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Saturday February 23th 2019 Animal Nature 9 AM- 7 PM Understanding the Nature of Animals The Museum in the Park Stroud Join us for this workshop in which we will seek a deeper understanding Gloucestershire of ‘animal nature’. Drawing on insights from a range of disciplines (science, art, agriculture and ecopsychology) we will delve into the many ways in which our lives interface with those of the animals around us. Full attendance Dr Liz Hamilton - University of Gloucestershire £65 Ed Berger - Ruskin Mill Trust (light lunch included) Roger Duncan - Systemic Family Therapist Dr. Isis Brook & Jonathan Code - Crossfields Institute International

For information or to book contact Jane Tyler: [email protected], 01453808118 04 Art #47 | Feb 2019

By Anna Bailey Milligan Image by James Kriszyk Beaumont #47 | Feb 2019 Art 05

Stroud––as anyone who’s ever set foot here can attest–– is the Cotswold’s own little Bohemia. With a whole host of local authors and poets, a myriad of artists, and countless craftsmen (and women!), you can’t move for creative types here, and that’s precisely why we love it. But more often than not, the people I interview for Good On Paper are in the second stage of their journey, as it were; they’ve done the career-in-London thing, or the traveling-the-world thing, and they find themselves here, seeing it as a place where they can take a deep breath and finally find the space they need to start creating. It’s exciting, then, when this higgledy-piggledy little town is where somebody chooses to begin.

Fashion and textile designer I’m a bit of a novice when it comes Milligan Beaumont - known in the to the technical side of fashion––I industry by her moniker ‘Milbo’ - is once made a dress for my Barbie doll a fresh arrival in Stroud. A recent by sticking two pieces of old curtain graduate from Central Saint Martins together with Blu-Tac (Maria von in London, she specialises in screen- Trapp eat your heart out), but certain printing and hand embroidery, that Milligan will have a far more with heavy influences from both interesting answer, I ask her what her traditional Japanese art and skate favourite materials are to work with. park grunge. Her work, which she “My degree pathway at CSM was describes as “very colourful, kitsch, ‘Fashion Print’, so screen-printing is a bit funny, comfy and cute”, first my specialism, particularly flocking. “Always needed help with that side of So what’s next for this breakout gained recognition at her graduate But I would say my favourite thing is designing.” designer and her work in 2019? “I'm show, when Brighton skaters paraded embroidery, I love using Swarovski Milligan’s pieces are all so so excited for this year now, the sale down the catwalk wearing chunky crystal beads and incorporating incredibly unique. Think oversized of the collection is going to enable kimonos beautifully beaded and antique trims, textiles, and old hoodies with long draped sleeves, me to bring a new collection to life embroidered with her original jewels into designs.” Recalling my and hefty kimonos that you really and work primarily on getting my designs. Since then, she’s gained could imagine wearing at a cold brand established. I’m styling Stroud international recognition, recreating British skate park, all fabulously based musical duo Mermaid Chunky her graduate collection for Hong "I’d say… adorned with flowers, volcanoes, for their gigs and we are planning Kong retailer Joyce, and seeing her study in London, birds and quirky little figures. That to do a line of band t-shirts together work worn by the likes of Grayson intern in Paris, slouchy skater style and Japanese which will be cute and cool! I’m also Perry and Christina Aguilera. shapes and motifs makes for a totally planning a trip to Japan later this Working in the fashion industry studio in Stroud!" original blend; I’m not sure I could year, as I’ve never been! It will be “I’ve always been obsessed with choose a favourite, although I do amazing for inspiration/research/ clothes and dressing up,” she tells me. rather like her red velvet hoodie with finding old kimonos and fabrics to Her love of Japanese art and clothing incident with the Blu-Tac, I wonder quilted ghosts for pockets. “I would use in my collection.” stemmed from a project in secondary if there are any techniques she say my favourite piece is the huge As a recent graduate myself, I school on traditional Japanese doesn’t particularly enjoy. “I’m really wedding kimono from my graduate appreciate how tricky it can be to find woodblock artists. “Ever since then bad at pattern-cutting!” she says, collection,” Milligan says. “It is a work in the area you actually studied I've had this obsessive fascination which makes me feel a bit better. fantastical, utopian depiction of what for, and so it’s exciting whenever I with their culture.” I call ‘Fuji Skatepark’ on a backdrop hear of fellow Millennials thriving in of an old woodblock painting. It’s a career they’re passionate about. I a fantasy world of skateboarding ask Milligan what advice she’d give antique embroidered eagles, cartoon to young people trying to get involved babies, flocked dragons smoking with fashion and design: “I’d say… zoots, hand-cut silk and iridescent study in London, intern in Paris, studio flowers, copious amounts of in Stroud! Also grow a thick skin, beadwork and a huge hood dripping ignore all the c**nts, and learn the with sparkles.” old traditional techniques that are It’s a testament to Milligan’s talent dying!” and creativity that she’s already seen some pretty famous faces With all her successes so far, Milligan wearing her creations. Along with Beaumont has definitely already the aforementioned Grayson Perry begun her journey, but with the road and Christina Aguilera, Helena ahead of her vast and embroidered Bonham-Carter has also posed in with dragons, I for one can’t wait to a Milbo kimono, whilst the activist/ see where she goes from here. model Adwoa Aboah commissioned a pair of custom Converses from To see further examples of Milligan’s her. “It’s so fab,” says Milligan, “and work and keep up with her creative surreal! Christina Aguilera wearing hijinks, head on over to her Instagram my graduate collection on tour account @milliganbeaumont performing ‘Genie in a Bottle’ was fucking insane. She also purchased the entire collection a few weeks ago, Anna Bailey is a freelance journalist and so she can display them in her home. illustrator based in the Cotswolds. She I actually still can’t believe it! Crazy enjoys foreign cinema, cider drinking, and happy! So thrilled beyond words.” outrunning her student loan repayments. 06 Art #47 | Feb 2019

INCENDIARY: SET ON FIRE By Patricia Brien

The Incendiary exhibition which is opening across several sites in Stroud and Cheltenham this month represents more than 25 artists and their responses to the firing-up of industrial incinerators and the combustion fallout on human and nonhuman ecosystems associated with it.

The project started as a passing- in-the-street conversation with direct action protester Dr Gail Bradbrook and came at a point in the second half of 2018 when the regular flow of environmental news stories spiked, and kept spiking. Gloucestershire County Council handed down the decision that the incinerator at Javelin Park would go ahead with another one to follow in the area. At around the same time the UK Government reversed Lancashire Council’s rejection of a fracking site after Cuadrilla won an appeal. In October, the Mayor of London’s office released research findings stating that 95% of areas in the capital exceeded by 50% WHO’s limits of highly damaging particulate matter (PM2.5). Also in October the IPCC set down a 12 year deadline for humans to modify greenhouse gas emissions and shift behaviour. Pragmatically, Bradbrook said in parting “just do what you can.” This is a very clear and effective message to work with. Despite positive moves towards Fiona Campbell, Glut recycling (in principle at least) and green energy growth there appeared considered to be what they want. keeping the narrative of enviro- Oaks project has influenced decades to be a distinct lack of leadership Artistic response and art protest in the public eye is one of art students engaging with social when scientific information is environmental art protest does not way to maintain awareness of the and environmental engagement disseminated and decisions are set out to replace direct action protest issues. There are creative, clever and projects. Land artists like Andy apparently made in stark contrast when it is thwarted, as in the Javelin humorous protest methods and there Goldsworthy have had a profound to those reports. Add to the mix Park case. Nor will it necessarily make are ways of protesting through art. impact on the way we consider the current dullingly painful and quantifiable behavioural changes The history of environmental art human relations with ‘nature’ while narcotic effects of Brexit or ‘that wall’ as there are differing timescales of protest is not a new phenomenon. ecofeminist artists like Ana Mendita in Trump’s political cycle and it’s a individual consciousness shifts and The German artist Joseph Beuys asked us to reconsider the earth as perfect narrative of frustrating inertia social tipping points that are almost springs to mind as his positive vision the creative source. All have worked at a crucial moment in time. Inertia is impossible to predict. However of the future manifesting in the 7000 deeply with historical mythologies #47 | Feb 2019 Art 07

Lou Baker, Waste Installation Lydia Halcrow, All the Plastics that underpin the social and cultural in different ways. The process of installation, photography, textile discussions and events including understanding of place, human and grief springs forth through art, ceramics, sculpture, painting workshops, dance, music and film relations with the nonhuman and are material practice, and therefore and illustration. The Stroud-based animating the exhibition spaces over inextricably bound with the passing of encourages a different kind of Walking the Land Artists collective the course of the exhibition. time and future narratives. engagement. will be viewing the ‘Tower of Fire’ on Incendiary artist Lydia Halcrow Stroud is dynamically infused Sunday, 10th February for those who For further information including echoes this in her piece ‘All the with long-established high profile enjoy an active engagement with art exhibition dates, venues and Plastics (The Black Ground, Taw environmental activists and eco-art practice. times see arts listings and visit: Estuary, after Storm Brian)' which networks that ensure information liminessence.co.uk questions the implausibility of plastic flow and knowledge sharing. What The programme itself seeks to honour waste, “These photo etchings are is important about Incendiary is that some of the immediacy of protest made from every piece of plastic I artists from as far as Australia, with with over 25 artists presenting their Patricia Brien is a curator and PhD collected during a walk along the Taw several London-based artists as well work across numerous sites; SVA, researcher Environmental Humanities & Estuary in North Devon after a storm as practitioners coming from Bath, Lansdown Gallery and Hardwick Textile Cultures (Bath Spa University) and in 2017. Together they form a 1:1 map- Bristol, South Wales, Somerset and Campus, University of Gloucestershire Associate Lecturer Bath Spa University & like record of our consumption, these the Stroud Valleys are in the mix. as well as pop-up spaces in Stroud. Ravensbourne University London ghosts of former usefulness, the fruits There is a variety of media including There are a variety of activities, of archaeological digs for future generations”. says Halcrow. Contemporary environmental art protest and practice is widely represented within the commercial art world and the academies, it is part of the canon, as it were. Curating artists’ responses to ecocide requires working in suspension between the energetic direct action of protest and a reflective, individual practice. The spectrum of ecocide protest and its ‘impacts’ may not always fit comfortably into results-driven outcomes or immediate social change. The lightning effects of protest, consider Extinction Rebellion as a recent example, calls people to action in a wave of dynamic social and political energy. Frustratingly there are times when environmental protest fails to impact the immediate decisions of authorities. Of course it doesn’t disappear, it continues to manifest rhizomatically. The role of art protest is to communicate the same concerns Joanna Wright, We Live Within The Sky Not Beneath It 08 Art #47 | Feb 2019

