurie Lee around the Slad Valley and Wotton-Under-Edge
to much longer journeys that will take us south to
Southampton and across the Pyrenees. All the walks are led
by writers, poets, artists and historians and most walks are
suitable for artists and non-artists alike. Walk leaders will each
offer their own unique approach to the walk and will offer
support and encouragement to walkers who wish to
creatively engage with the landscape and journey, whether
through poetry, drawing, painting, video, photography or
writing. Other walks programmed until November. Work
produced during the walks will be shown at the Museum in
the Park during September. Supported by Stroud Arts Festival
as part of the Laurie Lee Centenary Celebrations.
Laurie Lee Centenary Walk: Slad Brook from
Source to Confluence
Thursday 1st May 2pm
Bulls Cross, Stroud
Without the Slad Brook there would have been no cloth
trade in the local valleys around Slad. Without the cloth trade
there would have been no riots in Slad and Stroud in 1825.
Join us on a walk from the source of the brook to its
confluence with the Frome in Stroud. Help us recreate the
past along the partially culverted brook with psychogeographical
musings, notes on flora and fauna, together with
performance.
Tickets: recommended donation £5 per person, children under
15 free
Bookings essential by email: walking@artworks.eu.com
Rupert Aker with Wendy Milner
1st–31st May
Monday to Saturday, 10am-5.30pm
Sunday and Bank Holidays, 11am-4pm
Sofas and Stuff, Woodchester Mill,
North Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5NN
T. 01453 700812
www.sofasandstuff.com
To celebrate the Stroud Site Festival and Open Studios trail,
our showroom will exclusively host new work from local
landscape artist Rupert Aker and is supported by Stroud
illustrator Wendy Milner. (www.rupertaker.com,
www.wendymilner.co.uk).
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Deadly Creatures, Launchsite 2014
Bohl-Grellier, ArteFact or Fiction
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WEEK 1: Thursday 1 st – Sunday 4 th May
ArteFact or Fiction…
Bohl-Grellier
1st-31st May
Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm
Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-4pm
Bank Holiday Monday, 11am-5pm
The Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
T. 01453 763394
www.paulgrellier.co.uk
www.annmargrethbohl.com
Pottery Making with Adrian Bates
Earth and Fire
Friday 2nd–Sunday 4th May
Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road,
Stroud GL6 7QW
T. 01453 759034
www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk
A weekend for complete beginners to pottery and for those
more advanced.
Deadly Creatures present Launchsite 2014
Two days of live music
Saturday 3rd May 6-11pm
Filthy Boy, Courtly Love, Dollhouse UK, Sheena...
plus late night Vine Club
Sunday 4th May 2-11pm
Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs, Drawl, Sheena,
Max Heart... plus late night Vine Club
SVA, Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
www.sheena-band.co.uk
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“To create is divine, to reproduce is human.” Man Ray. After
the success of their exhibition ‘Convergence & Space’ in the
Brunel Goods Shed last year Paul Grellier and Ann-Margreth
Bohl continue their collaboration in another local historic
setting., aiming to highlight the value of this fascinating
museum and broaden its audience. Visitors are encouraged to
seek out and identify the temporary 'additions' the artists
have secreted amongst its existing collection of objects.
Participate by creating your own narrative for a chosen object,
and see it displayed as part of the exhibition,
Contemporary Landscapes and Still Life
Paintings by Lou Spira
1st-31st May
Monday-Saturday 8.30am-5pm
Mills Cafe, 55 High Street, Stroud GL5 1AS
www.louspira.com
Expressive, painterly surfaces and warm-hued colour. I
observe the form and light to capture a sense of time, place
and atmosphere.
Tickets: single £245, shared £210, non-res £170
Book via telephone, email or website
Open Studios Taster Exhibition
3rd–31st May
Monday-Saturday 10am–5pm
Sunday 11th & 18th May 10am–4pm
The Subscription Rooms, George Street,
Stroud, GL5 1AE
T. 01453 760900
www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk
Stroud Valleys Open Studios is a fantastic way to not only
enjoy the beautiful Cotswold countryside but also engage with
the amazing variety of art on offer. The Taster Exhibition
provides the perfect opportunity for planning your visits to
the studios, workshops or homes of the artists to see and buy
their original artwork.
Deadly Creatures present the pre-launch and music-focused
weekend that precedes the exhibition openings on the
following Friday 9th May. Deadly Creature events were
initiated by the band Sheena in November 2012. The nights
were created to profile and expose the vibrant live music
scene, and have gone from strength to strength with bands
playing to capacity audiences. The success of these events
prompted the organisers to put together a weekend of some
of the best bands that have featured at the Deadly Creatures
events with a few additional special guest appearances.
“Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs came to our attention supporting
TOY earlier this year. Perfectly channeling mid-70s NYC art punk
in the back room of a scuzzed up East End pub, Charlie took the
sounds of one blank generation and blasted them out to another.
Only took a minute before we were sold.” Heavenly Recordings
“As their name implies, Filthy Boy are a smutty proposition....
Sweeney Todd down the indie disco ....All in all, pretty disgusting ....
they have a knack of sounding like he’s casually sparking up a
post-coital cigarette” Lisa Wright NME
Tickets: Saturday £15, Sunday £15
Weekend: £25 (includes Vine Club +18), £20 concessions
Deadly Creatures, Launchsite 2014
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WEEK 2
Monday 5 TH – Sunday 11 TH May
Highlights
6 th- 30 th
May
9 th- 31 st
May
10 th- 25 th
May
10 th- 25 th
May
10 th- 11 th
17 th- 18 th
May
10 Th- 11 Th
17 Th- 18 Th
May
On Home Turf P.8
Brickhouse Stroud 2014 P.12
John Wood and Paul Harrison
In Some Film P.13
Zombie Licks
Lorraine Robbins P.15
Royal Mould P.17
Sideboard Sue and Jonny
Fluffypunk's Moving Artshow P.16
WEEK 2: Monday 5 TH – Sunday 11 TH May
On Home Turf
6th-30th May
Monday-Friday 10am-6pm
Saturday 10am-1pm
Gallery Pangolin, 9 Chalford Ind. Estate, Chalford,
Gloucestershire, GL6 8NT
T. 01453 889765
gallery@pangolin-editions.com
Sculpture, prints and drawings by artists with connections to
the Gloucestershire area. Includes work by Anthony
Abrahams, Ralph Brown, Jon Buck, Daniel Chadwick, Lynn
Chadwick, Ann Christopher, Abigail Fallis, Damien Hirst,
Lorraine Robbins and Steve Russell.
Tide Marks
an exhibition of work by artist Alice Fox
Stroud International Textiles
6th-24th May
Tuesday-Saturday 10.30am-4.30pm
Sunday 12 noon-4pm
Lansdown Hall, Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BB
T. 01453 767576
www.lansdownhall.org
Tide Marks is the result of Alice’s creative relationship with
the shoreline. Her contemplative artworks carry an essence
of the coastal landscapes they embody.
