AN INDEPENDENT, FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC, ART, THEATRE, ISSUE 38 | MAY 2018 COMEDY, LITERATURE & FILM IN STROUD. WWW.GOODONPAPER.INFO

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Inside: Giords Jazz Select Trail: Circus Stroud Mila Harris-Mussi

+ John and Astrid Furnival | Near Future | Site Festival: Open Studios | Stroud Shakespeare Festival Cover image by Emilie Sandy Emilie image by Cover WHAT'S ON Live Music | Theatre | Comedy Dance | Classes | Workshops Book at the BoxIN O May ce Exhibitions | Meeting Rooms 01453 760900 www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk What's on May Wayne Hemmingway The Big Bad Wolf Kids Concert Thu 3 May | 8pm | Talks Sun 13 May | 3pm | Community With a career spanning four decades in the Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra join forces design industry, Wayne Hemingway has a fair with young singers and narrator Lydia Kenny, few stories to tell about his rags-to-Red or in the fourth year of their successful children's Dead tale. concerts.

Jive Dance Woody pines Fri 4 May | 8pm | Dance Thu 24 May | 7.30pm | Music Our monthly Jive Dances have a great Drawing liberally from the lost back alley atmosphere on a great dance fl oor. Dance the anthems and scratchy old 78’s of American roots night away to top swing and jive music music, whether country blues, jugband, hokum or hillbilly.

Makers Family Fair The Importance of Being Sat 5 May | 10.30am - 3.30pm | Fair Earnest An exciting range of local makers and small Fri 25 May | 7.30pm | Theatre businesses. Discover clothing, art, furniture, One of the most cherished plays around the delicious treats and more! world, Split Second Productions present Oscar Wilde’s hilarious classic – performed by two men. Playing every part.

Show of Hands Duo Tour The JP Brass Allstars – Part of Wed 9 May | 7.30pm | Music Stroud Jazz Dovetailing old songs with new, this is an Sat 26 May | 8pm | Music unmissable celebration of Steve Knightley and Big band classics, laced with a healthy dose of Phil Beer’s enduring impact on roots, acoustic Swing, Funk and a smattering of Blues will get and folk music. you on your feet, so dust o the dancing shoes and give your soul a treat.

London Calling Subtrax presents: Sugar Hill Fri 11 May | 8pm | Music Gang The top UK Clash tribute band bring their with STROUD BLOCK PARTY sold-out UK tour to Stroud. Sun 27 May | 8pm | Clubnight The American hip hop group, known for bringing the genre its fi rst mainstream success with the smash hit Rapper’s Delight in 1979.

Mind Body Spirit Show Keepy Uppy Sat 12 May | 10am – 4pm | Fair Mon 28 May | 11am & 2pm | Family Gain new insights into your well-being, your Keepy Uppy is a play for the 2018 life and the world around you. Learn how world cup year, for football fans, to keep your body healthy and your mind non-football fans, children and positive and clear of clutter. families.

twitter.com/SubRoomsStroud facebook.com/Subrooms WHAT'S ON #38 | May 2018 IN May EDITOR Advertising/Editorial/Listings: Editor’s Note Alex Hobbis [email protected] DESIGNER Artwork and Design Welcome to the thirty eighth issue of Good On Paper – your Adam Hinks [email protected] free monthly guide to music concerts, art exhibitions, theatre productions, comedy shows, film screenings and literature ONLINE FACEBOOK TWITTER events in Stroud… goodonpaper.info /GoodOnPaperStroud @GoodOnPaper_

Well it seems Stroud’s Festival season has truly started! Turn the pages do discover what’s in store at this year’s Jazz Stroud, Site Festival Open Studios, Select Festival and newcomer PRINTED BY: Stroud Shakespeare Festival…You will also find listings for the Prince Albert Beer and Music Tewkesbury Printing Company Festival and Nailsworth Festival!

Elsewhere we delve into some of Stroud’s most cherished musicians, artists and performers including Neil Arthur from Blancmange’s new project Near Future, a preview of influential artists John and Astrid Furnival’s forthcoming exhibition and we also catch up with Nell Gifford from Gifford’s Circus prior to their 2018 production ‘My Beautiful Circus’. SPONSORED BY: We are also extremely happy to announce that in July 2018 Good On Paper will be launching a brand new monthly magazine for children! Earwig Magazine will be available for free in venues and primary schools across the Stroud District providing listings for children's workshops, courses, events and attractions - feature comic strips from published children's authors and illustrators, quizzes, facts, walks and a make it section CO-WORKING STUDIO from local crafts people. Follow @EarwigMagazine on facebook, twitter and Instagram for further news and updates! stroudbrewery.co.uk stroudcluster.com

Right better sign off. Got two magazines to do now…

Alex and Adam Chartered Tax Advisers www.chrismattostax.co.uk elcombestoves.co.uk chrismattostax.co.uk FRONT COVER: Emilie Sandy CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Mike Flynn, Simon Woolley, Paul Harper, Rebecca Mills, Sarah Dixon, Lorna Davies and Matt Shinn CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHY: Emilie Sandy and James Styler CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATION: Mark Levy

NEXT MONTH’S ISSUE: Daniel Sparkes, Paul Grellier, One Love Weekend on Nelson St., Grasscourt, The Achievers, Situationism Records, Stuart Butler 04 Music #38 | May 2018 Jazz Stroud

By Mike Flynn

I first discovered jazz in Stroud. It was in the second-hand record section of the original Trading Post... #38 | May 2018 Music 05

There were two LPs that caught my that frequent the many big city live musical situation they find themselves eye; one by guitarist Mike Stern called music spaces, and get a lot more in. I know I can put virtually anything in Time In Place, and a gatefold Miles people to hear just how brilliantly front of them and they will be able to Davis album, You’re Under Arrest, from energising and imaginative British make musical sense of it very quickly; his gritty 1980s funk-edged phase. jazz musicians are. Well now Jazz sometimes it feels James knows the Around age 17, I was also passed a Stroud is happening and that hope tune before he’s seen the chart or cassette of the first album by Bristol has become a reality. Stroud has heard it! We started playing at the saxophonist Andy Sheppard, which been nurturing a love of jazz via the also helped fuel my curiosity. Having SVA and the irrepressible enthusiasm taken up the bass guitar age 12, I soon of Neil Walker and his team. They’ve progressed from Level 42 to Weather put together a festival that truly Report and Stanley Clarke. In my reflects the youthful energy that’s early twenties I played my first jazz fuelling the current surge of interest gigs in Stroud at the Golden Fleece in jazz, as well as a programme that where I met a guitarist who I went on showcases some the UK’s finest jazz to play with in Oxford, also moving musicians. It’s also a programme that to the city in the late 1990s. My love links Stroud’s long-held love of dance of jazz and bass instantly connected grooves, with female saxophonist me to Oxford’s student jazz scene Nubya Garcia topping the bill on where a brilliant young undergraduate Saturday. Garcia’s infectious stage saxophonist by the name of Soweto presence and powerful sax tone are a Kinch was tearing it up at the weekly clarion call to the head and the hips, jam nights; we played a few gigs too at effortlessly combining the worlds of beginning of 2017. We did one or two the time. A couple of years later I got a spiritual jazz and Afrobeat with heady rehearsals, a few gigs then went into job in Brighton writing for a fledgling jazz improvisation. She’s also one the studio.” music website in the heady early days of the leading lights of a new wave It is true that jazz seems to be of the Internet and the dotcom boom, of female instrumentalists who are hitting a new stride with younger which connected me with the wider shaking up jazz’s male dominated people really embracing the music and music industry and would eventually history, and Jazz Stroud’s programme major record labels now signing UK necessitate a move to London just to also includes several female-led bands artists for the first time since the early keep pace with all that was going on. including neo-jazz-soul influenced 2000s. Ivo points out that the public singers Aisling Iris Quartet and Ruth are often short-changed by the usual Royall, saxophonist Kim Cypher and cultural gatekeepers when it comes The general public can handle more groups such as Feelgood Experiment, to how jazz is presented: “I think the Bahla, We Are Leif and Caravela. The media are deciding to be positive challenging music than a lot of industry current scene’s openness to electro about jazz, which is good. There is a people think is the case - they can grooves and beats can also be real problem with respect between the handle improvisation. In fact, I think heard via fizzing Cuban jazztronica media and the general public and it’s troupe Ariwo, the sample cut ups of an obvious thing to say but audiences people crave it. Anchorsong, wild layered jazz-dance must be respected. The general public of Mermaid Chunky or the mashed-up can handle more challenging music Ivo Neame soundscapes of trumpet/drums duo than a lot of industry people think is the Eyebrow. case – they can handle improvisation. The piano-led Sunday night In fact, I think people crave it. We headliners Ivo Neame Quartet, possess live in a world where everything is a distinctly English melodic sensibility, becoming more and more robotic which is hooked to a wider European and automated and people want a The dotcom bubble burst and I was outlook as well as unfettered, high- release from that and the chance to thrown into the world of freelancing intensity improvisations. Neame has experience something human and but my record company contacts a new album entitled Moksha out on real. Jazz is a form of music that can saved me and I had work straight Edition Records and he explained provide that – it’s the main thing going away. My passion for writing about how his music is developed: “I try for it!” music was also developing and led me and absorb ideas from all kinds of It’s when musicians and audiences to start contributing a few reviews for places, people, books, films and art really connect through those unique Jazzwise magazine and also become in general. Sometimes there will be moments of spontaneous creativity, the jazz editor at Time Out in London. specific references to things I have which makes jazz so special. It’s hugely Time Out really was the glue that held been experiencing, other times there gratifying to see such a creative place many small and developing scenes is an indirect reference. One tune such as Stroud embracing this deeply together in the capital through its called ‘Pala’ is a response to a book by artistic music through a festival which extensive live listings. I’m proud to Aldous Huxley called Island, which is will see jazz thrive in all its forms. have played a part in nurturing a new a story about a utopian island where generation of jazz talent that has led everything works really well and Jazz Stroud runs from Friday 25th on to much of what it is happening people get along with each other. A far until Sunday 27th May across various today. Ten years on and Time Out is cry from our world unfortunately but venues in the centre of Stroud now a free sheet and sadly a shadow hopefully there is a sense of a parallel including the Brunel Good’s Shed, of its former self, but I moved on and reality in the tune. A poem called SVA John Street, the Marshall Rooms, now edit Jazzwise. I’ve immersed ‘Vegetarians’ by Roger McGough the Ale House and the Imperial myself in the London jazz scene as inspired another tune. I set the words Hotel. Visit jazzstroud.org for further listener and participant, writing about of the poem to music to try and use the information including tickets and the music but also playing jazz at many of natural rhythm of the poetry to provide full programme. the key venues such as Ronnie Scott’s, a melody.” Pizza Express Jazz Club and 606 Neame’s Quartet includes three Club with some of the best musicians superb players who all come from Mike Flynn is an award-winning music around. different backgrounds but combine journalist and editor of Jazzwise magazine. Yet, it’s been on my regular with fire and finesse in the band. Alongside writing and editing Jazzwise – return visits to Stroud to see family “The band features George Crowley, Mike is also a bass player of many years and friends that I’ve often thought, Tom Farmer and James Maddren,” experience and writes and produces his own ‘wouldn’t it be great to bring a slice says Neame. “I picked these players music – he will be appearing with Aisling Iris of the London scene here?’ To share because they bring incredible Quartet at the festival. For more info visit the amazing home-grown talents expertise and spirit to whatever mikeflynnmusic.co.uk 06 Music #38 | May 2018

A collaboration between electronic Field recordings feature quite artist, Jez Bernholz (who also performs prominently on the Ideal Home LP; live as part of Gazelle Twin), and long- were some recorded in and around time musician and Stroud resident, Neil Stroud? Arthur, Ideal Home is an exercise in melodic minimalism far removed from Yes, quite a few. Dawn for instance, Neil's chart-focussed beginnings as started out as a cacophony of bird part of Blancmange. I caught up with song I recorded on my iPhone while Neil at the end of Blancmange's recent standing outside my kitchen door in tour to find out how Near Future and the early hours — it's not a loop on the LP came about… the finished track, by the way, it's a continuous recording. When I listened How long have you lived in Stroud? back to it later, I could hear a low murmur in the background - possibly About 11 years, after being London- some piece of machinery in a factory. based for the best part of three- I enhanced it and sent it to Jez, and he and-a-half decades, and now I can't came back with this quite sinister- imagine living anywhere else. I work sounding loop and lyrics. That's one of mostly on a laptop and occasionally my favourite pieces on the album. my phone, so I can work anywhere - the kitchen table or a quiet corner. It's not always obvious what some of I don't always need to go into a the sounds are – we were roasting recording studio - it's all about the some carrots in the oven, and when Near ideas, not the equipment. they came out, they started squeaking, possibly due to the change in That's a big difference to how you temperature. I grabbed my phone to started out with Blancmange, isn't it? record the sound, and that ended up being mixed with other kitchen noises Actually, no. Back then, synths were lining the Field This and Overwhelmed hugely expensive so we cobbled tracks. The field recordings help to link sounds together using tape loops Future the tracks together, too – we wanted instead. Near Future was approached to make it work as one piece. very much in the same way using looped sounds, but obviously in the With titles like Ideal Home and By Simon Wolley digital realm. The big difference is Kites Over Waitrose, is the album a now we have much more freedom and comment on modern living? anything goes – I love what Jez brings to the party, and I can react to it. It's Kind of. Ideal Home is about aspects great to be able to collaborate — it of consumerism, while Kites... was takes the pressure off a little. inspired by the panic buying runs on Field recordings, cut-up the supermarkets that have happened lyrics, dark beats born of How did you meet Jez? recently. the early hours - these I went to see Gazelle Twin perform Are you planning on doing any more a couple of years ago, Jez and I got shows as Near Future? are just some of the things chatting afterwards, got along and you'll find on Near Future's I ended up inviting him to play on There's talk of doing a few festivals Blancmange's 'Commuter 23' album and possibly some dates to showcase debut LP released at the tour. We realised we both had a the LP. We performed the track, Bulk end of this month. shared love of field recordings and Erase together before Blancmange's bands like Neu! and Can, so we recent shows in Manchester and Images by James Styler James Images by decided to have a go at exchanging Liverpool, and that was good fun. sound files. That led to the Ideal Home There's no computers, it's all done with single released in 2016, and we just loops so you really have to be on it - carried on working together. Then we the songs could last for days if you're got invited to perform at Sheffield's not careful! Sensoria festival and obviously needed a set, so worked up eight songs and that eventually led to the Ideal Home LP. It's been an intensive journey!

