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AN INDEPENDENT, FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC, ART, THEATRE, COMEDY, LITERATURE & FILM IN STROUD. ISSUE 24 | MARCH 2017 | WWW.GOODONPAPER.INFO GOOD ON PAPER ISSUE #24 INSIDE: STROUD GOOD HALAS FILM GRIEF AND FESTIVAL PROJECT BATCHELOR + Toni Wickens | Low Chimes | Lensmen | Alice Jolly | Mark Thomas Cover image: Ken Loach by Adam Hinks Adam by Loach image: Ken Cover #24 | MAR 2017 EDITOR’S EDITOR Advertising/Editorial/Listings: Alex Hobbis [email protected] NOTE DESIGNER Artwork and Design STROUD Adam Hinks [email protected] FRIDAY WELCOME TO THE TWENTY FOURTH ISSUE OF GOOD ON PAPER – YOUR FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC CONCERTS, ART ONLINE FACEBOOK TWITTER 10TH goodonpaper.info /GoodOnPaperStroud @GoodOnPaper_ EXHIBITIONS, THEATRE PRODUCTIONS, COMEDY SHOWS, FILM MARCH SCREENINGS AND LITERATURE EVENTS IN STROUD... PRINTED BY: Tewkesbury Printing Company FILM And so the Stroud Festival season begins! There are over ten festivals, fringes, trails and weekenders due to take place in and around Stroud this year and it all starts this month with the triumphant return of the third Stroud Film Festival. SPONSORED BY: Screenings, workshops, premieres, exhibitions, talks, Q&A’s, a themed screening held in a secret location and community fi lm awards FESTIVAL all feature at the relatively new addition to Stroud’s busy festival calendar. CO-WORKING STUDIO You’ll fi nd all the details in this month’s issue and don’t forget to visit stroudbrewery.co.uk stroudcluster.com our website at goodonpaper.info/fi lm for our monthly fi lm listings… Alex and Adam Chartered AT THE P.S Be sure to pick up issue #25 for our annual Stroud Festival Guide! Tax Advisers www.chrismattostax.co.uk # Front Cover Image: Ken Loach - Lansdown Film Club presents: elcombestoves.co.uk chrismattostax.co.uk Versus - the Life and Films of Ken Loach, Sun 19th Mar, Lansdown Hall SUBS (Stroud Film Festival) Spring Workshops at Pegasus Art Now taking bookings! Launching our new programme of workshops & masterclasses at Pegasus Art, Griffin Mill Trading 10am - 12pm 6pm - 7pm 8pm What Makes A Film Go Viral? 2pm - 5pm Can Culture Help End Estate, just outside Stroud. Using Film for Social Media Confl ict? Indifference To Action Presentation and Q&A With Ed Try something new, pick up your paintbrush & join our artistic community! We are Q&A plus talk with David Owen, A panel-led discussion on what Robinson, Creative Director, The Business workshop with Andy running a variety of workshops throughout the year with expert tutors in our light Consultant, Researcher & Founder makes an impactful fi lm; reviewing Viral Factory. Poulton, Social Media Consultant & spacious studio. & Trainer. of Bristol Palestine Film Festival. and critiquing techniques used in short fi lms commissioned to An extra 5% off in our extensive fine art materials shop for all workshop attendees. inspire action and social change. Includes Domonic White’s new Try your hand at watercolours, ink painting, 3 day oils masterclass, canvas short fi lm premiere and the stretching, 3 day drawing masterclass, Life drawing, Easter & Summer holiday Choose from opportunity to experience 360 workshops for children, painting in the ‘Secret Garden’ at Museum in the Park, 1 day workshops degree footage using immersive Coastal Scenes in pastel, colour mixing with Acrylics....& much more! headsets. or 3 day masterclasses. Book now! Tickets Coming Soon 01453 886560 [email protected] Book tickets for this, and other Stroud Film Festival Film Nights at the Subs featuring; National Theatre Live, Royal Shakespeare www.pegasusart.co.uk/classes-workshops events online via subscriptionrooms.org.uk by Company, Royal Opera House, Channel Four, British Film Institute, Arts Council of phone 01453 760999 or in person at the box offi ce. Great Britain, The Globe, Pathé Frères Cinema and so many more... 4 FILM - STROUD FILM FESTIVAL #24 | MAR 2017 #24 | MAR 2017 STROUD FILM FESTIVAL - LISTINGS 5 FILM FESTIVAL LISTINGS THE PRINCE ALBERT FRI 10TH drama, horror, romance, comedy Age 14 and above. No previous STROUD How Film Affect Our Lives: From and the bizarre. A stimulating feast experience needed Equipment SUN 5TH Indifference To Action – Getting of contemporary cinematography. provided. 10am-4pm £40 (book by Heard Launch Party with Music and 8pm £6/£5concs 11th March!) Screenings presented by George Panel discussion and documentary Platts film premier of Freedom & Safety SUN 19TH TUES 21ST George Platts presents a with Domonic White and James Flies On the Wall Youth Theatre Radio Cinema Presents: Film On presents: Finding Film Radio FILM FESTIVAL Synchronous Sound Multi- Hill. 8pm £10/£8concs (inc £3 Screen Experience. This unique donation to Shared Universe A look at the work of young Radio Cinema is another way for combination of music and images Foundation). professional filmmakers from people to experience spoken- BY LARA SHINGLES provides the setting for a chance to Stroud, discussion about the word radio by lifting it out of its find out more about the festival and SECRET LOCATION… realities of working in the film traditional settings and celebrating what’s happening over the next two industry and a screening of A Day it in ways that are closer to a proper weeks. Stay for a quick drink or a SAT 11TH Off, a 15 minute silent movie made cinema experience. Tonight’s theme long evening. 