A new regular feature for 2019 in which we explore artist maker spaces across the fi ve valleys... Maker Spaces:

PEGASUS ART By Sarah Edmonds

If I had a pound for every time The artists themselves feel part of a a saw mill, with part of the building out, nails and screws were found one of our customers said, “Pegasus mutual endeavour sharing ideas and producing umbrella sticks by the fl oating in enormous blocks of resin Art has a lovely atmosphere,” I’d be challenges, exploring new materials, Hooper family until 1901. Henry that had dripped off the end of the rich! It really does have a warm and enjoying simple conversation and Hooper emigrated to Canada with glue-ing base. Each bay was once a welcoming character, thanks to the a sense of community. A highlight his wife Florence and Griffi n Mill work station, with beams and joists artist staff who love working here of the year is coming together as changed hands again. The particulars decorated with posters of the time – and Jane Fisher, our Director and art a collective for Open Studios, it’s a listed the industrial assets: “Griffi n we have uncovered a train excursion materials expert extraordinaire. We focus to create and present work to Mill - comprising of three large mills, poster, a fl yer for ‘Aldridges’ and their wholeheartedly appreciate working the wider world, distil themes and workshops and sheds equipped with Christmas stock of dolls for 2 ½ d and in this handsome, three story 17th ideas and talk directly to art lovers powerful steam engines, boilers, a book signing for ‘From the Coal Pit century red brick mill building on the and collectors. water wheels and a costly modern to the Platform’ ! We continue to craft outskirts of Stroud – our staff walk to Last summer was spent stripping machinery and plant.” In human and create in this wonderful building work along the canal in all weathers back, plastering and painting the form, Griffi n Mill would be a strong and welcome all artists and art lovers (yes, even snow) following in the space under the eaves that had and handsome man, shouldering the to join our community – we have footsteps of the mill workers who been unloved and unappreciated for weight of industry! Next came Tyler’s a handful of interesting artist and criss-crossed up and down the Stroud many years. Jane had always seen of Thrupp, renowned cabinet makers, supplier talks scheduled throughout valleys in the mid-18th century. These its potential and after a few months who remained on this site until 1956. the year including, Travels with my giants of mill buildings, crouching of careful renovation, it began to During the Second World War, the Paintbrush with Sarah Wimperis, on the valley fl oor, have housed reveal itself. In October last year, we mill turned its attention to war work Becoming Vincent an illustrated craftsmen of one kind or another for hosted our fi rst event with paint and and women were directed to build, talk with artist Sarah Wimperis who the past hundred years – we are just ink manufacturer Cranfi eld Colours astonishingly, enormous Horsa glider painted for the Oscar nominated the latest custodians! ˜ the attic came alive with the burble wings in the large space under the animated fi lm Loving Vincent, Pegasus Art as an ‘artist hub’ is of convivial artists, discussion and eaves. These gliders had a wing Extreme en Plein Air with David DJ central to our culture - it was integral debate. It prompted a renewed span of up to twenty seven metres, Johnson who paints on mountain sides to Jane’s vision when she bought the interest in its former use and we and without engines they were and more. Head to our website for business in 2005. It’s important that discovered some intriguing facts, with instrumental in dropping soldiers more information and to book… we support our burgeoning artist the help of Stroud Historical Society. over enemy lines undetected. There All our private studios will be open community in whatever endeavours As with so many commercial is an undeniable symbiosis between during Open Studios – 11th, 12th, 18th or challenges they face, aiding buildings, Griffi n Mill has housed the large stretched canvases that & 19th May. There will be a range of their toils and congratulating their a variety of businesses in the last we currently build for artists, and special workshops, demonstrations successes. We are here for advice and century, but we have been able to the wooden framed canvas wings and talks during this event. The technical support - if we don’t stock establish that its founders were the of these gliders. It’s a fact that is not Attic Studios are available for hire what you want, we will try and fi nd it! Griffi n family who built the mill in lost on our in-house canvas makers – contact [email protected] To that end, as well as regular art 1599 for cloth manufacture. It is well whose largest canvas to date was 2m for rates and further information. classes and a growing programme documented that this cloth would x 2m, carefully carried out of the fi re pegasusart.co.uk of day workshops, we currently have have been taken by horse and cart escape, boxed up in the hallway and eight studios occupied by a variety of to Brimscombe Port, down the shipped to Holland! It is purported practising artists. Their presence adds Stroudwater Canal to Thames barges that there were huge double doors at Sarah Edmonds, aka Word Bird, enjoys a working energy to the walls of the who carried the goods eastward the far end of the building where the creative copywriting in the Stroud building – things are being created, to London. It remained a textile mill completed wings were fl oated out. Valleys and marketing fi ne art materials projects are devised, then completed. until 1856 until it was converted into When the attic was initially cleared and workshops for Pegasus Art. @ SarahWordBird @PegasusArtShop #47 | Feb 2019 Art 09

STUDIO ARTISTS

Jane Fisher Fine artist, large landscapes, fi gurative Carol Honess artist, underwater swimmers. The underwater paintings tempt the viewer Carol’s screenprints and drypoint to dive into the space; looking at water, Stu McLellan prints of seedheads, grasses and trees being in water creates sensations, are very subtle and beautiful. Carol Illustrator, painter, community artist, encourages thought and awakens embosses natural plants onto wet project leader. personal memories. clay and gives them an indigo wash, stumclellan.co.uk janefi sher.com creating lovely tiles. She chooses calm hues of pale blue, teal and greys which have become a of her work. @fern_cottage_studio

Teresa Poole Sarah Howard Mixed media and decorative artist Oil painter. specialising in traditional oriental art and contemporary mixed media on Julie Fowler canvas and interiors. From murals and Julie creates exuberant, narrative- paint fi nishes to furniture and mirrors. based ceramics for the table, teresapoole.co.uk decorative panel pieces and artworks. Focused on food and eating, her Paul Fowler vessels exude a rich, ornate feel resplendent with curves and curlicues. Fine artist, large oils many with a focus Ripe strawberries and lemons hang on history, human form and textile. from the sides evoking rich summer “The lay fi gures I work from have been teas, puddings and light-dappled engaged in other artists studios for the interiors. past two hundred years. They are now [email protected] in my studio, their history, their place and the space they occupy in our time off ers a unique structure for my own work.” Julia Adams Paul also tutors regular Life Drawing Working at the home of one model, and Drawing classes at Pegasus Art. Julia portrays quiet, domestic themes, paulfowlerstudio.co.uk with usually one fi gure. She draws Max Hale intuitively, aiming to express energy and movement through her use of line, Fine artist, oils, acrylics, watercolours, tone and colour. drawing. Max Hale also teaches regular morning and afternoon classes julia-adams.co.uk at Pegasus Art. maxhaleart.co.uk 10 Art #47 | Feb 2019

Last month we All though the exhibition has now finished it will soon be launched our first ever permanently displayed on GOP SHOP: cover artist’s exhibition the walls inside the Centre for as part of our annual Science and Art and if you missed your chance on purchasing a Good On Paper Party print you can still contact the COVER featuring eleven issues artists directly via their websites below to obtain an A2 Giclée from March 2018 to print at just £50 (all proceeds ART January 2019… directly to the artists!)