Where did Near Future come from?

Whether it's Blancmange, Fader or Near Future, I'm not really into nostalgia. I don't like to be stuck in a period of time, I always want to be just ahead. There were a couple of names being bandied about for our collaboration, but Near Future just seemed to suit both our mind-sets, so it stuck. Ideal Home is out on May 25th via Blanc Check Records. Signed copies How do you work together? of the LP and CD are available from We get together every so often, but nearfuture.tmstor.es. Follow the mainly it's through emails, lots of band on facebook.com/futureisnear conversations and sending each other for news and updates and visit sounds. As an example, with Field This, nearfuture.bandcamp.com to listen to Jez had an idea for a loop, and we tracks from the album. each added tiny bits to it over a period of time, then we rearranged it to work Simon Woolley is a Stroud-based editor and with the lyrics. journalist [email protected] #38 | May 2018 Music Listings 07

Bristol/Stroud based trio travelling dancing) the college will be offering from the UK’s top electro swing DJ, through world folk, jazz and swing. some free taster workshops and stalls Dutty Moonshine and Bristol band Music Features soulful stylings of Tom Parry from local suppliers and tutors from the Rin Tins. The Marshall Rooms will (guitar/vocal), aided by jazz monsters the Hawkwood programme. 10am- be transformed into a magical 1930’s Pasquale Votino (bass), and Rowan 5pm Free (£3 for parking) prohibition bar with a contemporary Porteous (trumpet). 7:30pm Free twist. Dress code: Dress to excess! Listings hawkwoodcollege.co.uk Feathers and Beads, Flappers and Dappers, Cabaret and Cabarave, THE CORNER HOUSE Toffs, Spivs and Chaps in Tweed. No IMPERIAL HOTEL costume? Smart attire will suffice. ALE HOUSE SAT 12TH Prohibition cocktails will be served and SAT 26TH Late Night @ the Corner House more. A spiffing time to be had. 9pm FRI 4TH Jazz Stroud: SJS presents - Kim (carriages at 2am) £12adv/£15otd Classic soul, funk and hip hop The Hawds Cypher all on vinyl from Dubbu (aka Neil THURS 10TH A Stroud band who weave together Wilson - Stroud Block Party). 10pm Saxophonist, vocalist and composer an accomplished mix of rock, funk, Free (booking essential to eat in the influenced by great players such Rory McLeod country and Jazz. 8:30pm Free restaurant beforehand!) as Gerald Albright, Maceo Parker, Rory McLeod - ex-circus clown and Pee Wee Ellis, Andy Sheppard, Dean fire eater. A one man soul band, poet WEDS 9TH facebook.com/thecornerhousestroud Fraser, Courtney Pine and Grover and storyteller, singing his own unique The Hopeless and Maria Nowhere Washington. 6:30pm Tickets from upbeat dance stories. A modern jazzstroud.org travelling troubadour using tap Presents: 50th Anniversary of John THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE Wesley Harding shoes, acappella, harmonica, guitar, SUN 27TH trombone, spoons, finger cymbals, A night of musical collaboration FRI 4TH to celebrate 50 years of Bob Dylan’s Jazz Stroud: SJS presents - Jenny bandorea, djembe and various legendary album. The Hopeless and The Bob Porter Project Darren & Muddy Manninen percussion instruments! 7pm £6 Maria Nowhere will perform all of the Americana band from Stroud ft. a fine Established and accomplished artists FRIDAY 11TH songs from the album and will also blend of mellow Alt Country and gritty in their own right the duo come be joined on some pieces by special Roots Rock on tap. Often described together to play contemporary Jazz, John Fairhurst, Granfallon guest’s incl. David McEvoy (guitar), as music with a ‘growl & twang’ ‘The Latin and Soul. 6pm Free John Fairhurst is right at the forefront James Dick (vocals) from The Red Project’ offer up a blend of originals of the exciting new wave of British Propellers, and local poet Jeff Cloves. and covers. 8:30pm Free imperialhotelstroud.co.uk Blues and Rock. Acoustic Guitar 8:30pm Free Magazine USA recently identified THURS 10TH KITSCH COFFEE AND WINE BAR Fairhurst as one of the Top 3 Resonator FRI 11TH Robb Johnson guitar players worldwide – the only European on the list. Granfalloon Trevor 'Babajack' Steger One of the last genuinely political SAT 5TH An established Blues musician, songwriters…8:30pm Free use the electronic elements of Casio Café Del Kitsch renowned for his unique playing keyboards, vintage drum machines, style and exciting performances. He FRI 11TH Balearic vibes are back with Matt and Omnichords (an electronic Blythe and the first Cafe del Kitsch this autoharp) and weave them in and has recently decided to develop his Harmonica Nick and Friends solo career to delve into the Roots year! 3pm Free out of acoustic guitars and found Blues music that has always been his A versatile bunch of seasoned samples to create beautifully cracked passion. 8:30pm Free musicians dedicated to improvisation facebook.com/KitschCoffeeWineBar soundscapes with compelling in the blues/latin/funk modes. 8:30pm storytelling elements. 8pm £6 THURS 17TH Free LANSDOWN HALL SATURDAY 12TH Dave Ayre Trio THURS 17TH Tropical Tea Party Double bass wizard Dave Ayre and SAT 26TH Open Mic Night Tropical Tea Party returns to the his trio returns to the Ale House for Kundalini Clubbing another jazz evening with special Hosted by Stroud’s own Americana Marshall Rooms following their NYE Cacao Ceremony, Kundalini Yoga set guest…8:30pm Free troubadour the Rev. Stretch…All bash to transform the venue once welcome! 8pm Free and transformational Kundalini Dance again into a tropical paradise and session. Free dance session with top rinse the feel good summer riddims SAT 19TH FRI 18TH dance tunes from our awesome DJ all night long! Ft. K.O.G & Franz Von Keegan McEnroe Royal Wedding Punk Night: The Loan Tigger. Ending the evening with a (frontmen of K.O.G & The Zongo A Texas based singer-songwriter. Sharks, The Forgetting Curve, The relaxing Gong Bath. 7pm £20 (from Brigade) - an unstoppable force of Weaving threads from old country, Meekers kundaliniclubbing.com) African fusion, blending their African old blues and folk together with his roots with funk, hip hop, dub, global own unique voice and perspective, The Loan Sharks: South West's pop- lansdownhall.org grooves and tropical bass! Bristol McInroe creates an original tapestry of punk kings, mix energy and intelligent carnival killers Tun Up ! ft. Dub Boy American roots music, earthy and lyric melodies creating grown-up songs for , Rukus and MC Jonesy Wales and LITTLE VIC driven.8:30pm Free all ages. The Forgetting Curve: Angrily finally DJ Hiphoppapotamus , known angular tunes with surreal lyrics mixed for his infectiously fun fusions of latin, FRI 25TH up with quirkily timed instrumentals! SUN 13TH reggae, afro, and funk flavours with The Meekers: The West Country's own Barney’s Live Music with Steve Page hip hop, house, breaks, drum and bass Jazz Stroud: Andy Nowak Trio energy fueled explosion of garage Monthly music club at the Little Vic (at and Jungle. 9pm £10/£12 from goo.gl/ Since 2005, the A.N.T have been rock and good times.8:30pm Free swvaep captivating audiences with their the Queen Vic) - the brainchild of a group of likeminded individuals keen to enthralling combination of powerful SAT 19TH FRIDAY 18TH themes, subtle interplay and raw provide a monthly venue for all types Crooked Stylus Let's Go Nutz! Ft. 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All curated and if you fancy joining in! 7:30pm Free enough, DJ Nutzie will once again empathic and musically adventurous carefully selected by resident stylus- (suggested donation £4) be back behind the decks for the trio. 8pm Free placer, Darius Akashic..8:30pm Free now regular alternative music night facebook.com/BarnysLiveMusic and that there DJ Scoundrel will be SAT 26TH FRI 25TH bringing up the rear, to complete the gruesome twosome which rocked out Jazz Stroud: Los Serpientes Dub Thieves THE MARSHALL ROOMS Bristol for so many years…10pm £8 A mutual adoration for Jazz legends Rub a dub in da pub…8:30pm Free Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner have FRIDAY 4TH crownandsceptrestroud.com FRI 25TH driven this virtuosic trio to form a deep Chinese Burn, Pizzatramp Jazz Stroud: Swordfishtrombone musical bond through their shared Stroud disco punks play the MR for the The chanteuse from Moscow love of the medium. Expect hard HAWKWOOD COLLEGE first time with Welsh skate punk trio Drug Club with a fantastic line up swinging Jazz and Blues with hints of Pizzatramp for a bank holiday punk of Bristol All Star musicians for a Latin-inspired grooves. 8pm Free MON 7TH extravaganza…£8 project exploring the world of Tom May Day Festival Waits...10pm Tickets from jazzstroud. SUN 27TH SAT 5TH org Jazz Stroud: Dave Ayre Trio A fun day out for all the family celebrating Hawkwood College’s Dutty Moonshine With special guest Dave Newton. 2pm 70th anniversary! As well as live music Shh! don’t tell anyone, but Molly’s Bar SAT 26TH Free (this year featuring the Dodo Street of WOMAD has got a secret…For one Jazz Stroud: Ruth Royall Band), bbq food, bar, ice-cream and night only Molly’s Bar will be hosting SUN 27TH Ruth’s nu soul/jazz sound is layered children's activities (including face Molly’s Speakeasy! She will delight with electronic influences and beats Jazz Stroud: Indra's Web painting, storytelling and maypole the senses with live entertainment that stem from an upbringing in Bristol 08 Music Listings #38 | May 2018

