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Skeena Matthew Rathor Taylor

Maddy Harland SEED FESTIVAL By Lucy White

For Seed Festival, that land is the wild two full days, and in the third year they were beauty of Hawkwood College, with its rich joined by Green Party leader Caroline Lucas. “A festival history of biodynamic community agriculture, Now in its fourth year, it feels like Seed change-making and nature connection. “It’s Festival is truly a gathering whose time has already heaven” she tells me. Emphasis on come. The theme this year is action, with needs to be local programming alongside big names the hashtag #Act4Hope. As the urgency from further afield, ensures the festival and awareness of climate crisis has reached wedded to has its roots firmly in the fertile soil of the unprecedented levels, action above all is Stroud community - a powerful pulse point what’s needed. “The most exciting thing is in ecological activism and progressive, that we are in the middle of a zeitgeist - it’s its land and green enterprise. Our town is home to finally happening,” says Victoria - speaking of environmental champions from the founders her time spent with other festival organisers of Extinction Rebellion to the CEO of Good on Waterloo Bridge during the Easter climate community” Energy, along with leading change-makers protests, the release of David Attenborough’s such as our very dear Polly Higgins - who will recent documentaries and the exploding be honoured with a barefoot walk through global youth movement led by Greta Victoria Whelan. this year’s event - and Jonathan Porritt who Thunberg. “Never before have we put on this Event Producer will be speaking at the festival. festival at the heart of a wave of change like The idea for the Seed Festival first the one we are currently in,” she concludes. germinated in the intellectual and ecological Building on the momentum of the global hothouse that is Dartington Estate in Devon, youth movement, the festival will host a Youth where festival producer Victoria Whelan Forum on Sunday and is offering a special first worked together with Alicia Carey, now price and accompanying digital resource CEO of Hawkwood College, on a festival packages for students. Other youth highlights celebrating the life and work of Indian on the programme include local presenter Jo polymath and nature poet Rabindranath McAndrews who will be running sessions to Tagore. Together they carried this seedling help us support our children as they face the idea to the welcoming earth of Hawkwood climate change realities of their future. where it has since rooted, fruited and thrived. The festival line-up is bursting with a broad The strap-line of the festival has always been spectrum of inspiring and uplifting music ‘Planting Big Ideas’, and its seeds are now and performance. The “wild yearnings” of carried far and wide by participants returning Dartmoor acoustic musician Nigel Shaw inspired to act in their own communities. will move the hearts and feet of festival- Hawkwood’s Seed Festival began as an goers this year, as well as the powerful intimate one day gathering with presenters poetry of American artist Drew Dillinger. Bee such as Mac Macartney from Embercombe impersonating musician Gloree Bee brings a and Polly Higgins. In the second year the unique interspecies performance and Stroud- festival welcomed ‘Sacred Economics’ author based acoustic pop folk band Faeland will and thinker Charles Eisenstein, expanding to close out this year’s festival with their uplifting #52 | July 2019 Literature / Spoken Word 05

Alison Tickell

Dr Gail Bradbrook

Gillian Burke Craig Bennett

Helen and ethereal songwriting. cotton bag from sponsors Triodos to carry Browning “As well as offering a great big party - to them. The festival site will be dotted with connect and resource the great and the washing up stations to facilitate this, and to good working at the frontline of change – encourage serendipitous meetings. Victoria Hawkwood’s Seed Festival is in many ways tells me: “I’m hoping people meet their future more of a conference in a field,” explains husbands or wives at the washing up bowl.” Victoria. Among the headline speakers this year are long-time festival supporter Rob The full programme for this year’s Seed Hopkins, founder of the Transition Town Festival, which will take place between 19th movement, BBC Springwatch presenter and 21st July 2019 at Hawkwood College, is Gillian Burke and The RSA President Matthew now available online at seedfestival.co.uk. Taylor. For Stroud residents, there are non-camping A packed programme of workshops tickets available at a reduced rate of £95. See and talks features innovative participatory you in the fields! Matt formats such as ‘hive mind sessions’ and Harvey ‘crucial conversations’ designed to engage the voices of not only the presenters but also Lucy White is a freelance writer and creative the audience, which has historically featured based in Nailsworth, mostly to be found in the a potent mix of movers and shakers. “We’ve woods or by the river when not at her desk. been really mindful over the last two years of Specialising in web content for creatives, local breaking up the ‘experts in the room’ format,” businesses and entrepreneurs at glowingphrases. says Victoria, “we are bringing in more circles com, instagram@lucyroseuk to really acknowledge who’s in the room.” As well as much talk, there will of course be action! Hands on skills-based workshops - covering topics such as how to live without plastic, making your own toothpaste and seed saving - are on offer throughout the weekend. This year, more than ever, the organisers are out to really walk their talk. “We are really trying to be the change”, says Victoria, “to test-drive it. We’ve got a deep green audience, surely we can do it.” The team are building their own compost toilets on site, installing water filters at all the water stations, and implementing a total ban on disposable cups, plates and cutlery. Festival participants Rob will be required to bring their own cup, plate Hopkins and cutlery and will be provided with a smart 06 Literature #52 | July 2019

REBELLIONEXTINCTION By Matt Shinn Images by Ruth Davey/Look Again

CAN THERE BE ANYONE IN STROUD “XR was formed in the face of the went up to London in April for nearly UK Government’s inaction in dealing two weeks of protests, and found WHO STILL HASN’T HEARD OF with the problem of climate change, themselves all over the global media. or even in telling the truth about it. From the XR Press team’s point EXTINCTION REBELLION (XR)? FOR Across the world, governments and of view, it was a very intense time, THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN AWAY AT the mainstream media are not talking according to Alanna. “There were honestly about this most serious crisis moments when we felt we weren’t being SEA FOR A WHILE, ALANNA DONNA, that we face. But we’ve been told we fairly portrayed, but overall the coverage have a limited window to solve the was brilliant, and quite honest. Part of WHO WORKS ON MEDIA MESSAGING problem: this is our last chance to do that was down to our reaching out to all AND CO-ORDINATION AS PART OF something about this. XR is a group sides of the media, including the right- of people who are fed-up and afraid. wing press. But really we’re beyond THE XR PRESS TEAM, GIVES A BRIEF We’re a peaceful activist movement, politics here: we’re not one side of the EXPLANATION: “WE’RE A MOVEMENT a network of people who believe that, political aisle or the other. We’ve tried if we’re going to solve this, the only to get across the message that this is OF CONCERNED CITIZENS. EXTINCTION way now is through non-violent civil about everyone: this is your kids too.” disobedience.” “We have to talk about this honestly, REBELLION IS A COLLECTIVE OF XR is growing exponentially, because this is an emergency. When we PEOPLE WHO ARE DEEPLY WORRIED including internationally. But it’s fair did have negative stories in the press, to say that the movement was born we reached out to those journalists ABOUT THE CLIMATE CRISIS, THE in Stroud, with deep roots in Stroud’s and invited them to come and meet long history of radicalism. Stroud with us, and some of them did. We’re FUTURE OF THE PLANET, AND THE KIND residents Gail Bradbrook and Simon slowly getting through to different areas OF WORLD WE LEAVE OUR CHILDREN.” Bramwell have been key figures in its of the media: it’s an on-going battle to development. It would also be difficult engage.” to miss the bus-loads of Stroudies who Now there’s an Extinction #52 | July 2019 Literature 07

(it’s also available in various electronic "WHEN WE DID HAVE NEGATIVE formats). “Of course, this is important to us, to have this approach. This is the STORIES IN THE PRESS, WE first book that Penguin has printed in this way. You have to bear these things REACHED OUT TO THOSE in mind when you’re an environmental movement!” JOURNALISTS AND INVITED So what does Alanna hope the book will achieve? “We’re all about THEM TO COME AND MEET truth-telling, and that’s what this book is about. It’s about getting the message WITH US, AND SOME OF THEM out there in a different way, and reaching more people, bringing on more DID. WE’RE SLOWLY GETTING activists.” “What we hope from the book is that THROUGH TO DIFFERENT AREAS it will help people feel more empowered, help them to understand the truth of the OF THE MEDIA: IT’S AN ON- climate crisis, and help them to step GOING BATTLE TO ENGAGE.” up. We’re in the movement-building phase: we’ve had an enormous amount of success in a very short period, but as we continue to put pressure on the Government we need to continue EXTINCTION engaging with the public, and helping them to do their part. This is a deeply honest book, but one with a lot of promise and a lot of hope.” REBELLION

Rebellion book: This is Not a Drill, about how we did it: how we achieved with contributions from many different what we did. How we built a vibrant, XR supporters, including former engaging protest, empowering people Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan to become activists themselves.” Williams and the Green Party’s Caroline In Penguin, XR have found Lucas. The book was originally planned themselves a big, mainstream publisher for September, but because of the (the book has the famous penguin logo success of the April protests publishers tilted so that the bird appears to be Penguin have brought it forward, also on its back, as if climate change has ensuring that it coincides with the done it in). “They’ve been very keen publication of Swedish climate change to work with us,” says Alanna. “Apart activist Greta Thunberg’s book, No One from anything else it’s a beautiful book, Is Too Small to Make a Difference. with lavish illustrations (we have such This is Not a Drill was born from a brilliant creative arts team, who the idea of getting the XR message have developed XR’s look). “ Not that across to a wider audience. Originally you’ll find many of the people who it was planned largely as a book about worked on the book being individually the science of climate change, but it credited: much of the work of putting has evolved into something different, the book together is put down just to including as it does personal testimony ‘Extinction Rebellion,’ continuing the This is Not a Drill published by Penguin from people who are on the front line theme of collective action. But then, this is available now. For further information, of climate change around the world is a broad movement of many people, updates and Extinction Rebellion news (firefighters in California, for example). which is also why the book features visit rebellion.earth The second half of the book is now many voices among its contributors: an ‘Extinction Rebellion handbook’: as Gail Bradbrook says in the book’s it explains how you too can become blurb, it represents the “crowd-sourced Matt Shinn runs Whole New Chapter Ltd, a a climate change activist. “Following knowledge of the XR movement.” Stroud-based editorial and design agency. the protests in April,” says Alanna, And in case you were wondering, the wholenewchapter.co.uk “we wanted to add lots of information book is printed on carbon-neutral paper 08 Literature / Spoken Word /Comedy Listings #52 | July 2019