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Arts Listings

ART OF CLAY creating a unique and unconventional dramatic landscapes and Kabuki Patricia Brien. 4-5pm exhibition space. Currently showing actors of the Edo (1603-1868) and Meji Clay Sinclair works by Melvyn Warren-Smith, Dan (1868-1912) periods. Japan opened up lansdownhall.org Rawlings, Steven Hubbard, Zoe Heath, to the wider world following the end Provocative post-pop paintings on Susan Kester, Haruko Boot, Nick Purcell, of the Edo period in 1868 and interest Perspex by local/international artist STEVE RUSSELL GALLERY Jo Caslin and Emily Seffar plus Lazy in the country’s culture, arts and Clay Sinclair situated at 48 High Street. Dog Box guitars and Revelray custom crafts quickly grew in the succeeding SAT 17TH NOV – ONGOING Plus prints for those on a budget and guitars by Gordon Simpson. Mon –Sat decades. Throughout the late 19th People's Republic of Stroud tat for Celebrating 30 Years 10am-6:30pm/Sun 10am-6pm and early 20th century, many wealthy those joining the revolution. Open Mon The year 1988 saw the beginnings of Western collectors amassed important – Fri 11am-5pm/Sat 10am-5pm the World Wide Web, the publication facebook.com/dufflevintage collections of prints and decorative of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses wares, and the bold woodcuts inspired claysinclair.com and the inclusion of Ping Pong into the and influenced many European ELVERS STUDIO Olympics. In addition to this and much artists. The outstanding prints in this CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ART more, it saw the start of High Definition SAT 1ST DEC – FRI 1ST FEB touring exhibition are predominantly Processing, as Steve Russell Studios drawn from the collections of Sir SAT 2ND Colin Heavingham was then known... SRG invite you to visit Walter Samuel, the son of Lord and selectconnect Presents: The Insistence New work by Colin Heavingham their exhibition featuring thirty carefully Lady Bearsted. A lover of the arts, he of Drawing - Illustrated Talk with including Blue World, The Gardener chosen images spanning the period generously donated his collection to Professor Anita Taylor and the Vegan Child plus a large 1988-2018. Exhibition open Monday- Maidstone Museum in 1923. Practicing artist Anita Taylor is a selection of affordable mounted Friday 9am-5pm and other times by Professor and Executive Dean of Bath drawings and watercolour from museuminthepark.org.uk appointment, go and have a look! School of Art and Design at Bath Spa £25 (framing available by request). steverussellgallery.com University, founder of Drawing Projects Also handmade unusual steampunk LANSDOWN GALLERY UK and founding Director of Trinity and magical fairy wing jewellery by Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (formerly Tristana. Tues/Thurs/Fri 10am-3pm/ THE STIRRUP CUP MON 4TH – SUN 10TH Jerwood Drawing Prize). Anita’s large Weds 11am-5:30pm/Sat 11am-4pm Incendiary scale charcoal drawings reveal an FEB – MAR extraordinary physicality, an investment elversstudio19.wixsite.com/elvers Conjuring the destructive power Art @ the Stirrup Cup of elemental fire, the industrial in mark making and the trace of An exhibition featuring Bisley based pyre borrows from a powerful fire/ the human hand. She will present GALLERY PANGOLIN painters including works by Ollie Miles, regeneration binary association found an illustrated talk about how artists Jilly Cobbe, Alison Merry, Gwyneth MON 14TH JAN – FRI 8TH FEB in various mythologies often connected document the world through drawing, Timings and Stephen Cohen. Preview with the hope of transformation in the and the open dialogue about what January 12th Feb 6:30-8:30pm face of destruction. Private view Mon drawing can be in communicating What better way to beat the January 4th 4-6pm a visual language which carries blues than Gallery Pangolin’s exhibition thestirrupcup.com knowledge, understanding and feeling. of sculpture, drawings and prints in MON 4TH £8non-members/£6.50 SIT select and every shade of blue! Artists include STROUD DISTRICT select network members/£10otd For Incendiary Talks: Dr Gail Bradbrook Anthony Abrahams, Harold Ambellan, and Kaori Homma further information and to book visit: Kenneth Armitage, Hamish Black, Jon SUN 10TH sitselect.org Opening: Dr Gail Bradbrook (Extinction Buck, Lynn Chadwick, Ann Christopher, Incendiary Walk: Viewing the New Rebellion) discusses ecocide protest Terence Coventry, Nick Bibby, Abigail Temple of Fire SUN 17TH and London-based artist Kaori Homma Fallis, George Fullard, Jonathan Art History Talks: William Etty "Playing with Fire" talks on post- During the walk, you’ll be invited to Kingdon, Bryan Kneale, Marino Marini, stop and draw, write, film, photograph Keith Symonds leads an informative Fukushima fallout.5pm Free (donations Charlotte Mayer, Bernard Meadows, or just to observe the new £600+ and entertaining series of three fully welcome for Art Action UK) Eilis O'Connell and Steve Russell. Mon- million incinerator in Gloucestershire. illustrated talks on the human figure Fri 10am-6pm/Sat 10am-1pm SAT 9TH The 6-7 km walk will be led by artists in western art. This month Keith will Lucy Guenot, Rachel McDonnell and be presenting a fully illustrated talk gallery-pangolin.com Incendiary Talks: Prof Michael Reeks, Lisa Porch, Alice Sheppard Fidler and Kel Portman. Meeting place TBA! on the much neglected artist William Patricia Brie 11am-3pm Visit the website for booking Etty, a life room addict who introduced MUSEUM IN THE PARK details… the nude as a genre to the English art Speaker: Prof Michael Reeks(Professor Emeritus, Newcastle University) establishment. 2-4pm £10/£8concs SAT 16TH FEB – SUN 24TH MAR walkingtheland.org.uk discusses general safety issues (incl. tea and biscuits) Japan: A Floating World in Print with airborne particulate + artists facebook.com/ This exhibition brings you a captivating discussions including Lisa Porch & Alice SVA JOHN STREET GALLERY CentreforScienceArtRoomHireStroud display of Japanese ‘Ukiyo-e' woodcut Sheppard Fidler with curator Patricia prints, literally meaning ‘pictures Brien, + smoked FRI 18TH JAN – SAT 2ND FEB of the floating world’. Created by tea & vegan nibbles. 2pm. Sun 10th Maggie Shaw: A retrospective DUFFLE VINTAGE masters such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, Incendiary Talks: Sabine Kussmaul, A retrospective exhibition of Maggie Utamaro and Kuniyoshi this selection As well as stocking vintage furniture Simon Ross and Patricia Brien. Closing Shaw’s textiles, paintings and of enchanting images encompass and clothing Patrick’s shop acts as talk ft. artists in conversation: Sabine sketchbooks. Originally a textile the genres of the beautiful women, a revolving gallery for local artists Kussmaul & Simon Ross + curator artist, Maggie was a member of the 12 Art Listings #47 | Feb 2019

Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen, RUSKIN MILL NAILSWORTH and exhibited her contemporary textile work widely, including America, Japan, UNTIL WEDS 13TH FEB For arts Germany and Spain. Finding that The Drawing Room textiles were to some extent restrictive, SGS Stroud College Year 1 Fine Art and crafts she took up abstract painting. She Foundation Degree Students (Level 5) took part in many solo and shared responses to thematic workshop days exhibitions and her sketch books were in the SGS Drawing Room. workshops and selected for the Sketch Drawing Prize 2011. Open Fri and Sat 10am-3pm FRI 15TH FEB – SUN 10TH MARCH Ruskin Mill College Staff and Student courses visit: WEDS 6TH – SUN 10TH Art and Craft Exhibition Incendiary: Set on Fire Celebrating the skills and creativity Incendiary is a multi-site exhibition central to the College's curriculum. Atelier The Sculpture Studio consisting of 23 artists and 1 artists’ Some work will be for sale. atelierstroud.co.uk thesculpturestudio.co.uk collective responding to the fire of industrial incinerators & combustion rmt.org The Clay Loft Sit Select fallout on human & more than human theclayloft.co.uk sitselect.org ecosystems. One part of this will be PREMA ARTS CENTRE ULEY at SVA. The initial idea came from a Gloucestershire Printmaking Stroud College conversation between a direct action WEDS 9TH JAN – SAT 16TH FEB Cooperative sgscol.ac.uk protestor Dr Gail Bradbrook and Joyce Pinch gpchq.co.uk the curator, Patricia Brien. It was a Joyce’s paintings focus on found Stroud Valley Artspace discussion around the persistence Hawkwood College sva.org.uk of industrial incinerators despite natural forms from the garden, the hedgerow or the seashore. This has hawkwoodcollege.co.uk much public protest and debate. Victoria Works Studio been her life-long subject matter and The inferno-incinerator conjures the Imagine Therapeutic Arts victoriaworksstudios.co.uk often follows a theme, as one painting destructive power of elemental fire imagine-therapeutic-arts.co.uk will sometimes lead to another. Moving & borrows from a powerful fire / New Brewery Arts on from her former subject matter regeneration binary association found Kendrick Street Gallery newbreweryarts.org.uk based on nests, eggs and feathers in various mythologies. However, the kendrickstgallery.co.uk Joyce is now presenting her recent fire / regeneration narrative urgently Prema Arts Centre work based on plants from the lanes requires metamorphosis as things heat Make It Studios prema.org.uk and fields surrounding her home in up. Images of Dante’s burning Inferno makeitstudios.com spring to mind as hyper consumption Stinchcombe and her much loved and subsequent waste fuels the fire garden.10am-4pm Pegasus Art and transforms it into toxic matter. WEDS 9TH JAN – SAT 16TH FEB pegasusart.co.uk 10am-4pm Carolyn Black FRI 8TH Carolyn Black has returned to her Incendiary: Ragpicking studio practice, creating several Ragpicking (accordion music + film) metre-wide panoramic drawings of the presented by SVA artist Mair Hughes. Severn, seen from both sides, resulting Guest speaker - Prof Kate Rigby in a collection of works and texts which (Environmental Humanities, Bath have been brought together in her Spa Uni). Artists & Activists discussion book Severnside: An Artist’s View Of including curator Patricia Brien, Lydia The River Severn. Now exploring the Halcrow, Fiona Campbell, Lou Baker, potential of 360-degree imagery and Angela Baum + Walking the Land video as an art-form, she’s revisiting Artists. 6:30pm £3otd her interest in romantic landscape painting and photography in the digital SAT 9TH age. 10am-4pm Incendiary: A Performative WEDS 9TH JAN – SAT 16TH FEB Conversation John Pinch ‘Join in the Conversation’ - Artists Lou Baker and Fiona Campbell discuss their Uncommonly, artist John Pinch practice together as a performative enjoys an eclectic mix of skills. He conversation. As part of the ‘Incendiary’ possesses an innate appetite for exhibition in the John Street Gallery. exploring materials and exploiting their 11am-12pm potential, often resulting in unusual combinations. 10am-4pm SAT 16TH – SAT 23RD Mark Darbyshire: Home Everywhere prema.org.uk This exhibition hints at a journey and notions of Nostalgia by reference NEW BREWERY ARTS CENTRE imagery used in the gold(en) SAT 12TH JAN – SUN 17TH MAR packaging and advertising of Benson & Hedges cigarettes from the 1970’s. This Sign Up cyclical loop, returning to find form in Taking inspiration from the high street, the present day parallels the journey this exhibition looks at contemporary made by Odysseus on his return from signage and lettering featuring hand- SIGN UP TO OUR the Trojan wars. This return home or painted signage, gilded glass, neon completion of an artwork proves no and film. Mon-Sat 9am-5pm MONTHLY SUPPORTER resting place for neither Odysseus nor the artist. 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sva.org.uk selectconnect artist talks + films * presented by SIT select with Nicola Grellier Saturday 2 February The Insistence of Drawing * Professor Anita Taylor Saturday 16 March In Conversation * Paul Harper & Tabatha Andrews Saturday 20 April Necessity is the Mother * of Invention Constance Slaughter

