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be a fun event with a really serious an idea on Facebook, but since heart. We are delighted to fire up the beginning of Nasty Women our own event here in the heart of Stroud, the people around me of the Stroud valleys, supporting have really taken the reins and Exhibiting such an inspiring charity as Orchid done what today’s women do best Project’.” Jess specifically wants - organise, care and have a big, fat to thank those artists who have laugh at the expense of President Artists: jumped at the chance to be Trump. involved and donate their work. She Aimee Lax, Alex Merry, Amanda Griffiths, Ant Belmont, also wants to thank Lindsey and The Nasty Women of Stroud march team from the Cotswold Auction begins at 2pm on Saturday 14th Bella Ananda Lyster, Caroline Jaine , Charlotte Saturley, Company (cotswoldauction. October at the Subscription Rooms, Chloe Waite, Clare Cooke, Clay Sinclair, Dan Chadwick, co.uk) for their offer to run this followed by the art exhibition which Deb Thurkettle, Debbie,Stirling , Ed Clark, Elizabeth Frazer, Nasty auction for us and Lotte, Tom and opens at the Marshall Rooms at Ella Kenyon, Emily Joy, Emma Stevenson, Eppie Short , Keith of The Marshall Rooms, “for 4pm with the auction starting at Felicity Borwick, Frances Clark-Stone, Gem Wagget, such an exciting new venue to 7pm. For further info visit facebook. Genevieve Frosch, Gill Cathleen, Hannah Olley, Harvey Steele, locate ourselves.” When I spoke com/nastywomenstroud and to Lotte about Nasty Women, follow them on Instagram Holly Mills, Imogen Harvey Lewis, Jack Addis, Jamie Ashman, like many others she had already @NastyWomenStroud Janice Wilkins, Jess Orr, Jessie James, Jo Hockin, Jo Saunders, Women been inspired by the movement in Jon Easey, Jordan Baseman, Joseph Carpenter, Joyce Overheul, America and once she knew more Kai Murphy, Kate Merry, Kim Francis, Lara Robinson, about our chosen charity, Orchid Caroline Jaine is a Stroud-based writer Lauren Stedman, Lorraine Robbins, Maddi Staples, Max Francis, Project she immediately offered the and activist who makes a point of Nicky Preston, Nyree Davis, Rachel Delves, Rebecca Hiscocks, Marshall Rooms as a venue: “We thriving in traditionally male-dominated Sam Marsh, Sara Twomey , Sarah Dixon, Sarah Spider, Siobain Drury, really want to put on great events environments - she is an artist inspired that we care about, and that mean by pop and urban art, spent 14 years Soozy Roberts, Susie Oclzak, Traci Smith, Uta Baldauf and of Stroud something to us.” in the Foreign Service and now repairs Yasemin Wigglesworth. I am so proud to have been the car bodywork for a living. twitter.com/ catalyst for this, by simply posting caroline_jaine Image by Katie Jane Watson Katie Image by

By Caroline Jaine

Nasty Women first appeared on my Facebook feed also be fun. The assembled crowd small group of us wanted to check early in 2017. The movement was in response to of Nasty Women and gathered the appetite for our event. I have supporters will then march against never met so many ready and Donald Trump’s misogynistic behaviour and his misogyny through the town and willing Nasty Women, with a real anti-women policies in America. Named after a disband, to meet up again in the axe to grind against Trump, but comment directed at presidential candidate Hilary newly opened Marshall Rooms for also showing lots of love for Orchid an exhibition of incredible, donated Project. As it turned out, my role in Clinton, women began to organise themselves art, the auction of which starts at all this was quickly overtaken by the as Nasty Women; they made witty placards, 7pm. The evening will also feature enthusiasm of others. Two young knitted vagina hats and marched against sexism much more live entertainment, women in their 20’s - Daisy Botha and Trump. They also began to arrange art including the Cheltenham based and Hannah Olley are the architects Vajazzle Dynamite, and you can of the march against misogyny and exhibitions to raise money for women’s charities. even grab yourself a Pussy cocktail putting performers and musical A few clicks on and I saw that the exhibition from the bar! acts together. Hannah works at movement had spread overseas, to many other Originally timed to coincide the Stroud studios of a well-known countries including Mexico and Thailand and right with Trump’s visit to the UK, I’m artist, and is a brilliant artist in her convinced that Stroud will still own right, and Daisy is relatively across Europe. In the UK, London, Newcastle send a strong message, not just new to Stroud. Daisy says events and Cambridge have hosted exhibitions; Nasty to America’s President, but in like this are her ‘absolute passion’ Women has begun to feel more like a global providing a display of solidarity and has been enjoying ‘meeting feminist awakening that is somehow, nevertheless, with the many women who have plenty of nasties’ in her new home. to endure his leadership. There is Charlotte Saturley is the brains Deborah Thurkettle laced with humour and creativity and extreme another group of women that we behind the Nasty Women of Stroud fundraising - over £130,000 so far. have opted to support through design. At just 17, she is studying our chosen charity, Orchid Project Art & Design at Stroud College and Inspired and heartened by the The day kicks off at 2pm with (orchidproject.org). We want to promises to draw a young crowd to Alex Merry female unity on show, I wanted to a spectacle of live performances have fun, but we also aim to raise the event. contribute, so tentatively I tested outside the Subscription Rooms. money to help end Female Genital Another artist, Jess Orr has deftly the water to see if Facebook Acts include a range of circus Cutting around the world, and as lead the charge to exhibit at The friends would be interested in a performers, Syren Alternative such, everyone involved in Nasty Marshall Rooms and has inspired Stroud event. The response was Bellydancers, Flashcandy Can-Can Women Stroud has given their time so many of our featured artists to overwhelming and quite moving. group and the wonderful Boss and skills for free. We would love contribute work. Jess has exhibited Friends tagged friends - and they Morris. The team of organisers it if people walked away with some herself in Stroud and is a manager Felicity Borwick tagged friends of friends. The likes want to get the whole town Nasty Art that could help end this at the same local art studios of that and comments were encouraging buzzing and would love people harmful practice, which impacts well-known artist. Inspired by “the and months down the line, an to bring placards and dress up for over 200 million women and girls. amazing sea of woolly, pink pussy amazing group of women (and the occasion. You can buy Nasty In many ways I feel as if I have hats seen across the immense some men) have contributed to Women of Stroud t-shirts and just flicked a switch in Stroud - women’s march of early 2017” Jess what promises to be a memorable dresses on our online fundraising people seem so poised and ready says, “we CAN make our voices day for Stroud on Saturday 14th Red Bubble store (redbubble.com), to help. Posing as Nasty Women heard - what’s more we can do so October. but making your own outfits can at the Stroud Fringe festival, a here too, with what promises to Aimee Lax Genevieve Frosch 6 ART - ANN-MARGRETH BOHL #31 | OCT 2017 #31 | OCT 2017 ART - ANN-MARGRETH BOHL 7