Hawkwood’s Seed Festival returns for TETBURY GOODS SHED LITERATURE/SPOKEN its fourth year celebrating courageous leadership, creative expression WEDS 17TH and innovation in partnership with WORD LISTINGS our natural world. Climate leaders, Writers At the Goods Shed: John change-makers, speakers, activists, Greening musicians, poets, connectors, John Greening’s most recent facilitators, film-makers and artists publications are the popular gift will all descend to the beautiful anthology Ten Poems about Sheds surroundings of Hawkwood College (2018) and a fine press limited edition, ft. Dr Gail Bradbrook, Dame Fiona Achill Island Tagebuch (2019) from Reynolds, Maddy Harland, Juliet Red Fox Press. These 24 sonnets were Davenport and many more. written during a stay at the Heinrich Böll Cottage, a writers’ retreat on seedfestival.co.uk Achill, western Ireland. His new full collection is the Silence (Carcanet, June, 2019), which will be followed STAR ANISE in the autumn by a pamphlet from New Walk: Europa’s Flight. Open mic ALE HOUSE the 50th anniversary of the first moon FRI 12TH follows the talk. 7pm £4otd landing. At the Museum they are Coffee House Meeting shed-arts.co.uk MON 8TH launching a brand new trail for the Critical Thinking: It’s good to have an summer holidays…The galleries seem open mind, but not so open that your Piranha Poetry: Robin Tree Fellow, to be full of astronauts who never David C Johnson, Sarah Snell-Pym brains fall out. The honest pursuit of NEW BREWERY ARTS made it to the moon. Can you find truth should be everyone’s objective. Season 2 finale of Piranha Poetry them? Where have they landed? 11am But it is impossible to avoid prejudice CIRENCESTER hosted by Gary Death ft. headliner Free (donations welcome) and bias derived from our subjective Robin Tree Fellow: The poems he personal experience and what we WEDS 24TH writes have been inspired/inflicted SAT 27TH seek to know. No matter how rational Modern Calligraphy by nature, the land, ecological Roger Phillips MBE: Plant Lore from we think ourselves we eagerly fall destruction, politics and the absurdity Herbs to Fungi back to rule-of-thumb and intuition Join Emerald Paper Design on of humans, David C Johnson: A witty whenever possible.. It’s just easier and a beginners guide to modern and quirky performance poet, who The acclaimed author, presenter essential to be able to live our lives. So calligraphy. During the session, key mixes his stand-up humour with his and photographer Roger Phillips will how should we respond to issues such modern calligraphy basics will be own verse. His inspiration comes from be giving an illustrated lecture to as Nuclear Energy, Aircraft Contrails, covered; how to use the essential the bizarre and alarming world that accompany the summer exhibition Climate Change, EMF Radiation, tools, mark making drills to practice we live in and Sarah Snell –Pym: Saffy ‘Mussi’s Herbal’. Come and discover 5G Technology, Homeopathy, MMR applying pressure to your new pen, the Purple Poet a.k.a. Sarah Snell- the fascinating world of plant lore Vaccines, Lizard People, the Illuminati and alphabet practices before moving Pym the Artistic Scientist or Scientific past and present, then enjoy tea and and Economics? Come along and on to whole words. 10am-12pm £40 Artist likes mixing things up adding cake a look around the beautiful join the discussion. 7:30pm Free music and image to poems. 7:30pm garden with its stunning summer (donations welcome) WEDS 31ST Free borders designed by Cleo Mussi. 2pm Case Bound Book £7/£5concs facebook.com/StarAniseStroud Suitable for complete beginners and ATELIER museuminthepark.org.uk those with experience working with THE SUB ROOMS paper or needlework, this workshop THURS 11TH is an introduction to the art of THE PRINCE ALBERT bookbinding…10am-4pm £90 Sex Conversations FRI 19TH A monthly space to come and talk SUN 7TH Interview With A Serial Killer newbreweryarts.org.uk about SEX. This is such a taboo Attila the Stockbroker Join retired British policeman and subject- in this safely yet bravely held author Paul Harrison as he gives space we will talk about relationships, Powerful, passionate, personal, a chilling insight into the minds of pleasure, consent, loneliness, political punk performance poetry some of the most terrifying killers connection and more. What are plus perceptive songs. 39 years of from the UK, and all over the world. COMEDY YOU going to talk about? Sex them! Sharp-tongued, high energy, As part of his 40 year career as a Conversations. For further info visit social surrealist rebel poet and criminal profiler Paul has interviewed evakaria.com/sex-conversations songwriter. His themes are topical, more than 70 serial killers and LISTINGS his words hard-hitting, his politics mass murderers in order to gain unashamedly radical, but Attila THURS 18TH an unrivalled understanding into will make you roar with laughter as what drove them to commit their Creative Spaces Creating COTSWOLD PLAYHOUSE well as seethe with anger...7:30pm terrible crimes. This eye-opening Communities £8adv/£9otd and entertaining talk covers 12 tragic Micro production and community and at times terrifying stories – with FRI 19TH theprincealbertstroud.co.uk spaces – a utopian vision for photos, a history of each crime and Seabright Productions: The National Merrywalks. Introduction by Dominic details revealed to Paul by the killers Trust Fan Club Thomas and Kath Child. 7pm STRATFORD PARK LEISURE themselves.8pm £21.50-£41.50 Join Helen Wood’s one-woman quest to visit every National Trust site and atelierstroud.co.uk CENTRE thesubrooms.co.uk become the NT’s biggest super-fan. Don’t miss this chance to see Helen’s SAT 6TH BLACK BOOK CAFÉ NEWARK PARK OZLEWORTH new show before it appears at the Stroud Festival of Nature: Steve Edinburgh Fringe, following hot on Backshall the heels of sell-out hit The Ordnance WEDS 17TH SAT 6TH JULY – SUN 1ST SEPT Survey Map Fan Club. Packed to the Stroud Radical Reading Group: Stroud Nature is delighted to Harper Collins Books Presents: The brim with Goretex, cream teas, and a welcome Steve Backshall to this Wangari Maathai's The Challenge for Tiger Who Came To Tea loyal canine assistant (when NT rules Africa year’s festival as their guest speaker. allow). 7:30pm £11 Previous talks by George Monbiot, Newark Park celebrates the 50th Part of SRRG's series of discussions Ian Redmond and Chris Packham anniversary of the much loved classic cotswoldplayhouse.co.uk - based around texts reflecting have been hugely successful and no children’s book The Tiger Who Came on the environmental and climate doubt Steve will also entertain and to Tea by Judith Kerr. The exhibition crises we face. Wangari Maathai inspire his audience for he has many originated by Seven Stories, the THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE was the founder of the Green Belt experiences and wildlife encounters National Centre for Children’s Books, Movement and the 2004 Nobel Peace in partnership with HarperCollins to share from his adventures around THURS 18TH Prize Laureate. More details and the world. Steve’s talk will end Children's Books - brings this excerpt for discussion available from with a short question and answer delightful and enduring picture book Probably the Best Comedy Night in the stroudradicalreading.wordpress.com. session. Following his talk, Steve to a new generation of families. 'The World 7:30pm Free will be signing some of the books Tiger Who Came to Tea' will be in Featuring up and coming talent and he has written. If you are attending, the Buff Bedroom and the Newark blackbookcafe.com headlined by Daniel Triscott - all the ticket you purchase could win exhibition room on the top floor of the held together by the inimitable Gavin you copies of these books! 7:30pm house from 6 July - 1 September. You Pond…8pm Free £25adult/£15under 18’s can visit the tiger every weekday from THE MUSEUM IN THE PARK 11am to 5pm (last admission 4.30pm). crownandsceptrestroud.com stroudnature.org Admission to the exhibition is included SAT 13TH JULY – SUN 8TH SEPT in your admission (free for National Trust members and under 5s). Lost in Space (and Time) Trail SEED FESTIVAL This year’s Summer Reading nationaltrust.org.uk/newark-park Challenge is Space Chase, an out- FRI 19TH – SUN 21ST JULY of-this-world adventure inspired by #52 | July 2019 Theatre / Dance Listings 09