connect Saturday 15 June Experiments in Black and White * Neville Gabie advance tickets and more information: * www.sitselect.org select studio Centre for Science & Art, Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BB 12 January-17 March select Mon-Sat 9-5 Closed Sundays www.newbreweryarts.org.uk e: [email protected] www.sitselect.org

s i t good on pap ad jan/feb 2019 v1.indd 4 11/01/2019 18:21 January Blues You don’t need to change the world Beat the January blues with our exhibition of sculpture, to feel safer in it drawings & prints in every shade of blue! Until 8th February

Your beliefs become your thoughts Your thoughts become your words Your words become your actions Your actions become your habits Your habits become your values Your values become your destiny

Mahatma Gandhi Terence Coventry

Next Exhibition www.gettingclear.co.uk Terence Coventry Sculptor 25th February - 26th April

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Swallow Form Hazel Rank-Broadley HPD DSFH AfSFH CNHC GALLERY PANGOLIN specialising in helping creatives CHALFORD - GLOS - GL6 8NT - 01453 889765 [email protected] www.gallery-pangolin.com 14 Film Listings #47 | Feb 2019

starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz. story.7pm £7 (incl. one drink!) In a dystopian society, single people Film must fi nd a mate within 45 days or be painswickcentre.com transformed into an animal of their choice…7:30pm £5 TETBURY GOODS SHED Listings theprincealbertstroud.co.uk THURS 7TH Disobedience ARKELL COMMUNITY CENTRE A woman returns to her Orthodox NAILSWORTH Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood FRI 22ND friend. Once back, their passions Nailsworth Film Club Presents: reignite as they explore the boundaries ATELIER follows comrades and lovers Amer and Departures of faith and sexuality. 7:30pm £7 Raghda through the Arab Spring and A moving Japanese story about a failed what follows. The event also features THURS 14TH FRI 1ST musician and his eventual employment video diaries from former refugees, Stroud Film Festival Presents: A Pig’s in a funeral parlour. The quality of A Star Is Born now settled in and a Q&A Night Out the acting, the interesting cultural between aid worker Dr Richard Dean, A musician helps a young singer fi nd references and the sheer humanity of A preliminary Stroud Film Festival some of the fi lms’ authors, and local fame, even as age and alcoholism the fi lm justifi es its award as the best evening at the iconic Atelier, A Pig’s charity workers. Richard, a Stroud GP, send his own career into a downward Academy Foreign Language Film of Night Out warmly welcomes you to has been working in refugee camps spiral.7:30pm £7 its year.7:30pm £6guest ticket/£27.50 what really should be the fi rst month of in Calais and Greece intensively over season membership THURS 21ST the new year - February. Hosted by a the last 3 years. Many refugees have collective of female fi lmmakers with a become friends and these video diaries nailsworthfi lmclub.co.uk I, Tonya special guest appearance, come and hope to document how the reality of Competitive Ice Skater Tonya Harding be entertained by a short collection of life in Europe lives up to their dreams rises amongst the ranks at the US fi lms to make the mind wander. Drinks, and expectations. 7.30pm £5adv from PAINSWICK CENTRE Figure Skating Championships, but snacks and excellent company are also stroudfi lmfestival.org her future in the activity is thrown on off er, at no extra cost. They can’t FRI 1TH into doubt when her ex husband promise you’ll leave not wanting more SUN 24TH intervenes…7:30pm £7 though….7pm £6/£5concs Wick-Flix Presents: Swimming with Lansdown Film Club Presents: 3 Days Men in Quiberon THURS 28TH SUN 10TH A man suff ering from a mid-life crisis In a rehab clinic Romy Schneider gives First Man Cold and Wild Water Swimming fi nds new meaning in his life after her last interview to two journalists. joining an all-male, middle-aged, Legendary American Astronaut Neil A fi lm event around the , interest Three days, driven by romantic desire, amateur synchronised swimming Armstrong from 1961-1969, following his and curiosity of going into water, professional ambition and the urge for team – and they’ve set their sights journey to becoming the fi rst human to whether cold, wild or in a pool. Why living. 7:30pm £6/£5concs/£2 annual on the ultimate prize: the world walk on the moon.7:30pm £7 do people do this? Filmmakers have membership championships! Directed by Oliver been fascinated by this question over Parker and starring Rob Brydon, Jane shed-arts.co.uk and over again. Isabelle Rose Neill, lansdownhall.org Horrocks, Charlotte Riley and Rupert director of Time and Tide will take part Graves, this big-hearted fi lm is an ode in the Q&A after the fi lm screenings. LITTLE VIC to answering your calling, no matter The evening will also include an where you are in life. Based on a true update on the Stroud Lido project by Jess McQuail and there will also be an THURS 28TH introduction by Dominic Thompson Stroud Pride Presents: RuPaul’s Drag to our area’s outdoor swimming Race Viewing Party clubs. Time and Tide: Every day of Award-winning reality TV competition the year - rain or shine, the Clevedon RuPaul's Drag Race fi nally arrives in swimmers plunge into the icy waters the UK and to celebrate Stroud Pride 9TH - 24TH of the Bristol channel. From 10 to 80 are holding a Viewing Party hosted years old, there’s only one rule - no by King-O-Diamonds to raise funds MARCH wetsuits! The fi lm presents a moving for this year’s Stroud Pride Picnic! and often humorous look at life, death 7pm Free (donations welcome – drag and friendship. Silent fi lm from the SW encouraged) Film Archive will also be accompanied by live music performed by Dominic facebook.com/StroudPride STROUDFILMFESTIVAL.ORG Thompson. 4pm £6/£5concs

atelierstroud.co.uk OPEN HOUSE TWITTER @FILMSTROUD FACEBOOK @STROUDFILMFEST THURS 21ST LANSDOWN HALL Stroud Film Society Presents: The SUN 10TH Island and the Whales Lansdown Film Club Presents: Wajib A Documentary Film fi lmed in the Faroe Islands. On the one side, those Wajib (translates as ‘Duty’ in Arabic) who live there, hunting fi sh, seabirds is set in Nazareth as father and son and whales, as they have done for drive around the city hand-delivering centuries. The rocky islands will not wedding invitations as is the Palestinian support crops. So we see the work custom. The son has returned from of the islanders to obtain the food living abroad and has very diff erent necessary for life. On the other side, ideas from his more traditional the international anti-whaling groups, father. A story told with humour and and the fl ooding of the food chain warmth... 7:30pm £6/£5concs/£2 by mercury which can poison the annual membership Islanders. 7:30pm £6guest ticket/£40 season membership SAT 16TH Stroud Film Festival Presents: stroudfi lmsociety.org Refugees on Film While the refugee crisis, reported so THE ALBERT heavily over the last three years, fades from our screens, the story continues. WEDS 13TH The screening attempts to update our understanding of what life can be like The Lobster for those who have made their homes Following January’s screening of My elsewhere. The evening includes BAFTA Beautiful Laundrette (in which they nominated documentary A Syrian managed to grab the assistant director Love Story, by acclaimed UK director for a Q&A!) fi lm night at the pub returns Sean McCallister. Filmed over 5 years it with the Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos #47 | Feb 2019 Dance 15