and captures all that’s good about woogie piano trio featuring Simon and are proving to be one of the stlaurencefuture.org.uk the city’s celebrated and rich musical Palmer on piano/organ, Andre St most interesting, unpredictable, and legacy. Fluctuating from dark and Claire Dyer on drums and Tom Allen on exciting acts on the circuit. Mik’s lyrical delicate to a strangely uplifting mood, double bass. 8pm Free dexterity and the band combine to STROUD BREWERY Royall encompasses Billie Holiday, make people laugh, cry, and throw Etta James and Sade together with SAT 5TH themselves about. They should be on SAT 5TH more recent personal obsessions like the national health and are a tonic Submotion Orchestra, Zero 7, Jamie Prince Albert Beer and Music Festival: in these troubled times. 8pm £TBC - Danadra Woon and Nikka Costa. 10pm Tickets Regular Mexican available via ticketweb soon… From solid blues roots and world from jazzstroud.org Local artist Bryan Panks revives his music influences, up tempo rhythms band from the Glastonbury Stage! SAT 26TH and melodies are complimented with SUN 27TH 8pm Free melancholic, soulful numbers to give a Mongrel State vibrant and inspiring set. 7:30pm Free Stroud Jazz: Situation Sounds SUN 6TH Mongrel by Name, Mongrel by Nature Situation Sounds will be bringing you - Rock, Western and a host of other SAT 12TH a unique selection of boogie edits & Prince Albert Beer and Music Festival: styles are put through the wringer – slices of funk filled pie, topped off with Reggae Roast with honkytonk pianos and four part Molly-Anne a dash of disco to help you shake off Caribbean Food + Corner Pocket Soul harmonies sitting side-by-side with A young and upcoming musician from those dusty dancing shoes & bring Funk, Rare Groove, Jazz, Soul, Reggae. New Orleans grooves, electric guitars Gloucestershire, with a soulful, country them back onto the floor! Guest DJ’s Jason Starr and Rob and even the odd inflection of a synth, inspired sound fused with elements Anthony. 1pm Free all underpinned by taut, inventive song of indie folk. Her first gig at Stroud themarshallrooms.co.uk writing. 8pm Free Brewery and performing as part of a MON 7TH duo. 7:30pm Free SUN 27TH Prince Albert Beer and Festival: Dave THE MUSEUM IN THE PARK SAT 19TH Ayre’s Jazz Gazzam Silken Same Dead Dog Cider SAT 12TH Some of the Finest Musicians gather Galway duo Mossy Nolan and Colm from around the country to play the McGowan. Theirs is a sound that Pru and Mark play a lively mix of Sounds for A Small Space: Emily Hall, music they love best! artfully combines the bygone and English, Celtic and American Song - all Misha Law, David Sheppard, Andrew the new, drawing on Irish and Balkan powered by Pru's mighty Bodhran! Heath, Phonsonic TUES 8TH influences; songs that on the face of 7:30pm Free Mandel: A creative partnership it will seem instantly familiar, but that between award winning composer Baroque Evening supplant the traditional with fresh SAT 26TH Dave Ayre and his band of melodic and conceptual ideas. 7:30pm Emily Hall and violinist, viola player Tristan Watson and Patsy Gamble Trio and singer Misha Law. Drawn fabulous musicians from across Free together by a common aesthetic, the UK are back at the Albert for Two of the area's favourite Jazz they meet weekly to practice mindful another Baroque Night. Some of the THURS 31ST musicians playing a collection of free improvisation mostly on violin loveliest pieces of Baroque music standards, Latin numbers and bluesy True Strays and viola then work together to feature a 'ground bass' - a recurring jazz in an intimate and stripped down develop this material into pieces of melody in the bass part, providing a Rhythm and blues fuelled, good time setting. They will be joined by the music. Andrew Heath: Ambient, piano structure around which the composers vintage roots rock and roll play to fabulous double bassist James Agg. based, lower-case music. Quiet and lay different musical textures and promote their new 6 track EP titled 7:30pm Free intimate, it explores sounds from both ideas. You are invited to come and 'Where The Wild Things Hide and acoustic and electronic sources, along hear some great 400-year-old music Hunt.' After a great summer, playing at stroudbrewery.co.uk with processed field recordings and featuring some of the best basslines Greenman, Boomtown, Shambala and gathered, ‘found’ sounds. Phonosonic: ever written! 8pm £12adv from the Fieldview and many others, the band Multimedia artist Phonsonic Albert, Trading Post and ticketweb now release their first EP! 8pm SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS (Alexander Caminada) combines his blend of original video with acoustic THURS 10TH theprincealbertstroud.co.uk FRI 4TH instruments and electronic music. Dan Everett Jive Dance 7:30pm £3.50otd Drawing on the autumnal folk sounds STAR ANISE A great atmosphere and great dance museuminthepark.org.uk of Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake, Everett floor, dance the night away to top mixes in elements of Americana and SAT 5TH swing and jive music. 8pm £8 even AM-radio power pop for a Stroud Sessions THE PRINCE ALBERT light, easy listen that still has a stark WEDS 9TH immediacy. 8pm Free Following a triumphant opening event, the Stroud Sessions return with a Show of Hands, Geoff Lakeman TUES 1ST MAY SAT 12TH stellar line up of disco and house DJs Show of Hands weave story and O'Reilly & The Old Soul Orchestra, on a fantastic sound system. London/ melody to create a spellbinding Martin Callingham Jenny Darren Stroud resident Concept 13 opens display of consummate musicianship. The Santa Cruz,California-based About to appear on a popular British proceedings before Marcel Lune takes Multi-award-winning, and with five quartet’s perform at the Albert as talent show - come and see what this things up a gear. Monobrow brings sell-out Royal Albert Hall shows under part of their Spring Tour with new lovely lady is all about live! 8pm Free the disco and headliner Nige Deane their belts, the original duo format album Stereoscope, homing in on their of Disco Sucks brings us home. 9pm makes a rare return to more intimate signature cosmic roots aesthetic and SUN 13TH £5adv from Sound Records/£7otd settings. Plus special guest Geoff Lakeman. Charity event: Stroud Court soulfully world-weary vocals. Support Young Waters from Martin Callingham playing staraniseartscafe.com Community Trust Fundraiser. 7:30pm like the soundtrack to the last day of Young Waters’ twisted neo-folk is £23.50 your childhood holidays it is in parts a tapestry of emotionally powerful ST LAURENCE CHURCH upbeat, elsewhere heart-breaking, vocals, stirring harmonies, lyrical FRI 11TH strings and finely mastered acoustic and beguiling from beginning to end. London Calling, Borrowed Time 8:30pm Free guitar. 8pm Free SAT 5TH Top UK Clash tribute band bring their Stroud Sacred Music Festival Presents: THURS 17TH sold-out UK tour to The Sub Rooms WEDS 2ND Community Drum Circle with Katie celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sam Brookes, Christof van der Ven Marcus Corbett and Nitin Gaikwad Harris the release of the Give ‘Em Enough Bristol based songsmith and former Marcus Corbett is a singer, A fun, energising and connecting event Rope…Support from Borrowed Time. Sunday Times ‘Breaking Act’ Sam acoustic guitarist and composer using rhythm as a way to connect, £13.50adv/£16otd Brookes is still one of the UK alt-folk’s based between the UK and Pune, communicate and build community. best kept secrets. With over 5 million Maharashtra, India. He has been Everyone welcome, no experience SUN 13TH studying Indian classical music and plays on Spotify, it is fair to say that necessary. All drums and percussion The Big Bad Wolf Kids Concert with working with musicians in India for provided! 11:30am suggested donation those who know his music, love his Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra music…and those who don’t, are over 10 years including table player £3-£5adult/£1child about to. Support from Dutch singer Nitin Gaikwad. 8pm Free Little Red Riding Hood, retold by Roald songwriter Christof van der Ven. SAT 26TH Dahl with music by Paul Patterson, will 8:30pm £10 SAT 19TH make your children howl with laughter Stroud Sacred Music Festival Presents: - at the Big Bad Wolf! Musical director Rum Buffalo Susie Ro Prater, Omer Makessa Glyn Oxley will invite youngsters to THURS 3RD Forged from the streets of London, Susie Ro Prater: Album launch! Susie try their hand at conducting and to Prince Albert Beer and Music Festival: Rum Buffalo fuse authentic old time tours internationally with her harmony join orchestral players on stage to Chavo swing with stomping hip hop rhythms. singing workshops and beautiful get a close-up experience of classical A percussion heavy, mandolin infused, Frantic and rich melodies, the most songs on guitar, connecting with instruments. Join in the fun of this vintage keys indie band with pounding regal of renegades, this vaudevillian the global light family, and ancient family event. 3pm £11.50 bass lines, 4-floor dance rhythms and troop will put on a show you will never traditions of the world, and weaving harmonic discord...8:30pm Free forget…8pm Free what she learns into a stream of THURS 24TH free-flowing music to awaken the Woody Pines SUN 20TH heart. Omer Makessa: A master FRI 4TH If you’re wondering where the music Mik Artistik percussionist, experienced performer, Prince Albert Beer and Music Festival: singer and songwriter from Martinique of Nashville troubadour Woody Pines Professor Nohair and the Wiglifters The unique three piece from Leeds in the Caribbean. 7:30pm £9adv from comes from, look to the streets! As have a growing national reputation a professional busker, Woody first A fast fingered jazz and boogie Eventbrite/£12otd #38 | May 2018 Music Listings 13

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Christ Church,concert Nailsworth Sunday 13 May at 3pm Mozart Piano Concerto No.12, K.414 Beethoven arr. Lachner Piano Concerto No.2 Op.19 Maddalena Laura Sirmen String Quartet No.6 in E The professional musicians of the Bristol Ensemble are joined by pianist Viv McLean to perform chamber versions of piano concertos by Beethoven and Mozart. The ensemble performs the String Quartet in E by the trailblazing Venetian composer and violinist Maddalena Laura Sirmen.

