Residency
19th - 24th November
Evie & Jimmy explore Lisbon's gothic creatures and microworlds during their residency, A Jornada. They will create new multimedia works and share the creative ‘workings-out’ developed during their independent art school experience.
Live Music
Friday 22nd November 8pm
Welcome to Stroud Jazz Club, reborn from the former Stroud Jazz Sessions. It’s for anyone that loves live music and loves Stroud.
Live Music
Saturday 23rd November 8pm
An intimate evening of live electronic music with Echo Juliet, Sam Judd and Neon Pumps, with support from DJ Robbie Duncan
Book Talk
Sunday 24th November 4pm
A book launch performance of Andrew Wood's long term WORD project by Charles Landry.
27th November - 7th December
The Textile Studio will again open in the Gallery for Christmas and be bursting with festive cheer!
Exhibition
13th - 24th December
This exhibition sees a body of work specifically charting Ant's path out of four debilitating strokes.
Clubnight
Saturday 21st December
REJOICEY! Lock in for a crazy evening of multi-genre music
Book Talk and DJ set
Friday 15 November 7-11pm
Jazz Stroud presents a talk on UK Jazz with André Marmot, author of a new book entitled ‘Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion’.
Comedy
Wednesday 13th November 7.30pm
Roll up!Roll Up! For a midweek don’t-worry-we-finish early slice of joy...
Live Music
Saturday 9th November 8pm
Sound records presents a night of musical mayhem... Unicorn Ship Explosion's album launch plus Lara Jones and sm^sher. With full visual show and supporting DJs, this is a one off happening of monumental proportions.
Exhibition
9th - 16th November
Karo Plovers Ptaszkowska’s solo show features a selection of paintings and textiles from her new series, as well as found objects from her short stay in Stroud. The works explore forms as points, where apparent known forces meet invisible, spiritual ones, suggesting that reality is shaped by the interaction of these forces.
Clubnight
Saturday 2nd November
Seasoning invite Sarra Wild and Loefah to join resident YouYou for a night of cutting-edge bass music to raise funds for Palestine.
Artists Talks
29th October 6.30pm
Pecha Kucha comes to Stroud! 8 artists show and tell 20 images of their art practice for 20 seconds per image. A brilliant format for artists to present a slice of their work in an informal setting with dynamism, community, succinctness and beer.
Music
Saturday 26th October
Get ready to step out of the cold and into the heat once again as Stroud's fieryist new clubnight, BAG A TINGS bounces back for a second cometh.
Exhibition
26th October - 2nd November
The world's oldest surviving music from the voices of enslaved people on the sugar plantations of Barbados inspired this astonishing exhibition, originally shown in Gloucester Cathedral September 2024.
Live Music
Friday 25th October 8pm
Welcome to Stroud Jazz Club, reborn from the former Stroud Jazz Sessions. It’s for anyone that loves live music and loves Stroud.
Young Artist Workshops
Thursday 24 October & Friday 1st November 4-7pm
Be Part of the MOULD collective, a regular young artists group at SVA and it’s FREE
Live Music
Saturday 19th October
Speakers Corner Quartet preview their forthcoming November residency at London’s ICA with an exclusive first performance of their new immersive live show, Out There In Here, at the Goods Shed.
Live Music
Saturday 12th October
Cosmo’s music ranges widely from celebratory anthems to soulful elegies to riotous party numbers, to sparse electronic production, to haunting polyphonic songs that have grown out of field recordings of birds, whales, fish, frogs, and fungi, and more.
With support from Daniel Inzani.
Exhibition
12th - 19th October
Shapeshifting looks at our relationship with nature with an imaginative slant. Artist Janie George, works across the mediums of paint, ceramics, drawing and print.
Live Music
Saturday 5th October 7.30pm
September 2024 sees the release of Ishmael Ensemble’s third longplayer ‘Rituals’, which marks a significant leap for the Bristolian musicians.
Live Music
Friday 27th September 8pm
Welcome to Stroud Jazz Club, reborn from the former Stroud Jazz Sessions. It’s for anyone that loves live music and loves Stroud.
Exhibition
27th September - 6th October
Charlotte Aiken presents a solo exhibition of paintings exploring her fascination with cloud formations and our connection to the natural world. Through her distinct perspective, Charlotte experiences a world that feels excessively exposed and vivid. Each piece captures a fleeting moment, an experience that will never be the same again.
Hidden Notes Festival: Book Talk
Sunday 22nd September
Subcontinental Synthesis explores the history of India’s first electronic music studio. The essays and writings unravel the narrative and context surrounding the studio as well as the work of the Indian composers who created groundbreaking recordings during its four years of activity.
Audio Visual
Saturday 21st September 10pm
Tikoda is the brainchild of Bristol-based music producer Theo Passingham. From melodic to industrial, Tikoda creates live analogue techno with their unique audio-visuals that make the mind dance.
Hidden Notes Festival: Book Talk
Saturday 21st September
Ears To The Ground explores how electronic music producers and sound artists use field recordings and samples to document their environments. Author Ben Murphy takes you on a journey to discover how field recordings can create context, emotion, atmosphere, humour and meaning - and examine the most pressing topics of our times.
Live Music
Friday 20th September
This is a special project where six artists come together to celebrate the music of John Martyn.
Exhibition
12th - 21st September
The essence of Ritu Sood’s paintings is that human experience is shareable. In ‘Post Trauma’, solitary life size figures rest in expanses of seductive colour. They act as ‘portals’ to collective emotional experience. This is a sister project to ‘The Wisdom of Trauma’ shown at The Stroud Film Festival.
Live Music
Sunday 8th September 12-8pm
A day party with a purpose!
Music
Saturday 7th September
Hot off the summer festival scene Joicey will be bringing you the energy with bouncy afro beat, electro, house, global bass rhythms and more.
Artists Talks
3rd September 6.30pm
Pecha Kucha comes to Stroud! 8 artists show and tell 20 images of their art practice for 20 seconds per image. A brilliant format for artists to present a slice of their work in an informal setting with dynamism, community, succinctness and beer.
Music
Saturday 31st August
Expect bass heavy bashy blaps, high-energy dancehall winders, with a coating of tropical bassline bangers.
Exhibition
24th August - 7th September
Merging structural ideas with intuition, materiality, imagination and movement, Vera produces work that draws attention to the processes and imperfections of making.
Exhibition
9th - 18th August
Suzy Crossley’s first solo show pulls together a new body of work fabricated since moving back to Stroud, Gloucestershire, where the artist grew up. Sensitive, intimate abstract paintings comprise an exploration of colour, texture and scale. The works deliver cathartic release to viewer and artist.
Saturday 3rd August
¡Hola amigos! Get ready to dance the night away at Oriana's Latin Fiesta
Exhibition
30th July - 5th August
The Crab Museum. Inside you will find paintings, drawings, sculptures and most importantly crab specimens found washed up and Respectfully preserved. No monocles, no pipes! I collect beach plastic as a trade and this is incorporated into my art. This is perpetual absurdity and that's 'why crabs, Rex?'
Exhibition
19th -27th July
Isobel Harper and Sophie Wright present a body of visual and written work that reflects the reciprocal relationships between personal histories, internal worlds and physical environments.