Suspiro Flamenco By Caroline Sanderson

When I was a child before I ever went abroad the fact too that when flamenco is performed Spain to teach us. Known for his highly charismatic myself, my granny went to Spain on holiday and it is always with live musicians. It’s very much a style, Felipe has performed at Sadlers Wells, and brought back for me one of those touristy flamenco partnership between the dancers, and a guitarist with the English National Opera; and his fabulous dolls. My flamenco dancer had a pink rose in her and a singer, and sometimes a percussionist as well footwork can also be heard on the soundtrack to the hair, a frilly turquoise skirt and she was my pride to create a piece of performance”. Whilst we do film, “The Mask of Zorro”, starring Antonio Banderas and joy: I thought she was the most exotic thing I occasionally put on public performance in the form and Catherine Zeta Jones. had ever seen. For years that was the closest I got to of a ‘juerga’ - essentially a Spanish-style dance Unlike most dance classes, flamenco majors on flamenco. But the memory of that doll lingered, and party – the fact that we always practise to live individual , so it’s ideal for those who are shy when I heard about the chance to learn flamenco music means that every class has a sense of drama of dancing with a partner. It is suitable for all ages in Stroud, I had signed up before you could say about it: we even warm up to our guitarist playing and abilities, and for both men and women. And if “Andalucía”. Over a decade later, I only just count beautiful music in the background. It never fails nothing else, it is a tremendously enjoyable way to myself as intermediate standard for it’s a dance to lift my mood, and my energy levels after a busy exercise! form that can be fiendishly challenging. But the working week. For your first lesson, ideally come wearing study sense of empowering joy I experience each week, Another wonderful thing about flamenco is that it and supportive shoes that make a bit of clatter in trying to master the steps, accompanied by live is a dance form with many moods. Whether you are when you stamp, and loose comfortable clothing. guitar music that is utterly ravishing in its is grieving, or full of the joys of life, there is a dance If you fall in love with flamenco as quickly as I did, almost impossible to equal. to reflect your current state of mind, from the soul- you’ll soon want to buy some proper flamenco My inspiring flamenco teacher, Vicky Clifford tells mining introspection of a soléa, to party dances like shoes (and for females, a flouncy skirt too). As Vicky me she had a few early encounters with the dance rumba (nothing like the Strictly version) and bulería. puts it “The more you do it, the more you’ll want to form when she was much younger: both on holiday “You learn that each dance has a very specific look the part!”. But they will last you for years – I am in Spain, and while studying for a Performing Arts feeling associated with it and actually channelling still dancing weekly in my original pair of shoes, and degree. “I always had it in the back of my mind that sometimes can be quite cathartic”, says Vicky. I got my black practice skirt in a charity shop. that it was something that I’d like to do because it And I can testify to this. Over the years, individual really touched me”. Many years, and three children members of our class have weathered illness and Flamenco classes are held at Archway School later, she made a friend at the school gate who had bereavement and we have all felt something of in Stroud on Saturday mornings, 10.30-11.30am started going to flamenco classes. Vicky didn’t need each other’s pain. But somehow we are all united in beginners, and 11.30am- 12.30pm for intermediates. much persuading to go along with her. Now, after feeling soothed after we’ve danced together. Vicky also teaches at Siddington Village Hall on years of dancing flamenco, studying the form, and From its origins in the gypsy enclaves of Monday evenings, 7.30-8.30pm doing numerous dance workshops, both in Stroud Andalucía, flamenco now has a global following. and then in Spain, she teaches her own classes. Despite this however, flamenco classes in the UK are For more information, email Vicky Clifford at Whilst all forms of dance have been proven to still not as common as those for other dance forms. [email protected] and follow Suspiro benefit our physical and mental wellbeing, Vicky So we are incredibly fortunate to have regular Flamenco on facebook @SuspiroFlamencoStroud believes there is something special about flamenco. classes here in Stroud. Not only that, but thanks for news and updates. “It’s very empowering, particularly for women. to the authentic flamenco contacts that Vicky has It makes you feel like a powerful being, totally in made while dancing in Spain, we also have the Caroline Sanderson is the Associate Editor of the Bookseller charge of your own body. It has that kind of attitude opportunity, three or four times a year to attend and the Programme Director of the Stroud Book Festival. to it, and I haven’t found its particular dramatic evening workshops taught by virtuoso flamenco She is also the author of five published non-fiction books. @CaroSanderson quality as strongly in any other dance form. I love dancer, Felipe de Algeciras who flies over from 16 Music Listings #47 | Feb 2019

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Matt founding from soul to ska ska via Stax and lansdownhall.org member of Noah and the Whale has Atlantic-era R'n'B, all delivered in the THURS 28TH brought out a solo debut that oozes high-energy Ken Wood style. 8:30pm Kent DuChaine and Leadbessie Americana with its campfire storytelling Free LITTLE VIC Kent (along with his treasured guitar told mainly on acoustic guitar and Leadbessie) has listened to, hung out piano. 8pm Free THURS 14TH SUN 10TH with, opened up for, traveled and Dave Ayre Trio played with most of the great Blues men Barney’s Live Music FRI 8TH Double bass wizard Dave Ayre and his and women his whole adult life. The list Monthly music club at the Little Vic Thee Ones with Jack Page trio returns to the Ale House for another is too long to name them all, but some (the Queen Vic) - the brainchild of a Thee Ones are a Stroud band delivering spectacular jazz evening…8:30pm Free of the major ones are: , group of likeminded individuals keen to soul, jazz, R&B and 60s Hammond Howlin' Wolf, . Come provide a monthly venue for all types of beats. Their original material weaves FRI 15TH and enjoy a taste of the real . music, from folk to country, blues, pop story telling lyrics and an infectious Built for Comfort 8:30pm Free and beyond. This month’s guests tba… groove that moves mind and body in 7:30pm Free (suggested donation £4) equal measures. They are joined tonight Providing the best in kickin' Rhythm crownandsceptrestroud.com by the notoriously talented and tall Jack and Blues to the Great British Public! facebook.com/BarnysLiveMusic Page previously from Low Chimes. 8pm 8:30pm Free KITSCH COFFEE AND WINE BAR Free FRI 22ND THE PRINCE ALBERT SAT 9TH Leon Daye Band SUN 3RD The Breakfast Club FRI 1ST Lost Map Records presents: An alternate rock band from Firestations and Grasscourt Cirencester, formed by local solo artist Sunday morning tunes with Dubbu (aka We are Muffy, The Leaking Machine Lost Map Records (founded by Johnny Leon Daye, the band perform upbeat Neil Wilson – Stroud Block Barty/SGVC) This happy fluffy duo make great Lynch aka the Pictish Trail) bring forth original material. 8:30pm Free and breakfast served til 12! peculiar music that is bound to make two bands from their impressive roster you smile. Nick Duffy and Angeline to the Prince Albert! Firestations are SUN 10TH Morrison create a soundscape an alt-pop band that make simple THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE characterised by vocal harmonies and Sunday Sessions songs and then paint them over with unusual musical instruments (autoharp, Acoustic afternoon sessions with Drew drones, harmonies, synths and unusual FRI 1ST banjo, fiddle, music box and cutlery). Hall…12:30pm Free rhythms. Their second album the Year Expect some storytelling and sharing The Scrutineers Dot is out now. Latest signing from the of memories. Support from the Leaking Original alternative indie/pop duo from facebook.com/KitschCoffeeWineBar Hebridean record label is Grasscourt Machine (formerly Rockingham) that Stroud. 8:30pm Free who are Tom Percival and Matt Lacey occupy the space between Richard from Stroud: “The duo’s pop LANSDOWN HALL Thompson, Husker Du , ZZ Top and Nick FRI 8TH adventures criss-cross handmade Drake…8:45pm Free Narco Lounge Combo electronics, deft acoustic stylings, SAT 9TH outrageous psychedelia and more.” Expect a Lynchian soundscape of noirish SAT 2ND Abbaholics Clash Magazine. 8pm Free jazz, uneasy listening and space-age Mad King Ludwig exotica. Brushed drums, tremolo guitars Stroud Rotary Club presents a fabulous Musician, writer, performer and SUN 10TH and voodoo marimbas create spiked evening with the ultimate ABBA Tribute madman. Possessing the voice of a fired cocktails in a nightclub where it is band! 6:30pm £15adv from Trading Post SGVC – Stroud and Gloucester Vinyl up Tom Waits - southern preacher and forever after hours…8:30pm Free Records or ticketsource.co.uk the physical frame of a Culture Club SGVC return with the opportunity for reject , Ludwig is a striking sight that THURS 14TH FRI 22ND any budding DJs or anyone with an you can’t stop looking at. He is joined The Magnificent AK47 interest in vinyl records to come along Open Mic Night on stage by a large group of merry and play a short set. Three records are Hosted by Stroud’s own Americana Original, eclectic material, songs of life men, bringing banjos, tin can slide and the general allowance. Record sales troubadour the Rev. Stretch. All and love, often with hilarious laughter a range of versatile percussion. 8:30pm and traders are welcome too. The welcome! 8pm Free and just a touch of amateur dramatics Free guaranteed to put a smile on your face, spinning starts at 6pm…Free FRI 15TH the hairs on the back of your neck stand MON 4TH up and leave you with tears of joy and THURS 14TH Luke Philbrick and Solid Gone Night empathy towards the rigours of being a Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra Luke Philbrick returns to the Sceptre Inclusive folk singing monthly session for new age man in the 21st Century. Never This fantastic band don’t care what now with a full band drawing on all, stories are told and songs are sung. to be taken too seriously, the men of genre you choose to put them in – traditional blues and folk influences. All welcome, join in or just have a listen. The Magnificent AK47 firmly believe western , country blues, ragtime Startlingly powerful vocals, raw delta 8pm Free that singing should be fun to both see hokum or whatever else– as long as you blues styled guitar and an almost tribal and enjoy. 7:30pm £10/£8concs from understand that they’re 100% sincere foot-stomping beat combine to create a WEDS 6TH themagnificentak47.com and 100% immersed in the music. So special atmosphere. 8:30pm Free Brooke Sharkey come on Up The Hill for a dive back in