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cut his teeth, drawing liberally instrumental acoustic trio - ft. Alex based musician Barney Whittaker. His CHRIST CHURCH NAILSWORTH from the lost back alley anthems Vann (Spiro, Rock of Eye), Paul Bradley style explores grooves and rhythms and scratchy old 78’s of American (Organelles, Athea) and Pete Judge spanning UK dance music with the SUN 13TH roots music, whether country (Get The Blessing, Dakhla) - present melodic vibrations of jazz and soul and blues, jugband, hokum or hillbilly. their magnificent film project, which for tonight he has invited some of his Bristol Ensemble: Tea Time Concerts 7:30pm £15.50adv/£13.50concs/ involves the band performing live to favourite artists, poets, and vocalists The professional musicians of the £17.50otd/£15.50concs 12 specially-commissioned short films from the London scene to join him Bristol Ensemble are joined by pianist made by 13 filmmakers and visual at the SVA...(11pm-3am tickets from Viv McLean as soloist to perform SAT 26TH artists in response to 3CW tunes of jazzstroud.org) Eyebrow: A trumpet chamber versions of piano concertos their choice – including cutting-edge and drums duo based in Bristol. Its by Beethoven and Mozart. The Jazz Stroud: The JP AllStars animations, lo-fi shadow-puppetry, music evolves out of improvisations ensemble performs the String Quartet A collection of musicians drawn from alfresco contemporary dance, and which are reassembled into structured in E by the trailblazing Venetian some of the finest brass based bands slowly shifting landscapes. 8pm pieces with an unexpectedly cinematic composer and violinist Maddalena in the south of the UK, they are a £8adv/£10otd (Goods Shed) sweep, like journeys through slowly- Laura Sirmen. 3pm £10otd combination unlike any other you’ll changing landscapes. (5pm Free) see. Big band classics, laced with a FRI 25TH (John Street) bristolensemble.com healthy dose of Swing, Funk and a Jazz Stroud: Ariwo, Anchorsong, smattering of Blues will get you on your SUN 27TH feet, so dust off the dancing shoes and Mermaid Chunky RUSKIN MILL give your soul a treat. 7:30pm tickets Ariwo: Cuban/Iranian four-piece Ivo Neame Quartet, We Are Leif, Modulus III, Strayhorn Quartet, Bahla from jazzstroud.org focused on intersection between FRI 4TH electronic and ancestral music. Ivo Neame Quartet: Neame's music SUN 27TH The band brings together Iranian is a living, breathing contradiction – Ninebarrow, Luke Daniels electronic composer Pouya Ehsaei complex yet accessible, considered Ninebarrow: A multi-award winning Subtrax Presents: The Sugarhill Gang and three of London’s most influential yet spontaneous, traditional yet folk duo, who are impressing Legendary American hip hop group, Cuban musicians. Anchorsong: Aka forward-thinking. His new album, audiences across the country with their known for bringing the genre its first Masaaki Yoshida has become globally Moksha, is driven by multi-layered captivating take on the folk tradition. mainstream success with the smash recognised for his unique live shows textures and grooves, brilliantly fluid Luke Daniels: A remarkable talent for hit ‘Rapper’s Delight’ in 1979…It still creating electronic music completely lines brought together by his own writing songs that reflect traditional remains one of the best known, most live using a sampler (MPC2500) exploratory voice and a band made repertoires with sincerity and quoted and most loved hip hop tracks and a keyboard, right in front of up of London's finest jazz musicians. authenticity, underpinned by his warm in history, opening the door for every the audience…Mermaid Chunky: We Are Leif: Comprised of four vocals, multi-instrumental skills and hip hop act we know and love today… This unique outfit's performances established improvising musicians innovative spirit. 8pm £12/£10concs With support from Stroud Block Party! are made up of tailor made art from Bristol & Bath, We Are Leif deftly 8pm £26.50 film projections accompanied by span the balance of jazz sensibilities TUES 22ND sound scapes of drum machines, with the groove and sound world more subscriptionrooms.org.uk synthesisers, saxophone, recorder, associated with Nu-Soul, R'n'B and Nailsworth Festival: Boldwood windup toys, robotic cats and floating Down Tempo genres. (7:30pm Tickets Boldwood explores the repertoire lyrical phrases. 7:30pm tickets from from jazzstroud.org). Modulus III: of dance tunes from 17th and 18th SVA jazzstroud.org (Goods Shed) Seven synthesizers, a cello and a drum century English collections. The band kit this is one of Bristol's most exciting specialises in bringing to life neglected FRI 4TH/11TH/18TH/25TH FRI 25TH acts. All the music is completely gems in concert or on the dance floor. improvised and takes the listener Their unique sound is a result of lush, John Street Social Club Jazz Stroud: China Bowls on a journey like no other…(3.30pm almost orchestral arrangements, A series of weekly Friday night club With an infectious neo-soul jazz vibe Free). Strayhorn Quartet: Hard-hitting combined with energetic, imaginative, socials hosted by different artists and experimental hip-hop influences groove-driven jazz quintet, featuring spontaneous playing. 7:30pm £12 each week with visuals and audio China Bowls has played across the leading jazz musicians from around to share. The format: decks, laptop, UK, from Colston Hall to Glastonbury, the West of England. (2pm Free). rmt.org and a limited number of selected Boomtown and Bestival. She's a Bahla: Formed by Venezuelan pianist YouTube clips of archive footage storyteller in her own right and delivers Joseph Costi and English guitarist Tal and informative curiosities...7pm £1 both extensive solo sets and dynamic Janes, London based group Bahla THE VAULT NAILSWORTH membership on the door full band performances. 11pm tickets break new ground with their mix of from jazzstroud.org (John Street) cinematic jazz entangled with Jewish SUN 6TH WEDS 2ND/9TH/16TH/23RD/30TH folklore.(12.30pm Free) (Goods Shed) Reverend Stretch Funk-In Sessions SAT 26TH SUN 27TH Alt country and Americana from the Live Funk Jam with Will Vick and Alf Nubya Garcia, Feelgood Experiment, darker side of American folk ... gritty Tramontin...FUNK Only...Nothing but Dakhla, Aisling Iris Quartet, Caravela Slam The Poet x Oli Haylett, Hippo, acoustic tones tell tales of hobos, the Funk!!! All are welcome to listen or Nubya Garcia: Headlining the Goods Komodo railroads and imbibing liquor. 2:30pm perform! 8pm Free (John Street) Shed on Saturday night, London- Slam The Poet and Oli Haylett: An Free based saxophonist and composer, infusion of rhythmically orientated THURS 10TH Nubya is one of the leading forces lyricism and textural loops to SUN 20TH Stroud Jazz Sessions with Hannah behind the resurgence of jazz- investigate a crisis of intimacy. Their influenced sounds in the UK. Her Lewis and Dav Lockerman and Pete Cabara collaboration looks into our close, compositions glow with "Afro- loving relationships for the harmonies The finest Acoustic Jazz and Funk in Stroud Jazz Sessions is delighted to futurist touches, chill Baduizm and and tensions of modern life. (10:30- the Southwest. 2:30pm Free host Hannah Lockerman on vocals self-assurance", performed by a 1am tickets from jazzstroud.org) Pete Cabara on bass. Their opening band comprised of London's finest Hippo: Big beat rhythmic mayhem - thevaultnailsworth.co.uk performance will be followed by musical talent. Feelgood Experiment: a future jazz trio buried in a nest our usual energeti-frenetic jam. All Returning to Jazz Stroud for the third of beefy electronics and bouncing welcome, singers, players, listeners. time with their sumptuous blend of rhythms. Saxophones, synthesisers ST MARY’S CHURCH PAINSWICK Stroud Jazz Sessions is a hub for all jazz, soul and R&B. 7:30pm (tickets and drums go in, hippo comes out. interested in jazz. £5otd (John Street) from jazzstroud.org) Dakhla: Weave (4pm Free) Komodo: The producing SAT 12TH glittering brass threads into intricate duo Sam Judd and Rory Thomas- FRI 11TH musical tapestries like no other band... Lawton create music with blended Painswick Music Society Presents: Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Mesadorm, Dear Robot Ft. Matt Brown from Modulus III and elements of dub, reggae and world Pete Judge from Get the Blessing. (3pm music with the heavy floor kicks and Middleton Celebrating the release of their Free). Aisling Iris Quartet: Hailing from booming sub bass of underground Dame Sarah Connolly is recognized eagerly awaited debut album Cork, Ireland, singer-songwriter Aisling electro. (2pm Free) (John Street) internationally as one of the great Heterogaster A collaborative project relocated to London over ten years mezzo sopranos of our time, between Blythe Pepino (Vaults), Aaron ago, and has since become an integral sva.org.uk celebrated both for her ‘luxury Zahl, Daisy Palmer (Paloma Faith, part of the UK music scene. (2pm Free). Goldfrapp, MIKA), Jo Silverston (The chocolate-liqueur voice and her Caravela: With feet planted firmly in thrilling theatrical intensity on Unthanks, Red Clay Halo, Frank Turner) BRIMSCOMBE SOCIAL CENTRE the traditions of Afro-Brazilian music, stage’. Programme will include First and David Johnston (ZunZun Egui, Phil Caravela’s heart is full of the soaring Performance of a Song Cycle by King, Chairfight!) bringing together creativity and fervour that comes with SAT 19TH Sally Beamish set to poetry by Laurie a stunning array of musical concepts improvised jazz. Weaving melodies and timbres sitting somewhere around vibrant South American and Jazz Friday Big Band Lee plus songs by Vaughan Williams, between the domestic observation West African-inspired rhythms, their Hot curry and hot music with J.F. Gurney, Parry, Howells, Holst, Britten, of Suzanne Vega and the powerful, music is sensitive and full of passion, Big Band, who will be playing their Tippett and more..£20/£5concs elemental other-worldliness of Bjork… energy and life. (Free) (Goods Shed) eclectic mix of Swing, Funk and Latin painswickmusicsoc.co.uk Plus support from Stroud based and including classic vocals from 'The atmospheric indie pop band Dear SAT 26TH Great American Songbook'. £10adv Robot. 8pm £8adv/£10otd (Goods only (including curry and a pud! All Shed) Footshooter Presents: Sawa-Manga, Brother Portrait & Footshooter, money raised will be going towards Christian Aid) from Scroll Eaters in SAT 12TH Eyebrow Brunel Mall in the centre of Stroud or At the Pictures: Three Cane Whale Footshooter Presents: Originally call 01453 882627 hailing from Stroud, Footshooter is the In a show that The Guardian describes production moniker used by London- as ‘Impressively original’, this multi- #38 | May 2018 Literature/Spoken Word Listings 11

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ALE HOUSE to poetry as well as for experienced by professional actors. John Bassett written and read by the cream of writers. Bring your own packed lunch, runs Spaniel in the Works Theatre Gloucestershire's writers. This will be WEDS 2ND/9TH/16TH/23RD/30TH drinks will be provided! £30 (Tickets Company and Stroud theatre Festival. the 16th SSS event, and it always sells also include entry to an evening He has been a professional writer for out - so watch out for tickets going on Rick Vick: Writing Group reading – see listing below) nearly 30 years and has experience in sale! 7:30pm £8adv only A weekly writing group run by Stroud writing for a range of venues and styles. Festival’s Rick Vick. Discover your SAT 5TH 7pm £8 per week or £60 for full course. sva.org.uk hidden voice, all welcome! 7-9pm £5 Poetry Reading with Hannah Lowe, Email [email protected] for for further information contact Rick on Marina Bielenky, Marcus Blackett and further info and to book a space. 07973 225 694 NEW BREWERY ARTS CENTRE Steve Wheeler subscriptionrooms.org.uk MON 14TH To mark the tenth edition of the THURS 31ST Stroud Poets pamphlets, guest poet Beginners Illustration with Imogen Piranha Poetry ft. Chloe Jacquet Hannah Lowe will read alongside the SVA Harvey-Lewis Open mic night for poets hosted by three Stroud poets in Number Ten. Gary Death (Glastonbury Poetry Hannah’s first poetry collection Chick THURS 5TH Take a new perspective on drawing and Words Compare 2009). This (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael in this full day workshop and extend Stroud Artists Books month it will be headlined by Chloe Murphy Memorial Award for Best it into illustration. Led by the highly Jacquet. Based in Gloucestershire First Collection and was short-listed A group of practising artists and other experienced graphic artist and teacher, and with a multicultural background, for the Forward, Aldeburgh and creative individuals with an interest Imogen Harvey-Lewis, this intensive Chloe is a multi-slam winning poet and Seamus Heaney Best First Collection in Artist Books. An inclusive group, session aims to expand upon simple low current Oxford Hammer & Tongue slam Prizes. Her poems combine craft with one which embraces all abilities and tech drawing techniques and explore a champion. She reached the semi- clear honesty, and are perfect for the interests Stroud Artists Books meet at range of visual communications. Learn finals of the National Slam Finals at the strong voice which Hannah brings SVA Johns Street on the first Thursday the nuts and bolts of monochrome Royal Albert Hall earlier this year. With to them. Marina Bielenky’s poetry of each month. It is involved in Open media and how to develop a simple a preference for straight talking and meditates upon the small details which Studio Events, Artist Book Fairs and idea into story. Play with techniques a penchant for rhymes and opinions, make up a life, while Marcus Blackett Workshops. You are very welcome to to express a multitude of meanings Chloe’s poetry is both entertaining enjoys developing form into a vehicle come and see what they are all about! and feel able to nurture your ideas in and accessible. Her work deals with for surprising thoughts, memories and 11am Free (John Street) the safe and experienced hands of a a wide variety of subjects, ranging arguments. Steve Wheeler’s poems jobbing illustrator. No intensive drawing from workplace discrimination to the command their material and mix SUN 20TH experience necessary. 10am-4pm £80 pressures placed on modern men, elegy with celebration. 7:30pm £3otd Stroud Short Stories via her short term relationship with a (pamphlets also available to purchase) newbreweryarts.org.uk An evening of live lit with ten stories biscuit. 7:30pm Free museuminthepark.org.uk

HAWKWOOD COLLEGE STROUD DISTRICT SAT 19TH Writing the New Story with Jay Ramsay FRI 18TH What are the stories we need to tell? Stroud Radical History: Alternative What are the stories we need to Heritage Walk drop? We're living at a time of deep Two years ago an Alien landed in transition and that also means we need Nailsworth, unnoticed by the Stroud to find a new story, both personally Valleys folk. Since its arrival after fifty and collectively. As part of the 'Poetic years rooted on Planet Essex, this Edges' series you will be exploring strange being has immersed itself in what that means today for you and in the Gloucestershire soil, attempting your writing with a series of exercises to make sense of its move here “for a designed to spark your imagination, change, and it ticked more boxes than your memory, and your intuitive sense anywhere else”. See how a creature of direction within meaning, purpose has struggled with the unfamiliar; and value. Sharing your work and intensively exploring its new homeland receiving supportive critique will ensure on foot, or by bicycle, guided by its OS we will touch on our creative “edges” Maps, Gloucestershire Pevsners, and and progress in our craft. Suitable for Wikipedia. Join a naive explorer for a all levels of experience. £70 (incl. lunch circular walk, as this being shares with and refreshments) you its Outsider Views on the Stroud Valleys heritage, as it attempts to hawkwoodcollege.co.uk blend-in with its new people. Meet at 9:30 at Cossack Square, Nailsworth, opposite the Britannia, a hundred yards MUSEUM IN THE PARK south from the Nailsworth bus station. 9:08 Number 63 Forest Green bus from SAT 5TH Stroud Merrywalks. No need to book, Poetry Workshop with Hannah Lowe just turn up. Allow five hours. and Philip Rush radicalstroud.co.uk Philip Rush: A series of short, focused reading and writing exercises. (10:30am-12:30pm) Hannah Lowe: SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS Hannah’s workshop will involve the practice of close reading in order to WEDS 9TH generate new work. Participants will be invited to pay particular attention to Scriptwriting Course with John Bassett the use of image, sound and lineation This eight week course provides and in reading published poems and introduction to script writing for anyone writing their own. The workshop will who has ever fancied writing a play, also focus on the 'performance' of radio or television script. Each week will poetry, discussing how to prepare for feature practical exercises as well as readings, including overcoming our formal teaching. At the end of the eight nerves and making our poems sing… weeks participants will complete a 10 (1:30 - 4:30pm) Suitable for those new minute script which will have a reading 12 Art #38 | May 2018

John and Astrid Furnival came to the Stroud Valleys in 1960. Apart from a period when John & they based themselves in France and a year long residency in New Mexico, they have lived in and around Nailsworth ever since. So it is fitting that a new exhibition surveying Astrid their work, made together and separately over their lifetime, will have its inaugural showing here, split between The Museum Furnival in the Park and Ruskin Mill. The Museum show will feature John’s drawings, prints and By Paul Harper collages, but will have a primary focus on his collaborations with Astrid. Ruskin Mill is showing some of John’s remarkable large- scale panoramic drawings.