Ann-Margreth Bohl A striking new monumental sculpture is going up at the National Memorial Arboretum: an imposing wall, some three metres high and fifteen metres long, with a series of cracks and grooves cut into it, designed to cast a complex and changing pattern of

shadows as the sun moves across the sky. Sean Strange Image by:

By Matt Shinn

The sculpture, entitled Passing to make a wall with an incision or moment, over time the material of sound designer David Sheppard and who translated her models for spend hours in church, looking impressed on Ann-Margreth at a ‘you know what, this reminds me Light, is the work of Stroud-based crack in it: other than that, she had the wall will change too. and the London Sinfonietta), Passing Light into something that at the light coming through the young age. “In my early twenties of when we went to Berlin. Do you artist Ann-Margreth Bohl. “It’s like freedom to do pretty much what For Ann-Margreth this is a making Passing Light meant could be used by architects and windows, and seeing how it would I trained as a paediatric nurse, remember the wall there, and how some bonkers Stonehenge”, she she liked. She chose to focus on the new departure: never before working especially closely with structural engineers, to create a hit the sculptures.” working with terminally ill children. they had taken everything down? says: “like some of those ancient shadows cast by the wall, and the has she made work on such others, and in particular with monument that won’t fall over. “For Time is also a major theme. Being with children who are dying, It really reminds me of that.’ And sites, this also is a time piece. It’s contrast between what seems solid a large scale. While she has local digital designer Dan Hughes something that weighs tons, and Ann-Margreth, who works a great and seeing how short their life is – it that in a way is where this all comes an outdoor installation that unfolds and the ephemeral effects of light worked collaboratively in the past McGrail, who made a computer that is a public artwork, you really deal in stone (and also teaches was a hard job to do. But from an from. Sometimes as an artist you in time, looking very different at as it plays upon it. “The work I’d (including a recent project with animation showing how the shifting need to think that through.” stone carving at New Brewery early age it made me think ‘I’ve got question whether what you do is different times of day. That means done before is all to do with light, Stroud based composer Emily Hall, shadows would be cast by the wall, Walls have a particular Arts in Cirencester), says that she to make the most of this.’ Since worth it, but when it can trigger a that it repays spending time with shadow and form, so it fitted really significance for Ann-Margreth: she finds it “an amazing material – it’s then, with the support of a lot of thought in somebody else, for me it, or revisiting it. So it suits the well.” grew up in Germany near the wall so old, and you’re aware of the people, I’ve been able to carve out that’s the biggest gift that I can National Memorial Arboretum: a Passing Light was originally between the East and West. “That time it encapsulates. If I discover my life. It’s like the old sundials, give.” place where people go again and intended to be in stone, but the was one of my core inspirations. As something in a piece of stone as which often had mottoes carved again, to grieve or to remember.” final version is made of rusted a child I would look over the wall I carve away, I know that I’m the into them saying ‘don’t waste Passing Light is at the National Passing Light was commissioned Corten steel (a preservation order and see the guys with machine first person ever to have seen it. time’ – you have to be aware that Memorial Arboretum from October. by the renowned Stroud-based was placed on the Chatsworth guns, and all the houses painted the It’s a magical thing. And as you get everything is ephemeral. My work Ann-Margreth Bohl will also garden designer Paul Hervey- stone that Ann-Margreth had same colour. I always make a point older, time gets to be a big subject taps into that.” be contributing to the Dark <> Brookes, who wanted it initially planned to use, meaning that it of returning there when I go back for you. How little our time is here, When Passing Light was Light show at the Subscription for the IQ Quarry Garden at the couldn’t be taken away from the to Germany.” That wall is of course how important it is to be aware that on display at Chatsworth, Rooms, from 27th November RHS Chatsworth Flower Show in Chatsworth Estate – a problem, no longer there (it, too, having everything is passing, and how you Ann-Margreth was able to sit, to 2nd December 2017. Visit the grounds of Chatsworth House, given that she knew from the proved to be ephemeral), and must make the most of every day. unobserved, and hear what visitors annmargrethbohl.com for news, Derbyshire. Ironically, Ann-Margreth outset that Passing Light was to the former ‘death strip’ between In my work I can translate some of said about it. “The punters would updates and further examples of was commissioned on the very day have an afterlife at the National East and West is now a haven for that: Passing Light is a monument come in and they would say her work. that Donald Trump was elected Memorial Garden). Being steel, it wildlife. to something that can’t be held, or things, and I would sit with my President, with his plans for a very will age quicker than it would if it Another of Ann-Margreth’s that is moving through.” little notebook, writing down their Matt Shinn runs Whole New Chapter different kind of wall. was made of stone – as well as the strongest influences is the fact that Finally, the transitory nature comments. There was one that Ltd, a Stroud-based editorial and design Ann-Margreth’s brief was just light changing from moment to she grew up a Catholic: “I would of life is something that was touched me deeply: a woman said agency. wholenewchapter.co.uk Image by: James Kriszyk 8 EXHIBITION SPACE - MARTHA LIGHTFOOT #31 | OCT 2017 #31 | OCT 2017 ART - LISTINGS 9

SAT 7TH 4pm/Tues-Sat 10am-5pm Oliver Vivian: I’d Like To Be Hearth Art and Wild Feast The Oliver Vivian Gallery will be ART stroudmalthouse.com Exhibition Space: Hilles Studio presents Nick Simonin, open every Saturday with his current artist and specialised stone carver, exhibition, ‘I’d Like To Be’ - his LISTINGS whose art includes performances. THE MARSHALL ROOMS continued adventure working with Nick’s recent work is intimate, an unique process in oils on canvas. SAT 14TH 10am – 3pm or by appointment on AMBERLEY INN addressing personal conflicts, presenting ‘Answers as opposed to Nasty Women Stroud Exhibition 07532071457. Questions.’ This show includes new and Auction THURS 1ST SEPT – SUN 29TH OCT theoliverviviangallery.co.uk stone works, paintings, prints and a An exhibition of incredible, donated Rachel Markwick and Diane Young: Fish and Ships live art creation. Alongside the show art all up for auction with the proceeds will be a ticketed event for an edible going to charity. See p4-5 for further STEVE RUSSELL STUDIOS A vibrant combination of paint and feast. Food and drinks will be foraged info! Exhibition opens at 4pm/Auction collage, with a variety of Animals, Martha from the local woods and fields. Visit from 7pm MON 3RD JUL – THURS 30TH Birds, Fish and of course Ships. It’s website for booking and further info… NOV all in the detail, with Diane Young themarshallrooms.co.uk East African Coast including the luxurious touch of gold WEDS 18TH leaf in her paintings, and Rachel A celebration of the opening of William Morris Today: The Future MUSEUM IN THE PARK Markwick creating fascinating and of Art, Craft and Design the new studios and gallery with a intricate collages using postage new collection of photographs. The In his lecture ‘How we live and how SAT 2ND SEPT – SUN 1ST OCT stamps and postal material. Framed remarkable photographs assembled we might live’, the nineteenth century Lightfoot originals and prints will be on display Alison Vickery here were taken over the course designer, poet and pioneer socialist in the Dining Room at the Amberley Alison is a local artist with a love of of several trips to the coast of East William Morris identified four claims Inn. Open every day but please check the beautiful countryside and natural Africa; a place of great beauty and for making a decent life. In discussing opening hours with The Amberley Inn forms around us. She is interested vibrancy, redolent with the scent Morris’ legacy and how he can 01453 872565 in capturing the fleeting moment, of spices and glowing with bright Stroud-based maker Martha moment she might forget lest inspire progressive change in the particularly the transforming effect of colours. All prints are mounted on Lightfoot is an artist, writer and she gets it down on paper. Her 21st century this event will explore theamberleyinn.co.uk light on form and colour. She works in aluminium and are available in an creator of “things”. She illustrates dog characters grew out of a the significance of William Morris a wide range of media directly from edition of 5. children’s books, teaches art time when trying to doodle her ideas on the importance of art, craft ART OF CLAY the subject outside or from sketches workshops and clubs and can kids playing and chatting, she and design in creating meaningful steverussellstudios.com drawn in situ which are later worked work at a time of rapid technological often be located in her studio quickly realised that instead of on in her studio. This exhibition shows Clay Sinclair change and projected unemployment. making paper-cut dioramas. capturing the moment, she was work from the last couple of years SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS Provocative post-pop paintings The development of new and old When she was little Martha getting too caught up in whether and is a mix of floral pieces and local on Perspex by local/international knowledges and skills in the fashioning loved nothing more than making the faces looked right. Once she views. Open Saturdays and Sundays MON 7TH AUG – SAT 21ST OCT artist Clay Sinclair situated at 48 of an ecologically sustainable and books. Somehow she seemed to started drawing the family as dogs 11am-5pm Foto Forum forget this for years and suddenly the drawings flowed much more High Street. Plus prints for those socially just world. Learning to apply the lessons of Morris’s approach to Foto Forum is a small enthusiastic remembered it whilst completing easily! on a budget and People’s Republic SAT 30TH SEPT-SUN 5TH NOV of Stroud tat for those joining the History, to our volatile present and group of independent photographers her Masters in Venetian Art She has a joyful yet mindful Anne Jackson: Certaine Wytches – revolution. Open Mon – Sat our uncertain future Participants based around Stroud in History. For Martha, it felt a bit approach to drawing and her Fear, Myth and Magic will therefore develop a clear Gloucestershire. The members like finding the missing piece in a output is prolific – she draws In Anne Jackson’s current project, claysinclair.com understanding of the holistic nature engage with each other to share ‘The Witchcraft Series’, she presents a jigsaw. every day, often helping to remind of work, technology, place and social images and experiences. Their joint series of works exploring the history And so she began to draw again herself to locate the positive organisation. Supported by the exhibitions reflect an individuality of ELVERS STUDIO of witch-persecution in Europe, and - she drew and drew, in between in every situation and find the William Morris Society, Water21 and methods and perceptions. This 2017 jobs working in galleries, on short good things which are present the metaphors which the idea of SUN 1ST – TUES 31ST the Schumacher Institute. 10:30am- exhibition illustrates a diversity of ‘witchcraft’ evoke in modern culture, films and making children’s fancy throughout each day… 4:30pm £32.45/£25concs (incl. interpretation with each contributor Colin Heavingham through the medium of knotted dress costumes. By the time she refreshments and light lunch) conveying their own creative illustrated her first book, “One Martha is currently exhibiting at An exhibition by 1960’s artist Colin tapestry. Referencing sources from message. the earliest printed books warning Lucky Duck” by Alison Maloney, Prema Arts Centre in Uley until Heavingham called ‘This Tortured hillesstudio.co.uk World’ abstract to realistic visions. against the evils of witches, to the subscriptionrooms.org.uk she had a baby and would paint Saturday 21st October and will Also features handmade spooky & repeal of the final Witchcraft Act in when the bairn was napping. be running a workshop at the LANSDOWN HALL fantasy jewellery by Tristana Davis. English law in 1957, the works explore Thirteen years on Martha has two Museum in the Park on Sunday 5th SVA the imagery and social attitudes TUES 17TH – SAT 21ST more children and has illustrated November as part of this year’s facebook.com/Elversstudio that led to the trial and execution of Meanwhile Space: UP This Way several more books. Stroud Book Festival. For further Land, Sea and Sky thousands of people, mostly women, Martha draws things that make info visit marthalightfoot.com GALLERY PANGOLIN An exhibition of contemporary art across Europe. Jackson’s large and UP This Way is an outlet within her smile, often chronicling a inspired by landscape. Includes small-scale tapestries often depict Merrywalks highlighting the work of MON 2ND OCT – FRI 10TH NOV atmospheric works in a variety of evidence given in individual witch- furniture and accessory makers within the broader Stroud area. Open Fri-Sat Vitalism III: British Sculpture and media – needle felt, acrylics, oils and trials, including that of young children Works on Paper from the 50’s and prints. 10am-4pm encouraged to testify against their 9am-6pm or by appointment 01453 60’s mothers. Whenever possible, she 297260 lansdownhall.org reproduces the original printed texts Surveys the work of post-war from witch-hunting pamphlets and Meanwhile Space: Fungusloci British sculptors who first came to trial accounts as part of the tapestry prominence in the 1950’s through MALTHOUSE BAR AND KITCHEN Artist and permaculture practitioner composition, seeing this as a kind the sheer vitality and power of their Dominic Thomas has designed and of ventriloquism, giving a voice to sculpture. Highlights include ‘Hammer WEDS 9TH AUG – SUN 1ST OCT built a sustainable urban micro-farm individuals from the distant past. Anne Head’, a powerful, welded steel piece SIT select presents: Kerry Phippen in which oyster mushrooms are Jackson has exhibited widely across by John Hoskin, F.E. McWilliam’s – The Gentle Wild II cultivated on spent coffee grounds Europe, the USA, and in Australia. ‘Waking Up figure’ from 1962 and Paintings of wild animals leap and run from local cafes. Fungusloci is a Her work is held in public collections, Bernard Meadows’ eloquent ‘Head of around the walls of the Malthouse. project of Sustainable Creativity including the Art Endowment of the Fallen Bird’ 1959. Th exhibition also Kerry Phippen’s desire is to capture CIC with the help of Stroud District City of Aalborg, Denmark, the Geffreye features work by Kenneth Armitage, the sense of the animal, their very Food Grants taking place at Unit 23, Museum, London, and the Museum of Ralph Brown, Reg Butler, Lynn nature and traits and of course, their Merrywalks. Open by appointment Applied Art, Budapest, Hungary. Tues- Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Elisabeth beauty and this exhibition certainly [email protected] Fri 10am-5pm/Sat-Sun (and Bank Frink, George Fullard and Eduardo does all that. These ink paintings on Holidays) 11am-5pm sva.org.uk Paolozzi. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm/Sat handmade Indian rag paper, combine 10am-1pm her love for ink as a medium, fine museuminthepark.org.uk papers and gorgeous wild creatures. TRIXTER STUDIOS gallery-pangolin.com There will also be new framed as well as unframed works on display THE OLIVER VIVIAN GALLERY SAT 14TH – SUN 15TH HILLES STUDIO (sitselect.org.uk). Sun-Mon 10am- Open Weekend 10 ART - LISTINGS #31 | OCT 2017

Trixter; a hot bed of creativity prints. 10:30am-4pm and enterprise situated near the OPEN Bowbridge lights on London Rd will MON 11TH SEPT – SAT 21ST OCT FOR ARTS & CRAFTS WORKSHOPS Vitalism III Martha Lightfoot be opening their studios to the public & COURSES VISIT: British Sculpture and Works on Paper from offering a unique opportunity to Stroud-based maker Martha Lightfoot WEEKEND the 50’s and 60’s meet the makers and to discover and is an artist, writer and creator of purchase original fine art paintings “things”. She illustrates children’s 14 -15 Oct and reproductions, limited edition books, teaches art workshops and 2nd October - 10th November prints, greeting cards and vintage clubs and can often be located in her 2017 menswear. You can also take part ATELIER RUSKIN MILL studio making paper-cut dioramas. ATELIERSTROUD.CO.UK RMT.ORG in classes and demonstrations Martha draws things that make her  Limited Edition Prints  Drawings throughout the weekend including smile, often chronicling a moment she CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ART THE SCULPTURE STUDIO a mono printing demonstration by might forget lest she gets it down on ROOMHIRESTROUD.CO.UK THESCULPTURESTUDIO.CO.UK  Fine Art Paintings  Greetings Cards Cathy Mills (Sat 3-4pm), a Saori paper. Martha has a joyful yet mindful weaving class with Wayward Weaves approach to drawing and her output CREATIVE NETWORK SIT SELECT  Vintage Menswear  Fine Art Reproductions CREATIVENETWORK.ORG.UK SITSELECT.ORG (Sunday 2-4pm) , Arty Pilates is prolific – she draws every day, often  Demonstrations  Classes by Jayne Avery Wellbeing, and helping to remind herself to locate GLOUCESTERSHIRE PRINTMAKING SOUTH WEST ART WORKSHOPS ongoing demos in various art forms. the positive in every situation and find COOPERATIVE SWARTWORKSHOPS.CO.UK Sunday lunches are served at the the good things which are present GPCHQ.CO.UK 12am - 5pm Saturday 11am -5pm Sunday neighbouring Bowbridge Arms, and throughout each day.10:30am-4pm STROUD COLLEGE there is ample parking at the studio. GL5 ART SGSCOL.AC.UK  Wayward Weaves Freestyle Saori Studio Sat 12-5pm/Sun 11am-5pm prema.org.uk GL5-ART.COM STROUD VALLEY ARTSPACE  Jane Mackenzie Paintings facebook.com/trixterstudios HAWKWOOD COLLEGE SVA.ORG.UK NEW BREWERY ARTS CENTRE HAWKWOODCOLLEGE.CO.UK  Cathy Mills Printmaking/Drawing/Sculpture SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS  Angie Spencer Paintings & Reproductions THE OLD PASSAGE ARLINGHAM FRI 15TH SEPT – SUN 5TH NOV IMAGINE THERAPEUTIC ARTS SUBSCRIPTIONROOMS.ORG.UK IMAGINE-THERAPEUTIC-ARTS.CO.UK  Jayne Avery Wellbeing Arty Pilates Jerwood Makers Open TUES 13TH JUN-SUN 26TH NOV VICTORIA WORKS STUDIOS  Vintage Tweed Shop Menswear Following a successful exhibition at KENDRICK STREET GALLERY VICTORIAWORKSSTUDIOS.CO.UK Passion  Catherine G Jones Intuitive Art Maker Jerwood Space, Marcin Rusak, Juli KENDRICKSTGALLERY.CO.UK A New collection of artworks by Bolaños-Durman, Laura Youngson NEW BREWERY ARTS LOOK AGAIN PHOTOGRAPHY NEWBREWERYARTS.ORG.UK thirty artists featuring Alice Adams, Coll, Jessica Harrison and Sam More Info at www.facebook.com/trixterstudios LOOK-AGAIN.ORG Catherine Aspray, Anne Bate-Williams, Bakewell are exhibiting new works Chris Bingle, Susanna Birley, Carolyn PREMA ARTS CENTRE 1st Floor, Trixter House as part of the Jerwood Visual Arts PEGASUS ART PREMA.ORG.UK Black, Georgina Bouzyk, Jilly Cobbe, programme at New Brewery Arts. PEGASUSART.CO.UK Eagle Mill GALLERY PANGOLIN Alexandra Collins, Debbie Cox, Krysia Five new commissions by these early- CHALFORD - GLOS - GL6 8NT 01453 889765 London Rd, GL5 2AY Drury, Angela Findlay, Karen Green, career applied artists brought about [email protected] www.gallery-pangolin.com Sylvain Guenot, Pat Homewood, Jan through the biennial Jerwood Makers Parking behind Eagle Mill Carpets Hammer Head, John Hoskin Irvine, Valerie Jordan, Anna Knight, Open. Each combines a high level of Elaine Knight, David Manzi-fe, Rachel technical skill with imagination and Markwick, Annie McGill, Alison Merry, intellectual adventure, constituting a Linn O’Carroll, Arthur Penn, Kerry fresh and exciting direction of each Phippen, Kel Portman, Vicki Portman, artist’s work. Mon-Sat 9am-5pm/Sun Chris Rose, Alisdair Shepherd, Chris (and Bank Holidays) 10am-4pm Smith, Mark Stopforth and Melvyn UPPER LOCK CAFÉ Warren-Smith. newbreweryarts.org.uk www.upperlockcafe.co.uk theoldpassage.com

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MON 11TH SEPT – SAT 21ST OCT WESTONBIRT ARBORETUM NC Andrew Adams Graphic Design & Nigel Adams’ paintings might be SAT 21ST- WEDS 26TH described as ‘landscapes of the mind’. Gloucestershire Printmaking The artist does not seek to represent a Cooperative Brand Communications particular location but instead tries to Print exhibition in the Great Oak Hall Good design and communication convey the feelings and impressions at Westonbirt Arboretum. 30 artists is key to a good business. that nature and different natural from the Gloucestershire Printmaking Speak to us today. habitats invoke. Using brush and Cooperative GPC will be displaying Jerwood palette knife with acrylic paint, Adams new print-based work originating explores ways of suggesting different from Westonbirt’s trees. Prints will surfaces, textures and atmospheres. be on sale alongside the original T: 01453 702904 thepdco.co.uk 10:30am-4pm inspiration for the piece and members Makers will be on hand to talk about their MON 11TH SEPT – SAT 21ST OCT craft & provide some free lino cutting Kerry Day tuition. The exhibition includes the Kerry’s current body of work is about creation (with public participation) the plants with which she shares her of a giant lino-cut print (approx. 2m Open 2017 home and studio. Their architectural x 1m) in celebration of one of the shapes and contours seem to translate arboretum’s iconic trees. Come and beautifully to printmaking. The wide have a free lino course and make In the heart of Stroud, open seven range of leaf colour and pattern in your mark on the giant print. Suitable SAM BAKEWELL 16 SEPTEMBER – 5 NOVEMBER 2017 these cacti, succulents and leafy for all. Children under 14 to be days a week featuring: JULI BOLAÑOS-DURMAN plants seems to positively invite layers accompanied by an adult. Free entry NEW BREWERY ARTS to the exhibition after payment to JESSICA HARRISON of texture and tone within the forms. • Exhibitions of work by local artists every month Find us for a friendly welcome down BREWERY COURT The prints are accomplished using a access the arboretum. • Bands and Musicians welcome by the canal at Wallbridge. MARCIN RUSAK CIRENCESTER GL7 1JH mixture of reduction lino print and • A piano for anyone who wants to play NEWBREWERYARTS.ORG.UK forestry.gov.uk/westonbirt Facebook: Upper Lock Cafe LAURA YOUNGSON COLL mono print (using the rollers like paint And of course, handcrafted coffee, @UpperLock brushes) to produce variable edition homemade cake & wholesome food! Some Twitter: wine & locally brewed bottled beer too! 12 FILM - LANSDOWN FILM CLUB #31 | OCT 2017 #31 | OCT 2017 MUSIC - DEAR ROBOT 13