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as it’s Valentines Night there is a prize interval and the evening concludes stroudbrewery.co.uk SAT 23RD for the best suitably dressed couple. with a fascinating modern piece, the Sounds of the 60s 8pm Free Sinfonietta for Orchestra by E. J. Moeran which was written in 1944. 7:30pm SAMA SAMA Experience The Sixties show that’s FRI 15TH £10/£8concs from the Subscription wowing audiences, relive the music THURS 7TH/14TH/21ST/28TH with the spectacular sounds of The Dave Sharp Rooms/£11/£9concs otd Disco Spinach and the Love Vibration Zoots! “Impossible not to like... A very Dave has worked with the likes of Willie capriolorchestra.co.uk impressive Band” – The Stage. 8pm Nelson and Johnny Cash, in a musical Sama Sama's regular new night of £17.50/£15.50concs career spanning three decades and Discotheque Classics. Hosted by DJs: crossing the Atlantic and beyond. ST LAURENCE CHURCH Loz 'hot sauce' Kapoor and Soup Doggy subscriptionrooms.org.uk Whether solo or with a band, guitar in Dogg. Fun and relaxed atmosphere. hand, Dave Sharp delivers the ‘Spirit SAT 23RD 7:30pm Free SVA of Rock and Roll’ and was the founding Community Drum Circle with Katie member of The Alarm…8pm Free facebook.com/samasamastroud Harris FRI 1ST SAT 16TH A fun energising event using rhythm as Ed Davenport Hosts the John St Social a way to connect, communicate and SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS Karaoke Night build community. Everyone welcome, An open invitation for submissions to Come on up for a night of good, bad no experience necessary. All drums FRI 1ST the Museum of Ontograph - come and questionable karaoke. Mics set up and percussion provided. No booking The Christians down to the SVA to meet Ed Davenport from 8pm. Anything goes but please necessary, just turn up and enjoy! while he plays a few selected tunes and Still headed by enigmatic lead singer no Wonderwall or Another Brick in the 11:30am-1pm Suggested donation: bring something along! All objects are Garry Christian. Renowned for soulful Wall…8pm Free £5adult/£1child welcome, whether they be your most yet socially aware hits including prized or most reviled possessions. . Ed WEDS 20TH stlaurencefuture.org.uk Forgotten Town, Ideal World, Words, Davenport will also be in the SVA cafe Father and many more. The Christians on Saturday 2nd February 10am - 3pm Ray Cooper enjoyed great acclaim in the late 80s to receive your objects for the museum. Ray Cooper is a story-led singer/ STROUD BREWERY and early 90s and are embarking on The Museum of Ontograph - a one-off songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. a huge UK tour including Stroud… 8pm museum exhibition will be open at the He was a member of Oysterband for 24 SAT 2ND £24 SVA gallery from 2nd to 9th March. years using the stage name Chopper. Tristan Watson & Patsy Gamble Trio 7-11pm (John Street) With Oysterband he toured in 27 SAT 2ND An exciting Jazz trio combining Swing, countries and released 19 albums. Since Stroud Ceilidh with Banter and caller WEDS 6TH/13TH/20TH/27TH leaving the band in 2013, Ray has toured Be Bop, Latin and Blues and three of Barry Goodman Funk-In Sessions solo in the UK, Germany Denmark, the hottest local players. Tristan Watson Banter consists of three astonishingly Belgium, Holland and Sweden. He delivers agile swinging guitar lines Live Funk Jam with Will Vick and Alf talented musicians, pushing the sings both his own compositions and complemented by the bluesy saxophone Tramontin...FUNK Only...Nothing but boundaries of English arrangements of traditional songs. 8pm of Patsy Gamble. The trio sound is the Funk!!! All are welcome to listen or music with brass, keyboards, £12adv from Trading Post Records, the completed by the extraordinary bass perform! 8pm £1otd (John Street) melodeon and percussion. They are Albert and ticketweb skills of James Agg. 8pm Free rooted in English traditional music THURS 7TH but incorporate influences of pop, THURS 21ST THURS 7TH Diablos del Ritmo Sessions jazz, soul and big band sounds. 8pm Five Valleys Session Jeremy Tuplin Duo £12adv/£11concs/£13otd/£12concs/£5 Monthly night of Latin vinyl or Jeremy is described as “Unconventional, Local musicians meet at Stroud Brewery accompanied U16s sometimes live session with Albino conversational and intimate” by BBC on first Thursday of the month to play Tarantino or sometimes both. Albino 6 Music’s Tom Robinson. His second traditional folk tunes, mostly from THURS 7TH Tarantino are a Stroud based Latin Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, album ‘Pink Mirror’ is set to be released Gordie Tentrees and Jaxon Haldane Blues band... Imagine a night out by Trapped Animal record label in France with a smattering of Danish with Tom Waits and Ry Cooder to see Debut release ‘GRIT’ - the essential March 2019. Come to the Albert for and North American tunes. Everyone Santana playing at The Buena Vista ingredient to overcoming adversity. a wonderfully weird night of tunes… welcome, to listen or to play…8pm Free Social Club. Every first Thursday of the The idea for a live record was inspired 7:30pm Free month at SVA. 8pm Free (John Street) SAT 9TH by audience members repeatedly asking for a recording that sounded SAT 23RD Steve Page THURS 14TH like the live experience Gordie and Stroud Jazz Sessions with Aidan Pope Furlined Steve writes and performs some of the Jaxon were producing each night. 8pm Trio Rich vocals and lush, swooning cello finest Americana being played in the £12/£10concs are the defining features of Furlined, a UK today. This is music with an old-time Stroud and its surroundings have a Bristol band formed in 2013 by singer- feel that reaches back to the America of FRI 8TH great range of jazz players. This night Woody Guthrie, and the songwriter Neil Crossley, cellist Tegan Dance is for their coming together. Set in the Everett, bassist Tim Tucker, guitarist Carter Family. Steve performs his shows comfortable subdued lounge setting, A great atmosphere and great dance Neville Marten and drummer Greg playing a combination of guitar, slide each will feature a performance by floor, dance the night away to top swing White. 8:45pm Free guitar, banjo, harmonica and button the house band and guest, an interval accordion. 8pm Free and jive music. 8pm £8 with eclectic jazz records to mull over, THURS 28TH and a stonkingly energetic jazz jam THURS 14TH SAT 9TH for all players and singers, aficionados Open Mic and Decks Night Bagelites Simon and Garfunkel Through The participate in. All are welcome, to listen Stroud’s longest running Open Mic Years or perform. Second Thursday of every night now with added open decks. With Every second Thursday of the month, Presented by Seventh Avenue Arts month at SVA. 8pm £5otd/£3musicians both you get the chance to play three local musicians gather to play folk and this is critically acclaimed as one of tracks and if performing we encourage gypsy style traditional tunes. Come sva.org.uk the world’s greatest tribute shows. you to play something of your own along and enjoy the atmosphere. 8pm Featuring a full live band and stunning composition. Full PA, and help is at hand Free vocal harmonies, this spectacular for novices and all welcome - whether CHRIST CHURCH NAILSWORTH concert takes audiences on a journey you are a funny person wanting to try SAT 16TH through songs and history of Simon and out new material or a well-seasoned Steve Ferbrache SUN 17TH Garfunkel. 8pm £17.50/£15.50concs pianist come on up the hill and show us Ever popular local musician, Steve, plays Bristol Ensemble Tea-time Concert what you got! 7pm Free cover versions of classic songs from the SAT 16TH There’s a Gallic feel to February’s 50s-00s using just his acoustic guitar theprincealbertstroud.co.uk Dreadzone, Flash Tafari concert, with music from across the and voice. From stomping blues to Channel. César Franck’s romantic work classic folk/country/rock covers, expect Back by ever popular demand! 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SUN 17TH SHEEPSCOMBE VILLAGE HALL can play the blues and want to have SAT 23RD Cotswold Canal Singers: From Sorrow a crack at jazz – this is for you! If you Leon Hunt and Jason Titley to Hope SAT 16TH want to come and just listen that is fine too. 8pm Free (donations welcome) An evening in the company of Leon and A passionate and moving sequence Air in G Presents: Paprika Jason is a rare treat, more a musical of music and poetry reflecting on Paprika is the UK’s leading Balkan SAT 9TH conversation than a rigid performance. the plight of dispossessed peoples, Playing guitar, banjo, gourd banjo, and band whose line-up consists of two The Chris Woods Groove Orchestra and raising funds for GARAS accordions, guitar, and percussion percussion, these old friends will most (Gloucestershire Action for Refugees with regular guest members on violin A one man orchestra of epic likely confound any pre-conceived ideas and Asylum Seekers). Including Thomas and bass. This electrifying group fuses proportions. An engaging and inspiring you may be harbouring as to what Tallis' amazing Lamentations, and music Eastern European, Balkan, Gypsy solo show from boundary breaking these instruments can (and should) do. by Monteverdi, Byrd, Vaughan Williams, and classical music in a whirlwind guitarist and composer Chris Woods. 8pm £11.50/£9.50 Macmillan, Shepherd and De Vert, sung performance of frenzied virtuosity. Taking you on a journey from minimalist by the Cotswold Canal Singers under 7:30pm solo guitar to looped cinematic sounds utea.org.uk Hugh Barton. Poetry by (among others) and explosive six string percussive Eliot, Levi, Zephaniah and Pink Floyd. airing.co.uk explorations. 8pm £10.50/£8.50concs TETBURY GOODS SHED At Friends 7:30pm Free (donations welcome) THURS 14TH PREMA ARTS CENTRE ULEY SAT 2ND Vinyl Night Ninebarrow RUSKIN MILL NAILSWORTH SAT 2ND Valentine's Vinyl Night, with the theme 'Love and Hate'. Bring your favourite Multi-award-winning folk duo Symbio Ninebarrow combine breath-taking FRI 8TH vinyl tracks, plenty of space for dancing The music of Symbio has been too! 8pm Free vocal harmonies and melodies in Jacob and Drinkwater described as original compositions songs rooted in our landscape and Stroud alt-folk duo Ben Jacob and Lukas where folk, minimalistic art music FRI 15TH history.8pm £12.50 Drinkwater’s dynamic and emotionally and meets to Mairi Campbell charged live show with all its energy, create a cinematic experience for the FRI 8TH Multi award winning musician and musical chemistry and spontaneity has listener. Seriously beautiful sounds from Clare Hammond: Piano Recital drawn comparisons with the virtuosic two astonishing musicians...7:30pm singer at the cutting edge of the Join renowned pianist Clare Hammond pairing of John Martyn and Danny £12/£9concs/£10friends/ Scottish folk scene. As dancer, musician, for a evening of beautiful music Thompson. Jacob's sweeping vocals £7concs/£15otd storyteller, actress, visual artist and including Rachmaninov, Haydn, never fail to captivate, delivering many facilitator, she extends the boundaries Debussy, Schumann and Lane. 7:30pm a spine-tingling moment; the fluidity prema.org.uk of the tradition in Scotland and £15 and precision of his finger-picking brings a powerful injection of deep underpinned by Drinkwater's nimbly craft, groundedness and spirit to her CHANTRY CENTRE DURSLEY SUN 17TH rhythmic double bass; at times sweetly work. 8pm £10.50/£8.50concs soaring, haunting, percussive and Open Mic Sunday SAT 16TH SAT 16TH driving, the layers of depth a perfect The third Sunday of every month is counterfoil. The added complement of Rave4Dave Dire Streets Open Mic at the Shed for singers, stirring vocal harmonies nicely rounds A Stroud Labour Party fundraiser with UK’s leading Dire Straits tribute band musicians and poets. 7:30pm £5 off the mix…£10/£8under 25’s special guest Allister Whitehead! 7:30pm Dire Streets perfectly capture the £6adv/£3concs from skiddle.com and distinctive, authentic sound of one of the shed-arts.co.uk rmt.org otd biggest guitar bands of all time. 8pm £17.50 CARPENTERS ARMS MISERDEN SAT 23RD Dursley DJ Collective: Club Nights at WEDS 13TH the Chantry The Hard Rain Band Anyone is welcome to play their music, whatever ability, format and all Sarah Larkham and the Hard Rain Band genres, as long as you can dance to it! presents the songs of Bob Dylan – from Otherwise come along and dance the Freewheelin’ to Modern Times…8pm night away with great music, licensed hecarps-miserden.co.uk bar and friendly people. 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Mandy Robotham By Nikki Owen