Bird Dances with Moon
Pastel Drawings and Love Poems
Grizelda Holderness
7th May-2nd June
Monday-Saturday 8.30am-5pm
Open Evening Thursday 8th May 6-8pm
Woodruffs Cafe, 24 High Street, Stroud GL5 1AJ
T. 01453 759195 / 01452 740359
E. grizeldaholderness@hotmail.co.uk
Exhibition of recent drawings and poems by Grizelda
Holderness, with ongoing poetry additions by visitors to the
cafe. During the exhibition, everyone visiting the cafe is invited
to write their own poem, haiku, song or tune or to make a
drawing or doodle to be added to the show (anon/not, and
not compulsory.) 5" x 7" cut paper, pencils and pens provided
on tables, and there will be a celebration display and reading
towards the end of May (date and time to be confirmed,
please see listings updates). In China, at full moon in May
(14th/15th), thousands of caged birds are released. Could we
fill a wall with paper birds A small plea for peace
Grizelda Holderness was born in Zimbabwe and works as an
artist, illustrator and photographer.
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Abigail Fallis, Looking Glass
Soozy Roberts, Sideboard Sue and
Johnny Fluffypunk's Moving Artshow
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Polyrhythmic Snarl
Sam Marsh and Ed Lawrenson
9th-24th May
Friday 9th 6-9pm
Saturday 10th 10am-4pm
Sunday 11th 10am-4pm
39 King St, Stroud GL5 3DA
www.samarsh.com
www.edwardlawrensonpainting.com
Ourselves We Find at Sea
Peter Stiles
9th-24th May
Friday 9th-Sunday 11th 10am-4pm
Thursday 15th-Sunday 18th 10am-4pm
Thursday 22nd-Saturday 24th 10am-4pm
39 King St, Stroud GL5 3DA
T. 01805 601432 E. peterstiles@uwclub.net
www.peterstiles.co.uk
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Collaboration and process lie at the heart of 'Polyrhythmic
Snarl'. Introduced structure, erased form, highlighted elements
and shifting space, the work pulsates back and forth mirroring
the chaos and pattern apparent in nature. Working on
fundamental mathematical shapes found in nature such as
triangles, diamonds and circles the paintings reference
geometry in form and surface. Static swirls and drops of
colour sit in contrast against an active grid, like a pixillated
photograph of water flowing over rocks. Low-Fi graphics and
computer design tools also offer aesthetic and conceptual
inspiration for the process. Ten minutes designing on the
computer relates to six months on the canvas.
'Expect to see swirls and daubs intertwined with colour and
pattern as 'Polyrhythmic Snarl' returns to Site festival in 2014.
New diamond, circle, triangle and kite shaped paintings will be
on show along with a light box piece and erotic pottery.'
Peter Stiles has painted pictures of a small area of Devon
since 1980. For15 years he only painted from observation.
During this time he gained a knowledge of the forms and
colours of the landscape which he now draws upon to create
pictures which are generated from specific emotions. The
forms and colours of the landscape have become the building
blocks that he uses in order to construct his compositions.
There are particular places, Sand Lane, Fisherman’s Rock and
some waterfalls which he has painted repeatedly. The way in
which these pictures have been constructed can be compared
to the way in which a musician produces variations on a
theme. The subject matter generates a basic structure which
can be repeated in different forms.
Apart from his painting, Peter Stiles developed the Samuel
Taylor Coleridge festival at the Brewhouse in 2008. In 2010, as
part of the “New Expressions” programme he organised a
touring show which traced the relationship between the
marine biologist Philip Henry Gosse and the novelist, George
Eliot. In 2011 he was employed by Plymouth Museum as an
associate artist.
The exhibition will include paintings, sculpture and a text by
Paul Harper.
Peter Stiles, Ourselves We Find at Sea, 2014
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WEEK 2: Monday 5 th – Sunday 11 th May
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Viewpoints
Friday 9th May 6-9pm
Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th May 10am-4.30pm
Unit 9 Merrywalks, Stroud GL5 1RR
Suze Adams, Joanna Greenhill and Brenda Miller offer a series
of reflections on landscape through video and associated
works. These address the physical and psychological aspects
that connect us to the environments we inhabit, offering
considered responses to site and place today. Suze Adams
presents new works from the Hebridean island of Mull while
Joanna Greenhill films the exterior of St Mary’s of the Angels,
Brownshill, as daylight rises and Brenda Miller shows pieces
linking textiles to landscape.
Please join us for discussion on Sunday 11th May 2-4pm.
Refreshments provided.
Man Up, Jonny Fluffypunk
Friday 9th May 7.30pm
Mr Twitchetts, The Subscription Rooms,
George Street, Stroud, GL5 1AE
T. 01453 760900
www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk
Scratch performance of one man’s struggle with ‘late-onset’
responsibility’ which he intends to tour around the garden
sheds, allotments and summer houses of Britain in a blatant
championing of homespun DIY culture.
Free
Jacqueline Kroft & The Sensations
Friday 9th May 8-9pm
Ale House, 9 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Jacqueline Kroft & The Sensations will be performing songs
from her new CD 'Woven', a delicately crafted, multi-layered,
alternative pop/jazz funk album from an accomplished and
inventive artiste. Classically trained, Jacqueline Kroft moved
into jazz thanks to meeting musicians such as Bill Evans, Stan
Getz and Chet Baker in Canada. She toured Europe and
wrote songs and sessioned with numerous artists from Sony
and Warner Brothers as well as Nina Hagen and Nena's
producer, Manne Praeker. Jacqueline Kroft has produced five
albums, two singles, written a film score for Mr Right, and the
lyrics for the theme music to the Forsyte Saga, sung by Bryn
Terfel & composed by Geoffrey Burgon. Her latest album,
Woven, blends all of her musical interests with an electronic
soundscape - the result is as warm, deep and approachably
individual as Jacqueline herself.
Free
Brickhouse 2014 Stroud: Rob Chavasse, Copeland Book Market, Top Nice
BRICKHOUSE Stroud 2014
A program of exhibitions, events and music
Friday 9th-31st May
www.brickhouseprojects.org
www.topnice.org
www.copelandbookmarket.com
PoohStyx
9th-31st May
Thames & Severn Canal, Stroud
Rob Chavasse, Ben Sansbury, Lewis Teague Wright
Top Nice
Friday 9th May 9pm-3am
SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA
A line up of new live music and DJs with Stockholm/London
based club night and record label Top Nice. Live music: Rhys
Lloyd Morgan (Valley Sound Records), Lord Tusk & The 7
Moons, Kieran Kennedy-Young and Ashkelon. DJs: Bahamian
Moor (Dance Café) Top Nice w. DJ City.
RSVP: site@sva.org.uk
Copeland Book Market
Friday 9th May 4pm-late
Saturday 10th May 1pm-5pm
Duffle, 2 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
As well as selling books and prints by its participant publishers
and artists, the Copeland Book Market presents a special
display looking at histories of political publishing with an
events programme and guest collaborators.