John Furnival: George Street Nailsworth (1984)

John came of age at a particularly is taken with Paul Klee’s description of quality of this work led to many others if not a community then at least a vivid moment in the history of art. He ‘taking a line for a walk’ - that is how in the art world inviting her to knit their critical mass of fellow artists and had studied at the Royal College of he makes these drawings and that is words, notably artists Tom Phillips and writers living around the Stroud valleys. Art, where he was a contemporary how we read them, the eye follows Ron King and the poet Adrian Mitchell. At an exhibition of his work in the of David Hockney, Ron Kitaj, Joe the line, catching on fine details, like In another collaboration, John and Gloucester Museum and Art Gallery, Tilson and Peter Blake. Informed by arresting phrases. In their exactitude Astrid founded Satie’s Faction, a group he met Dom Silvester Houédard, Dada and Surrealism, immersed they transcend mere representation. that celebrates and promotes the a Benedictine monk at the nearby in contemporary influences such They are exercises in profound looking, life and work of the Franco-Scottish Prinknash Abbey. An influential figure as Pop Art and Beat poetry, the and at the same time, in their deep composer, Erik Satie. within the international art world of Fluxus and Mail Art movements, he attentiveness to the visible world, they the 60’s and 70’s, known in particular forged a distinctive path. A striking have an enigmatic, surrealistic quality. for his concrete and kinetic poetry, characteristic of John’s work is its visual Collaboration is another Houédard became a long standing quality, indeed, whilst he is associated distinquishing element in his and friend and collaborator. Together, they with Concrete Poetry, he prefers to Astrid’s life and work. John has founded the Openings press, which call his work visual poetry. Where he worked closely with various artists, experimented with new forms of visual uses words, he seems to be constantly writers and publishers including Ian poetry. As well as Houédard, there undermining their specific meanings. Hamilton Findlay and his friends Dom was a striking concentration of poets Words appear as random lists, swirling Silvester Houédard and Jonathan and artists who were experimenting spirals, clouds, teetering towers, Williams. John and Astrid began with words and language living formal patterns - sentences dissolve making work collaboratively in the around the Stroud valleys at that time. and fragment, resisting resolution 70’s. Astrid was making knitted works, John collaborated, for instance with into literal sense. Drawn, carved, including sweaters and quilts. She poets Thomas A Clark and Michael etched, embossed and constructed, pioneered the use of natural dyes that Horowitz and the artist Kenelm Cox, they are almost abstract forms. she extracted from plants grown in all of whom lived in the area. These Their meaning is visual not literary, her garden or collected in the fields associations, as well as his work with poetic not concrete. Conversely, his around Gloucestershire. Together, they Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Philips and large panoramic landscape and designed text-based knitted objects. John and Astrid originally came other international artists connected to architectural drawings can seem to As well as John’s word formations, to Gloucestershire so that John could Concrete Poetry has led to John being read like sentences, unfolding as we Astrid was drawn to the works of teach, at Cheltenham and Stroud regarded by some as a member of that scan the image from left to right trying avante garde writers such as Joyce and Schools of Art, and later at Corsham, movement – a reductive designation to take in the whole scene – Furnival Beckett. The technical and conceptual but, as well as paid work, they found, that he resists. #38 | May 2018 Art 13

One of the pleasures of writing for where he was a frequent visitor, Good on Paper is that it gives me the surrounded by the detritus of a recent opportunity to meet the subjects that eaten breakfast. On the same page we I’m writing about. To meet John and see the drawing, and the painting that Astrid in their home is to encounter an it eventually let to. This juxtaposition exemplary continuity between art and between the intimate and domestic life. John has recently suffered a stroke, and the remote world of high art is which has circumscribed the scope of exquisite. his working methods, but each day he Naturally, these exhibitions have sits at a kitchen table (made by their been curated by a friend who has son) and he takes up a pen. He draws known John and Astrid for many years. whatever is in front of him. He makes Bernard Moxham’s knowledge and art. John is an entertaining storyteller, dedication to his subjects means that a raconteur, erudite, wryly humorous. the exhibitions will not just showcase He talks of music and literature, and he a lifetime’s work, but will celebrate the talks of friends and collaborators. They wonderfully rich and productive lives of are surrounded by artworks made these artists. by themselves and their friends and associates. It is on the walls, but also John and Astrid’s first exhibition ‘A propped up on the mantelpiece, leant Cotswold Celebration’ opens at Ruskin against the furniture, stacked on the Mill Gallery, Nailsworth (rmt.org) on tables – outside unused experiments the 19th May and continues until the are filling gaps in the studio walls. Art 17th June. The second exhibition ‘Lost is special, but it is the stuff of life, not for Words’ opens at the Museum in a rarified thing occupying a separate the Park (museuminthepark.org.uk) domain. This sense of coherence is on the 26th May running until the 24th compounded when Bernard shows me June. Visit johnfurnival.com for more family photographs, many of which info and further examples of John and he has collated into books, where they Astrid’s work. sit alongside images of work. These intimate images place the work in direct relationship to the richness of an Paul Harper has a wide range of experience everyday life suffused with creativity of working in the arts. He was a founding and with family and friends. One of the director of Alias Arts and is Vice-chair of the books shows a photograph of David Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust. He currently Hockney, a close friend, drawing at combines writing, research and teaching Astrid Furnival: Trois Morceaux En Forme de Poire (1975) a table in their Woodchester cottage, with consultancy in the visual arts and crafts.

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Select Trail: MILA HARRIS-MUSSI By Rebecca Mills #38 | May 2018 Art 15

For two weekends in May, Stroud will introduce the public to its myriad creative inhabitants through the Select Trail Open Studios. From 5-6th and 12-13th, over one hundred creatives will open their doors to give us insight into their creative spaces, tools, techniques and latest works. The trail comes as part of the month long Select Festival, presented annually by acclaimed SIT select to celebrate artists regionally, nationally and internationally. One artist taking part this year is Mila Harris-Mussi, a Stroud based textile designer and maker, who talks to me ahead of the trail about her creative background and what to expect of her work throughout the event.

I meet with Mila at her new studio, interaction between knitted textiles a large, blank canvas of open rooms and the body, investigating how tucked around the back of Merretts unforeseen forms come to life when Mills Industrial Estate. Her move Mila’s fabrics are hung, stretched and back to Stroud is a recent one: “I pulled against the human form. Her studied textile design, specialising in project “structured pleats” saw large knitted textiles, at Chelsea Collage knitted fabrics hung as sculptures - of Arts in London”, she explains. “I twisted and contorted - seemingly on graduated a couple years back and the verge of delightful animation. felt determined to keep making my Mila’s initial inspiration often comes own work, so I applied for an award from the material itself. “I want to at the craft-based studio Cockpit Arts find out what the material is capable funded by the Haberdasher’s Guild of; what I can do with it in terms of been investigating the different uses something or someone they’ve never and Framework Knitter Guild. I was its structure, how complicated the of natural dye so it seemed natural heard of before. Another highlight lucky enough to win, and that funded technique can be. I also work a lot for us to work together for the trail. It’s is an exhibition, entitled ‘My Nature’, my own studio in London for a year, with colour, and inspiration for that challenging to see how my processes running at the Museum in the Park which was really amazing. When that can come from anything I see. It’s impact their materials, and feels on Sat 5th and Sun 6th May as part finished a few months ago, I wanted exciting to recreate a colour I’ve found important for me to work with other of the Select Festival, where guest the space to inspiring. people like this.” artists from France, Thailand, Taiwan continue making Lately I’ve “We’re going to be showing an and Great Britain will explore textiles, large-scale work, been using ‘installation of objects’ ”, Mila reveals consumerism and the environment so coming back more natural as I explore the work being prepared using print, stitch, weave and natural to Stroud felt like dyes, and for the trail. Gathered on a table, dye techniques. This year the trail has the right move.” now I’m out swatches of fabric sampling her new curator, Emma Neuberg who Mila’s of the city I’d dyeing techniques are gathered has worked with Director Lizzi Walton work, which like forage next to woven baskets and ceramic to bring together an international is knit based, or grow my bowls etched and imprinted with group of artists to stimulate new incorporating own, which deep indigo dye. Further shards of conversations across the trail and casting with I’ve never ceramics are trussed up in materials beyond. resins, innovative done before. of deep and vibrant natural hues, next yarns and dyeing It’d be great to dyed woven structures evocative Information on the trail, including techniques, is to create my of intricate Chinese lanterns. Outside, maps, artists profiles, and practical largely about own natural Mila’s experiments with shibori are details for planning your visit can be experimentation, colour pallet.” hung in various stages of completion. found at selecttrail.org. For the full and the journey For the The whole hints at an intriguing and programme of the Select Festival visit of making is Select Trail, innovative collection. sitselect.org central to her Mila is This will be Mila’s first time involved creative process. collaborating in the trail. “Now that I’ve moved back Further examples of Mila’s work can be “When I start a with two here it’s great opportunity to show explored at milaharrismussi.co.uk. body of work, I other people what I do and meet other usually get fixed designers; creatives and designers. I think it’s on one technique, Mimi Kerpel, good to show my work and explain to Rebecca Mills was born in Stroud and material or dye and just see what a woven textile designer currently people what I do, and the trail is really has lived in the nearby valleys all her life. happens as my experimenting evolves focusing on works with paper, and important for Stroud.” Following a BA Hons in English Literature, she over time,” Mila reveals. Her sense Daisy Gray, a fine artist recently In addition to Mila and her worked locally as an editor and English tutor. of experimentation and innovation is exploring work with ceramics. “I’ve collaborators, the public can see Outside the day job, she spends her time traveling, reading, free-lance writing and evident in the range of projects she known both Mimi and Daisy a long inside the studios of renowned artists occasionally taking some snaps: instagram has been involved in: a collaboration time,” Mila tells me, “though we work such as Matthew Harris and Tom opportunisticforger with dancer Kara Coffey explored the with different materials, we’ve all Knowles Jackson, as well as discovering 16 Art #38 | May 2018

Site Festival Open Studios: Valerie van Leersum and Tara Downs

By Sarah Dixon

Site Festival organised by the Stroud Valley Artspace (SVA) mutates every year, and is back for 2018 with an eclectic and international mix of delights. Through Resound Radio, there will be a lot of sound coming out of the SVA nerve centre, from artist dialogues to soundscapes with the incongruous clunk of Dutch shipping history in the distance… #38 | May 2018 Art 17

The traditional Open Studios a young age made a big impression. [Leahy] and Neil Walker (co-director of continues too, with artists all over It made me think about identity in SVA) were researching artist led spaces the valleys opening up their spaces relationship to the ground where you like Spike Island in Bristol - the story for conversation, inspiration and were born or where your roots are. is in the podcast.” These movements, discovery. And the SVA gallery itself will Adjusting to places and contexts, according to Downs, “come out of an become an Open Studio, encouraging made me feel a kind of in-between environment where there is time and us to focus on the role of artists and everybody and everything. A feeling space to share ideas and live and work the importance of unclaimed, drifting, that I like as well as dislike.” together: all forms and manifestations post-industrial spaces as a breeding “At this moment my home is where come out.” ground for creativity. my family (two kids and my husband) In her residency, Downs explains SVA was set up in 1996, and is, I guess. But for a long time I was she will be exploring the “chaos continues to play a central role in kind of searching for home. If you of liminal creative space - just shaping Stroud’s cultural scene by move your home, are you the same allowing things to happen.” She will holding and accessing spaces in which person? If the identity of a place be “using oral histories, using sound artists can create. Co-founder Jo changes, what does this mean for the and collecting stories - learning the Leahy has always been fascinated by people living there? What happens in poetry and sculpture of sound - the artist-run spaces. An early inspiration the in-between moments? Are we in podcasts go together as a piece as a occurred in the industrial docklands of these moments, autonomic, free from form of archiving - we are creating a Amsterdam in 1998, when she met Bert identity and therefore most connected contemporary archive.” Hogervorst and Peti Buchel, authors to each other?” Valerie refl ects this too: “My work of Turning Tide: The Users Role in the Van Leersum is collaborating is quite narrative. It moves between Redevelopment of Harbour Buildings in North-West Europe. 20 years on, SVA is bringing Valerie van Leersum from Amsterdam’s dockyard-turned-creative hub NDSM to develop new work in the SVA gallery space, alongside the Miniature Museum’s Tara Downs, who divides her time between Stroud and Amsterdam and is creating podcasts and soundscapes for the Festival.

