Residency
28th January - 3rd February
Exploring the theme ‘What is Real?’ this project delves into how we perceive and define reality, focusing on the segment Reality – Agreement of Senses. Through this, Bhunkal aims to examine how our senses—sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell—work together to shape our understanding of the world.
Exhibition
7th - 15th February
Jussara Nazaré is a multidisciplinary Gloucester based artist with a focus on afro-queer surrealist art & performance. Her work is often full of colour, patterns and life as it blooms in many forms.
Live Music
Friday 7th February 8pm
Live groove based electronic monthly jam night with Mike Flynn and Guests.
Comedy Horror
Friday 14th February 7.30pm
A screening of Timestalker feature film with a Q&A with actor/writer/director Alice Lowe, known for her award winning dark comedy film Sightseers.
Clubnight
Saturday 15th February 8pm Till Late
MEDINA returns with a upbeat celebration of fresh sounds from the global dancefloor edge.
Exhibition
20th February - 1st March
Depicting the joys and trials of everyday life, in Watching Not Helping, Helen Hardaker paints and draws through the eyes of watchful crows and the imagined lives of insects, animals, moths and birds.
Live Music
Friday 21st February 8pm
Welcome to Stroud Jazz Club, reborn from the former Stroud Jazz Sessions. It’s for anyone that loves live music and loves Stroud.
Talk
Saturday 1st March 4pm
Please join Mark Darbyshire and Dr Shiraz Akoo for a discussion ranging around the subject of reflection and identity.
Exhibition
7th - 15th March
Sam's work has developed as a result of working with refugees from different backgrounds and experiences. The work aims at raising awareness of our fragile lives and the resilience of nature.
Stroud Film Festival
Friday 7th March 7.30pm
Join us for the premiere screening of STILL OUT, an ambient road trip that touches on friendship, place and the passing of time, STILL OUT is an audio-visual collaboration between music producers Will Cookson and Tom Haverly and filmmaker Rufus Exton. The screening will be preceded by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Stroud Film Festival
Tuesday 11th March 6.30pm
An evening of short film screenings, networking and discussion focused on how to thrive as a filmmaker during a time of change.
Stroud Film Festival
Thursday 20th March 7pm
An uncanny compelling ‘walk' through earliest photo imagery, encountering life, absurdity, despair.
Stroud Film Festival
Friday 21st March 7pm
Hop on over and sink your teeth into a delectable display of bitesized films.
Live Music
Friday 25th April 7.30pm
6161 is a surge of fiercely drum led and brass heavy alt jazz, its the brand new project of Matt Stockham Brown who has previously received critical acclaim winning a Montreux Jazz Festival talent award in 2019, releasing two albums with Run Logan Run and most recently a 5 star Guardian review with Daniel Inzani’s triple release.
Cabaret
Saturday 25th January 8pm - 2am
Mutiny presents a cabaret of political performance from hardcore punk to psychedelic clowning. A night of live music performance art and DJs from local young creatives.
Residency
21st - 27th January
Exploring the intersections and commonalities between their working-class experiences, Kelly O’Brien and Rider Shafique hope to address British identity, language, ritual, and tradition using their multi-disciplinary practices.
Live Music
Friday 17th January 8pm
Welcome to Stroud Jazz Club, reborn from the former Stroud Jazz Sessions. It’s for anyone that loves live music and loves Stroud.
Artists Talks
14th January 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.
Exhibition
10th - 18th January
This exhibition brings together a selection of creative journaling work by participants of Maternal Journal circles held by Stroud Motherhood Collective. Presenting journal pages and large collaborative pieces it aims to share the power of journaling and its positive impact on mothers’ mental health and wellbeing.
Clubnight
Saturday 4th January 8pm - 1am
The Uplifter (Tom Earwaker) lives up to his name with his energetic set that reflects his deep love for Reggae, Dub, Ska and ska punk.
Live Music
Friday 20th December
7pm John Street
8pm Goods Shed
DARKEST NIGHT, Mermaid Chunky’s most unknown annual MEGA MEGA event. They do it every year, it’s epic, as told in the books of legend ('remarkable' The Guardian). If you are wicked you will come.
Exhibition
13th - 24th December
This exhibition sees a body of work specifically charting Ant's path out of four debilitating strokes.
Live Music
Sunday 8th December 3pm - 6pm
Welcome to Stroud Jazz Club, reborn from the former Stroud Jazz Sessions. It’s for anyone that loves live music and loves Stroud.
Music
Friday 6th December 7pm
Frank Situation & Mr Mulatto play an eclectic all vinyl set…
Clubnight
Friday 29th November
The debut of eight new Joicey DJs profiled over one evening at SVA.
27th November - 7th December
The Textile Studio will again open in the Gallery for Christmas and be bursting with festive cheer!
Book Talk
Sunday 24th November 4pm
A book launch performance of Andrew Wood's long term WORD project by Charles Landry.
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
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.
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.
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.