Installation by invited artist
SVA courtyard, 9th-11th May
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John Wood and Paul Harrison
In Some Film
10th-25th May
Everyday 11am-6pm
SVA, Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
The Site Festival 2014 will be opening with an exhibition of
new work by John Wood and Paul Harrison in the Brunel
Goods Shed in Stroud. John Wood and Paul Harrison met
whilst studying in Bath in the late 1980’s and have been
working together since 1993. Primarily working in video their
practice has recently diversified to include drawings, objects,
photographs and text works.
This show will include 7 new video works linked by a sense
of foreboding and violence, undercut by a lack of spectacle
and drama.
A driverless car rolls slowly downhill towards a lake; a series
of car bombs explode in an out of town car park; a forest fire
burns; a chair in a grey office suddenly rotates in mid air; an
unlucky man is assassinated 13 times; an even more unlucky
man falls from a ladder 100 times.
Much of the work takes, as a starting point, a generic
cinematic moment. This moment is then extended through
repetition or super slow motion to become the entirety of
the work. It is no longer just a part of the plot. It is the plot.
The show will also include over 50 small drawings and 5 largescale
drawings.
An exhibition catalogue will be available with texts from
Simon Munnery, writer and experimental standup comedian,
and Tony Fretton, Principal of Tony Fretton Architects.
John Wood and Paul Harrison explore the physical and
psychological parameters of the world around them through a
series of immaculately constructed video works, informative
and uninformative text pieces, drawings, doodles and half
thoughts, and quite useful sculptures. As trust and support,
and cause and effect, are played out through simple material
and conceptual gestures, the artists question and ultimately
affirm a human position in the world that is essentially
positive.
John Wood and Paul Harrison have had major solo exhibitions
at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Kunstmuseum
Thun, Switzerland; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Mori Art
Museum, Tokyo. Selected group shows include British Council
Touring, China; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw;
Kunsthalle Tallin, Estonia; Whitechapel Gallery, London. Works
held in collections include MoMA, New York; Tate, London;
Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Arts Council Collection, British
Council Collection, and the Government Art Collection, UK.
John Wood and Paul Harrison are represented by Caroll/
Fletcher in London.
John Wood and Paul Harrison
Q&A with Simon Munnery
Saturday 10th May 4.30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 3AP
Tickets: £4 book in advance
John Wood and Paul Harrison, 13 Assassinations, 2013, Single channel HD(16:9) 7'00" - Courtesy of the artists and Carroll/Fletcher
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WEEK 2
Monday 9 TH – Friday 12 TH May
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Zombie Licks
Lorraine Robbins
10th-25th May
Everyday 11am-6pm
Saturday 7th, 14th and 21st June
10am-4pm
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Nestled in the refurbished top floor, above SVA's new gallery,
Lorraine Robbins presents an intimate series of drawings,
collages and playful sculptures. A space where intimate fantasy
mingles tentatively with the confusion of reality, where vivid
acid colours meet with sugar candy pastels in an ecstatic
embrace. As we've come to expect, Robbins explores the
strange depths of human desire with humour and an
irresistible delight. Lorraine Robbins first exhibited at SVA, as
a recent graduate, in 1998, and has continued to participate
in, and organise events for the festival since, alongside her
work locally as Art Lecturer and foundry model-maker.
Paintings by Karla Leopald
10th-25th May
Meet the artist: Saturday 10th May 10-12am
The Attic Space
Kendrick Street Gallery
20 Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AA
www.kendrickstgallery.co.uk
Karla Leopald is an American artist/art therapist/teacher. Her
'Vanishing Landscape' paintings in watercolour and pastel
strive to reflect the emotional colour of these landscapes.
Lorraine Robbins, Zombie Licks, 2014
Sideboard Sue and Jonny Fluffypunk's
Moving Artshow
Saturday 10th-Sunday 11th May
Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th May
Stroud Town Centre
www.soozyroberts.com
www.jonnyfluffypunk.co.uk
Sideboard Sue and Jonny Fluffypunk's awesome accessible
artshow is coming to a town near you! Experience and
interact with this exciting phenomena, a moving interactive
artshow on your local high street. Peruse the musings of
stand-up poet and sustainable nihilist Jonny Fluffypunk and
interact with Sideboard Sue's pop-up exhibition and art class.
Open Studios Artists and Writers Collaboration
Saturday 10th-Sunday 11th May 11am-6pm
Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th May 11am-6pm
Open Studio locations, Stroud
For this year’s Open Studios artists will be combining creative
forces with writers and poets in their studios during the
weekends. See Open Studios directory and visit SVA for more
details. These collaborations between artists and writers will
create a new element for this year’s Open Studios. Creative
writer Rick Vick and artist Zoe Heath describe their working
process:
'Communication unites all artists and the process of collaboration
always brings more than the sum of the parts. These creative
people play with text, writing and words, not just because of their
meaning but also because of their visual presence, their abstract
marks, their sound. And communicate something new.’
Springboard
Chalford Chairs Artists Response
Stroud International Textiles
Saturday 10th-Sunday 11th May 11am-6pm
Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th May 11am-6pm
Victoria Works Studios
London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN
For mid week visits ring 07970 224470
Two exhibitions with Emily Joy, Victoria Sangwine, Elaine Day
and Studio Seven in the newly developed Victoria Works
Studios, both of which are in response to the old Chalford
Chairs Factory before it was converted into artists and artisan
studios.
Redhanded
10th-31st May
Ale House
9 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Redhanded presents work by Zoe Benbow, Alison Cockcroft,
Aimee Lax, Isla Pearson, Sally Hampson and Esther Caplin,
Noela Bewry and Maggie Shaw. Redhanded currently has a
new temporary art space in King's Cross, curated by artists
Sally Hampson and Esther Caplin in partnership with SVA.
Redhanded is profiling work and projects that have been
supported by SVA in Stroud and will build connections with
artists, artist led projects and communities based in London.
SVA has established a reputation for injecting energy into rundown,
redundant and empty properties in Stroud,
Gloucestershire. This highly successful approach to local
engagement and town centre vitalisation is now being brought
to this culturally diverse area of London.
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WEEK 2: Monday 9 TH – Sunday 11 TH May
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The Bristol Art Library
Saturday 10th May 11am-5pm
Duffle, 2 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
The Bristol Art Library is a fully functioning public library
housed in a wooden cabinet the size of a small suitcase.
Annabel Other is the Head Librarian. The library’s volumes
cover a wide range of subjects, from palaeontology to
astronomy, with 170 books (13x10cm) made by artists from
all areas of the arts and sciences.
Come and See
Stroud Artists' Books
Saturday 10th-Sunday 11th May 11am-6pm
Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th May 11am-6pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
elaineknight93@hotmail.com
Come and see artists' books and more from a creative and
diverse group of artists. We have been exploring a different
theme every month such as “Edible Books”, “Sculptural
Books”, “The Lens”, “Water” and “My Imaginary Relative”.
Our interpretations are legion. Our books, are among other
things, visual, haptic, sculptural, virtual, handmade, digital and
altered. Look up our blog at www.stroudartistsbooks.tumblr.
com or our Facebook page called Stroud Artists' Books
where you can see more of our work and join in with our
discussions. We meet at 11am on the first Wednesday of the
month in the SVA bar to share our work and practice. We
are open to new members if interested.