the arranged marriage she knows is on its RANDWICK VILLAGE HALL Graham Jones should be in the Guinness THEATRE way. With ‘explosive’ battles (Theatre Bath) World Records for visiting more record and thumping beats, this new adaptation shops than any other person. Following explores the darker side of Shakespeare’s SAT 20TH hundreds of record shop closures, and /DANCE story through the eyes of the people used Mikron Theatre Company: All Hands worried that record shops would go the and forgotten by history. 7:30pm £12 On Deck way of stamp shops, coin shops and candlestick makers, he toured the UK to LISTINGS A tale of two Wrens, told with Mikron’s THURS 25TH interview the owners and staff of 50 record blend of humour, pathos and songs. 7:30pm shops and document their tales for his book DOT Productions: Sense and Sensibility £13/£11concs - to book and for further Last Shop Standing: Whatever Happened Hero’s, heartbreak, heroines and villains, all information call 01453 758 138. to Record Shops? The Vinyl Revival explores topped off with Dot Productions renowned the renaissance in all things vinyl hearing comedic style will have you falling in love mikron.org.uk from passionate new record shops owners with this wonderful adaptation of the as well the established die-hards still going beloved Austen novel. 7:30pm £12 ST LAURENCE CHURCH and thriving plus musicians and music COTSWOLD PLAYHOUSE industry pundits, experts on culture and cotswoldplayhouse.co.uk music history. There will also be a music THURS 4TH SAT 13TH quiz with prizes, tales from the industry Paper Jungle: Three Suns and maybe some records played too! 8pm Bristol Old Vic Theatre School: The MUSEUM IN THE PARK £5adv from SVA and Sound Records. (John Canterbury Tales Weaving together innovative puppetry, Street) storytelling and live music, Three Suns A colourful cast of characters set off for SAT 27TH Canterbury, competing to tell their tales of tells three stories from three different sva.org.uk love, lust, adventure and chivalry. Brimming Jenny Wren Productions: The Scarlet continents - from the Caribbean, to Europe, with verve and energy, Chaucer’s well- Pimpernel to the Middle East. We rejoice in the cosy loved stories are brought beautifully and relationship we have with our home, whilst PAINSWICK CENTRE Outdoor theatre! A small troupe of actors being transported to other cultures where vividly alive by the students from Bristol Old adopt many disguises, accents and Vic Theatre School. 7:30pm £12 we taste the flavour of new lands. As part of FRI 5TH probably some beards, as Baroness Orczy’s Playground Festival. 4pm from £5 classic adventure story gets the Jenny Wick-Flix Presents: A Private War FRI 19TH Wren treatment. Bring low backed chairs stlaurencefuture.org.uk or blankets to sit on and clothing to suit all A moving biographical drama, celebrating Seabright Productions: The National weathers. Gates open at 6.30pm, picnics the life of war correspondent Marie Colvin. Trust Fan Club welcome, drinks and ice creams on sale. PAINSWICK ROCOCO GARDEN Driven by an enduring desire to bear Join Helen Wood’s one-woman quest to 7:30pm £12/£10concs/£8under 16’s witness and tell the story of the people, visit every National Trust site and become Colvin charges into danger, fleeing from TUES 2ND gunfire and constantly testing the limits the NT’s biggest super-fan. Don’t miss museuminthepark.org.uk this chance to see Helen’s new show The Handlebard Ladies: The Tempest between bravery and bravado. Directed before it appears at the Edinburgh Fringe, by Matthew Heineman and starring RODBOROUGH COMMUNITY HALL The Ladies have been a very popular Rosamund Pike, Greg Wise, Tom Hollander following hot on the heels of sell-out hit The addition to the Rococo Garden’s Ordnance Survey Map Fan Club. Packed to and Jamie Dornan. 7pm £7 (includes a free programme - fingers crossed for another drink!) the brim with Goretex, cream teas, and a SAT 20TH idyllic evening's weather like last year! loyal canine assistant (when NT rules allow). 6:30pm 7:30pm £11 Mikron Theatre Company: Redcoats painswickcentre.com Set in a Butlins holiday camp, with the WEDS 19TH – THURS 20TH SAT 20TH usual Mikron blend of humour, pathos ELECTRIC PICTURE HOUSE and songs. The performance will be The Handlebard Gents: Much Ado Apricity Theatre: The Breach outside if the weather is fine. You may like About Nothing WOTTON UNDER EDGE Henry is a violent man, and a threat too to bring a rug and/or a picnic. No need Yes - they tour the country by bike and great for France to ignore as his armies to book. A collection will be taken after they perform Shakespeare outdoors. MON 1ST/WEDS 3RD/THURS 4TH plunder their churches and burn their towns the performance. For further information Witty, intelligent and fit, this is one of to the ground. Henry’s soldiers struggle contact: 01453 758 138. 1pm Gloria Bell Painswick Rococo Garden’s highlights of the to come to terms with the blood they year…6:30pm Julianne Moore stars as a divorcee, in have shed in the name of their king, while mikron.org.uk Sebastian Lello’s remake of his Chilean hit. Princess Katherine prepares herself for Mon and Weds 8.15pm/Thurs 7:30pm SAT 27TH Illyria: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves FRI 5TH/MON 8TH Young Ali Baba stumbles across an Booksmart enchanted cave when he overhears the magic words that open it: “Open Sesame!”. Two straight-A High School students take Inside the cave he finds untold amounts one last chance to party, in the acclaimed of gold and jewels, and takes some of it teen comedy. Fri 7:30pm/Mon 8:15pm home to show his wife. But what will he do when she chides him for stealing? Can he TUES 9TH keep the secret from his jealous brother? And when the Robber King and his ary of Armstrong 40 thieves come looking for the missing Documentary telling the definitive story treasure, will he and his family survive? This of Neil Armstrong - the first man on the is the first visit by this renowned theatre moon. Featuring breath-taking NASA company to the stunning surroundings of footage, re-mastered archive material and the gardens…2:30pm never-before-seen home movie footage; as well as interviews with his family, fellow rococogarden.org.uk astronauts and aviators. This special event features exclusive additional footage recorded at the world premiere on 2nd July NEWARK PARK OZLEWORTH and will be followed by a recorded Q&A hosted by Dara O'Briain alongside Mark FRI 26TH Armstrong (Neil's son), Maggie Aderin- Pocock MBE (BBC Sky At Night) and the Sense and Sensibility filmmakers. 7:30pm A summer evening of outdoor theatre in Newark Park’s glorious grounds. Elinor SUN 14TH Dashwood has a lot of good Sense. Her sister Marianne Dashwood has an excess Glyndebourne: The Barber of Seville of Sensibility. Together they make a snappy Mischief and mayhem run riot in Rossini's title for Jane Austen’s classic novel of most popular comedy, recorded live in scandals, scoundrels and severely sprained 2016. 5:30pm ankles. Bring a rug or some outdoor seating, and don't forget your picnic! Dress for the weather. 7pm £13adult/£8.50child THURS 25TH NT Live: The Lehman Trilogy nationaltrust.org.uk/newark-park Broadcast live from London: the story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single FILM evening. Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, The Ferryman) directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and LISTINGS Ben Miles who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons. 7pm SVA wottoncinema.com

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Cleo Mussi’s new collection of inventive mosaics are on show at the Museum in the Park this summer. An exploration of ‘all the idle weeds that grow’, the vegetable guerrillas and common place plant CLEO escapees and trespassers that mark the well-trodden tracks of human migration and movement, the spectacular show has been a long time in the making. MUSSI As ever, Cleo has meticulously researched every By Lorna Davies aspect of the show, resulting in comical, thought- Images by Article Studio provoking, beautiful pieces, at once topical and historic. I got a sneak peek of the works before she completed them, over a cup of (appropriately) herbal tea in her astounding home-come-studio near Stroud town centre…

The sunshine streams through the figures, animals, toys, objects and large windows of one of the rooms. robots – all made of carefully clipped We perch carefully amongst broken crockery. She’s been in Stroud for 20 ceramics, artworks, research notes, years, moving from Putney. She studied magazine clippings, photos and books. textiles at Goldsmith’s College in “It’s about the evolution of plants and London in the 1980s and experimented how different people have migrated to with recycled fabrics before moving on England and Great Britain and brought to ceramics. It’s her fourth solo show plants with them, either on their feet at the Museum in the Park, where she or clothing, or brought with them for also heads up planting in the stunning food or medicine, and about how a lot garden. “The Museum in the Park of plants have been spread through is brilliant, the people that run it are migratory paths,” Cleo explains. fantastic, we are so lucky to have it,” Cleo creates mosaic sculptures and she enthuses. two-dimensional pieces of flowers, It’s still a few months before the #52 | July 2019 Art 11

exhibition opens when we meet, but medical.” medicines, including the fantastic carefully breathing new, awe-inspiring many of the pieces Cleo makes are so There are notes spread across Quack doctor – the figure holds a bottle life into old ceramics. It’s something large in scale (there are over 100 life- her desk, from English botanist John labelled ‘fake news so sad so sad’ – as Cleo is passionate about, and we vent size mosaics) that she has made a lot of Gerard, author of Herball, published in well as medicine bottles of seep bark, our mutual annoyance of supermarket progress. “Everything is a self-portrait 1597, to elder, which Romans ate, but is happy pills, eye bright and more. plastics before I leave. actually. They are all me. I only sort of incredibly invasive, to dandelions, which “The field poppy and opium poppy As we stand in her store cupboard realised that the other day, because I were believed to cure a broken heart. are the darkest pieces that I’ve got – full to the brim of old plates, bowls have to draw round myself to get the “It’s hundreds and thousands of years and they are going to be horizontal, and other china in colour order – I see scale. We start with the Green Man, of history so it’s hard to pin it down to like they are tomb effigies. Then there the breadth and depth her work. I ask then jump to Romans, three characters an exhibition that is nine metres by nine is loads of stuff to do with witches how much planning is involved: “It that represent the Greek and Roman metres!” Cleo exclaims. and cleaning things, then there’s all evolves,” Cleo ponders. “There isn’t a influences, and those particular figures Aside from the figures, the exhibition the Shakespearean connections – lot of planning. I might get an idea for were inspired by [Renaissance artist] will also include a whole wall related woodbine, oxlips. Shakespeare was something from a piece and it’ll lead Cranach the Elder. Then we move on to to the Doctrine of Signatures. Now a very good friend of Gerard and they onto something else. It’s just such good the Burry Man.” She gestures towards considered to be pseudoscience, lived in close proximity. There are all fun, I just love it and this is what really a huge green figure, with comical eyes the doctrine dates from the times of these little connections.” excites me.” and mouth peeping out from his burr- Dioscorides and Galen, and states that It’s a natural topic for Cleo – “I am covered body. The Burry Man is the herbs resembling certain parts of the very interested in plants and gardening Mussi’s Herbal is at the Museum in the central figure of an annual ceremony in body can be used to treat ailments and in man’s evolution,” she says. Her Park, 13th July – 26th August with a South Queensferry in Edinburgh, where of those body parts. “There are very dad was an engineer, and her mum a private view on Friday 12th July from a local man is covered in burrs and well known ones like Pulvinaria, which keen gardener and biology teacher. 6-8pm. Look out for special linked paraded through the town. It’s thought is a leaf that is mottled like a lung. Cleo’s work seems to be a lovely workshops, family drop in activities to be good luck to give him whiskey Then others are lungwort, used for combination of both, with a huge dollop and a talk on plant lore by acclaimed and money. pulmonary infections. Some of them of creativity, humour and politics added author Roger Phillips MBE. For further Then there’s a figure covered in have been analysed now and do have in. “I just love that play on images and information visit mussimosaics.co.uk woad, a powerful astringent plant used these qualities, and others are complete words. I put that fake news [part of the and museuminthepark.org.uk in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Britain as rubbish. I’ve got peonie which was Quack Doctor artwork] on Instagram a healing plaster. “Each piece is a used to cure malaria-type symptoms, and some people were really, ‘are reflection of the times we live in. They they’d shake a peony root over you you dissing our president?’ I just kept Lorna Davies is an editor and freelance are political, but in a subtle way, they and that was supposed to cure you – quiet. But it was so interesting. Yes, journalist from Stroud. She also paints and offer comment on the world around us,” completely bonkers. I’ll have a whole that is one side of fake news but that’s sells her work during Stroud Open Studios says Cleo. “There are many trackways wall with these elements and that been going on forever, fake surgeons, and in Made in Stroud. Instragram: @ and pathways of these herbs and will be arms and legs and plants and doctors.” lornapaintsandwrites plants, some of which are invasive, things.” Another topical element is that every some of which are edible, some are The show then moves onto fake art work is recycled in its way, Cleo 12 Arts Listings #52 | July 2019