8pm Free Strictly Cinema by Flies Youth Theatre, with original will be radio about film. 7pm £3 sound design by a young Stroud Book your tickets for ringside musician. Supported with funding MUSEUM IN THE PARK seats at the Pan-Pacific Dancing THE MALTHOUSE by Stroud Arts Festival. 4pm £5/£4 Championship – an immersive film TUES 7TH MAR – SUN 2ND APR WEDS 15TH screening like no other. Sequins, SUN 19TH Moving Art: Animation in Stroud The Lunchbox LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! STROUD WILL interested in seeing new things.” Claire adds that Strictly Cinema is a new event for this year, glitz and glamour. Expect ballroom Lansdown Film Club Presents: See page 8-9! The first in a series of fabulous BECOME A HUB OF CINEMATIC GOODNESS THIS this year’s festival is partly about activity as well which both organisers describe as an “immersive cocktails alongside home-cooked Versus – the Life and Films of Ken a coming to see great films. From workshops, cinema event”. “This is an opportunity to see a dishes and desserts. Dress for the Loach films inspiring fabulous food at MONTH, WHEN THE STROUD FILM FESTIVAL talks and discussions at the Subscription Rooms classic film in a surprise venue decorated in the THE BRITISH SCHOOL occasion… dancing shoes are a A sharp-witted documentary The Malthouse Bar and Kitchen. RETURNS FOR ITS THIRD YEAR WITH FRESH to filmmaking at Atelier, there’s a plethora of style of the chosen movie,” says Andy. “There must! £12adv from Stroud TIC about the work of film director Ken Alongside a local, Indian cook, FILMS, RARE GEMS AND MORE THAN A FEW film-related events for all ages to get involved will also be the chance for the audience to dress THURS 9TH Loach. Filmed during the making the Malthouse Chef will deliver a with. Both the Toni Erdmann showing at Wotton up, and enjoy cocktails alongside home-cooked Halas and Batchelor: Stroud’s SURPRISES! LANSDOWN HALL of I, Daniel Blake which brought wonderful Indian meal after the Electric Cinema dishes and desserts.” Animation Legacy the 79-year-old Loach out of film. Award-winning The Lunchbox The Festival has quickly grown to become a House – which is With Vivien Halas featuring is a gentle romance flowering after “We’re putting on a screening, but a screening SAT 11TH retirement to rail against punitive mainstay of the town’s calendar of annual events. a partner in the screening of Animal Farm and one man’s lunchbox is delivered to with a difference,” teases Claire. “We’re going to Lansdown Film Club Presents: The Tory austerity policies and their It’s not only a showcase for fresh films and festival for the Red Turtle the wrong desk in Mumbai. £20 (inc transform a location in Stroud and really take our shorts the Symphony Orchestra, ramifications, with archive material critically acclaimed classics, but an ideal place to first time this year audience into the world of the film that we’ve Birds, Bees & Storks and Automania Animation for all the family from from Loach’s incendiary early work film + Indian meal) present short films made in and around Stroud – – on Friday 17th chosen.” While both keep mum about the exact 2000. 8pm £6.50/£5.50concs Studio Ghibli, Japan. Michael for the BBC. 8pm £6/£5concs not forgetting exhibitions, workshops and Q&A March and the Ken location of the event, Claire encourages guests Dudok de Wit’s hypnotizing and VUE CINEMA sessions with local filmmakers. Loach screening at Lansdown Hall on Sunday 19th March are not to put on their glad rags and dancing shoes SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS entrancing fable of a boy and ATELIER THURS 16TH This year’s Stroud Film Festival promises more to be missed, says Claire. About Toni Erdmann, for what promises to be a brilliant experience a turtle, not officially released FRI 10TH The Good Grief Project: A Love of the same, with an eclectic mix of films and she adds: “It’s an Oscar nominated German at a local venue. She hopes the event will have in the UK until May 2017.3pm SUN 12TH That Never Dies events set to take place at various locations in comedy about a father who is estranged from his a broad appeal and encourage people who How Film Affect Our Lives: What £5/£4concs/£3children The Death of Klinghoffer Makes A Film Go Viral and How Is and around the Five Valleys between Sunday daughter and tries to reconnect with her, but he otherwise might not think the festival is for them Screening followed by Q&A with It Done? Penny Woolcock’s powerful film decides to do it through an alter ego called Toni to join in.