Lansdown Film Club Dear Lansdown Film Club have just announced a new season of independent fi lm Robot screenings at Lansdown Hall offering their By Rebecca Mills usual adventurous programming which deftly strikes a balance between foreign and English language fi lms; from gritty and hard-hitting to lightweight and romantic. Last month atmospheric indie pop trio Dear Robot is a depth of curiosity as intricately part of Dave Ayre’s baroque night entertained the Stroud masses with a packed out layered as the sound itself. at the Prince Albert. You feel really The band’s upcoming single, supported here and there’s a lot of performance in Bank Gardens for this year’s Stroud ‘Nowhere’, will be their third confi dence to be derived from that. Fringe. With their third single pending release and release, following on from ‘Slowly There’s amazing stuff going on that plans for their fi rst EP on the horizon, the year is set Slowly’ and, more recently, ‘Subject wouldn’t happen anywhere else.” / Object’. The trio have been Their latest two singles to culminate with similar success. But the current fortunate enough to have worked foreshadow the release of their buzz surrounding the trio belies a rather more Run by a small group of programming choices. Regular SUN 15TH OCT SUN 12TH NOV on these latest two tracks with fi rst EP, ‘New Harmony’, which will the guidance and expertise of be completed by early next year. volunteers, over the last few years attendees of the fi lm club often The Other Side of Hope Radiator complicated history. Lead singer and guitarist Tom they have developed a feel for the stop to chat about the fi lm after Jacob tells me more... two incredible producers, Sean Both songs will feature, in addition kind of fi lms their audience want the screening, give opinions when Genockey (Eagles of Death Metal, to three other tracks that the to see, and an awareness that they they arrive at the next screening, “The band’s formation actually and knew instantly that I wanted Suede, Manic Street Preachers) band will self-produce. “Recording like to be surprised and challenged or when the organisers bump into began almost ten years ago to create music with her. She fi tted and Aaron Zahl (Mesadorm). with Aaron and Sean gave us the on occasion! A diverse selection them around town. now,” Tom explains, when he in seamlessly and allowed us to “Throughout the legal dispute so confi dence to produce the rest of fi lms from a variety of countries For the last two years, the and drummer James Dolman, expand the music in a whole new many musical contacts had been for ourselves; it showed us we which have in the past included club have sent a delegate to the accompanied by a succession of way. We’ve since been trying out there waiting,” Tom reveals. “Sean were on to a good thing. I think it’s Japan, Chile, Italy, Laos, Guatemala, Independent Cinema Offi ce (ICO) A poker-playing restaurateur and A darkly comic examination of family bass players, performed together new material, putting stuff out there was a huge support. He came to important for musicians to realise Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Spain and screenings at the BFI in London, former traveling salesman befriends life, marriage, age and love. under the moniker ‘Hermes’. “We online. We’re very much trying to see us perform in London as soon how much power they have to do France offers a unique opportunity which has led to screening fi lms a group of refugees newly arrived to were being managed and had a keep it to ourselves for as long as as we’d constructed the live set things on their own.” Finland. SUN 26TH NOV for viewers to catch fi lms which such as the Icelandic Of Horses and lot of radio play in the States,” possible, to push it slowly and see and selected ‘Subject / Object’ as Their incredible performance at they might not be aware of or be Men, which turned out to be one Harmonium Tom reveals, “I went out to LA where it leads.” the song he wanted to produce. Stroud Fringe was a further boost able to watch on the big screen of the more talked about fi lms of SUN 22ND OCT for a showcase circuit and it was So far things seem to be And Aaron Zahl was fantastic in confi dence and a turning point anywhere else in and around that year! The Innocents all progressing really positively”. leading in a fantastic direction. with ‘Nowhere’. He produces so of sorts for the band. “Having had Stroud. But complications arose in 2012, Drawing infl uence from the likes of beautifully with Mesadorm and was four years away from releasing The fi lm club is a not for profi t See below for Lansdown Film organisation with surplus funds Club’s forthcoming programme. when a disagreement with their Radiohead, The Cocteau Twins and really instrumental in bringing the music, it can feel like we’re starting being reinvested into community Tickets cost just £6/£5 concessions management digressed into a Arcade Fire, the band are creating a track together.” from scratch. But it was great to projects which have in the past with an annual membership fee of legal dispute over song ownership beautifully immersive interpretation Tom’s move back to Stroud see how many people were eager included new equipment for £2 and screenings start at 8pm. Toshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. rights and things temporarily to support the music at the Fringe, their venue at Lansdown Hall and Watch the trailers on our on-line This old acquaintance, who has just came to a halt. With Tom’s legal who recognised the talent and funding for a short fi lm produced monthly fi lm listings page at In 1945 Poland, a young French Red been released from prison, begins to support strongly advising that “YOU FEEL REALLY SUPPORTED HERE AND THERE’S A LOT experience of the band even though by Flies On the Wall Youth Theatre. goodonpaper.info/fi lm and for Cross doctor who is sent to assist meddle in Toshio’s family life. they refrain from any further on the surface we seem really new. the survivors of the German camps They also continue to work with further info visit lansdownhall.org recording, the two musicians OF CONFIDENCE TO BE DERIVED FROM THAT. THERE’S Now we want to focus on a creating discovers several nuns in advanced SUN 10TH DEC other organisations in Stroud were encouraged to pursue other a record that people can engage states of pregnancy during a visit to a The Fencer AMAZING STUFF GOING ON THAT WOULDN’T HAPPEN including the annual Stroud Film nearby convent. ventures. “We continued to play with.” Festival (programming, funding Forthcoming and write together,” Tom says, “but ANYWHERE ELSE.” and running a series of screenings), Screenings: SUN 5TH NOV James went to study at the Royal Nowhere will be released later the Stroud Book Festival and the Fahrenheit 451 Agricultural College while I studied this month, for news updates and increasingly popular Secret Cinema SUN 1ST OCT Classical Music at the University forthcoming shows visit dearrobot. events. Paterson of Bristol. We put our hearts into co.uk Club members are encouraged something completely different.” of synth-laden pop, infused by following his degree also seems to make suggestions of fi lms they Fleeing from the Russian secret police, In 2016, after four years of legal intricate rhythms and subtle to have signifi cantly bolstered Rebecca Mills was born in Stroud and would like to see screened, these a young Estonian fencer is forced contention, the case ended in textures created through a joyful the support network surrounding has lived in the nearby valleys all her ideas can be emailed or noted in to return to his homeland, where he Tom’s favour during the week of his exploration of studio techniques. the band. “Within two months of life. Following a BA Hons in English person at screening nights. After becomes a physical education teacher graduation. “It seemed to be a sign Lyrically, tracks ponder large moving back here I had a studio in Literature, she worked locally as an every screening the audience are Truffaut’s 1966 classic adaptation of at a local school. The past however that the time was right to reform,” questions about the nature of being town and we were being offered editor and English tutor. She now spends asked to vote on their opinion of the dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury catches up and puts him in front of a he tells me. The last year has also human, from conversations that gigs; people were desperate to her time travelling, reading, freelance the fi lm by putting a bead in a pot A quiet observation of the triumphs portrays an oppressive future society diffi cult choice. seen an alteration in the line-up question the meaning and value of help. It really felt like something was writing and instagramming her miniature – the options are ‘excellent’ ‘good’ and defeats of daily life, along with the where all reading material is banned. ‘fair’ and ‘poor’. Notes are made of poetry evident in its smallest details… In collaboration with Stroud Book with the addition of Florence Pettet dreams, to considerations of our happening. Alongside Dear Robot, dachshund: mini_moose_esq these votes helping to inform future Festival. on synth. “I met Flo at university subjective human experience. There I work with Ardyn and perform as 14 MUSIC - THE MARSHALL ROOMS #31 | OCT 2017 #31 | OCT 2017 MUSIC - THE MARSHALL ROOMS 15

distinguish The Marshall Rooms Diner, run by Keith’s partner Tamzin November followed shortly by positive knock on effect for the rest from other local venues. It will be Malleson and already gaining a comedy programme curated of Nelson Street, which already has a quieter area, with comfortable a reputation for its fantastic by Chris Head and the fi rst ever a number of thriving independent seating, where you can sit and burgers and sundaes - this will be manifestation outside of London shops, pubs and restaurants. talk over a drink. There will be an augmented by a Marshall Rooms of the famous Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues. Improving the physical in-house pianist as well as a cabaret kitchen that will offer a simple Regular slots are also planned environment is consistent with programme that will include stand menu of good food. The sense is for drag nights, and blues and one of the key ambitions for the up comedy, satire, and literary that the venue will have everything Northern Soul nights. The idea will Marshall Rooms, that it will add events. And then there will be that you need for a good night out. be to create a rich balance between something to the town: bringing in that roof terrace, which on warm Full details of the forthcoming bringing top acts to Stroud and great acts whilst supporting and evenings will be a great place to programme have yet to be providing a platform for aspiring developing the talent that is already enjoy the extraordinary views over announced, but the venue will host local acts. here; creating a convivial space the rooftops of Stroud out to the the Nasty Women Stroud exhibition Running through and that will bring people together River Severn and beyond. There is on Saturday 14th October (see underpinning all of Keith, Tom and and generally contributing to the a clear symbiosis with the adjacent p4-5!), Syd Arthur on Friday 3rd Lotte’s plans is a passion for place. existing rich cultural mix of the Located in a prominent position, on place. a corner where the top of the High Street meets Nelson Street, the For announcements, news and site has for some time presented a updates visit themarshallrooms. highly visible and, frankly ugly, face co.uk and follow the venue on The to the world, with a pebble-dashed social media at facebook.com/ buttress picked out in lurid purple. themarshallroom and twitter.com/ The exterior design will transform MarshallRooms this façade with a vertical garden, planted to create a green wall. A Paul Harper has a wide range of central tower will mirror the scale experience of working in the arts. He Marshall and form of the Art Deco Silver was a founding director of Alias Arts Rooms on the other side of Nelson and is Vice-chair of the Forest of Dean Street. Already installed is a plaque Sculpture Trust. He currently combines on the wall saying ‘Welcome to writing, research and teaching with Nelson Street’. It seems probable consultancy in the visual arts and crafts. that the enhancement of this Rooms neglected corner will have a By Paul Harper

At the time of writing The Marshall Rooms Even in its half formed state it the world as a renowned sound is clear that the project is being engineer. Alongside his acting and (the venues original name prior to its guise driven by an ambitious and highly performing career, Keith has run creative vision. regular club events in Soho – and as Bar Riga followed by Twisted Fix) is coming The design is the work of Miller some people will remember the together in the middle of the maelstrom of Howard Workshops, a local fi rm of series of cabaret nights that he architects who have a reputation ran at the SVA a few years ago the fi nal push. Amidst the noise and dust, for their innovative and imaginative – splendidly riotous occasions, approach and their commitment where he brought acts such a John a series of rooms, big and small, unfold to fi ne craftsmanship. However, the Cooper-Clarke and the wonderful over three fl oors, until you arrive at the fundamental vision is the collective Mik Artistic to Stroud. product of business partners - Lotte In its most recent manifestations roof terrace – currently accessed through Lyster, Tom De Brabant and Keith the club has been largely aimed Allen. All familiar faces in Stroud, at a teenage audience, but The a window! Everywhere, there are hints of each bringing a range of skills and Marshall Rooms hopes to attract what the fi nal space will be like. Recycled experience to the project and all a wider, inclusive and cross- with a great track record of making generational audience – with a materials meet highly refi ned surfaces, raw things happen in the community. particularly grown-up appeal. Lotte runs The Prince Albert with There will be a variety of spaces, wood and brick are combined with brilliant Miles Connolly as a welcoming pub with distinctly different characters, colour in a clever, tactile, urbane design. For as well as one of the area’s leading offering different kinds of music destinations, with a national entertainment. On the ground fl oor now, the beautiful fi nish sits side by side with reputation amongst musicians and there is a large open area with a promoters. Tom de Brabant grew stage, for live music and dancing. gaping holes in walls, but it is starting to look up in Stroud and cut his teeth in The lounge room upstairs is one of very promising indeed. local music venues before touring the elements that will particularly 16 MUSIC - LISTINGS #31 | OCT 2017 #31 | OCT 2017 MUSIC - LISTINGS 17