ARTS LISTINGS

ART OF CLAY A retrospective of a life’s work by STROUD AND STONEHOUSE FRI 21ST JUNE – FRI 12TH JULY David Skingle, Head of Print at the RAILWAY STATION Open Exhibition Clay Sinclair Sir John Cass School of Art, exploring the intersection between physical Studio 18 is a new and exciting arts Provocative post-pop paintings on FRI 26TH APRIL – FRI 26TH JULY and spiritual worlds and exhibited warehouse project situated along the Perspex by local/international artist posthumously by the artist’s daughter. Connecting Stroud and Stonehouse canal in Brimscombe. Exhibiting work Clay Sinclair situated at 48 High Street. 10am-5pm/Private view Mon 15th 7pm On the 26th of April 2019 Stroud Station from both local and afar, spanning Plus prints for those on a budget and medium such as film, installation, People's Republic of Stroud tat for those Hub and an exhibition of words and TUES 30TH JULY – SUN 4TH AUG images celebrating the railway and sculpture and a full range of visual art joining the revolution. Open Mon – Fri including works by Angela Mullen- 11am-5pm/Sat 10am-5pm Lansdown Art Showcase the Stroudwater canal was launched at Stroud and Stonehouse Railway Bryan, Angelo Santonicola, Damien Lansdown Hall and Gallery will be Sung, Frances Clark-Stone, Freya Tate, claysinclair.com stations. The images for the exhibitions hosting its first Arts Showcase inviting at Stroud and Stonehouse were created James Kum, Kazz Hollick, Mustafa local emerging artists to submit their by Stroud-based photographers Ruth Sami, Nicola Grellier, Sean Heather, DUFFLE VINTAGE work to be shown in the Gallery. 10am- Davey from Look Again and James Siobain Drury and many more…Open 5pm/Private view Tues 30th July 7pm Kriszyk who worked with photography weekends 10am-6pm and weekdays by As well as stocking vintage furniture students from Stroud College and local appointment. lansdownhall.org and clothing Patrick’s shop acts as photographers with poems and words facebook.com/studio18stroud a revolving gallery for local artists written by pupils from local schools. creating a unique and unconventional THE MUSEUM IN THE PARK Creating this exhibition was designed exhibition space. Currently showing to build confidence and develop SVA works by Melvyn Warren-Smith, Dan SAT 8TH JUNE – SUN 7TH JULY opportunities and skills by giving local Rawlings, Steven Hubbard, Zoe Heath, people a voice, a chance to be creative FRI 21ST JUNE – SUN 7TH JULY Susan Kester, Haruko Boot, Nick Purcell, Gloucestershire Printmaking Cooperative Summer Print Show and to show their work in public. This Adam White: Lures for the Landlocked Jo Caslin and Emily Seffar plus Lazy is a community project created by Dog Box guitars and Revelray custom The Gloucestershire Printmaking members of the local community, Following his successful exhibition at guitars by Gordon Simpson. Mon –Sat Cooperative has over 100 members, Creative Sustainability CIC and GWR. Gloucester Cathedral at the beginning 10am-6:30pm/Sun 10am-6pm many who regularly exhibit locally and of the year, Adam White is bringing his nationally. This exhibition is a sample cscic.org lures and paintings down to the SVA facebook.com/dufflevintage of the wide range of work from large gallery. Over a hundred painted and screen prints to intricate artists’ books. carved fishing lures, entitled ‘Lures for Meet the artists on Sundays 9th, 16th, STEVE RUSSELL GALLERY the Landlocked - Beware of Savage ELVERS STUDIO 23rd, 30th June and 7th July, 2– 4pm. Hooks: Guess Who Lives in the Alphabait SAT 11TH MAY – TBC MON 1ST – TBA Workshops also available – visit website Soup?’. Each lure is accompanied by for further info! Nov Stereoscopic Vision: A Spotlight on mischievous text that describes helpful The Gucci Show the Chameleons of Rwenzori ‘fishing tips’ for catching various A bag exhibition for shoppers, sample SAT 13TH JULY – MON 26TH AUG Statuesque creatures, radiating species. Also on display will be Adam’s the delights of bags and a model world, Mussi’s Herbal luminous vibrance from every Brex-art ‘tribute’ to parliament in shed works on paper and gilded adornments snakeskin called “The Reptile House”. A new collection of inventive mosaics cell, chameleons are mesmerising for the cultured and the uncultured subjects to photograph. Their jewel- Adam used shed snake-skins to create pearls of swine. by Stroud-based artist Cleo Mussi. An art and uncoil the wild shenanigans ornament of comely grace featuring like pigments glow from every tiny chromatophore, saturating the eye with going on in Westminster. 10am-5pm Fri, facebook.com/Elversstudio garlands of the head, nosegaies and Sat and Sundays (John Street) poesies for the recreation of mind and living colour and detail. Their ponderous movements make them brilliantly wholeness of being. An exploration FRI 12TH – SAT 20TH GALLERY PANGOLIN of ‘all the idle weeds that grow’, the obliging animals in front of the camera, vegetable guerrillas and common except when it’s feeding time - but Playground Fest Exhibition MON 8TH – FRI 26TH JULY/MON place plant escapees and trespassers Steve had great fun photographing this Exhibition inspired by the art of play. 12TH – FRI 23RD AUG that mark the well-trodden tracks of in the wild. Back in the UK, a collection Expect surprises….(John Street) of dead chameleons needed the Anthony Abrahams: Memorial human migration and movement. After ultimate studio set-up. Though they Exhibition exploring the exhibition, be sure to take SAT 13TH provide a bit of a contrast to the live a wander around the Walled Garden, Street Wisdom This exhibition celebrates the work of Cleo’s living, growing, every changing animals, these dead ones are elevated a much-loved Gloucestershire artist mosaic of colourful and dramatic plants by a certain opalescent quality, Anna Rae-Jones of everyleaf.co.uk and demonstrates his zestful and and flowers. Look out for special linked beautiful in its own right. 11am -4pm leads free monthly groups hosted adventurous approach to making art in workshops, family drop in activities and (show continues until mid-November.) by the SVA. Each event will enable both two and three dimensions. Mon-Fri a talk on plant lore by acclaimed author participants to take a mindful look 10am-6pm/Sat 10am-1pm Roger Phillips. Private view Fri 12th July steverussellgallery.com around Stroud town centre on market 6-8pm day, in order to find individual answers gallery-pangolin.com and meaning, followed by sharing with STRATFORD PARK SAT 13TH JULY – MON 26TH AUG the group at the end. Free tickets are LANSDOWN HALL SUN 7TH available via the street wisdom website: Marianne North: Adventurer, Botanist, streetwisdom.org . Tickets are required Artist Look Again At Nature: Photography for TUES 2ND – SUN 7TH as places are limited. 10am (John Street) Discover the story of the inspirational Wellbeing Exhibition at Stroud Festival Jon Hastings: Outside In(Side) Out - Victorian explorer, artist and botanist, of Nature FRI 19TH Contemplations of Place in Paint Marianne North who was born and An exhibition showing photography Berliner Zeitgeist in Stroud New abstract oil paintings inspired by lived for much of her life in Hastings. by participants from four 6-week specific responses to particular places. She travelled the globe to satisfy her courses held around the Stroud District Can we as a creative town learn from A series of ‘blind’ charcoal drawings passion for recording the world’s who shared a wish to improve their a creative city? The SVA invite you to made on-site translate Jon’s sensory flowers and plants with her paintbrush. wellbeing, connect with others and an evening of talks and conversations and emotional responses into gestural At Kew Gardens, where Marianne get out and about in nature, using a with Berlin’s current art and culture marks which serve as a starting point North built her own gallery, there are blend of photography and mindfulness. figures. Hosted by Charles Landry for the paintings. 10am-5pm/Private 832 paintings, all completed in thirteen Working with Stroud-based an international author and thinker view Mon 1st 7-9pm years of travel round the world. This photographer Ruth Davey from Look around creative cities, Jo Leahy from exhibition was originally part of the Again. Partners include Stroud Nature, SVA, Kath Child from Atelier and Uta TUES 9TH – WEDS 10TH ‘Exploring Marianne North’ project Forest Green Rovers, All Pulling Together Baldauf a German born Stroud artist. Meet five Berliners who have helped Patterns of the World organised by Creative Force with and The Nelson Trust. The project is Hastings History Group, and supported funded by the Thriving Communities shape contemporary Berlin. This Work created by students at Uplands by the National Lottery Fund. Gallery fund from Gloucestershire County event is part of the SVA’s upcoming Community Primary School! Tues 9th Two opening times vary so please call Council. programme to celebrate the 30th 9:30am-2:30pm/5:30-7pm/Weds 10th ahead before making a special visit. year anniversary of the fall of the 9:30am-12pm look-again.org.uk Berlin wall and is also connected to museuminthepark.org.uk the current ‘Creative Spaces Creating TUES 16TH – SUN 21ST Communities’ series. Anke Fesel and David Skingle: More Than Matter STUDIO 18 Chris Keller, photographers, whose Mon—Sat 9am–5pm // Sun 10am–4pm www.newbreweryarts.org.uk June —

S a t 1 5 Sun 25 Aug 2019 Sun 25 Aug GL7 1JH Cirencester John John Wednesday – Saturday 10 am – 4 pm | www.thechapelarts.com – Saturday Wednesday Brewery Court Brewery Die New Brewery Arts Brewery New Must 01242 580077 | [email protected] | Knapp Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 3QQ. Gloucestershire, | Knapp Road, Cheltenham, 01242 580077 | [email protected] at Chapel Arts, Cheltenham Barleycorn Barleycorn An exhibition featuring work by two prominent local artists. local prominent by two work featuring An exhibition Wednesday 10th July to Saturday 27th July 27th July Saturday to 10th July Wednesday JOHN GORDON & JEREMY DUNCAN JOHN GORDON & 14 Art Listings #52 | July 2019