Hailed as the new voice in historical fiction for 2019, I was excited to I always had my note book and my copy of Harriet The Spy meet debut author, Mandy Robotham. For not only has this amazing ,and I would rewrite it. I found it amazing that someone could Stroud resident bagged a book deal with Avon, part of the global Harper produce that much creativity, that many ideas. Collins group, but the e-book version of Mandy’s novel, A Woman of Where do you like to write? War (perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz), has already I do a lot of writing at home, either on my bed or on the earned an Amazon best seller tag, with the paperback due to hit the sofa - we call it the therapy sofa, it’s very medicinal. I write with monk music on as it has no words to distract me. And I shelves on 21st March. But what’s even more intriguing about Mandy is also love writing on trains! I would love a train pass just so I that, as well as writing books, she’s also a full-time midwife at Stroud could write on trains – so I love my trips to London to see my publishers, I get loads done! Maternity Hospital. So, without further ado – over to Mandy… What’s next for you? Tell me about your debut novel, A Woman of War. also in women’s magazines as a features writer. But it was Sadly, I think I’ll decrease my hours as a midwife – I love the years after retraining as a midwife (a job I was inspired women and the babies, but the NHS is very different these It’s set in Germany in 1944. Anke Hoff is taken from one of to do after having both my children at Stroud Maternity days. I’m also working on a second book for my publishers, the concentration camps and assigned as midwife to Hitler’s Hospital) that, after entering competitions and doing other based in war-time Venice around the Italian women of mistress, Eva Braun, but if Anne refuses to look after writing courses, I did a Masters in Creative Writing at Oxford the resistance. But before that, A Woman of War will be out pregnant Eva, Anne’s family will die. Torn between her duty Brookes University, a two-year course I completed whilst in paperback, and hopefully in the book shop in Stroud, as a caregiver and her hatred for the Nazi regime, Anne is working full-time as a midwife. swept into a life unlike anything she’s ever known. Soon, too. There’s nothing like holding a new book in your hands she’s falling for a man who will make her world even more For my dissertation, I had to write 17,000 words, but I and smelling it… complicated and, before long, the couple is faced with an ended up stretching them into a novella. That’s when I got A Woman of War (Avon/ impossible - and deadly - choice. in touch with Katie Fforde (I’d looked after her daughter Harper Collins) by Mandy Briony when Briony had her baby). I already knew Katie, Robotham is available Your novel is set in the Second World War, with a as I’d helped with her book Summer at Sea, as there was in ebook now and out in real dilemma at its heart. How did you come up a midwife in it and she wanted to do some research. In paperback on 21st March. with it? a typical Stroud knowledge exchange, I started meeting with Visit harpercollins.co.uk her to talk about me writing a book – she is such a giving and I’ve had a long time fascination for war-time history, and and avonbooks.co.uk for caring woman – and Katie said about my novella, that I had I wanted to create a plot and a novel around that. I’m a further info. a real novel there and I should go for it. So I did. midwife and sometimes, I do wonder that, if women were told what it’s really like to give birth, would they have babies? So, I You write about strong female characters – why is tried to think of a situation where you might not want a baby that? to survive – and I could only think of one character where that would apply: Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress. So I thought, Because women are incredibly strong. Through my job as as a midwife, if you had to look after someone like Eva, a midwife, I see so many women in situations of strength - how would you feel about it? dealing with birth and the after days of birth. I am a labour midwife and I love birth and I have learnt that if I ask a How did you get into writing books? woman for 100%, she gives you 150%. Nikki Owen is an author and writer. Her third and final book in the Project Trilogy – The Girl Who Ran (Harper I’ll have been a midwife for 20 years this year. Before that, Have you always wanted to be a writer? Collins), is out now. Follow her on twitter @nikkiwriterand I worked in journalism straight from university as a trainee nikkiowenauthor.com reporter, then, for many years, I worked in newspapers and Writing has always been there for me. When I was young, #47 | Feb 2019 Literature / Spoken Word / Film Listings 21