blues bands. “Think of Thorogood, capriolorchestra.co.uk heavenly harmonies. 8:30pm Free distinctive contemporary folk singer- FRI 13TH melodies…8pm £22adv/£24otd FRI 13TH MUSIC Gary Moore, Wilko Johnson. These songwriter. 8:30pm £12 The Blockheads, Thee Ones Mermaid Chunky host John Street boys can show ‘em all a clean pair SAT 14TH SUN 29TH THE LITTLE GEORGE Celebrating their 40th Anniversary Social Club of heels” – British Blues Connection Reggae Night theprincealbertstroud.co.uk Baroque and Beyond starting out as the band behind Ian Stroud’s highly addictive afro-funk 8:30pm Free LISTINGS SUN 1ST – SAT 28TH OCT An evening dedicated to Reggae – get Dury, the Blockheads are still going EUCO (European Union Chamber groove gang host the weekly John up stand up and get ready for some STROUD BREWERY Orchestra) play Baroque masterpieces, FRI 13TH Cider Festival strong from the early days of the Street Social Club. Last time they easy skanking….Further info coming Stiff tour in 1977, right up to the a popular Mozart Divertimento and played at the SVA they set up on the Luke Philbrick For CAMRA National Cider and soon! SAT 7TH present day. Fronted by Derek ‘The a rarely heard gem by Haydn. With roof so who knows what they have up Roots, delta and gospel blues…8:30pm Perry Month the Little George will be Steve Ferbrache Draw’ Hussey and featuring Chaz director/soloist Steven Devine and their collective sleeves…7pm £5otd Free hosting a month-long cider festival, SUN 15TH Jankel, Norman Watt-Roy, John soloist Alessandro Ruisi (violin). 3pm A hugely popular local musician ALE HOUSE with an array of different ciders on Turnbull and Mick Gallagher from the £15.50/£13.50concs/£6.50 U16s THURS 19TH Rachel Baiman playing music from stomping blues THURS 19TH the bar every week. There will also be original band. Augmented by John Perhaps best known as one half of to classic folk/country/rock covers. Hands of Heron regular live music, and even a couple Roberts on drums and a special guest subscriptionrooms.org.uk SAT 7TH Open Mic 10 String Symphony, 27 year old Expect to hear some Creedance, A fledgling Bristol based folk collective of talks from local cider presses! Free saxophonist. Support from Stroud’s So What? Monthly Open Mic night! Come and Nashville Americana songwriter Neil Young, John Martyn, Tom Waits, drawing influence from diverse musical own Thee Ones…8pm £15adv/£17otd SVA Stroud’s very own So What? play a give it a go – all welcome. 8pm Free FRI 13TH and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Howlin’ Wolf and many more. 7:30pm sources such as Fleet Foxes, Joni Baiman’s new album “Shame” is an Free Mitchell, This Is The Kit and Gustav lively set of new wave, funk, & soul. Shaun Mosely SAT 14TH 8:30pm Free FRI 20TH exploration of growing up female in WEDS 4TH/11TH/18TH/25TH Holst, their songcraft is inquisitive Howlin Matt Come on down and enjoy an acoustic America. Inspired in equal parts by SAT 14TH Baka Beyond Funk-In Sessions and intuitive, capturing moments of session with singer-songwriter Shaun John Hartford and Courtney Barnett, African Rhythm and Celtic Soul – high emotion and distilling them into SAT 14TH A blistering set of blues songs and The Fig Band Live Funk Jam with Will Vick and Alf Mosely; where he’ll be gracing the Baiman’s influences span a wide range, “If there has to be a definition of vivid, memorable melodies.8pm £5otd The Corduroy Kings stories played by Howlin Mat, an Dynamic folk ensemble, providing Tramontin...FUNK Only...Nothing but bar with an array of 70’s Americana. but years spent playing traditional world music this is it” Andy Kershaw (John Street) The Corduroy Kings formed with one English version of ‘Seasick Steve’ rocking rhythms from folk cello, fiddle, the Funk!!! All are welcome to listen or Expect a range of covers, as well as a music shine through in her firmly BBC. 8pm £16.50adv/£15.50concs/ aim in mind - to play some of the best who mirrors him in living an almost flutes and melodious guitar, song and perform! 8pm Free (John Street) medley of original material. 8pm Free rooted sound. 8:30pm Free £17.50otd/£16.50concs SAT 21ST music ever written between the 1960’s semi nomadic life to live the dream of harmony singing. A lively band with playing the blues…8:30pm Free stroudmicropub.co.uk a great vibe. Inspired by traditional FRI 6TH/13TH/20TH/27TH Jazz Stroud Club Night: Soccer 96 and the present day. Fusing elements WEDS 18TH THURS 19TH of Rock, Rhythm and Blues, Soul music worldwide and known for its John Street Social Club Epic synth-scapes over poly-rhythmic THURS 26TH Black Water Country quirky blend of folk fusion, dance and The Hoosiers drums and infectious dance grooves and Funk, with a little Pop and Punk THE MARSHALL ROOMS A series of weekly Friday night club Smashing their way into the UK folk ceilidh.7:30pm Free Celebrating the 10th anniversary of creating a cocktail of brutal tight thrown in, they reproduce some of Rodda’s Hairy Craic socials hosted by different artists punk scene since 2013, BWC bring an their chart-topping UK NO 1 album electronica with floor-filling potency ft. the most famous songs known to man Irish Acoustic session led by Tim Potts. each week with visuals and audio SAT 14TH energetic live show of stout quaffing, SAT 21ST A Trick to Life and famed for their two members from the Mercury Award with that classic line-up of guitar, bass 8:30pm Free to share. The format: decks, laptop, Nasty Women Stroud banjo breaking and tin whistle catchy classics Worried About Ray, nominated The Comet Is Coming. Plus and drums. 8:30pm Free Southside and a limited number of selected mangling original music, along with Goodbye Mr A and many more. 8pm DJ’s. 8pm £6adv (John Street) FRI 27TH Exhibition, auction, live music and A trio of Stroud musicians who share YouTube clips of archive footage TUES 19TH trads and shanties that have been £15adv/£18otd Aranka’s Cackle more! See p4-5 for further info… a common love of Country, Rockabilly and informative curiosities...7pm £1 given a good kick up the arse and a THURS 26TH Dave Ayre Trio and good old fashioned Rock and membership on the door A blend of ska, reggae and dancehall themarshallrooms.co.uk slap around the face…8:30pm Free FRI 20TH Roll. At Stroud Brewery they will be Bandit 20: Supernatural Halloween Hugely popular jazz session led by inflected with their colloquial stamp of playing a set of popular songs, or in The Wurzels THURS 5TH The final performance! Showcasing renowned double bassist Dave Ayre. “ere” and “arr”. Dowsed in cider and SAT 21ST 8:30pm Free THE PRINCE ALBERT their own words, “music with a pulse,” Still playing over 100 sell out shows Kostka Flamenco Launch the Rock and Pop workshop Bandit drenched in bass weight and then set Moviestar, Sq Bomb on acoustic instruments with vocal every year! Their West Country cover is a four day rock and pop workshop on fire to create a sound to mash up di The launch night of a new series of Moviestar: Norwegian troupe whose harmonies. 