Berlin Wonderland documents the wool. Sarah is drawn to using natural visionaries, techno parties, art galleries fibres such as merino fleeces, flax and and riots that made Berlin a magnet. silk to create beautiful colourful images Dimitri Hegemann who founded the that are often embellished with stitch for For arts famous techno club Tresor that with a textured 3D effect.10am – 4pm Berghain represents the pulse of Berlin and whose campaign Happy TUES 18TH JUNE – FRI 26TH JULY and crafts Locals seeks to energize smaller towns. Miranda Millward Two recent changemakers are Ania Pilipenko, who heads the co-operative Vintage ephemera, old postcards, workshops and for Holzmarkt a large unusual riverside children’s books, paper sewing development and Robin Schellenberg, patterns, found photographs, volumes co-founder of Klunkerkranich, the of encyclopedia, lurid-coloured courses visit: rooftop club, with one of Berlin’s best cookbooks, magazines and discarded views, that transforms during the day papers are endlessly sought out, cut up, from a family gathering place into an layered, juxtaposed and transformed to evening club that helped revitalize create collaged works that play on our Atelier Pegasus Art Neukoelln. This evening gives us a collective and fragmented memories … unique opportunity to investigate how both visual and tactile. Miranda’s work atelierstroud.co.uk pegasusart.co.uk city changing projects develop. How is often playful and slightly tongue in can we as a small town draw parallels cheek but sometimes there is also a The Clay Loft The Sculpture Studio and embrace our own opportunity to sense of menace or of a story with an theclayloft.co.uk thesculpturestudio.co.uk create something unique. After the ambiguous ending…10am – 4pm talks there will be live music and food Craft at the Centre Sit Select TUES 18TH JUNE – FRI 26TH JULY will be served (including in ticket price). craftatthecentre.com sitselect.org The bar will be open for drinks. Follow Shannon Clegg Creative Stroud Berlin on Instagram. London-based maker Shannon Clegg 6pm £8adv from SVA/£9 from sva.org. Gloucestershire Printmaking Stroud College is designer and part-time educator Cooperative sgscol.ac.uk uk, £10otd. (Goods Shed) who works across a broad range of gpchq.co.uk craft-based materials and processes sva.org.uk to create products, furniture and Stroud Valley Artspace objects. For her exhibition with Prema, Hawkwood College sva.org.uk RUSKIN MILL NAILSWORTH Shannon will focus on her body of hawkwoodcollege.co.uk work “Bouquet” which started with Victoria Works Studio SAT 8TH JULY – MON 28TH AUG a scruffy old wooden flower press Imagine Therapeutic Arts victoriaworksstudios.co.uk Ruskin Mill College Students End of abandoned at a Wimbledon car boot imagine-therapeutic-arts.co.uk Year Exhibition sale. The lucky find was pocketed and New Brewery Arts rehomed in her London studio where Kendrick Street Gallery newbreweryarts.org.uk The summer exhibition represents it was deconstructed to explore a new and celebrates every student who has way of working the traditional 2D kendrickstgallery.co.uk attended Ruskin Mill College in the craft technique of pressing flowers. Prema Arts Centre previous academic year. During their The unique hand moulding process Make It Studios prema.org.uk time at college, each student follows a enables flowers to be pressed into a makeitstudios.com personalised curriculum derived from variety of 3D vase like forms that can be Ruskin Mill Trust’s unique Practical displayed as a centre piece - no need Skills Therapeutic Education method. for watering! 10am-4pm Their student journey offers a wealth of opportunities, reflected in the richly prema.org.uk packed displays of craft, art and culture offered here. FRESH AIR SCULPTURE SHOW LOOK AGAIN AT NATURE rmt.org CIRENCESTER Photography for Wellbeing Exhibition

PAINSWICK ROCOCO GARDEN SUN 16TH JUNE – SUN 7TH JULY This biennial sculpture exhibition SUN 26TH MAY – SUN 8TH SEPT provides a unique opportunity to see a creative mixture of traditional, modern Art Unbound and cutting-edge contemporary This summer, renowned curator Anna work in a stunning outdoor setting. Greenacre brings together works Fresh Air Sculpture 2019 will bring from both established sculptors and over 130 contemporary pieces of emerging British talent, set against the outside sculptural work to this fantastic stunning backdrop of Painswick Rococo tranquil setting at the Old Rectory in Garden. In a range of media including Quenington, with its expansive organic wood, stone, wire, ceramics and bronze, garden, lovely lawns, and River Coln this contemporary outdoor exhibition running through. The list of contributing has been designed to embrace the artists will be announced in March. natural beauty and creative energy of Artwork will include installations the rococo period. Sculptors include specifically for the gardens. Peter Beard, David Begbie, Aly Brown, Mike Chaikin, Alison Crowther, freshairsculpture.com Sophie Dickens, Luke Dickinson, Kim Francis,Alex Jones, Tony Lattimer, Sophie at the BIG NATURE FESTIVAL Marsham, Rebecca Newnham, Yorgos NEW BREWERY ARTS CENTRE Papadopoulos, Joe & Jenny Smith, CIRENCESTER Stratford Park, Stroud Guy Stevens, Anthony Turner, Clare Trenchard and Dominic Welch. SAT 15TH JUNE – MON 26TH AUG Sunday 7 July 11am to 5pm

John Barleycorn Must Die rococogarden.org.uk An exhibition showing photography by participants from four 6-week Taking its title from a traditional folk courses held around the Stroud District who shared a wish to improve song that celebrates the agricultural their wellbeing, connect with others and get out and about in nature, PREMA ARTS CENTRE ULEY cycle of wheat production, this using a blend of photography and mindfulness. exhibition marks the end of a TUES 18TH JUNE – FRI 26TH JULY programme of work led by artists Working with Stroud-based photographer Ruth Davey from Look Again. Sarah Brooker Matt Rowe and Laura Mansfield. The exhibtion looks at contemporary crafts In the earlier part of her creative career, FREE taster workshop Saturday 2pm to 3pm. BOOK NOW! such as corn dollies and corn weaving Sarah experimented with various To book email [email protected]. Only 12 places. with local community groups who work media including sculpture and metal with wheat growing, trading and use… before focussing her career on the then

fairly unknown medium of wet-felting. newbreweryarts.org.uk Her ability to draw is reflected in the intricacy of her felted pieces where she seems to be able to literally “paint” with EXHIBITIONS OPEN STUDIOS The GLOUCESTERSHIRE Local artists will be opening their private studios for SOCIETY OF ARTISTS will be you to watch them at work. Artists in and around holding their Summer Painswick will be opening their doors and showing their Exhibition in the Painswick Centre newest works here in the lovely village of Painswick gloucestershiresocietyartists.co.uk JACKIE GARNER Wildlife THE PAINSWICK CENTRE Artist Jackie Garner will be Five OPEN STUDIOS. exhibiting in the Cotswold Five artists will be exhibiting Room at the Painswick Centre daily in their real working jackiegarner.co.uk studios during ARTBURST DENIUS PARSON artburstpainswick.co.uk ADELE LAMBERT Woodcarver extraordinaire ANGE MULLEN BRYAN Denius will be exhibiting in BARBARA SWINDIN the Green Room at the HANNAH ELLIS Painswick Centre JAN PETRIE KAREN GREEN Botanical JANE GARBETT Artist and illustrator Karen will be Art Tutor, will be opening her exhibiting in the Green Room alongside Denius Parsons studio at ‘The Art Studio’, at the Painswick Centre Dover Mews, Vicarage Street, Painswick janegarbett.co.uk KERRY JANE AT THE FALCON’S INN. RUPERT AKER Rupert will be Kerry Jane will be showing showing his oil landscapes in and selling her work in her ARTBURST his studio, ‘The Loovre’ a shop next to the Falcon Continues its reputation for former gents toilet, designed MONICA FISHER by Sidney Barnsley promoting the Fine Arts, Arts Coloured pencil artist Monica will be exhibiting ANNE CASTLE Artist Anne Events and Creative Activities her work and demonstrating will be opening her studio spread across venues in and in the Bird Park Visitor Centre at St Mary’s Cottage, Victoria Street, Painswick GLOUCESTERSHIRE PRINT around Painswick. From COOP Original prints ranging Sat 17th / Mon 26th from etching to screen prints An ‘ArtBurst Trail’ around the village will take in more in the Gardiner Room at the Open Studios, Exhibitions, Demonstrations and events August 2019 Painswick Centre

This is to be held in the Church Rooms between OTHER EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES THE ‘ARTBURST’ the Car Park and lovely St Mary’s Churchyard. CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES. ArtBurst in association with ARTSPACE PAINSWICK will be planning daily A selection of work using a wide range of media EXHIBITION Arts activities for children of all ages throughout the event will displayed throughout ArtBurst & COMPETITION First Prize £500.00 Thanks to our generous new Second Prize £250.00 Sponsors ‘Town and Country Third Prize £100.00 Plus ‘Highly Commended’ Certificates as judged. Financial Planning’, Painswick, Details on how to enter visit artburstpainswick.co.uk FLORAL DISPLAY The Painswick Flower Guild we will again be holding a All submissions will be selected by the hanging committee will be presenting a themed Floral display in the beautiful St Mary’s Church in the heart of Painswick special Exhibition & Competition ‘Through the Year in Flowers’ inspired by Church Festivals during ARTBURST Painswick and local events RECITALS 2019.This years theme will be Artburst Painswick will be presenting 2 performances in ‘The Character of the Cotswolds’ the Church. One on Saturday 17th at 3.00 pm with Chris Hall (Baritone) and Robert Burgess (piano). and work may be entered with Another pre dinner concert at 6.00 pm Sunday 18th with Mariko Izumi (Piano) and Michael Henderson (Viola) original fine art pieces in any media including paintings, sculpture, drawing, photography, We are delighted that woodcarving, ceramics, mixed Retail Guru and television celebrity media and more Mary Portas has agreed to help CLASSIC CAR DISPLAY us with the judging and to present We will again be welcoming the Rolls Royce and the prizes at 12.00 noon on Bentley Enthusiasts Club, who, along with others, will be displaying their beautiful vintage and classic Saturday 17th August cars in the Painswick Centre car park 16 Music #52 | July 2019