Royal Mould
Saturday 10th-Sunday 11th May 11am-6pm
Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th May 11am-6pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Royal Mould presents a postal exchange of artworks created
by Mould, Young Arnolfini, South London Gallery's Art
Assassins and local and national artists. Look out for the Royal
Mould post machine throughout the festival and contribute
your own postal artworks for the exhibition. The Royal Mould
post room will be open on the open studio weekends.
Mould is a young artists group for 15-21 year olds whose
remit it is to bring contemporary art to a younger audience.
Son Yambu
Saturday 10th May 8pm
The Subscription Rooms
George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE
T. 01453 760900
www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk
www.sonyambu.com
Son Yambu play authentic Cuban son, the intoxicating fusion
of Spanish and African rhythms that gave rise to salsa. They
give this irresistible music a contemporary edge, bringing their
audiences a truly sensational, authentic Latin music
experience.
'The UK's very own Buena Vista band… absolutely tremendous…
if you don't start to move to this there is no hope for you!
Extraordinary music.’ Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3
Tickets: £15, concessions £13
Royal Mould, Royal Mould TV 2013; Son Yambu; Stand + Stare, Eye of the Hare
Laurie Lee Centenary Walk:
As We Walk Out (160km)
Slad to Southampton
10th-17th May (time and meeting point tbc)
E. walking@artworks.eu.com
www.walkingtheland.org.uk
Invited walkers and artists. Bookings essential
Stand + Stare presents:
The Eye Of The Hare
by Pip Heywood
Sunday 11th May 8pm
St. Lawrences Hall
The Shambles, Stroud GL5 1AP
www.standandstare.com
Pip Heywood has worked as a documentary film editor for
over 30 years. With this autobiographical piece, he applies
that craft to live performance. He explores the threads of
continuity in his family, a serious accident, and the act of story
telling itself. By juxtaposing broad themes like his love of the
Gloucestershire landscape with intimate details such as the
feel of his mum’s dress, Pip weaves together a story that
relates to all of us. Working with a 16mm film editor’s picsynch
and a live camera feed projected on stage, he guides
the audience through the processes of editing. As he cuts and
splices, the multi-layered story of his life unfolds through
personal archives, paintings and poetry.
Tickets: £6 advance, £8 on door
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WEEK 3
Monday 12 TH – Sunday 18 TH May
Highlights
15 TH- 16 TH
MAY
Punk In Africa P.21
WEEK 3
From the River to the Sea
May 13th onwards
Tuesday-Saturday 11.30am-2pm and 7pm-9pm
Sunday 11.30am-2pm
The Old Passage, Arlingham GL2 7JR
www.theoldpassage.com
E. kel@artworks.eu.com
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18 TH
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Mr Fluffypunk’s Penny Gaff
featuring Mik Artistik's Ego Trip P.24
Navigable Waters P.26
From the River to the Sea is an exhibition of drawings,
painting, photographs and other 2D and 3D artwork that
looks at our relationship with the sea, its coastline, weather
and culture. The exhibition is held at the Old Passage at
Arlingham, set on the banks of the beautiful River Severn.
Laurie Lee Centenary Walk
Wotton-Under-Edge (6km)
Saturday 17th May 12 noon
The Parish Church of St Mary, Wotton Under Edge
www.walkingtheland.org.uk
This walk takes in the memorial to Thomas Duncombe – a
member, like Laurie Lee, of the International Brigades during
the Spanish Civil War. It will involve readings from ‘No
Pasarán’ by local poets and performers.
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Walking The Land, Ridgeway
Navigable Waters - Emily Joy
Mik Artistik's Ego Trip
Tickets: recommended donation £5 per person,
children under 15 free
Bookings essential: email walking@artworks.eu.com
Pat Saddington, Mist, River, Shore (detail)

WEEK 3: Monday 12 TH – Sunday 18 TH May
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Punk in Africa
Thursday 15th May 8pm
SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA
Three chords, three countries, one revolution… Punk in
Africa is the untold story of the multi-racial punk movement
within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in
three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique
and Zimbabwe. In these societies, the punk subculture
represented a genuinely radical political impulse, playing out
against a backdrop of intense political struggle, economic
hardship and even civil war. Today, an emerging generation of
bands continue to draw on this legacy to confront the political
challenges of contemporary Zimbabwe and the uncertain
identity issues of the Afrikaans minority in South Africa.
Featuring music, interviews and rare and unseen archive
footage of Suck, Wild Youth, Safari Suits, Power Age, National
Wake, KOOS, Kalahari Surfers, The Genuines, Hog Hoggidy
Hog, Fuzigish, Sibling Rivalry, 340ml, Panzer, The Rudimentals,
Evicted, Sticky Antlers, Freak, LYT, Jagwa Music, Fruits and
Veggies, Swivel Foot and more…
Director/Producer: Keith Jones, Deon Maas; Producer: Jeffrey
Brown; Director of Photography: Gary K Griffin; Editor: Andy
Wills; Associate Producer: Bill Botes, David Chislett
“…bursting with the heyday of the multiracial punk scene …
a loving emphasis on the surprising- and often overlooked - role
that punk music played in Africa…” Nat Geo MusicTickets
Tickets: £5 on door
John Street Social Club
hosted by Punk in Africa
Friday 16th May
SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA
matsulimusic.bandcamp.com
electricjive.blogspot.co.uk
junkroomrecords.blogspot.co.uk
The screening of Punk in Africa on Thurs 15th May will be
followed on Friday 16th May with an evening of music and
images celebrating the underground music scene in 1980's
South Africa. With DJing by Matt Temple (Matsuli Music &
Electric Jive blog) and Sean Roe (Jun Kroom Records) and a
slide show of rare documentary photographs from 1980's
South African underground music scene taken by Jane Meyer.
Plus live music video clips and surprise guests.
Free
Punk in Africa: Wild Youth, Wot About Me; The Pantsulas, photo by Jane Meyer; Punk in Africa poster
Neutral Norway
Saturday 17th-18th May 11am-6pm
Duffle, 2 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Neutral Norway are a poetry and arts collective that formed
in Falmouth 2009. Combining poetics and aesthetics is an
integral part of their ethos; creating posters as artwork,
spreading poetic terrorism with haiku stickers and pasted
poems onto lampposts and shop fronts, and cut, paste and
photocopy zines to give out at events. Neutral Norway's core
collective is Aimee Ballinger, Deva O'Neill, Percy Currie, Alfie
Prendergast, Michael Milner and Hannah Levene.
NN representatives, along with invited guests, will be resident
at Duffle for live readings and consultations.
Designing Craft: Crafting Design
Stroud International Textiles
Saturday 17th May 9.30am-4.30pm
Stroud College, Stratford Rd, Stroud GL5 4AH
www.sitselect.org
Leading design writer Charlotte Abrahams brings together
some of the most illustrious names in the fields of
contemporary craft and design for a day of thought-provoking
discussion and debate.