Places in Drift Valerie Van Leersum will be in residence from 4th -14th May. Her show will be partly built up out of work that already exists, work made for the exhibition and work that will be made during the residency. The fi nal show will be an interactive installation with an overall theme about places with Stroud’s Tara Downs, and they 'factual' history on the one hand, and in transition, drifting with the stream will be co-creating soundscapes, the subjectively experienced on the of time. conversations and archives of stories other, between documentary and the from Stroud and Amsterdam. “Tara imagined. I like to see it as a way to Radio Droogdok and I are both interested in areas that start a conversation.” Artist Tara Downs (Miniature used to be industrial, abandoned and Museums) is making an audio taken over by creative people. We are Audiences can join in the conversation exchange between Stroud and both connected to those places as my at SVA John Street, Sat and Sun 11am- Amsterdam for Site Festival 2018. studio is in a formal Shipyard building 6pm and Weds – Fri 11am-3pm. The Radio Droogdok will be making (NDSM) and Tara lives partly at the preview takes place on Friday 4th and transmitting podcasts from docklands of the ADM. Both places May from 6-9pm. There will also be NDSM and ADM - both former are under a lot of pressure from the an artist’s talk on Saturday 12th May shipyards in Amsterdam - as well city and are in transition all the time. at 4.30pm in the gallery. For further as Landbouwbelang in Maastricht. This drifting identity interests me the examples of van Leersum’s work Tara will interview artists as well as most. The land as silent witness of this visit valerievanleersum.nl. To listen philosophers, anthropologists and process.” to the Radio Droogdok podcast visit visionaries about urban places in Downs and van Leersum met resoundradio.org.uk/radio-droogdok- transition. Listeners can tune in to the when Downs was researching her MA page podcasts transmitted through Resound dissertation in Museum Studies. They Radio online. found they shared interests not only The Site Festival Open Studios takes in transitional environments but also place on the weekend of the 5th – 6th Van Leersum’s studio is at the former in storytelling and archiving. “Valerie and 12th -13th May featuring 86 artists NDSM shipyard in Amsterdam, now has a strong storytelling element, uses at the SVA and 41 studios across the the largest cultural breeding ground in archiving in her work - I loved the way Stroud District. Visit sitefestival.org.uk/ Europe. A place that tries to maintain that she worked with her projects” openstudios for further info including independence within the advancing says Downs. “We started to explore a downloadable version of the free city. Since 2002 van Leersum has ways of working together - the idea of programme. been developing a body of work here exchange led to development funding around the concept of ‘Home’. She uses from the Arts Council and we began to all kinds of media including objects, refl ect on the places we live.” Sarah Dixon is an artist and digital text, audio, collages and photography, Downs spent time in the early 80s consultant in Stroud. She has not yet been to moving between ‘factual’ history and as an anthropologist in Amsterdam, “ Amsterdam but may drift there some day… subjective experience. Growing up, immersed in incredibly creative places, sarahdixonfi neart.co.uk she says, “Moving to diff erent places with creative collectives in squats and between diff erent social classes at like castles. Around the same time, Jo 18 Art Listings #38 | May 2018

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Shop Open Sat 9am- Subscription Rooms. 10am -4pm Every Repair cafe at Atelier will support 6pm and Sun 11am-4pm/Studios open TUES 8TH - SAT 26TH all sorts of textile repairs. Alongside 11am-6pm SAT 5TH - SUN 6TH each month the Cafe will support South West Textile Group: Ebb and My Nature different skills that will be announced Flow pegasusart.co.uk Guest artists curated by Emma beforehand. The Repair Cafe is free See Select Festival listings… Neuberg. My Nature is an exciting but donations are always welcome to THE PINK CABBAGE exhibition of experimental textiles from support running the event. The Stroud SAT 12TH International guest artists. Each artist Repair Cafe is co-hosted by Transition Collectives Fair SAT 5TH - MON 7TH explores textiles, consumerism and Stroud and Atelier. 11am-2pm Free See Select Festival listings… Jane Flint and Andrew Flint: Joint the environment using print, stitch, Exhibition weave and natural dye techniques. WEDS 30TH TUES 29TH MAY – SAT 9TH JUNE See Select Festival listings… Pop Up demonstrations will take place Textile Muse: Facilitated by Patricien Sue Hiley Harris throughout the day. Venue: Museum in Brien See Select Festival listings… SAT 12TH – SUN 20TH the Park Patricia Brien is hosting the informal Caitlin FJ Sell: In Addition… study group on the last Wednesday lansdownhall.org SAT 5TH - MON 7TH This is Caitlin’s third exhibition in in the month. Are you needing some Jane Flint and Andrew Flint: Joint inspiration with your latest textile Stroud. These paintings are a collection Exhibition or sewing project? Think that your THE MALTHOUSE BAR & KITCHEN of abstract cityscapes, seascapes and Jane Flint’s ceramic animal figures knowledge of art & design could landscapes alongside some whose TUES 24TH APR – SAT 30TH JUNE inspired by antique toys create a be expanded upon, updated or subject matter is more elusive and up narrative and sit well beside Andrew’s Georgina Bouzyk: Flora and Fauna to the eye of the individual… tweaked? 7:30pm Free figurative sculptures. Included in the See Select Festival listings… exhibition are limited edition prints. atelierstroud.co.uk thepinkcabbage.co.uk Venue: The Pink Cabbage. 10:30am- stroudmalthouse.com 6pm Private view Fri 5th ART OF CLAY SELECT FESTIVAL MUSEUM IN THE PARK TUES 8TH - SAT 26TH SAT 21ST APR – SAT 19TH MAY Clay Sinclair South West Textile Group: Ebb and SAT 21ST APR – SAT 19TH MAY Hannah Waldron: Primary Traveller Provocative post-pop paintings Flow on Perspex by local/international Hannah Waldron: Primary Traveller Hannah began weaving in 2010 after New works include embroidery, felt, an encounter with the weavings of artist Clay Sinclair situated at 48 See Select Festival listings… quilting and weave. Meet the Artists on High Street. Plus prints for those Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers at the Sat 5th. Venue: Lansdown Hall on a budget and People's Republic SAT 5TH - SUN 6TH Bauhaus archive in Berlin. In the of Stroud tat for those joining the My Nature learning of her craft, Hannah has often SAT 12TH revolution. Open Mon – Fri 11am-5pm/ felt it is the process of stories, of place, Collectives Fair See Select Festival listings… travelling and narratives that take in Sat 10am-5pm A curated showcase with exhibitors, all the senses. She now specialises in THURS 17TH – SUN 20TH local and across the UK, selling a designing and creating research-led claysinclair.com range of handmade works from Independence Trust: Medicine Heads printed and woven textiles that have textiles, ceramics, jewellery, leather, Independence Trust Stroud presents an emphasis on storytelling. ‘Primary BLUE DOOR STUDIOS designer knitwear and clothing an exhibition of artworks which Traveller’ is a nomadic modular alongside vintage textiles and rare explore different aspects of mental structure that will house a new body ethnic artefacts. Demonstrations taking Oliver Vivian: How Does It Feel? health. Created by people who of weavings specially created for the place throughout the day. Venue: An ongoing exhibition of expressive have had personal experiences of Festival. Venue: The Museum in the Lansdown Hall. 10am-4:30pm abstract paintings in oils on canvas, mental ill health, this exhibition aims Park. Tues-Fri 10am-4pm/Sat-Sun evoking the elemental forces of the to widen awareness and encourage 11am-4pm TUES 29TH MAY – SAT 9TH JUNE natural world. understanding. It coincides with Mental Sue Hiley Harris Health Awareness Week. Evening SAT 21ST APR – JUNE theoliverviviangallery.co.uk opening and sale of artworks on Friday Mixed Sculpture Exhibition Woven sculpture based on regular geometric form with a structural 18 May 6pm to 8pm, all welcome. Ten Artists exhibiting work in the regularity, is shown alongside DUFFLE VINTAGE delightful setting of Miserden Nursery SAT 26TH MAY – SUN 24TH JUNE expressive landscape drawings. with the herbaceous borders and Sue’s paintings and drawings bring a As well as stocking the coolest vintage John and Astrid Furnival: Lost For surrounding countryside giving added Words sense of energy and freedom to the furniture and clothing Patrick’s drama. Venue: Miserden Nursery. Tues- constrained discipline of the woven shop acts as a revolving gallery for John Furnival was a student at the Sun 10am-5pm local artists creating a unique and Royal College in the 1950s alongside pieces. Venue: Lansdown Hall. Meet unconventional exhibition space. David Hockney. Best known as a 'visual TUES 24TH APR – SAT 30TH JUNE the Artist Mon 28th May 5-7pm. Linked workshop on Sun 3rd June in the Select Currently showing works works by poet' with work in the Tate, he has Georgina Bouzyk: Flora and Fauna Melvyn Warren-Smith, Dan Rawlings, since lived with his textile artist wife Studio, Centre for Science and Art, A solo exhibition of oil paintings Steven Hubbard, Zoe Heath and many Astrid in Nailsworth and Woodchester. Lansdown. exploring the flora and fauna of the more… This exhibition shows drawings, prints countryside surrounding Stroud by sitselect.org and collages from over 50 years, with Georgina Bouzyk. Georgina’s paintings a focus on his collaborations with GALLERY PANGOLIN explore the fragile yet powerful Astrid, that resulted in her producing SELECT TRAIL aspects of nature; Studying the innate many text-based knitted garments MON 19TH MAR – FRI 18TH MAY shapes and colours that make up the using natural dyes. Curated by Bernard SAT 5TH –SUN 6TH/SAT 12TH-SUN Marino Marini: A Sculptor’s Prints landscape to create a sense of place. 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national guest artists join local artists SVA workshops coordinator. 10am-3pm/ Wise are bursting with colour, energy and makers to bring an exciting Short talks: 11am and 2pm (John Street) and vitality. Her primary inspiration range of original handcrafted and Resound Radio presents Radio is the natural world. Her early work visual art work. Pegasus Art studios Droogdok FRI 25TH MAY – SAT 16TH JUNE involved a detailed study of individual have a pop up cafe and 10& off all art Radio Droogdok (Tara Downs) will Oliver Marsden plants but more recently her paintings materials bought direct from the shop. be making an audio exchange with In his luminous, abstract paintings, have become less botanical, now Gloucestershire Print Co operative will Stroud and Amsterdam for Resound drawings, and prints, Oliver Marsden focusing on the majesty of blooms and be demonstrating printing techniques Radio. Podcasts will be transmitted transforms light, colour, sound, plants in their natural setting or planted over the two weekends. from NDSM and ADM both former vibrations, water, and other sensations location. Ros’ work is a celebration shipyards in Amsterdam as well as and natural phenomena into of colour, texture and form found in selecttrail.org Landbouwbelang in Maastricht. pigment and line on canvas or paper, garden borders – friends’ little green Podcasts will also be made especially exploring and celebrating the process havens as well as the fabulous gardens SITE FESTIVAL OPEN STUDIOS for ‘Places In Drift’ a collaborative of perception. He works in series, at Great Dixter. project with Valerie Van Leersum, an concentrating on a single perceptual TUES 1ST MAY – FRI 8TH 5TH-6TH/12TH-13TH artist from NDSM in Amsterdam, who phenomenon. In his “Fade” series Open Studios returns for its 22nd year will be SVA’sresident artist in the gallery (begun 2004) of acrylic-on-canvas June Jayne Emerson featuring 86 artists across the district for the Site Festival Open Studios. (John paintings, Marsden captures the Textiles artist Jayne Emerson studied including the likes of Joe Magee, Zoe Street) resonance of light in the eye and mind, at Loughborough College of Art before Heath, Adam White, Lorraine Robbins, and the harmony between different completing her Masters at Central Gemma Kay Waggett, Ann-Margreth SAT 14TH APR – SUN 13TH MAY colours, through subtly graded hues St. Martins. Since then her work has Bohl, Emily Joy, Sean Heather, Melvyn Signed up that fade into each other across the taken a wide-ranging path that has Warren-Smith, Rod Nelson, Rachel The once proud tradition of signwriting picture plane. Open Fridays and allowed her to express her creativity McDonnell and Colin Mattingley. The that originated on ancient gravestones Saturdays 10am-3pm (John Street) from craft through to couture. For the SVA hope they can make this one even and in medieval heraldry has been past eighteen years Jayne has created more enticing and exciting to hundreds FRI 25TH MAY – SAT 16TH JUNE in decline since its glory days in innovative fabric samples that explore of new and regular visitors. You will Victorian Britain. For over thirty years, Dan Sparkes the boundaries of modern embroidery, be able to pick up an Open Studios evidence of the trade has all but Sparkes inhabits the space between patchwork, fabric manipulation and Directory in Stroud so you can plan disappeared from urban landscapes reality and illusion, between popular needle felting. Her samples have sold ahead. Open Studios is a great way as every town high street becomes culture and scientific investigation, and to a wide range of clients that include to meet artists, find out more about wrapped in predicable plastic. All creates a landscape where everything Chanel, Calvin Klein, Nina Ricci, and the ideas behind their work and the is not lost however! A new and is spliced, butchered and dissected. Louis Vuitton. techniques they use. Don’t forget, you dedicated generation of sign writers His treatment of each subject, be it a can also buy art works directly from TUES 1ST MAY – FRI 8TH JUNE and illustrators are helping to revive desolate landscape, a stranger’s face artists too! SVA has been hosting Open the craft into a relevant art form by or a panting animal, is linear; each Eve Coy Studios since 1997 with a handful paying homage to traditional skills with must have a layer stripped away and Prema resident artist Eve Coy can be of artists and it has now expanded an awareness of current tastes and another created, and each must have located at all times of the day and into one the best rurally based Open modern graphic design so the purpose its own complex interior exposed. night, busily creating characters, Studios events in the UK. 11am-6pm of the Stroud ‘Signed up’ initiative is to It is, as Sparkes has said himself, stories and glorious illustrations from “a fraudulent science”. To an extent sitefestival.org.uk give individuals a chance to promote her studio within our arts centre. Eve their various styles and skills...10am- he also plays with the idea of our joined Prema in September 2015 whilst 5pm (John Street) disconnection with nature through, for completing her MA in children’s book STEVE RUSSELL STUDIOS example, portraying animal butchery illustration in Cambridge. The MA FRI 4TH – SUN 13TH as an idealistic cartoon scenario. In a resulted in three book commissions – Studio Tours/Visual Demonstration Valerie Van Leersum: Places in Drift world so preoccupied with superficial the prospect of which Eve describes Specialist fine art photographers with Valerie Van Leersum, an artist from banality, Sparkes’ work, although as both exciting and overwhelming in 30 years’ experience working with NDSM in Amsterdam, will be the initially appearing tongue-in-cheek, equal measure! Looking After William artists and galleries. Now exploring resident artist for the Site Festival Open brings with it a more robust message is the first of these three books and has new techniques in high definition Studios. In 2007 Valerie Van Leersum of the conflict between the natural recently been published by Anderson photogrammetry, Steve Russell built her studio at the former NDSM and mechanical worlds. Fridays and Press. Studios can offer artists beautiful, shipyard in Amsterdam. Inspired by the Saturdays 10am-3pm (John Street) prema.org.uk precise representations of their ideas of artist Constant Nieuwenhuys, sva.org.uk works in interactive 3D. Studio tours this yard has been turned into the by appointment (contact rebekah@ largest cultural breeding ground in UNDER THE EDGE ARTS steverussellstudios.com ) including a Europe and is a place that now tries RUSKIN MILL HORSLEY visual demonstration of the process of to maintain its independence within FRI 25TH – MON 28TH capturing sculpture in detailed 3D and the advancing city. Under the theme UNTIL TUES 15TH Wotton Sculpture Show virtual reality. Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. of ‘Places in Drift’, Valerie Van Leersum Rob Poole, John Cooper, Eppie Short, The first ever Wotton Sculpture Show! will show work that is based on both Chris Rose: Wood Related steverussellstudios.com Featuring works by Cameron Ford, the industrial and natural transitions of An exhibition featuring wood as both Chris Burns-Cox and more tba…Entries the NDSM wharf and Stroud. Valerie a medium and a tool as well as an are now invited - 20% commission on ST MARY’S MILL CHALFORD will work with Tara Downs and Radio inspiration. Four local artists and sales but NFS entries are welcome. Droogdok, who will be transmitting craftsmen combine to present an SAT 5TH – SUN 6TH/ SAT 12TH – SUN podcasts from NDSM in Amsterdam exhibition of wood-inspired pieces utea.org.uk 13TH to the gallery at SVA in Stroud. Fri 4th ranging from turned wooden bowls to 6-8pm/Sat-Sun 11am-6pm/Weds-Fri Art at St Mary’s Mill fine prints and engravings.10am-4pm NEW BREWERY ARTS CENTRE 11am-3pm (John Street) A selection of prints, drawings and 3D SAT 19TH MAY – SUN 17TH JUNE work by artist Tonia Maddison in the SAT 19TH SAT 17TH MAR – SUN 20TH MAY extraordinary 1820 Mill in Chalford. John Furnival John and Astrid Furnival: Lost for Lucienne Day: Living Design Also, see the large waterwheel and Best known as a ‘visual poet’ with work Words Taster This exhibition celebrates the life Tangye steam engine. Parking in in the Tate’s collection, John’s drawings and work of one of most influential lay-by on A419 or near the Round John Furnival was a student at the celebrating life in the Cotswolds will be designers of the post-war generation, House at Chalford. In partnership with Royal College in the 1950s alongside exhibited at Ruskin Mill with more work Lucienne Day. Lucienne Day: Living Stroudwater Textile Trust. David Hockney and he calls himself a concurrently at Stroud’s Museum in the Design tells the story of Lucienne Day’s 'drawer'. Best known as a 'visual poet' Park. Preview plus meet the artist Sat design career, unfolding in a sequence stroud-textile.org.uk with work in the Tate, he has since 19th May 2-4pm lived with his textile artist wife Astrid of photographs drawn from the in Nailsworth and Woodchester. The rmt.org archives of the Robin and Lucienne Day SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS main exhibition will open at at the Foundation. Mon-Sat 9am-5pm/Sun Museum in the Park on 26th May and 10am-4pm SAT 28TH APR – SAT 5TH MAY PREMA ARTS CENTRE ULEY will show drawings, prints and collages Three By 3: A Homage to Vivaldi from over 50 years, but with a focus newbreweryarts.org.uk TUES 1ST MAY – FRI 8TH JUNE See Select Festival listings… on his collaborations with Astrid. 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Dazzling acrobat displays, glittering sequins, majestic horses, calamitous clowns - it’s di€cult to describe Giƒords Circus in one sentence, such is the show’s amalgamation of theatrical and circus artistry and more than a light dusting of magic. One thing I am certain of, opening on Friday 4th May at Fennells Farm in Stroud, this year’s show is set to be as enthralling, joyful and jaw-dropping as ever.