DANSING FESTIVAL By Helen Elliott-Boult

I met with Keef Wesolowski- anything can be medicine, whether it’s Miles to discover all about plant, community, voice, dance, music any form of creativity, anything that the upcoming DanSing enables people to go through a healing Festival, coming to St process, to release anything that’s Laurence Church in Stroud, blocking them, on a psychological, 26th-28th July 2019…. physical or spiritual level. Part of that is letting go of any shaming that’s happened through conditioning as Keef smiled, took a deep breath we’ve grown up. I know for myself I Peia and took me on the journey of the was repeatedly told to stop singing by making of DanSing; “It was imagined as accessible as possible, so people taking part in environmental activism, everyone, as I was labelled tone deaf, into being”, he says, “while on retreat can come for the entire weekend, which is really in line with the work this caused me trauma in my system in Brazil. I was a big fan of Peia, she's have a Saturday pass, a Sunday pass, coming out of Stroud like Stop Ecocide and shame, as I love to sing. So what constantly on my playlist and I’m on her or attend an individual workshop or and the Extinction Rebellion.” is amazing about working with people mailing list. Myself, wife and business concert.” “We then move to Trinity Rooms for like Peia and Susie is that they create partner, Wioletta and our three year old “The Friday starts with Native the Sunday, in the morning we have a space where everyone can discover daughter were knee deep in the wilds American flute playing with Earth Little People and their Bigs, voice, their voice, not just for performance, but of Brazil, reconnecting with nature, Sound Medicine. These guys - Belen movement and games, which will accessing a huge resource of creativity, rewilding with existence. When the and Rikk are amazing, they do sound be a lot of fun for kids and parents/ enabling us to find our unique voice. phone buzzes - I’d normally ignore baths and teach how to make and play guardians. Moving on, we have DJ This helps us to be fully expressive it, but feel the pull and check out an Native American Flutes.Then Movement Osara for the Ecstatic Dance, working human beings and empowers us with email offering the chance to work with Medicine with Cacao, a very earthy raw with Pang Orchestra, which will be more freedom and choice in all areas of Peia and promote her UK tour. The medicine, with an amazing tradition for beautiful. Then Peia has a three hour our lives.” only catch is I need to offer something connecting people. This is what I’m voice workshop, Song of the Ancients, “I went on a journey of sex, drugs truly special, something unique and most excited about. On the first evening really empowering people to find their and rock n roll”, he confides, “before quirky and yet have it finalised in a few of the festival we have manifested 11 voice, then sing together in different I discovered through Movement precious weeks. So we pull out the world class musicians including Peia, traditions.” Medicine and empowering voice work stops, work through the night, gather Susie Ro, Sivani Mata, Benjamin Tree “For our finale - the cherry on the that I can sing! I can dance! I can help musicians, workshop facilitators and and Tabla Tom, to be part of the event.” cake - we’ll be opening our hearts and others to learn this about themselves, movement artists from far afield and “Saturday morning, we have Dawn voices with Sivani Mata, who is in my too.” right here in Stroud. Peia loves it. She’s Morgan an extraordinary teacher, who opinion by far the best Kirtan leader “We, Awakening the Wild, create coming, it’s going to happen.” most people will know of in Stroud and on the planet, she is pure devotional a range of possibilities with the same So he tells me the tale, explains Nick Twilley, a famous percussionist, heart. Sivani Mata is supported by intention, an in-road to that can be Awakening the Wild and the medicine with a different approach to getting Elise Cohen, who has just recorded through song, dance or other creative of movement; “mind, heart and people moving. For lunchtimes we a devotional album to Lakshmi and portals, where we can provide a well soul together, love in action. It’s for have Lua Maria, a beautiful singer- was so excited about this, that she’s held, safe space, for people to let go of Everyone, it’s for those who are already songwriter from Devon. In the afternoon launching her album this weekend.” their stress and release their tensions familiar and love what we do, for those on Saturday we have Susie Ro, who “If you’re interested and want to and explore different ways of moving, who we’ve piqued an interest and launched her album at St Laurence’s find out more, please feel comfortable and find how their current state feels those who never knew what music and last year, she will be back to do an and happy to attend any of our events, within their body, such as grief or movement could do. It’s for children, Awakening the Soul’s Song singing you will be welcomed to explore your boredom, or how does joy move within it’s for parents, it’s for revellers and workshop.” own truth whilst enjoying the magic of the body. The mind, heart and body elderly. It’s a space without drugs or “The evening on Saturday - the main our festival and reconnecting with our start to align and work together, so alcohol, so we’re inviting people to event - is a concert with two supports, individual and collective wild nature.” there’s a coherence between the parts question how it would be for them. Elise Yuill Cohen who has a folky vibe of us that are intrinsically entwined, We’re trying to find a balance of making with a sense of awakening, followed by For further information on this year’s but that we often separate. What we’re this mainstream enough, to appeal to a Susie Ro. Then Peia, an Oregon based DanSing Festival and to book tickets excited about is finding the common new audience, partying in a church in singer, with Irish routes, who trained as visit thread from all religions and healing awakeningthewild.ticketbud.com the middle of Stroud, yet not corporate an Opera singer in New York, before traditions that have a similar three tiered and still encompassing those living an finding folk music, where she collects tradition and holding those inspirations, alternative lifestyle.” ancient folk from across the globe; the whilst giving people the space to Helen Elliott-Boult is a Stroud 'n' proud “What I’m really interested in”, he Amazon to Ireland to Scandinavia, and explore their own truth.” dweller. She is a multi-tasking mother; an continues, “with Awakening the Wild she sings these beautiful folk songs “So with these inspirations we put Earth protector, art enthusiast, short story - the whole context of it - is to create with an operatic voice. A phenomenally together a festival to allow everyone dabbler, music and dance admirer and spaces that enable people to access talented woman and a real sensitive access to each of these elements in survivor of Media and Art school. their own particular healing medicine. sweetheart, part of the conscious different ways. We’ve tried to make it The understanding behind that is that movement in America, where artists are #52 | July 2019 Music 17

Kakatsitsi STROUD SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL By Sudevi Geary

Now in its fifth year, the apparent in the organisers’ efforts to to it, if it’s done well,” Revd. Simon weekend. “The reason for that is that much-loved Stroud Sacred create a space of wellbeing, selecting tells me. “I think nature connection was if you can’t afford it or you can only musicians such as Awakening the for many years radically missing from afford £1, you can still come. Last year Music Festival returns Wild and DJ Osara who support the our spirituality, but it’s something that our main headliner was from Syria – with a timely call for a festival’s ethos of a drug and alcohol- our forbearers and Celtic ancestors an astounding musician called Maya collective celebration of free space, without losing its ecstatic, would have understood.” This powerful Youssef – and that brought in all the our sacred earth and a conscious nature. They’ll be joined by reclamation of our soul-bred connection refugees who don’t have an income, conscious immersion in our the Ragababas on Friday night for an to nature underpins the festival’s line- but we were able to say, ‘just come in.’ relationship to nature. evening of ecstatic dance. “I’m very up, as performers were chosen for their That was a very good moment.” proud of our interfaith chant space,” relationship to indigenous and earth- This, I observe, takes an immense Revd. Simon told me. “You’ll be able based traditions. amount of faith. Last year the festival It is Around 500 years ago, kirtan to spend all of Saturday in immersive Headlining the festival on Saturday made a profit of less than £10, but true culture took off in Bengal, India. chant, but from every tradition under night are Kakatsitsi, the indigenous to his profession, Revd. Simon tells me Thousands of humans gathered in the sun.” master drummers, dancers and singers that while it almost gives him a heart the streets and the forests to sing Revd. Simon explains that the from the Ga tribe in Ghana. Kakatsitsi attack, he believes this is supposed and dance among each other. In festival, subtitled ‘An Act of Peace’, combine West African drumming with to happen and there’s greater work a revolutionary act that still ripples gathers together musicians who melodies of bamboo flutes, xylophones at hand. “A generous heart creates a through our world today, men, normally might not meet, fostering and traditional chants in a spirited, generous atmosphere,” he says. He women and children of all castes and a shared space in which they can participatory experience that dissolves concludes our conversation with a creeds transcended the impenetrable collaborate, listen to each other’s the barriers between the audience and reflection on the triumph of love that I boundaries that once kept society music and learn from each other. Revd. performers. They will be performing feel perfectly encapsulates the mood divided. Theirs was a celebration of Simon’s experience as a musician and alongside Mbilou, a ceremony leader, of the festival: “It’s the idea that even the soul, of its infinite capacity to love, interfaith advisor has shown him that musician and dancer from Gabon, though love feels vulnerable, it is in fact and the power of heartfelt song to heal where words fail, music and dancing Central Africa. the strongest thing in the world, and society at its very roots. conjure a shared experience that’s felt, Also headlining are Baka Beyond, accessing that is what good artists are I can’t help but remember this when that does away “head-knowledge”, and the Afro-Celtic danceband whose supposed to be able do.” I meet with Revd. Simon Howell, co- that in uniting humans across cultures uplifting, gentle rhythms and melodious founder of the Stroud Sacred Music and beliefs, fulfils a pressing global vocals seek to creatively unite diverse The Stroud Sacred Music Festival will Festival and interfaith advisor to the need. “In this day and age, there’s a musical traditions. With band members be held in various locations in the town diocese of Gloucester. We discuss strong desire for a coming together and hailing from across West Africa and centre on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th the upcoming festival, the necessity pooling of the great spiritual resources Northern Europe, Baka Beyond carry July. For more information, including the of earth-based thinking and music’s of the world. Particularly so that we can with them a lesson from the Baka full line-up, workshops, processions, capacity to bridge social, cultural face the next twenty years before time people, that “everyone is to be listened children’s activities and the youth music and philosophical divides. For music runs out.” to.” evening, visit sacredmusicfestival. to be sacred in an identifiable way, The necessity for a collectively raised “It’s all about relationship, so if we org.uk Revd. Simon tells me, it requires a consciousness in relationship to our can engender that then we’ve won transcendental quality that moves one planet lies at the foundations of this really,” Revd. Simon tells me. This from the realm of the everyday into the year’s festival, the theme of which is resonates deeply and I admire the Sudevi Geary is a writer, artist and bhakti- realm something quite different. This ‘Sacred Earth: Music to Celebrate Our festival’s more recent, community- yoga practitioner. She freelances as an idea has become the festival’s guiding Beautiful Planet’. “Nature connection centred approach of making all tickets editor and her poems have been published principle. definitely has a transcendental quality donation based, from £10-£50 for the in several anthologies. @sudevigeary This sense of transcendence is 28—29.09.19 ST LAURENCE CHURCH STR0UD