Tickets: £85, concessions £35, inclusive of coffee/tea and
delicious organic lunch
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Monday 12 TH – Sunday 18 TH May
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Lansdown Hall Arts Market
Saturday 17th May 11am-5pm
Lansdown Hall
Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BB
T. 01453 767576
www.lansdownhall.org
Lansdown Hall Arts Market will be selling a wide range of
original contemporary art, jewellery, textiles, glass and wood
for one day only. Visit and meet a group of artists who create
a diversity of work that is unique, imaginative and inspirational.
There will also be tea and cakes.
Free entry
What Do I Do Now
Saturday 17th May 10am-11pm
Sunday 18th May 11am-5pm
Studio One, SVA, Goods Shed
Station Yard, Stroud GL5 3AP
E. annajjacob@gmail.com
A collection of work from teens and twenty-somethings, or
anyone who has come of age right into the recession. The
bleak job market and lack of opportunities can be majorly
depressing, especially when you're stuck at your parents’
house or existing on dwindling benefits on top of it all.
However, hard times can sometimes be the perfect catalyst
for creativity, sanctuary can be found in the creative arts. This
exhibition of art and written words with live music - held in a
studio shared by some of Stroud's young artists, writers and
musicians - is a celebration of that.
Jonny Fluffy Punk; Mik Artistik's Ego Trip
Mr Fluffypunk’s Penny Gaff featuring
Mik Artistik's Ego Trip
Bringing Obscure Art to the Masses
Saturday 17th May 8pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Penny Gaff Scattered amongst the genteel Music Halls
of Victorian London were their bawdy, low-life cousins, the
“Penny Gaffs” - rough-house variety shows bringing colourful
entertainment to the great unwashed. Which is what
we're doing...
An economic refugee from the Home Counties, stand-up
poet, sit-up storyteller and give-up musician Jonny Fluffypunk
has been dragging his art around the poetry, comedy and
alternative cabaret circuits for over 10 years. A multiple slam
champion who hates competition in the arts and an
outspoken voice for anarchy, peace and bicycles, Jonny 'does'
poetry that deafly fuses bittersweet autobiography, political
disillusionment and surreal whimsy in an act which has
established him as a firm favourite at festivals, arts centres and
housing benefit offices up and down the country. His slim
volume The Sustainable Nihilists' Handbook is published by
Burning Eye Books and he has recently premiered his solo
show 'Man Up, Jonny Fluffypunk - One Man's Struggle with
Late-Onset Responsibility' which he intends to tour around
the garden sheds, allotments and summer houses of Britain in
a blatant championing of homespun DIY culture.
“Acute social observation, intricate humour, surreal fantasy, sharp
irony and wit... and England's most pretentious moustache”
The Independent
'This man truly relishes language. Go see him!'
Tony Allen ('the godfather of alternative comedy')
For this Stroud premier of Mr Fluffypunk's Penny Gaff Jonny
has invited Mik Artistik's Ego Trip to perform their rock and
roll stand up show. It's edgy, funny, poetic and rocky with
strange, silly and beautiful songs that will stick in your head...
and refuse to leave! This year their European tour has taken
them to Brussels, Doncaster, Leeds and a living room in
Warrington ... then they're on to Glastonbury, Port Eliot,
Festival no 6, Bath, and Edinburgh Fringe but not before they
visit Stroud's Site Festival first.
“Kicking off proceedings in the packed out Rabbit Hole at 12pm
on Thursday charismatic Artistik led his band (made up of “dirty
boy” Benson Walker on bass and “lord of chord” Johnny Flockton
on guitar) through new songs and old, all delivered with his
trademark northern charm and wit. The lyrics about window
cleaners, stepping in dog turds and buying cheap watches may be
far from glamorous but you could relate to their kitchen–sink
realism in such a way that made them some of the most
memorable heard all weekend”
wehateyourband.net of Glasto 2013.
“Musician, surrealist, performance artist and fantastic raconteur
...Brilliant!” Fiona Banner, Observer Review
“Trying to explain the energy and imagination of the performance
in a few words is well nigh impossible ... the whole irreverent
experience has a fantastic feel to it” Jude Cosgrove, Guardian
“Sensational!” John Cooper Clark
Tickets: £8 advance, £10 on door
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WEEK 3: Monday 12 TH – Sunday 18 TH May
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Juniper Hill and Beyond
A Day of Landscape and Stories
A talk, a walk and a film with Pip Heywood
Sunday 18th May 9.30am-5pm
Hawkwood College
Painswick Old Road, Stroud GL6 7QW
www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk
Pip Heywood will talk about his love of landscape, setting the
context through his writing, his photographs, his father Oliver
Heywood’s work, and his poetry. Later we’ll walk along the
ridge to nearby Juniper Hill and complete the day by watching
Pip’s own response to landscape - his film.
Please bring outdoor clothing and shoes. The walk includes
some uphill, woodland and Cotswold track terrain.
Pip Heywood is a local filmmaker. Oliver Heywood was a local
landscape painter. Many of his works can be found at
Hawkwood, and Pip was born just a mile up the lane.
Tickets: £65 includes delicious two-course lunch
Book online
[...] and non-pure
Sunday 18th May
2pm-5pm reconstruction
7pm-8.30pm discussion
INDEX | gallery
Brewery Lane, Thrupp, Stroud GL5 2BN
www.indexgallery.co.uk
Gavin McClafferty, artist and co-director of the INDEX
gallery, reconstructs Robert Morris' 1961 seminal artwork
Box with the Sound of its Own Making (1961) as a one day,
two part, live event.

Often cited as a defining moment in the
development of modernist sculpture, Robert Morris's artwork
is considered to be a pivotal work. In this re-enactment and
ensuing discussion Gavin pays homage to the work's
continuing legacy raising questions about the purpose and
politics of re-staging and re-presenting past artworks.
Sufi evening
Sunday 18th May 8pm
Weaving Shed, 29 High Street, Stroud
A Sufi inspired evening woven by Simon Leach, oud player and
multi instrumentalist together with poets Marianne Fawlk, Jay
Ramsay, Gabrielle Bradford Millar, Clare Marsh and
Cheryl Cordery.
Free
Navigable Waters
Sunday 18th May 6.30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
An evening of short talks and open discussion with four
artists, Emily Joy, Ralph Hoyte, Colin Higginson and Simon
Ryder, currently making work in response to inland waterways.
The evening starts with a look at how artists and waterways
have crossed paths over the years, from the traditional ‘castle
and rose’ motifs on narrow boats to the activist artists of the
1950s and 60s. The four artists, each with a different and
distinct practice, will then talk about their work and how they
see it in this context, opening into a discussion about how
artists can navigate such waters.
Emily Joy works with sculpture, photography and projection.
Her practice is an investigation into the subjectivity, transience
and loss inherent in the act of remembering. Ralph Hoyte is a
writer and poet who works with text both through
performance and visually, creating large wall-based works of
his poems. Ralph is a member of Satsymph who work with
placing sounds in the landscape, accessible through a GPS app.
Colin Higginson’s work incorporates sculpture, model making,
photography, film and performance. His artwork is motivated
by an interest in history and how we make sense of things
through narrative and artifice. Simon Ryder works site
specifically, focussing on ways of understanding realms beyond
the normal limits of our perception, using modern
technologies (x-ray, thermal photography, lasers) to
reinterpret everyday reality.