By Lorna Davies

Photography by Emilie Sandy

“We don’t fit into any group. Family, a family of eight creating first circus memory is of the Moscow far-reaching, but topical? That’s We’re a weirdo amongst theatre gymnastic and balancing acts. State Circus when she was a young something she is keen to keep people, we’re a weirdo amongst Alongside these new acts, many fan teen. “I fell in love with all the colour away from. “I hate anything in the circus people, we don’t really fit in favourites will be returning to the and the movement and the music.” show that references anything anywhere and I guess that is what tent including Nell herself with her She studied English at Oxford contemporary, Brexit or anything. works for us. Someone said to me stunning equestrienne act; Tweedy University, before travelling the It’s just like get in that tent and just recently, circus is the magic word, the Clown; Nancy Trotter Landry who world working for several circuses, forget about the year, everything, and it definitely is,” Giƒords founder originally joined the circus at the age including as a popcorn vendor at total escapism” Nell Giƒord tells me as she sits in of 19; Dany Reyes, with his juggling the Chinese State Circus and acting Giƒords Circus began in 2000, Josephs on Union Street, her blonde routines; expert horseman Dany as ring-mistress for Santus Circus with a small show at Hay-on-Wye hair covered in dye. Cesar; and Alfredo and the highly in France. It was this international Literature Festival. “I had been It is early April when we meet at acclaimed Pozo the Strongman. experience that made Nell view working in the circus for quite a few the hair salon, and Nell is in the midst 2018 marks 250 years since the British circus in a new light. “It is years and I wrote a book about it of rehearsals for the inimitable, circus was invented in London by interesting because it is an English [Josser: The Secret Life of a Circus beautiful, bohemian celebration that Philip Astley, an 18th-century trick invention in a sense, but we ended Girl]. They asked me to talk about is Giƒords Circus. “I’m sorry, I’m so rider (although, as Nell points out, up as a country not putting any value the book, so I brought a circus tired,” she apologises throughout our it’s di€cult to pin point a date, as on circuses. People say, ‘oh they’re along, and the rest is history,” she chat, rubbing her head as she spins circus itself is an alchemy of many commercial’ and everything, but I remembers. back and forth on the leather chair. art forms). To mark the milestone, really think it’s great that there is a Toti, who runs a landscaping I’m not surprised. Giƒords new show, My Beautiful travelling form of theatre that exists business, found the wagon in a A riot of live music, horses, Circus, celebrates circus itself. “It’s without having to be organised by a hedge in Cheltenham, did it up, and chickens, comedy, acrobatics and about seeing it through a child’s eye committee and have funding from that was the first of the now famous theatre, Giƒords is a 1930s-style and thinking about what makes it the government. It’s a folk art, and maroon and gold velvet-lined touring village-green circus, really special and beautiful,” Nell should really be celebrated. I think circus wagons that tour around the launched 18 years ago by Nell and explains. they have been judged really harshly country each summer, from May her then-husband Toti. This year, Growing up in a creative and driven to the very fringes. I have until September. There were around Nell is leading a show including new household “full of books” in North always wanted to celebrate the 20 performers in the first show. additions of third generation Italian Oxford (one of Nell’s four siblings circus.” “My brother in law came along and circus performers, The Curatola is famed pottery designer Emma The shows are themed each year, he had a motorbike and rode that Brothers, with their hand-to-hand Bridgewater) – “I was brought up the inspiration for which can come round the ring. My other brother acrobatic act; Diana Vediashkina with an arts background. My mum from everywhere and anywhere, in law Joe is an Irish folk musician, and her troupe of dachshunds; was really into home making, kind Nell says. From War and Peace to really good guitar and vocalist, he Lisandra Austin and her aerial of homemade fun, and that is what Treasure Island, references and came along, so we’ve always had silk act; and the Portuguese Dias is in the circus,” she says – Nell’s influences have been broad and horses and live music.” The circus #38 | May 2018 Theatre 23

now has a cult following, and has since entertained more than 650,000 people. Her advice to her younger self would be to “be more organised.”- “I had to learn a lot of business skills along the way, which has been a steep learning curve. People don’t really realise that.” If you follow Giƒords on Instagram (you should, its excellent wanderlust), you’ll see that along with the beauty, fun and glamour, there’s an awful lot of hard work involved. “Yeah, I mean it is,” Nell agrees. “It’s a lot of people and a lot of concentration. I think people enjoy seeing the process, it’s fun to see something being made. This area seems to really celebrate that actually.” All the animals are trained by the team, sets are painted in the barns on the farm, the costumes are handmade and are so real looking that they once had complaints about using a “small bear” in the show. It was in fact, just a very good costume. Since 2012, the show has been directed by comedy director Cal McCrystal, whose credits include Paddington and One Man Two Guvnors. Horses are central to the show, with everything from the overall theme to the colour scheme designed with the four-legged friends in mind. It is truly astounding what these majestic animals can do in what is a relatively small space. “It can take 10 years to train a horse to that level,” Nell explains. There’s Full House and High Card, shire horses, along with two little Eriskay ponies, Max and Percy, and not forgetting the dogs and chickens. your cancer’ I just think the more we Stratton Meadows in Cirencester, them at Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe The circus moved from Bourton- talk about it, the better. It’s diƒerent before returning to Fennells Farm. (17th – 21st May), Daylesford on-the-Water to Fennells Farm in for everybody of course, but it is not “The first few shows are previews in Organic Farm, Kingham (24th Stroud, in 2014. “It’s just so nice and always the end of the world, cancer, a way because it’s a local audience. May – 4th June), Blenheim Palace, friendly round here,” Nell smiles. it isn’t.” By the end of the first weekend you’ll Oxfordshire (7th – 11th June), Oxford “I grew up not far from here, so On top of all the above, Nell also have done the show nine times in University Parks, Oxford (14th – 25th it definitely feels like home.” Nell has eight-year-old twins Cecil and three days, we do a lot of fine tuning June), Chiswick House & Gardens, spends “a lot of time on Swifts Hill Red. “They enjoy the circus, they get then. In fact, it all happens then. You London (28th June – 9th July) , walking down to the Woolpack” and involved in practise and everything. rehearse and rehearse, then it all Windsor Great Park (12th – 16th July), rates The Marshall Rooms. “I just My daughter is good at organising,” kind of locks together when you’ve Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames think there’s so much optimism in she says. Would she encourage them got the audience,” Nell explains. “On (19th – 23rd July), Barrington, Burford Stroud, people are determined to to follow in her theatrical footsteps? the last night everything runs like (26th July – 6th Aug), Frampton on go at life in a really positive way, it’s “It often happens that you want clockwork, but the first night has this Severn, Village Green (9th – 13th a really good-humoured place,” she to put your own ideas onto your energy and innocence I think. It takes Aug), Minchinhampton Common adds. children, that you yourself might until the halfway point then you know (16th – 28th Aug), Marlborough The tour ends in September, and have wanted to be or do, and I don’t the show you’ve got.” Common (31st Aug – 10th Sept) and I ask if Nell has time for a holiday. really see much wrong with that, but She says she can’t pick a favourite Stratton Meadows, Cirencester(13th “Hopefully I’ll have a break if I can obviously it’s their life and they’ve got location – “I love them all” – but – 24th Sept). The tour returns to aƒord it. I haven’t had a holiday to to find their own path. The circus is does name Minchinhampton Fennell Farm for the last shows from be fair since 2014. I have had cancer a great place to get a grounding in Common and “the London shows” as 27th – 30th Sept. twice, I’ve been having treatment on a creative life, meeting all diƒerent particular highlights. Her teaser for and oƒ for three years, so you can’t kinds of people of all diƒerent this year is that it will “be beautiful. For further info and to purchase really travel.” nationalities.” There’s red velvet, there’s a new tickets across the tour visit Nell has been open about The first few shows take place band in black tie, it is going to be giordscircus.com her treatment for breast cancer, in Stroud, before the show goes on really lovely.” updating Giƒords fans on her blog. It tour to Sudeley Castle, Daylesford, is refreshing, I say, hearing someone Blenheim Palace, Oxford University, I can’t wait. Lorna Davies is a journalist who lives in talk openly about it. “Thank you. Chiswick House, Windsor Park, Stroud. She also paints and sells her work You’d be surprised, a few people Stonor Park in Henley-on-Thames, My Beautiful Circus launches in in Made in Stroud and on Etsy (search have said, ‘oh stop talking about Barrington, Frampton-on-Severn, Stroud at Fennells Farm from the 4th 'PaintingsbyLornaD'). Follow her on Twitter Minchinhampton, Marlborough and to the 14th May. You can also catch and Instagram: @lornabdavies 24 Theatre #38 | May 2018

