June events update
John Street Social Club
Friday 22nd May 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
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. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...
£1 membership on the door
Sightseers
Film screening plus Q&A with lead actor and writer Alice Lowe
Saturday 23rd May 7.30pm
SVA, Goods Shed, Station Yard, Stroud, GL5 3AP
Character comedians Alice Lowe and Steve Oram originally created and played killer caravanners Tina and Chris onstage and in short films, before developing the characters with Big Talk and Film4 into a Ben Wheatley directed feature film with additional material by regular Wheatley collaborator Amy Jump. Filmed after Wheatley's critically acclaimed Kill List and before his eerie civil war project A Field In England, Sightseers may be Wheatley's most accessible film to date, particularly to fans of British comedy, who may recognise stars Lowe and Oram from performances in Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Tittybangbang and stage work on tour with Steve Coogan.
£5 advance, £7 on the door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ
Music Doc presents
Wattstax
Thursday 28th May 5.45-7pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Film documentary covering a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, The Staples Singers, and more. Directed by Mel Stuart. Music Doc by Harvey Brook covers the often elusive and intriguingly complex underground music networks and movements from grassroots and downward.
£3 on the door
John Street Social Club
Friday 29th May 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
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. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...
£1 membership on the door
John Street Social Club
Friday 5th June 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
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. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...
£1 membership on the door
Situation Sounds
Saturday 6th June 9-2am
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Situation Sounds are bringing you there funk slamming, disco grooving re-edit sound to the SVA. Those of you who were there will remember the memorable 5 hours at the recent Site festival after party, when Situation sounds took over the upstairs at the SVA ...this time we are downstairs to give you the extra room to do your thing, plus we are gonna add a little live element to the proceedings - introducing Dom Thompson on keys/bass, and James Payne on rhythm guitar!
Tickets £6 advance, £7 on the door
Advanced tickets can be bought from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ
Tav Falco and the Panther Burns
with support Square Bomb and Dj. Set with Pavinyl
Tuesday 9th June 8pm
SVA, Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
Equal parts primal, early rock'n'roll, deviant hill country blues & avant-garde art - Memphis, Tennessee's Tav Falco’s Panther Burns are ramshackle, raw, unholy & utterly amazing. It’s is not just Music… it is a state of mind. Tav Falco is one of the truly original and romantic voices in American music - the voice that America lost and found. He is tender and virile, flamboyant, witty and dangerous. Falco brings daggers back to the stage, and HE is the one who always holds out a hand to the enemy.
Tickets: £10 advanced and £12 on door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ
Stroud Jazz sessions presents Tristan Watson
Thursday 11th June 8.30 pm till 11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Tristan is a beloved Stroud musical hero who found his way into jazz via heavy metal as a youngster, before studying jazz at Leeds College of Music and bringing his beautiful, soulful, percussive guitar stylings back to the Stroud Valleys. His last appearance at Stroud Jazz Sessions was acclaimed as an engaging masterpiece so we look forward to more captivation on his return.Tristan's opening set will be followed by our usual energeti-frentetic jam, all welcome to play, sing or listen.
£5 on the door
John Street Social Club
Friday 12th June 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
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. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...
£1 membership on the door
Mr Fluffypunk’s Penny Gaff
Simon Munnery sings Soren Kierkegaard
Saturday 13th June 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. This month’s headliner is serial innovator and multi award-winner Simon Munnery - ‘One of the funniest, most original comedians of the past twenty years’ (Guardian). Munnery will endeavour to perform a selection of the 19th Century Danish existential philosopher’s writings, talk about them, and make them funny. Plus anything else in between. A new stand-up show as recently seen/heard on Comedy Central’s Alternative Comedy Experience, BBC2’s Culture Show and Radio 4’s News Quiz. Plus Bill Jones and other special guests. Plus films, competitions, prizes and spinning tunes until late.
Tickets: £8.50 advance £10 on the door
Advanced tickets can be bought online here or from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street GL5 1AQ
John Street Blues
Wednesday 17th June 7.30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
More blues at john street in Stroud, come with your stories in song and let your heart bleed...you’ll have an audience who’ll listen, some might even join in… John Street Blues is a regular night, in which musicians and non-musicians can enjoy blues music from every era. The night encompasses vinyl and digital music, film, and live jams and performances, in which anyone is welcome to participate.
Tickets: £5 on door
Music Doc presents
Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback
Thursday 18th June 6.30-8.30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback is a 2006 film directed by Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios about the seminal German-American beat band The Monks. The film was produced by Play Loud! Productions and shot on location in the USA and Germany between 1997 and 2002. In 2008 the filmmakers obtained the German TV Oscar, the Adolf Grimme Awards. Harvey Brook covering the often elusive and intriguingly complex underground music networks and movements, from grass roots and downward.
£3 on the door
John Street Social Club
Friday 19th June 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
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. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...
£1 membership on the door
Open Forum 2015-16
Matt Roberts Arts
Saturday 20th June, 2015 11am-6pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
As part of a national tour, Matt Roberts Arts is offering 8 one-to-one sessions with Josephine Breese, Breese Little gallery on developing a commercial practice, and 8 one-to-one sessions with Matt Roberts, on funding your practice. All sessions are free, and last 45 minutes.
To book please email: Openforum2015@mattroberts.org.uk
places are offered on a first come first served basis.
John Street Social Club
Friday 26th June 7-11pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
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. The format: decks, laptop, and a limited number of selected youtube clips of archive footage and informative curiosities...
£1 membership on the door