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Open Mic Night of Broadway. It’s the ultimate fun all tastes… Channel One Blue 80’s 8:30pm Free Hosted by Stroud’s own Americana night out for all the family and / 90’s. Channel Two Red Chart troubadour the Rev. Stretch. All friends! 7:30pm £10/£9concs from And Dance. 9:30pm £5 early bird FRI 12TH welcome! 8pm Free ticketsource.co.uk from the Old Vic and Made in Blueshounds Stroud/£6.50otd DELAG0 MELNYK lansdownhall.org FRI 12TH “Good Times” blues band and SUN 28TH guardians of the “Juke Joint” vibe. Will Killeen LITTLE VIC Barney’s Live Music Concert Night 8:30pm Free Acoustic blues, singer/songwriter with a unique style of his own. Special concert night with SUN 14TH ENSEMBLE HATIS N0IT SAT 27TH Celtic Roots mixed with Delta Blues. Whetstone, Brinsford and Burgess Jim Reynolds & Hilary Pavey 8:30pm Free Barney’s Live Music: Hilary Pavey and the wonderful Mandy Woods…7:45pm Free (suggested West Country folk and blues legends Tonight’s guest is Hilary Pavey - widely donation £4) - fine finger-style guitar, song- FRI 19TH acclaimed on the South West’s Shady Past acoustic scene and well-known for writing and harmonies. 8:30pm Free facebook.com/BarnysLiveMusic DANIEL PI0R0 AND Revved up rock n roll…8:30pm Free her beautifully crafted songs. She is a talented guitarist with a unique SEBASTIAN PLAN0 CHALFEST VALGEIR SIGURDSS0N THURS 25TH Rodda’s Hairy Craic SAT 20TH JULY THEPRINCEALBERTSTROUD.CO.UK The Party on the Hill is into its third Irish Acoustic Session with Tim Potts. year and once again completely 8pm Free CLAIRE M SINGER sold out months in advance! This EMILY HALL festival in a day come village fete FRI 26TH with attitude has something for 10th Birthday Party Weekend everyone. Three music stages, a kids THE The Crown and Sceptre celebrates entertainment area, circus skills, it’s tenth birthday with live music PRINCE horse box karaoke, silent disco, a EMILIE from West Country garage rockers SPINDLE ENSEMBLE village green stage, the new comedy ALBERT the Meekers and Stroud’s own punk tent curated by the fabulous Crazy heroes Chinese Burn. 8:30pm Free LEVIENAISE-FARR0UCH Bird Comedy, multiple bars and food trucks. Over half the tickets are SAT 27TH allocated to the local community 10th Birthday Party Weekend and charities are given free space to raise their own funds and awareness Fireworks! GR0UP LISTENING for their causes. Once again the line- crownandsceptrestroud.com up doesn't disappoint with acts as diverse as Faithless (DJ set), Sophie Ellis Bextor, Bootleg Beatles, Dick DANSING FESTIVAL and Dom, Bootleg Blondie and over 30 more acts ensuring a great party FRI 26TH – SUN 28TH A three-day festival of awakening ATTILA PLUS: DAVE HOWELL DJ SET (FAT CAT/130701) atmosphere. and reconnecting with our wild SOUND RECORDS POP-UP RECORD STALL chalfest.co.uk nature, through movement, voice, THE community and world class live FOOD FROM SALT BAKEHOUSE AND JAMAICA INN KITCHEN THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE music. With an exquisite line-up of STOCKBROKER musicians and facilitators from the THURS 4TH world of conscious dance, voice and SUN 7TH JULY STROUD BREWERY BAR AND MORE... sacred/world/folk music, in what James Hollingsworth Prog Rock Night promises to be a magical weekend… 7:30PM James delves into his extraordinary playlist to feature a collection awakeningthewild.ticketbud.com £8ADV/£9OTD of songs from the days of Prog SHARP-TONGUED, HIGH ENERGY, SOCIAL SURREALIST REBEL POET AND SONGWRITER. HIS THEMES ARE TOPICAL, FEATURED LABELS Rock…8:30pm Free LANSDOWN HALL HIS WORDS HARD-HITTING, HIS POLITICS UNASHAMEDLY RADICAL, BUT ATTILA WILL MAKE YOU ROAR WITH LAUGHTER FRI 5TH AS WELL AS SEETHE WITH ANGER... FRI 5TH The Woo Town Hillbillies “WHETHER HE'S RANTING A POEM OR BASHING OUT A SONG, THERE IS SOMETHING MAGNIFICENT ABOUT ATTILA Mango Madness High-flying bluegrass with tumbling IN FULL FLIGHT” Charity music event raising money SPONSORED BY banjo, mandolin and harmonica for ‘The Mango Tree’. 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MUSEUM IN THE PARK Baroque Nights, so he will of course summer touring with Jesca Hoop, global-local collage of sound. It’s a be appearing in this one too…8pm and embarked on her first UK blend that makes them the natural SAT 20TH £13.50 headline tour in the autumn. 8:30pm torch-bearers of a vein of Jamaican- Sounds for A Small Space: John Free influenced British song writing Biddulp, Andrew Heath WEDS 3RD running from Jerry Dammers to THURS 18TH Sounds for a Small Space. Phonsonic Lorkin O Reilly Jamie T…8pm Free hosts an intimate and eclectic Since immigrating to the United Mal Webb and Kylie Morrigan, Matt Woosey theprincealbertstroud.co.uk live music evening with guests States from Scotland in 2014, Lorkin John Biddulph, modular synths, O’Reilly has been making a name Vocal adventurer, multi- electroacoustic sounds and Andrew for himself as a commanding new instrumentalist and looping SOUND RECORDS Heath, immersive, ambient, found song writing talent. His unique beatboxing songwriter Mal sings his sounds. 7:30pm £5/£2.50concs transatlantic approach blends brain provoking songs using all sorts SAT 6TH – SAT 27TH old-country inspired open tunings of vocal techniques, guitar, mbira, In Store DJ Sets museuminthepark.org.uk similar to that of Bert Jansch, Nike slide trumpet, trombone, chromatic Sound Records continues their Drake and Dick Gaughan with direct harmonica and a loop recording in store live DJ performances PLAYGROUND FEST and personal reflections and poetry. pedal called Derek. And Kylie (who’s throughout the month on Saturdays 8:30pm Free played with Orchestra Victoria and ft. 10 David (6th), Pinnacle E (13th), SAT 13TH – SUN 14TH the likes of Stevie Wonder and Barry Scotski (20th) and Ben the Wardler THURS 4TH/25TH Playground is Stroud’s new festival of White!) provides violin and voice in (27th). 1-3pm Free play aimed at children but inclusive Open Mic a perfect balance to Mal’s nutsness. of adults, with activities, workshops All welcome to join in our popular Their arrangements are intricate and facebook.com/soundrecordsstroud and entertainment spread across Open Mic night, the longest running playful. Imagine Einstein, Dr Seuss and Paganini making pancakes. two days in two locations. The first in the Stroud district and most STROUD BREWERY day, Saturday 13th takes place at friendly. Experienced people to help With support from Matt Woosey. 8:30pm Free the Bank Gardens with Silly Science, you set up if you are a newbie and THURS 4TH APE Project, Access Bikes, and great equipment for you to use as SAT 20TH Five Valley Sessions more. Plus live music from 12pm well. 8pm Free with Kostka Band Band Camp, Truckstop Honeymoon Local musicians meet at Stroud Community Unlimited, Burda Legree SAT 6TH Hollering with all their hearts over Brewery on the first Thursday of and John Street Ska Orchestra. Natalie Shay a five string banjo and a doghouse the month to play traditional folk Boss Mini Morris, Sound Scape and tunes, mostly from Ireland, Scotland, Natalie Shay is a 19 year old multi bass, Truckstop Honeymoon live Paper Jungle will be doing amazing England, Wales, France with a award-winning‚ indie pop/rock artist the life they sing about. Touring things at St Laurence’s Church. smattering of Danish and North from North London. Her successes to across three continents with four Plus a fantastic procession at 11am American tunes. Everyone welcome, date include her long list of awards kids and a truck load of songs, Katie and a picnic competition for best to listen or to play. 8pm Free from ‘Best Undiscovered Talent’ and Mike West tell stories about picnic spread and arty hamper! The the strangeness of everyday life. London Music Award‚ Winner of The SAT 6TH second day is at The Brunel Goods Guardian’s Music Award and two Their music combines elements Shed with a focus on teddy bear Texas Tick Fever time winner of the Mayor of London of bluegrass, music hall jazz, and den making and kids den-making Moonshine-Driven Americana Gigs. New single ‘This Feeling’ straight up rock’n’roll. They have to make an environment of unusual from Stroud's own Good Old Boys, landed Shay at a stunning number released nine albums and a full miniature dwellings (10am-6pm) Doctor Slash and Reverend Stretch. 4 on the iTunes singer/songwriter length documentary film, produced followed by an art car boot fair – Traditional and contemporary tales charts.8:30pm Free over two hundred albums for other Arty Brum Booty (10am-1pm) and artist, and received awards for of bootleggers, grifters, hobos and DiscoNature at 1pm - a natural SUN 7TH Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. drifters from the backwoods of science inspired performing art Attila The Stockbroker America. 8pm Free event developed in collaboration FRI 26TH between musician Josef Reeve and Powerful, passionate, personal, The Achievers THURS 11TH Kaoru Blackstone aka Wild Things , political punk performance poetry Bagelites plus perceptive songs. 39 years of Stroud’s The Achievers are one of Stroud-based natural science and Every second Thursday of the them! Sharp-tongued, high energy, the most original and exciting new art group. Search for ‘Playground month, local musicians gather to social surrealist rebel poet and bands in British Blues/Roots music Fest’ on Facebook for updates and play folk and gypsy style traditional songwriter. His themes are topical, and their performances - with programme, and keep an eye on tunes. Come along and enjoy the his words hard-hitting, his politics four-part harmonies, joyful melodies the SVA website. Also visit the SVA atmosphere. 