Presented in association with the Canal & River Trust.
Tickets: £4 on door
Navigable Waters: Colin Higginson; Simon Ryder, Gloucester Docks
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WEEK 4
Monday 19 th – Sunday 25 th May
Highlights
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Hogge and David Hopkinson
The Cube host John Street
Social Club P.28
Simon Munnery Sings
Soren Kierkegaard P.31
The Short & Tall Stories of
Prema with Andrew Wood P.32
WEEK 4: Monday 19 th – Sunday 25 th May
Ganapati Clayman
A film by Andrew Wood and Jairo Sansone
Wednesday 21st May 7.30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
First public viewing of a documentary by a Stroud artist and
Italian film maker. Shot in the Tuscan town of Cortona and
the Cotswold town of Stroud, it is partly an extraordinary
story of the spontaneous making of a film and partly a self
portrait of an artist working on the final stages of a
commission.
The movie is a platform for the artist to share his thoughts
and opinions about his working practice and the importance
to him of music and dance, Hinduism and spirituality. He
shares his gratitude for his life as a professional artist for the
last 42 years. Most important of all, he talks of his life as an
artist with a disability. Eight years ago he was diagnosed with
Parkinsons Disease and he shares with us the impact of this
on his work and how he has adapted to these physical
changes.
Above all he demonstrates how creative energy is the most
effective drug of all. This is not a film about sadness, regret or
self pity. On the contrary, it is a film about joy and passion. It is
life affirming and a valuable manual for those whose lives have
been affected by an incurable disease. The film is 20 minutes
long and will be followed by a Q&A with Andrew Wood.
Tickets: £5 on door
Hogge and David Hopkinson, The Cube host
John Street Social Club
Friday 23rd May 7pm
SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA
www.cubecinema.com
Hogge and David Hopkinson from the Cube in Bristol host a
special John Street Social Club for the Site Festival. The Cube
is a Microplex Cinema, arts venue, adult creche and
progressive social wellbeing enterprise in central Bristol. The
John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club
socials hosted by different artists each week with visuals and
audio to share in a non-precious environment.
Free
Sculpture from Life with Andrew Wood
Saturday 24th May 10am-4.30pm
The Penthouse, 49 London Road, Stroud
E. info@andrew-wood.com
T. 01453 299901 / 07773 327513
All day workshop, making sculpture in clay from a life model.
An introduction to the fundamental language of 3-dimensional
making sculpture. The emphasis will be on observation,
proportion, balance and scale and texture. Explore various
hand building techniques to include modelling, carving and
construction. Suitable for beginners, students and professional
artists alike. Andrew Wood has been a professional clay artist
for 42 years and lives in his studio in the centre of Stroud.
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The Cube Microplex Cinema
Andrew Wood. Prema Arts Centre, 1977
Tickets: £100 to include clay and cost of model
Booking via telephone or email
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Rolled Willow Techniques
with Susan Early
Stroud International Textiles
Saturday 24th-Sunday 25th May
Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road,
Stroud GL6 7QW
www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk
Using twisted and rolled willow techniques and being given
lots of encouragement to experiment, you will spend time
developing and building a unique free-form vessel. Suitable for
people with some experience in basket making.
£120 including materials & light lunch
To book and details: www.sitselect.org / 01453 751056
Textural Play with Jilly Morris
Stroud International Textiles
Saturday 24th-Sunday 25th May
Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road,
Stroud GL6 7QW
www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk
A workshop that playfully investigates abstract mark making
on paper, and how it may be used to provide
inspiration and new ideas for contemporary drawing, textile
and mixed media art. All levels welcome.
£120 including light lunch
To book and details: www.sitselect.org / 01453 751056
A Space for the Bittern
An exhibition by Simon Ryder
in the Old Chancel, Waterhay
Saturday 24th–Sunday 25th May 10am-5pm
Live performance Saturday 24th
Access via farm track from Upper Waterhay Farm,
Leigh. Google: SN6 6QY. Minibus from Stroud
See SVA website for details
A church nave displaced by flooding, the migration of birdsong
due to rising sea levels, the cyclic flow of waters at the source
of the Thames, A Space for the Bittern weaves together
historical events, current environmental data and future
conjecture to explore our shifting relationship with water in a
time of climate change. Situated on the southern edge of the
Cotswold Water Park, this exhibition includes 3D-printed
bronzes, animation, photography and a specially commissioned
vocal soundscape by Eleanor Holliday, to create an imaginary
space in which to consider how we might need to adapt in the
future. As a metaphor for this change, Simon Ryder has taken
the spiral form of the oospore (seed) of the ancient
stonewort plant, which thrives in the lime-rich waters of the
Park. The five interlocking spiral cells that make up the
oospore appear as a recurring motif throughout the show,
something that is explored further through the use of sound,
sung and spoken, in anticipation of a new sound, a migrant
sound, that of the ‘booming’ Bittern. ‘A Space for the Bittern’
is the concluding event of a residency in the Cotswold Water
Park, hosted by the Cotswold Water Park Trust, funded by
Arts Council England, curated by Lesley Greene. The
exhibition is supported by Leigh Parish Council, the Churches
Conservation Trust, Gloucester City Museum and SVA.
Entrance free. Parking available nearby. Bring suitable footware
Simon Ryder, A Space for the Bittern, 2014
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WEEK 4
Monday 19 TH – Sunday 25 TH May
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Simon Munnery Sings Soren Kierkegaard
Saturday 24th May 8pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Heard of Simon Munnery Heard of Soren Kierkegaard
Heard of neither ‘One of the funniest, most original
comedians of the past twenty years’ (Guardian) will
endeavour to perform selected extracts from Kierkegaard’s
writing, talk about them, and anything else that springs from
there. Buckle in. As seen on Comedy Central’s Alternative
Comedy Experience. ***** (Scotsman). ‘Munnery is an avantgarde
comedy god’ **** (Time Out).
Simon Munnery, also known by his stagenames of Alan Parker:
Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, is an English
comedy writer and experimental standup comedian. He
performs mainly to an alternative audience but has pierced
the mainstream both with his BBC Radio 1 show in 1997 and
his BBC2 television series Attention Scum! in 2001. Munnery's
experimental style is reflected in his on-stage appearance: his
unfashionable glasses, homemade clothes (or clothes
apparently donated to him by comedian Jeff Green), makeshift
props, and dramatic facial hair.
The Short & Tall Stories of Prema
with Andrew Wood
In aid of Prema's roof
Sunday 25th May 2.30pm
Prema, Bethesda Chapel, South Street,
Uley, nr Dursley GL11 5SS
T: 01453 860703
www.prema.org.uk
Artist and founder of Prema, Andrew Wood, looks back on
living in the derelict Bethesda Chapel, the birth of Prema,
fundraising, construction and the opening by Sheila Hancock
and John Thaw. With anecdotes and stories of the many
artists and performers who worked at Prema, as well as tales
of action and adventure, drama and the occasional miracle.
As Jake and Elwood would have said, “we are on a mission
from God.”