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ALE HOUSE MUSEUM IN THE PARK festival of walking, space, place and ages 7-11 10am-3pm £44/£41friends psychogeography which takes place MON 11TH WEDS 20TH on Sat 23rd February.Terminalia is prema.org.uk the festival of Terminus, Roman god Piranha Poetry with Robin Hood Shaw Haiku Poetry Workshop with Philip of boundaries and landmarks. This Open mic night hosted by Gary Rush year, Radical Stroud are carrying out TETBURY GOODS SHED Death with guest poet Robin Hood Young writers aged 10+ are invited to a circular walk in Oakridge. In honour Shaw. Described as “adorkable" by join poet Philip Rush to discover this of Terminus RS will visit the site of WEDS 20TH Oakridge Common. It was enclosed in Reading Fringe Festival, Robin is a wonderful poetry form. Learn about Writer’s at the Goods Shed: Michael self-confessed hip-hopoholic that's 1866 against local opposition and RS traditional Japanese haiku poetry, Bartholomew Biggs taking the poetry world by storm. explore ideas about what makes a will view the present day boundaries He's been the finalist in various slams, good haiku and then enjoy writing with an eye to the past. In their usual On each of these ‘WAGS’ sessions, the runner up in Gorilla Slam and your own! 11am-1pm £5/£3siblings eclectic fashion they will also take being held in the railway carriage is currently the Word Mustard Slam in the site of a Roman villa, a long Mary Jane behind the Goods Shed, Champion…7:30pm Free THURS 28TH barrow and the crash site of a WW2 they have visiting published writers German bomber. Quiet lanes and from various genres who, for the first Jola Malin: Carry A Whisper Book footpaths and a few styles. A couple half of the evening, will present, read BLACK BOOK CAFÉ Launch of steep climbs. Likely to be muddy. and talk about their work. This month’s Jola Malin will introduce and read 2-3hours. Meet at 10.30 at the gate of guest is Michael Bartholomew Biggs a WEDS 20TH from her newly published book, ‘Carry the Church of St Bartholomew! semi-retired mathematician but still- A Whisper’ in which she mourns the functioning poet. He lives in London Stroud Radical Reading Group death of her sister. This beautiful radicalstroud.co.uk where he has for twenty years been a Stroud Radical Reading Group meets book resonates and takes on new co-organiser, with Nancy Mattson, of to discuss Natives: Race and Class in life in the reader as it casts a net the reading series Poetry in the Crypt. the Ruins of Empire . The evening will over rarely documented common KINGSHILL HOUSE DURSLEY He is also poetry editor of the on-line focus on Chapters 5 and 6 (Empire ground. Its personal honesty weaves magazine London Grip. An ‘open mic’ and Slavery in the British Memory its way into our understanding of the SAT 9TH session follows in which the floor is open to any writers in the audience and Scotland and Jamaica, pages expressive work required to attend to Script Scratch with Emily LeQuesne 123-168) of this best-selling book such complicated grief. 7:30pm Free who may like to share and read a by BAFTA and MOBO award-winning (refreshments available and books Do you like a bit of drama? Got a piece of their own work – just sign up hip hop artist, writer and social for sale!) story you want to tell? Love a bit to share as you come in…7pm £4otd entrepreneur Akala. The session is of theatrical intrigue? Come and part of SRRG's mini-series of sessions museuminthepark.org.uk explore an introduction to writing a shed-arts.co.uk Britain: Class, Race and Gender in play, a film or a radio drama in this Past, Present and Future, but anyone taster session. Learn about structure, interested is welcome! 7:30pm Free STAR ANISE dialogue and character and plan NEW BREWERY ARTS CENTRE (visit: stroudradicalreading.wordpress. the script you’d like to write. Suitable com for further details and future FRI 15TH for beginners! Emily is a playwright, SAT 16TH events) theatre maker and teacher. She holds Coffee House Meeting: Climate a Masters in Scriptwriting, written Illustrating Books with Korky Paul blackbookcafe.com Emergency – Creative Despair and directed original plays for puppet Taking inspiration from a poem, Continuing the Extinction Rebellion theatre, traditional theatre and youth create your own illustrated double- theme the discussion evening will try theatre and written screen plays and page spread. This full day workshop is LANSDOWN HALL and understand how we need first to TV pilots. 10am-4pm £45 a unique opportunity to gain industry let go of any hope that our existing expert insight on the process of kingshillhouse.org.uk THURS 28TH approaches will solve the problems illustrating picture books. 10am – 4pm of climate change and ecological £90 Danny Dorling: Rule Britannia emergency. Only then can we create PREMA ARTS CENTRE ULEY Danny Dorling, Professor of the space for new ideas and radical MON 18TH Geography at University of Oxford solutions. Creative despair is not Modern Calligraphy and a leading thinker on inequality in hopelessness, indeed it is the path SAT 9TH Join Emerald Paper Design on Britain, argues that sorting ourselves to a new kind of hope, to give up on Tom Percival: Story in A Suitcase out post Brexit, is going to require repeating and predictable failure and a beginners guide to modern a great deal of introspection, that to choose something else…Speakers: Ever wanted to write a story, create calligraphy. During the session, key what we see may not be pleasant. Sarah Lunnon, Erik Wilkinson and characters? Join author/illustrator/ modern calligraphy basics will be And that Brexit – however it comes Revd Simon Howell. 7:30pm Free musician and general all-round covered; how to use the essential – may be part of the cure. 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Come and see the wonderful talent of Wycliffe pupils! Expect all your favourite based Australian Stand-Up Comedian local primary school children working songs from the world famous musical and actor with an interesting plot : Theatre together in Stewart Auty's adaptation including "Tomorrow" and "It's the he’s a supply teacher in the UK. Ed of 'Wind in the Willows.' Join us at the Hard Knock Life". 7:30pm £8/£6concs Pownall completes the line-up. With Stroud Subscription Rooms and have adv from ticketsource.co.uk/wycliffe- Ed you can expect well-researched the best fun for all the family you'll college observations on everything from /Dance have in ages! Who doesn't want to 'Toot pigeons to regional accents from a 41 Toot!' with Mr. Toad on stage? 5pm wycliffe.co.uk year-old international broadcaster; £11/£8.50concs/£36 family of four grumpy but not aggressive, rude but not crude. 7pm £15adv from Trading Listings BARN THEATRE CIRENCESTER THURS 28TH Post Records, Malthouse Bar and Journeymen Theatre: Rock and a Hard Kitchen and seetickets.com COTSWOLD PLAYHOUSE TUES 29TH JAN – SAT 2ND FEB Place New Old Friends Theatre Company: stroudmalthouse.com FRI 1ST – SUN 3RD Kayleigh is a talented teenager whose Crimes on the Nile life should be full of promise. Instead, Drop of a Hat Theatre Company: A she finds herself in a cycle of domestic Following 2018’s sell-out smash hit NAILSWORTH COMMUNITY Beckett Quartet Crimes Under the Sun, multi-award- abuse from which there seems no WORKSHOP To commemorate well-known local escape until Aunty Jan helps her find winning theatre company, New Old actor Trevor T Smith who died in a way out, after long years of ‘put up Friends, return with another hilariously FRI 15TH October 2017, Drop of a Hat Theatre and shut up’. Thoroughly researched inventive comedy thriller. Directed Company are performing a quartet of from real life experiences, and using again by James Farrell (RSC, 39 Steps Friday Night Comedy: Richard James West-End) the cast of just four bring short plays by Samuel Beckett - two Kayleigh’s story to bring the issues to The Friday Night Comedy series returns to life multiple outrageous characters, of which Trevor was working on in the life, this new play vividly illustrates the to Nailsworth Community Workshop inventive set pieces and whisk the plot months before he died. Spare, poetic spectrum of violence in the home, from with headliner Richard James, MC along in a romp. and cryptic, Beckett offers a haunting the mind games of coercive control Gavin Pond and more tba! Along

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Listings 7:30pm £5adv/£7.50otd (all profits The people of Stroud who were old enough to be involved in the war of MINCHINHAMPTON donated to the Mundee Community in CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ART Zimbabwe. 1914, ‘Kept the Home Fires Burning’ MARKETHOUSE while their younger men folk lived practicalintelligence.org.uk and died in the trenches. Emerging FRI 15TH SAT 16TH four years later into what was widely The Severn Wonders: Something advertised as ‘a Land Fit for Heroes’ Larks and Magic Brewing SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS they resolutely ‘Looked For The Silver E. Nesbit, the author of The Railway Stroud comedy sketch group The Lining’ through two decades of mass Children, is credited as the first modern Severn Wonders, who write and THURS 14TH unemployment before Germany, writer for children. But Edith Nesbit’s life perform all their own material, are Jethro: The Count of Cornwall demanding a rematch, again was more extraordinary than any of presenting a brand new show, - threatened the peace of Europe. her stories. Charming, badly behaved, Something Brewing in the Gold Room A memorable evening of hysterical Using the words and memories of real always up for a lark, she worked hard in the beautiful Victorian Centre for nonsense, as we take a peek into the people and peppered with the songs to keep her unconventional family Science and Art on Lansdown. 7:30pm circus lurking deep within the mind of, which they sang to cheer themselves afloat. Her domestic arrangements £7.50 from Subscription Rooms with probably the greatest, comic storyteller along, Same Time Next War views a seem jaw-dropping, even today. As profits going to the Cotswolds Canals ever to grace the stage…7:30pm £21.50 world turned upside down through part of the Bohemian Set in London, Trust. subscriptionrooms.org.uk the eyes of a close-knit Stroud family. she was a founder of the Fabian But while directly concerned with our Society, the friend of many famous facebook.com/ own locality, it is intended as a tribute literary figures, and more than a friend CentreforScienceArtRoomHireStroud SVA to all the people of that generation to some. Meet her in this f entertaining and the sacrifices which they made account of her life, larks, and enduring FRI 15TH to ensure the future which we enjoy magic. THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE today. 7:30pm (matinee on 7th and 9th Tonight With Elvis at 2:30pm) £12 airing.co.uk THURS 21ST Love is in the air. Join Elvis for a night of Probably the Best Comedy Night in passion, laughs and live music, as he cotswoldplayhouse.co.uk the World whispers sweet nothings to his guests, NAILSWORTH SUBSCRIPTION Comedy night hosted by Gavin Pond whilst Dr Shiraz asks the question - is LANSDOWN HALL ROOMS starring George Rigden and a host of love in the brain? Or in the trousers/ new up and coming comedy talent! skirt? 7:30pm £5otd (John Street) FRI 1ST/15TH SAT 25TH 8pm Free SAT 16TH Earthbeats School of Larks: Want to Run Away With Giffords Circus? crownandsceptrestroud.com Penny Gaff presents: Rob Auton’s Talk Earth Beats is a conscious dance in Show Stroud. It is a meditative, mindful, School of Larks and Giffords Circus The second best reviewed comedy embodied, and ecstatic dance are teaming up to offer an exclusive THE MALTHOUSE BAR AND show at the Edinburgh Festival 2018! inspired by Open Floor International six week course starting on the KITCHEN Hosted by Jonny Fluffypunk with special and ’s . 7.15pm 25th of February on Mondays and guests Miserable Malcolm and more! – 9.15pm Thursdays 4:30-6pm at the Nailsworth Subscription Rooms to learn a wide SUN 3RD The Talk Show is a comedy/theatre/ lansdownhall.org range of circus floor and aerial skills CrazyBird Comedy Club: Gary spoken word show about talking by and create a curtain raiser that will be Delaney, Thomas Green, Ed Pownall award-winning writer and performer performed as a one-off opener for one and MC Geoff Whiting Rob Auton. After his appearances on SUBSCIPTION ROOMS the Russell Howard Hour, BBC at the of the Giffords Circus shows in May The CrazyBird Comedy Club returns Edinburgh Festival and Channel 4's 2019! All levels welcome, ages 8-18 visit to the Malthouse Bar and Kitchen Random Acts, Rob now looks to talk to WEDS 6TH FEB – WEDS 3RD APR website for further information and to with Live at the and Mock the as many people as possible…7:30pm Jive Class book a space! Week Star Gary Delaney! Delaney is £8.50 early bird paper tickets/£10adv a razor sharp one-liner comedian, Get fit and make new friends. Easy-to- schooloflarks.co.uk online/£12otd (Goods Shed) learn dances taught step-by-step by who is widely regarded as being the experienced teachers. 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Good On Paper Presents

An exhibition curated by Good On Paper of prints by Stroud based artists and illustrators reinterpreting iconic film posters from the eighties in their own unique style… Featuring works by JOE MAGEE DANIEL SPARKES ALEX MERRY ERY BURNS MARK LEVY MARCUS WALTERS HANNAH DYSON ANDY LOVELL ADAM HINKS IMOGEN HARVEY LEWIS TOM PERCIVAL NICOLA GRELLIER DAN MCDERMOTT and ROSALIE DARIEN-JONES

SVA, John Street, GL5 2HA stroudfilmfestival.org