8pm Free unashamedly radical, but Attila and infectious dancing rhythms Gallery for the accompanying have been leaving audiences across Playground Fest exhibition inspired will make you roar with laughter as SAT 13TH well as seethe with anger...7:30pm the UK and Europe wide-eyed and by the art of play…. Steve Ferbrache £8adv/£9otd elated. Some call it 'Rhythm & Blues', sva.org.uk some call it 'Roots' but The Achievers Steve is a local musician who plays a THURS 11TH call their music 'Dance Floor Gospel' wide variety of music from stomping The Resonant Rogues - a soulful message of Good News blues to classic folk/country/ and Truth for the modern age. rock covers. Expect to hear some The Resonant Rogues, based out of 8:30pm Free Creedence, Neil Young, John Martyn, THE PRINCE ALBERT Asheville, NC are led by songwriting Tom Waits, Howlin’ Wolf and many soulmates Sparrow and Keith J. SAT 27TH more. An all-time favourite here at TUES 2ND Smith. With a passion for folk music Overproof with Dubbu and Mendoza Stroud Brewery. 8pm Free Baroque Night that spans continents and oceans, The Rogues weave the threads of Dancehall, hip hop, rare groove It’s the summer outing for the SAT 20TH Appalachian folk, Swing Manouche, and more from DJ’s Dubbu and hugely popular Baroque Night when Lewis and Dav Vintage Country, and Euro folk Mendoza…5pm Free renowned double bass player/ together into a beautiful tapestry Part of the new wave of instrumental composer Dave Ayre brings his SAT 27TH that simultaneously showcases acoustic jazz that is taking the world gang of merry musicians along for tradition and innovation. 8:30pm Stroud Dub Club: Junior Bill by storm. With influences from an evening of classical bangers Free Junior Bill have been here all along. Django Reinhardt to Snarky Puppy from the 17th and 18th century. Surveying their world from atop and Led Zeppelin to Dirty Loops, Tonight they will be celebrating their SAT 13TH a suburban overpass, or a forlorn their sound combines tight, funky 25th concert at the pub (the first Chloe Foy back alley, they are the eyes and and experimental jazz chops with was in June 2012!) by performing ears of urban Britain. Their witty ludicrously catchy hooks. 8pm Free a few favourites as well as some Chloe Foy’s home-grown sound provincial tales eulogise forgotten new pieces (Baroque of course). A melds the silvery landscapes of peoples, spin empathic character SAT 27TH lovely band is lined up including Laura Marling and Fleet Foxes with portraits and tell the everyday The Bob Porter Project Ant Thompson on trumpet, Kate the emotional integrity of Sharon stories of contemporary city life. Price on cello, and Karen Glen on Van Etten. After a string of elegant, Americana guitar band from Stroud The music is hugely danceable, harpsichord. 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stroudbrewery.co.uk Hayseed Dixie are the undisputed biggest line-up yet including hip hop Kelsey Bovey. 7:30pm £9.50 creators of the musical genre, legends the Sugar Hill Gang! Other Rockgrass. There are many copycats, acts amongst a 30+ strong line-up FRI 19TH STROUD SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL converts, and disciples out there. across four stages include emerging Friday Night Blues Jam FRI 5TH – SAT 6TH JULY Accept no imitations. Plus support. punk-ska-pop talent Rat Boy, The Friday Night Blues Jam is an A soulful and eclectic mix of music 8pm £19 - £21.50 influential indie band Cast, energetic invitation to join in and play 'the festival crowd pleasers Dutty blues' as part of a band. You can from many of the main world faith thesubrooms.co.uk traditions as well as the music of Moonshine Big Band and Brit-pop bring your instruments along, sing indigenous people. This year SSMF sensations Sleeper. Other highlights or just enjoy a drink and tap along are honoured to have headlining SVA of the festival (which this year has to the groove! All levels of ability the African Celtic fusion band the theme of ‘space’) include a new welcome. 7:30pm Free Baka Beyond, and the Kakatsitsi WEDS 3RD/10TH/17TH/24TH/31ST dance stage, the Vinyl Frontier, the Drummers from Ghana with Funk-In Sessions return of the popular emerging SAT 20TH talent showcase the Cheshire Cat mongongo virtuoso Mbilou! This Live Funk Jam with Will Vick and Alf Wotton Silver Band stage plus a whole host of family year’s theme will be 'Sacred Earth' - Tramontin...FUNK Only...Nothing but Celebrations for Wotton Silver Band's friendly fun for kids. World sacred music to celebrate our the Funk!!! All are welcome to listen 125th anniversary year would not beautiful planet…Visit the website for or perform! 8pm £1otd (John Street) nibleyfestival.co.uk be complete without a second the full programme! performance at UTEA by the town's THURS 11TH very own home-grown band…8pm sacredmusicfestival.org.uk UNDER THE EDGE ARTS WOTTON Stroud Jazz Sessions: Edi May £8.50 Stroud and its surroundings have -UNDER-EDGE utea.org.uk THE SUB ROOMS a great range of jazz players. This FRI 12TH night is for their coming together, FRI 5TH and tonight features Edi May on SCJC Jazz Jam TETBURY GOODS SHED Jive Dance sax. Set in the comfortable subdued Bringing the benefit of jazz as an A great atmosphere and dance lounge setting, each will feature a art form to the local community FRI 12TH floor; dance the evening away to performance by the house band and and to multiple levels of ability. All Clare Hammond music from the 1920’s to current guest, an interval with eclectic jazz instruments/vocalists will be made Join renowned pianist Clare including Swing and Rock ‘n’ Roll. records to mull over, and a stonkingly welcome. If you can play the blues Hammond for an evening 8pm £8 energetic jazz jam for all players and and want to have a crack at jazz – of beautiful music including singers, aficionados participate in. this is for you! If you want to come Rachmaninov, Haydn, Debussy, THURS 11TH All are welcome, to listen or perform. and just listen that is fine too. 8pm Schumann and Lane. 7:30pm £9-£15 The Quireboys Second Thursday of every month Free The quintessential British rock’n’roll at SVA. Join us on Facebook group SAT 13TH SAT 13TH band whose lengthy career has seen ‘Stroud Jazz Sessions’ for photos/ Jam and Crumpet Band reviews/more info/networking. 8pm Molly-Anne, Exiled, Kelsey Bovey them play out to audiences with Four great musicians bring you £5otd/£3musicians (John Street) the likes of Whitesnake, Aerosmith, Join Molly-Anne and friends in an a super foot tapping night of Poison, the Rolling Stones and Guns sva.org.uk intimate, acoustic night of music in wonderful dance and music. N’ Roses. Their latest album, White aid of TreeSisters: women seeding Whether you are an experienced Trash Blues, saw the band take a change. Molly-Anne is a young dancer or a total beginner they ST MARY’S CHURCH PAINSWICK bold move – recording a collection and upcoming ‘Conscious Country’ will ensure you have a night to of iconic blues numbers but with musician, multi-instrumentalist remember. 7:30pm £11 the signature Quireboys approach SUN 7TH and award-winning songwriter with glowing reviews. So alongside The Thames Head Singers from local Gloucestershire, UK, FRI 26TH Quireboys classic such as Hey You, Popular Stroud chamber choir, bringing a quaint British charm to Manteca 7 O’Clock and I Don’t Love You the Americana genre. With a soulful, The Thames Head Singers, will be Join Manteca as they seamlessly fuse Anymore the band will be covering summery, Country inspired-sound performing an eclectic selection of hot gypsy jazz and elements of cool great Blues artists such as John Lee fused with elements of indie and folk, love songs including highlights from jazz funk to create the elegance of Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Billy Molly accompanies her soft vocals West Side Story and pieces by Bob the great jazz era. 7:30pm £11 Boy Arnold, Freddie King, Johnny Chilcott, Edward Elgar, Billy Joel, and on the harmonica and acoustic Jenkins, Slim Harpo, Rufus Thomas Giovanni Gastoldi. All accompanied guitar. Plus support from Exiled and shed-arts.co.uk and even the classic Little Queenie by tea and home-made cake… by Chuck Berry. 8pm £18.50 what’s not to love! The concert will be directed by Andrew Hopwood SUN 28TH and accompanied by Peter Tims. The Spooky Men’s Chorale 3pm £10adv from the Painswick GOOD As thunderous as a herd of Pooch Coffe House and the church wildebeest, as sly as a wagonload Lychgate Office/£12otd (under 16’s ON of Spike Milligans and as sonorous free). as a cloister of monks. Renowned PAPER for a combination of Visigothic PREMA ARTS CENTRE ULEY bravado, absurdist humour and eye- moistening tenderness, the Spookies, FRI 12TH in middle age, are more masters of Sonia Sabri Company: Salaam their territory than ever before, with five critically-acclaimed albums Salaam meaning ‘peace’ is under their belt. 8pm £17.50 Sonia Sabri Company’s latest stunning creation. This double-bill TUES 30TH programme cleverly weaves a Hayseed Dixe dialogue between live music and Kathak dance, celebrating harmony, Hayseed Dixie have evolved into inner-stillness and the simple joy of a proper force, one that most being alive.7:30pm £10/£7concs people either love, hate, or have FOR POSTAL AND /£8friends/£6concs/£25family/ never heard of. There isn’t really £23concs/£15otd any middle ground, nor should DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS there be. But fourteen albums – prema.org.uk consisting of both original material VISIT: and reinterpretations of previously rendered songs – and global NIBLEY FESTIVAL physical sales in excess of half a GOODONPAPER.INFO million copies, with over 1,200 live FRI 5TH – SAT 6TH JULY shows in 31 different countries testify: Nibley Festival returns with its UPPER LOCK CAFÉ www.upperlockcafe.co.uk

• Exhibitions of work by local artists every month • Bands and Musicians welcome In the heart of • A piano for anyone who wants to play

And of course, handcrafted coffee, homemade cake Stroud, open & wholesome food! Some wine & locally brewed seven days a bottled beer too! Find us for a friendly welcome down by the canal at Wallbridge. week featuring: Facebook: Upper Lock Cafe | Twitter: @UpperLock