Tickets: £7, concessions £5. Available from Prema
Stroud Short Stories
Sunday 25th May 8pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
www.stroudshortstories.blogspot.com
Stroud Short Stories returns, refreshed and reinvigorated
after its year away, and promises another night of glittering
short fiction, featuring ten authors from the local area reading
their short stories. With all the stories selected from
submissions, and a new editor at the helm, we will be
presenting a night of fresh and direct writing, with a mix of
established authors and new talent. Stories on previous nights
have included country and western divas, haunted dance-halls,
celebrity gardeners, misguided spacemen and the sculptural
possibilities of pick’n’mix sweets, so be prepared for anything!
A night of surprises and top-notch writing is guaranteed.
Organised and presented by local author John Holland. To
submit stories for future events, visit the website for
submissions guidelines.
Tickets: £4 on door
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The compere for the evening will be Jonny Fluffy Punk.
Tickets: £8 advance, £9 on door
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WEEK 5
Monday 26 TH May – Sunday 1 ST
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Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble
presented by Stroud Jazz Sessions
Thursday 29th May 8pm
SVA, Goods Shed
Station Yard, Stroud GL5 3AP
Art/Design
A breakfast discussion exploring partnerships
between contemporary artists and designers
Sunday 1st June 11am-1pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
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Gilad Atzmon P.34
Oliver Marsden P.35
Meantime presents
Helen Carmel Benigson P.35
Dakhla P.37
TBC Black Car Home P.37
Gilad Atzmon is one of the UK’s finest jazz saxophonists, so it
is an absolute honour to welcome him back to Stroud Jazz
Sessions! He has been in the top cadre of jazz musicians for
about 15 years now, playing everywhere, receiving great
critical acclaim, and winning the 2003 BBC Jazz Album of the
Year. Gilad plays fantastic, intelligent, powerful, muscular
bebop which sings out more sweetly than almost anyone. His
style is both uncompromisingly frenetic and breathtakingly
elegiac, and weaves in his Middle Eastern and African
influences with mainstream bop and a pinch of free.
His live performances are a force even his albums cannot
contain. And Gilad is a polymath, being a prolific and highly
regarded political commentator and writer, finding time to
knock out books, a daily blog, speaking engagements, and the
occasional top jazz album for good measure! He’s a man not
to be missed. So with such insanely great credentials, Gilad will
be rocking Stroud’s catskills to the core.
Ahead of his concert, Gilad will give a talk - The Road To Bop,
about his first encounter with jazz music and its impact on his
ethical and philosophical stand.
Tickets: £10 advance, £12 on door
Over the last decade artist/designer collaborations have
become more commonplace where fine artists have been
used in a consultative roles with collaborations that may lead
to designs that can be produced in multiple or in single iconic
statements. The boundaries between disciplines are becoming
more blurred where design concepts and contemporary art
conceptual ideas are adopted and exchanged.
Designer/artists breakfast begins at 11am. Participants are
invited to interpret the materials provided (fresh coffee, fruit,
eggs, salmon, juice, fresh bread, olives, chorizo, beans etc) with
collaboration in mind, cross-fertilisation is welcomed.
Tickets: £5 breakfast included, booking essential
John Street Social Club
Friday 30th May 7pm
SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA
A selection of Site Festival artists host John Street Social Club.
The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night
club socials hosted by different artists with visuals and audio
to share in a non precious environment. The format: decks,
laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of
archive footage and informative curiosities...
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Dakhla
Black Car Home
Gilad Atzmon
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WEEK 5: Monday 26 TH – Sunday 1 ST June
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Meantime presents:
Helen Carmel Benigson
Travelling to Africa via a Machine Called
a Sun-Bed
Saturday 31st May
Saturday 7th, 14th and 21st June
10am-4pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Travelling to Africa via a Machine Called a Sunbed explores
notions of a corrupted archive, travel, geography and the
cyber-body and is based on the work and house/museum of
the South African artist Irma Stern (1894 – 1966). The video
was first conceived during a residency at the Irma Stern
Museum, Cape Town in 2013 and then further developed at
Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham. Previous versions of
the work have been performed live at Performa 13, New
York in November 2013 and at The Showroom, London in
February 2014 as part of the LUX Associate Artist Program.
Helen Benigson (born 1985) is an artist and rapper who lives
and works in London. Her working method is interdisciplinary;
recent projects take the form of performance, video
installations, printmaking, text, sound, music and collaborating.
In 2014, Benigson’s work will be included in the Hayward
Touring exhibition Pre-pop to Post-Human: Collage in the
Digital Age and she will have solo presentations at The Irma
Stern Museum, Cape Town and Yorkshire Sculpture Park as
well as develop a new project at Site Gallery, Sheffield as part
of their Platform Residencies, supported by the University of
Sheffield.
Oliver Marsden
Saturday 31st May 10am-4pm
1st-21st June
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 10am-4pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Oliver Marsden studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh
College of Art in the mid nineties and has been exhibiting
internationally since. Solo exhibitions include “In Praise of
Light” at the Tado Ando designed Koumi Machi Kougen
Museum, Japan, “Cult” Vigo Gallery, London, and
“Illuminieren” Galeria Hilario Galguera, Leipzig.
For him, painting is a physical and meditational practice linked
to a search for an understanding of nature, energy and life.
He creates sculptural paintings, which act to fuse a sensual
appreciation of the natural and scientific, where the random
and organic meets mathematic structure
It was under the guidance of Stephen Ives at the SVA
Re.sound event in 2005 that he began experimenting with
sound, combining harmonic sine waves, time delays, echoes,
sub-bass, Buddhist chants, and binaural beats.
He then focused on a deeper study of the qualities of sound,
vibration and their influence on the physical world. This led
him to discover Chaldini's sound figures and the Cymatics of
Hans Jenny, Sacred Geometry, the Golden Section, and
Kepler's Harmonices Mundi. The Dub paintings consequently
evolved as he experimented with methods and materials. The
resultant works celebrate light, spirals, and the intrinsic
qualities of paint. Their name is a simple nod to the dub plate
music producers and sound systems who inspire.
Oliver Marsden, Spiral Black Magenta Dub, 2013, acrylic on canvas on board, 180 diameter x 6.3 cm OMS 111
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WEEK 5: Monday 26 TH – Sunday 1 ST June
Bird Dances with Moon
drawings and poems
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Dakhla
Saturday 31st May 8pm
SVA, Goods Shed
Station Yard, Stroud GL5 3AP
Dakhla are a horn and drum based quartet playing original
tunes that blend evocative harmonies, intricate rhythms and
absorbing soundscapes.
The band consists of Matt Brown (drums), Charlotte Ostafew
(Bari Sax), Pete Judge (trumpet) and Sophie Stockham (alto
sax); 4 musicians whose training and experience span jazz and
classical backgrounds. Having been together for 2 years Dakhla
have received glowing reviews from local press (Venue
Magazine) and regular air play on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 6
and throughout Bristol and Somerset stations.