Stroud Shakespeare Festival By Matt Shinn

Friends, Stroudies, countrymen, lend me your ears: the Bard is coming to town this summer…

Stroud Shakespeare Festival about putting on Shakespeare plays: step into the festival there will be loads great Shakespeare-related events is a brand new open-air theatre it’s about connecting with people of different things, with everything around Gloucestershire (open-air extravaganza in the beautiful who do performance poetry, with you see being linked in some way. But performances at Berkeley Castle, for surroundings of the Museum in the musicians, and with artists who are that’s just as it was for the theatre- example), there isn’t a Shakespeare Park, situated (fittingly enough) in creating unique pieces specifically goers of Shakespeare’s time. It was festival in this area. But we’re not just Stratford Park. Over the course of for the festival. It’s playing to Stroud’s an all-round experience: you went putting on traditional Shakespeare, three days, there will be a wide range strengths: the fact that for a small to see and be seen, you went to hear we’re trying to bring in a new of events to suit theatre-goers of all town, we have so much creative talent music and watch some dancing, or audience, trying to bring something ages: not just performances of plays, here.” Art installations will include look at the beautifully painted canopy interesting and different to the plays. but also workshops, live music, and a Sonnet Tree: a full-size tree, with of the Globe. And just as it was in That’s not to discount traditional opportunities to find out more about descriptions of how to write a sonnet, Shakespeare’s day, this is for everyone: Shakespeare: we have some wonderful Shakespeare’s work. and the invitation to have a go yourself it’s not pricey, it’s not elitist.” traditional performances, but Festival Director Alan Mandel – writing couplets on luggage tags that Full performances will include engaging with something new is really Butler works at SGS College as part of you can tie to the tree. Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, what we want to do. As time goes on, Five Valleys Productions, a company As well as having ticketed while other productions are inspired by we want to be a place where people that gives students a taste of the performances of Shakespeare’s plays, Shakespeare plays in a variety of ways, can try out something different.” realities of the theatre industry. For there will be a lot at the festival that’s some of them quite unexpected. “One Though the main performance him “Shakespeare can sometimes be free: people can come along and be of the things that has excited me about spaces are now all spoken-for, Five presented in a very dry way within the a part of it, even if they don’t know the submissions that we’ve had – and Valleys Productions, the team who are school curriculum: it’s very much about anything about Shakespeare. And that wasn’t in the remit – is how many putting the event together, are still how the plays are analysed. Whereas that includes kids: a major focus of of the shows are about championing open to proposals from emerging and for me the real joy of Shakespeare is the festival is on younger audiences the women in Shakespeare, established theatre performers, writing being able to live it, breathe it and see who may have no connection with celebrating the female roles in the companies, dance companies and it. That’s what it was designed for.” Shakespeare as yet – primary school plays. Amazing female characters artists who produce work for children There are other Shakespeare children, and teenagers too. It’s no like Lady Macbeth and Desdemona: and families. They’re also looking for festivals out there, of course. But part accident that the festival takes place people are taking scenes or characters volunteers to work in various roles, of what will make Stroud’s different is during half-term. as their own inspiration. We also have such as stewarding. the fact that the events are focused on What Alan Mandel Butler is aiming improvised Shakespeare, which I’ll be a particular location, rather than being for is something between a literary very interested in seeing.” Stroud Shakespeare Festival will spread out around a town. festival and music festivals such as The long-term vision is for Stroud take place at the Museum in the Then there’s the way that Stroud Latitude or End of the Road, which Shakespeare to match the town’s other Park, Stratford Park from 31 May to 2 Shakespeare Festival combines have their big stage spaces, but then wonderful festivals. “We don’t want to June 2018. For a detailed listing or to many different art forms. “Stroud also have lots of little experiential step on anyone’s toes,” says Alan, “but contact Five Valleys Productions, visit and South Gloucestershire have things that happen around the edges. we want to form part of the season stroudshakespearefestival.weebly.com so much wonderful art – not just Another example he gives is Secret of festivals that there is in Stroud, performance art, but visual art Cinema, which provides an immersive including the Stroud Film Festival and too,” says Alan. “There’s so much film experience, combining screenings Stroud Fringe (which is supporting Matt Shinn runs Whole New Chapter Ltd, a happening, we wanted to bring with interactive performances in us). We’re throwing Shakespeare Stroud-based editorial and design agency. that all into one location. It’s not just purpose-built sets. “As soon as you into the mix. Though there are some wholenewchapter.co.uk illustration by Mark Levy 26 Theatre/Dance/Comedy Listings #38 | May 2018

NAILSWORTH CHURCH OF Retentive' for BBC3 and has just finished writing and performing in 'The This could Theatre ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL Comedy Omid Djalili Show' due to be aired on BBC1 towards the end of the year. He THURS 24TH has recently performed on Live At The Nailsworth Festival: An Evening with Apollo as well as Mock The Week..7pm Listings Listings £15 from Trading Post or email be your new Sir Richard Eyre [email protected]. The theatre and film director, Sir Richard Eyre, will talk about working themarshallrooms.co.uk with actors and show clips from several of his films, including his most work space recent film of King Lear with Anthony CHRIST CHURCH NAILSWORTH Hopkins. He has been the recipient of numerous directing awards. Many WEDS 23RD will recall his stage musical, Guys and Join our co-working community Dolls, and film, Notes on a Scandal, Nailsworth Festival: Comedy Night with amongst others. He was Director of the Tony Vino, Fran Garrity and Andy Kind UK’s National Theatre between 1988 THE MARSHALL ROOMS Building on the success of last year the and 1997. 7:30pm £10 2018 Festival offers a three comedian line up! The show will be compered by nailsworthfestival.org.uk SUN 13TH Andy Kind, opened by Fran Garrity and COTSWOLD PLAYHOUSE CrazyBird Comedy Club: Hal headlined by Tony Vino, with all three Cruttenden, ‘Alf’, Susan Murray, MC having considerable experience on NAILSWORTH TOWN HALL FRI 4TH Geoff Whiting the comedy circuit. Andy’s stand-up Baroque Theatre Company: Twist The iconic Marshall Rooms in Stroud is style can best be described as “the FRI 25TH joyful rant of a post 30 chaos vacuum”. Twist is a stylish comedy thriller the venue for The CrazyBird Comedy Nailsworth Festival: LipService Theatre Club’s next outing! Legendary resident Fran Garrity has an assured delivery directed by award-winning Adam of finely crafted materials: “Fran never Morley. Presented with echoes of – Withering Looks MC Geoff Whiting who has been missing in action for the last three fails to deliver, he is dependable with 'Pulp Fiction', it will be edgy, slick and 2018 is the 200th anniversary year of a sharp dry delivery. He came up with cool. Tarantino meets British farce in Emily Bronte’s birth. LipService Touring shows will be back with a vengeance to host the show and ease you into the one of the best lines of the night which the rip-roaring comedy thriller that will Theatre takes a look at the lives of brought the house down” – Nibbles have you guessing until the shocking the Bronte sisters...... well, two of them night. First on the bill is Birmingham born Susan Murray who has emerged with Giggles. Headliner Tony Vino has end! This will be the first time the play as Anne’s just popped out for a cup been touring the comedy scene since has been toured professionally in the of sugar. Peopled with some of the as one of the best female stand-ups in the UK and recently starred in Stephen early 2005. Well aware of social and UK. 7:30pm £12 greatest characters from the Bronte political issues he mixes friendly well canon, and some, quite frankly that K Amos’ Idiots Guide’ for Radio 4. Keeping you royally entertained in thought out observational humour cotswoldplayhouse.co.uk LipService have made up, Withering with audience interaction and quick Looks is an irreverent and hilarious the middle section is a comedian with a very fast growing reputation, the witted responses: “uplifting style, theatre event to savour. Winners of a great delivery and consistently funny STROUD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Manchester Evening News Theatre supremely talented ‘Alf’ who made it through to the final of the prestigious throughout” – Sam Walker, BBC award and Critics award for Comedy Manchester. 7:30pm £8 31ST MAY – 2ND JUNE at the Edinburgh Festival. 7:30pm £12 ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ competition in Edinburgh. Headlining the night is A brand new open-air theatre festival nailsworthfestival.org.uk for Stroud and South Gloucestershire, nailsworthfestival.org.uk TV star Hal Cruttenden one of the one set in the beautiful surroundings of of the top comedians working in the the Museum in the Park just outside UK today. Already this year he has the town centre. Over the course of 3 BERKELEY CASTLE appeared on 'Rob Brydon's Annually days the festival will present a diverse programme of theatrical events to suit TUES 1ST – SUN 20TH theatre goers of all ages, including Split Second Productions: The headline theatre performances, SUN 15TH APRIL - 24TH JUNE Importance of Being Earnest workshops, live music and opportunities for all to get involved After the sell-out success of 'A in the theatre of the great William Christmas Carol' and 'A Midsummer Shakespeare… Night's Dream', Split Second Productions return to Berkeley Castle stroudshakespearefestival.weebly. with one of the greatest comedies ever com written. It's going to be Wilde! 7:30pm £20adults/£15under 18’s

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FRI 25TH BARN THEATRE CIRENCESTER Split Second Productions: The Importance of Being Earnest FRI 18TH MAY – SUN 17TH JUN One of the most cherished plays One Minute around the world, Split Second Productions present Oscar Wilde’s A child goes missing, vanishes into hilarious classic – performed thin air, leaving a tender, fragmentary by two men. Playing every part. play about the inarticulacy of grief. Prepare to take a different turn One Minute follows several connected with Wilde’s much-loved Algernon, characters through their struggles Jack, Gwendolen and Cecily, with Daisy Schults’s disappearance: as town and country clash in a the two policemen investigating the brilliant and wildly funny story of disappearance; Daisy’s mother Anne; romance, identity, perambulators and Marie Louise, a woman who and capacious handbags. 7:30pm glimpsed Daisy after she had been £20.50/£15.50concs separated from her mother. Robert is new to the police force, and his Private office MON 28TH enthusiasm for the case is keener than that of his cynical colleague and flexible Tutti Frutti Presents: Keepy Uppy Gary. Mary Louise begins a strange Keepy Uppy is a play for the 2018 friendship with a woman who knows world cup year, for football fans, Gary from the café where she works. desk spaces non-football fans, children and Anne’s life has stopped: she wants families. With few words and bold to know when ‘missing’ becomes now available. physicality, fab footie moves, flicks, ‘presumed dead’. One Minute is a sidesteps and original live music. disquieting portrait of the lives that are Join tutti frutti as they celebrate the united in the single moment it takes for joy of the beautiful game and ignite a child to disappear. Check website for children’s imagination with visual and times and ticket details… Schedule a tour – physical storytelling. 11am and 4pm £9adv/£6concs/£25family of four barntheatre.org.uk the coffee is on us!

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