Their first album ‘In the Land of Milk and Honey’ was self
released in the winter of 2011, and has received glowing
reviews. The second album ‘The Eye of Icarus’ was recorded
with Jim Barr (Portishead, Get the Blessing) at J+J Studios, and
released in spring 2013. The band have performed extensively
in the UK and were recently chosen to play the Manchester
Jazz Festival as a part of BBC Introducing’s ‘Best of New Jazz’
by Giles Peterson and Jez Nelson. That same gig was
broadcast on various radio shows across the country.
Dakhla is a band not to be missed!
“Uniquely fabulous and fabulously unique.”
Tony Benjamin, Venue Magazine
“Really punchy, very powerful energic sound.” Kevin LeGendre
Tickets: £8 advance, £9 on door
QuJunktions presents Lucky Dip Disco
Dance Party for Kids & Adults
Sunday 1st June 3-5pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Disco lights go on early doors for the Lucky Dip Disco: a
daytime dance-a-thon to feature (!) mellow infants, pop crazed
kids, self invented party games, light refreshments, dayglowers
and bubble blowers, all hosted by Mr Manic aka sonic
researcher, turntablist and award winning conceptual artist
Janek Schaefer. Children from 0 to 10 years old and adults can
all get involved in this afternoon knees-up, featuring stacks of
up-to-date Pop Hits plus retro vinyl classics.
Janek is passionate about sharing the whole history of dancing
music for all age groups: 00s Top Pop, 90s electronic dance,
80s Retro Pop, 70s Epic Disco, 60s Classics, 50s Rock’n'Roll,
40s Jive, 30s Beebop, 20s Charleston.
The children get to take part in choosing, handling and playing
the vinyl, a wonderful way to connect with the music. Janek is
super playful with audio, and sound toys, singing, musical pass
the parcel and musical statues, dance with scarves, blow up
microphones and air guitars all get thrown into this sweet
mix-up. He promises never to play the Birdy Song or Agadoo,
but old-style Hokey Cokey and the Conga are great fun in his
experience.
Food and drinks will be available from the bar.
Part of a series of Qu music events for the young at heart.
Tickets: £4 advance and on the door
Black Car Home
date and venue tbc
www.blackcarhome.com
“My few treasures! What would you take
with you if you were homeless” Jon Cleave,
famous as the front man of the Fisherman's
Friends and star of Black Car Home, a
darkly comic fairytale set and filmed locally
in Gloucestershire, explores with your help
what it is like living in the back of a car, using
the actual vehicle from the film. What few
treasures would you keep close if you were
living rough Bring your key items with you
and the stories that make them important.
You'll see this short cinema film directed by
David Pearson, Oscar shortlisted BAFTA
and Emmy Nominated producer and
Director of Stroud based Arturi Films, and
find out how the film was made and how
you can be part of its future story as a full
length feature film. Black Car Home, is set
at Christmas. Tatiana, a feisty illegal Latin
American immigrant, is thrown overboard
from a ship and told to 'swim'. She is
expecting to find New York, not a Severn
mud flat at Oldbury-on-Severn. She is
rescued from freezing mud by Nathan, a
rough giant of a man who lives in a
makeshift camp by the beach. As their
quirky friendship grows, an unexpected
visitor launches them on their adventure.
Grizelda Holderness
Woodruffs Cafe
24 High Street Stroud
7 May-2 June
Mon-Sat 8.30am-5pm
Open Evening 8 May 6-8
Paper Pencils Pens
wait on tables
Visitors to the Cafe are invited to
write a poem of their own, to be
added to the exhibition-if they
wish
Afternoon sessions with poets
and writers-dates & information
online or please contact
Grizelda on: 01452 740359
07860 763730
No 2 John Street,
Stroud GL5 2HA
07828672071
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New Work by
Rupert Aker
with Wendy Milner
On Home Turf
6th - 30th May
Sculpture, prints and drawings by artists with
connections to the Gloucestershire area
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The team at Sofas & Stuff Woodchester
warmly invite you to our showroom and
art exhibition at Woodchester Mill.
1st – 31st May 2014
GALLERY PANGOLIN
CHALFORD - GLOS - GL6 8NT
01453 889765
gallery@pangolin-editions.com
www.gallery-pangolin.com
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To celebrate the Stroud Site Festival and Open Studios trail, our showroom will exclusively
host new work from local landscape artist Rupert Aker www.rupertaker.com
and illustrator Wendy Milner www.wendymilner.co.uk
open normal working hours 10am - 5.30pm Monday to Saturday
11am - 4pm Sunday and Bank Holidays
Woodchester Mill
www.sofasandstuff.com Selsley Road Stroud GL5 5NN
Images clockwise from top right: Smalltown Venus (detail) Lorraine Robbins, Sadness Damien Hirst, Amelanchier (detail) Daniel Chadwick
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Resting Line Ann Christopher, Looking Glass (detail) Abigail Fallis and Botanical Study 4 Steve Russell
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second hand records
bought and sold
discount prices
on new records
Stroud
Trading Post
26 Kendrick Street Stroud GL5 1AQ
Phone: 01453 759116
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SVA, Goods Shed
Ale House
Duffle
The Penthouse, 49 London Rd
Mills Cafe
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Woodruffs Cafe
Weaving Shed
St. Lawrences Hall
The Subscription Rooms
Kendrick Street Gallery
39 King St
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Unit 9 Merrywalks
Lansdown Hall
Thames & Severn Canal
Museum in the Park
Stroud College
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Hawkwood College
Bulls Cross, Stroud
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Gallery Pangolin
Victoria Works Studios
The Old Chancel, Waterhay
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Prema
The Parish Church of St Mary
The Old Passage, Arlingham
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Further Information
Ticket Sales
Advance tickets can be be bought online at
www.sitefestival.org.uk or in person from Trading Post,
26 Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AQ, unless indicated
differently under individual events details.
Website
Visit the site festival website: www.sitefestival.org.uk
For more info on SVA visit: www.sva.org.uk
Register to join the SVA news and events mailing list visit:
www.sva.org.uk
Visit SVA on facebook and twitter.
More Information
For more free Site Festival 2014 programmes, open studio
directories, free town and district maps, accommodation and
places to eat contact:
Tourist Information,
Subscription Rooms,
George Street, Stroud,
Gloucestershire GL5 1AE
T. 01453 760960
Site Festival 2014, SVA,
John Street, Stroud,
Gloucestershire GL5 2HA
T. 01453 751440
E. site@sva.org.uk
Editorial
Logistics: Jo Leahy and Neil Walker
Design: Matt Fawkes / SVA
SVA © 2014
Back Cover Image
John Wood and Paul Harrison, DIYVBIED 2012, 19’ 45”,
Single channel, HD (16:9).
Courtesy of the artists and Carroll/Fletcher.
Liability
The organisers of Site Festival 2014 festival cannot accept liability for any loss,
damage or injury sustained by any member of the public visiting any Site Festival
2014 open studios, events or exhibitions.
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Open Studios
Weekend One: 10th-11th May 11am-6pm
Weekend Two: 17th-18th May 11am-6pm
Pick up the separate Site Festival 2014
Open Studios directory for further information
www.sitefestival.org.uk
Disability Access
It is advisable to ring venues before you visit to check disability
access.
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