7:30pm Free of Kaiser Chiefs’ Ruby and hilarious for 50 to 70 students aged 8 to 17. SAT 21ST dance.8:30pm Free WEDS 4TH workshops offering an introduction live shows encompass performance, hip hop version of the hit Combine Students throughout the community The Dusk Brothers Steve Poltz to flamenco rhythms for dancers, crownandsceptrestroud.com art, storytelling, fashion and music in a SAT 28TH Harvester remain firm favourites. 8pm come together to form bands and to An incredibly unique swamp blues guitarists, percussionists, or anyone Canadian singer-songwriter and whole new transcending form. Singer £14adv/£16otd be creative in writing, recording and Swing from Paris interested in flamenco music. 8pm British Americana two-man band guitarist. Steve is a founding member (and previous Stroud dweller) Infinity performing. The prime function of Often described as ‘the finest gypsy £5otd playing amazing self-built instruments. THE GOLDEN FLEECE of the indie-rock band The Rugburns Vik is a true performance queen with SAT 21TH the workshop is to give young people jazz in the Cotswolds’, Swing from Using custom guitars, bass, percussive and is known for his previous an explosive stage presence. A female from all backgrounds the opportunity Paris bring you the sounds of a chic Diamond – The Ultimate Tribute FRI 6TH stomp-boxes and foot operated SAT 7TH collaborations with singer Jewel. incarnation of Bowie, Mercury and to gain experience in musicianship, Parisian café and the French jazz Renowned as the UK’s best tribute Elvis hosts John Street Social Club cymbals from their own workshop, Among the music cognoscenti, he is James Brown…Sq Bomb: Stroud’s own creative song writing, performance Los Gusanos of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane to the fabulous Neil Diamond, combined with vocal harmonies and regarded as one of the most talented situationist New Wave band featuring The infamous Elvis will be on the skills, confidence and team work. Fleece house band return for the ever Grappelli. They have appeared at Jamie Knight & The Manuka Band blues harp, Dusk Brothers have been and prolific songwriters of our time. Pav (Pavinyl), Nick (Thee Ones) a decks for this John Street Social plus Come see the stars of the future! 8pm popular night of jazz and swing with many major jazz festivals including perform his greatest songs. 7:30pm refining their instrumentation, skills 8:30pm Free drum machine and artist/performance a bit of karaoke - fun times!! 7pm £1 £15adults/£10children (Goods Shed) bluesy/latin flavours. 9pm Free Cheltenham, Brecon and the Django £14.50adv/£13.50concs/£17.50otd and songs over the past couple of poet Uta on vocals. 8:30pm Free membership Reinhardt Festival at Samois sur Seine. years and have crafted a huge and THURS 5TH/26TH FRI 27TH impressive sound for only two men. SAT 21ST 7:30pm Free SUN 22ND Open Mic SUN 22ND SAT 7TH/14TH Vine Club Halloween Biff Bang Pow 8:30pm Free Lindisfarne, Said The Maiden Jazz Stroud Club Night All welcome to the Alberts irregular Don Kipper stroudbrewery.co.uk Halloween hoe-down in true Vine Club Wicked three-part harmonies & new- Legendary ‘70s folk-rock pioneers FRI 27TH friendly bring and share session. A multi award-winning ensemble Live funk/hip hop/R&B + DJs – keep style…9pm £5adv (John Street) wave-rock skiffle cover...pretty difficult Lindisfarne announce a special winter Help always on hand to get you set interpreting and transforming a wide an eye on the website for further Liam Ward to describe, very easy to love! 9pm SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS festival warm-up concert in Stroud. up…8:30pm Free range of traditional music: Turkish and announcements! 8pm £6adv (John SAT 28TH Free Unforgettable songs including Fog on Award winning harmonica player and Greek Folk, Klezmer & Balkan. Music to Street) THURS 5TH the Tyne and Lady Eleanor. 7:30pm Low Chimes: Album Launch with band leader playing original blues. SAT 7TH make your brain dance and your feet Magic Lantern SAT 28TH £25adv/£28otd “Endlessly inventive” - Harmonica Bartoune think! 8:30pm Free FIVE TUES 10TH/17TH/24TH/31ST Halloween Party Low Chimes: Following their two World. 8:30pm Free Five have enjoyed their remarkable Highly accomplished Bristol based FRI 27TH Kostka Flamenco Workshop acclaimed EPs, released under Evil Will & Tom Monsterbrow (Stroud SAT 28TH worldwide success with hits like musical troupe - Gypsy Jazz, classic A new series of weekly workshops previous name, Hot Feet, their eagerly Calling) unearth their themed vinyl Everybody Get Up and Keep on Jive Dance BLACK BOOK CAFÉ songs, mellow clarinet tones, and Halloween offering an introduction to flamenco awaited debut album ‘Illumine’ will selection for all the neighbourhood Movin. Their visit will bring out all the A great atmosphere and great dance driving baritone sax , all under pinned The return of the famous Prince Albert rhythms for dancers, guitarists, be released this month via Bellow freaks, ghouls and beasts. Dress up to favourite songs. 8pm £25 floor, dance the night away to top SAT 14TH by the tight swing of vibrant guitar Halloween Party with tunes provided percussionists, or anyone interested Records. Since the EPs, Low Chimes get down...9pm (late licence till 1am) swing and jive music. 8pm £8 and double bass. 8:30pm Free by Dubbu (aka Neil Wilson of Stroud in flamenco music. 8pm £5otd (John have developed a fuller sound, finding The Bob Porter Project Free FRI 6TH Block Party fame). Keep your eyes Street) influences beyond folk, rock and blues. Americana band from Stroud featuring SAT 28TH WEDS 11TH peeled on facebook and the Albert’s Roving Crows The core live elements remain but the a fine blend of mellow Alt Country goldenfleecebar.co.uk The Propane Brothers website for further info tba soon! Celtic inspired fiddle alongside YolanDa Brown THURS 12TH introduction of synths, samples and & Gritty Roots Rock often described tribal dance grooves; the band Double MOBO award-winning other electronics lend the music new as music with a ‘growl & twang’. ‘The Bluegrass super group from the Stroud Jazz Sessions presents: HOLY TRINITY CHURCH SUN 29TH comprises fiddle, guitars, electric saxophonist YolanDa Brown, known Kevin Figes Sax shades and nuances. Magic Lantern: Project’ offer a mix up of originals & UK – high octane solos, lonesome string bass, bongos and vocals. 8pm for seamlessly blending jazz, soul and The musical moniker of Jamie Doe covers. Many songs influenced by the harmonies and trendy footwear ft. John Smith, Edd Donovan This month’s special guest features SAT 7TH £11adv/£10concs/£12otd/£11concs reggae, will be dropping in as part returning to Stroud after a much- likes of Ryan Adams, the three toms members from Cardboard Fox, the John Smith: Has played to audiences Kevin Figes – a distinctive voice of her Love Politics Tour 2017. She admired set at this year’s Stroud (Russell, Waits & Rush) and Bob Dylan. Capriol Chamber Orchestra Carrivick Sisters and Cup O’ Joe. all over the world, in living rooms, both as a player (sax and flute) and SAT 7TH has toured with The Temptations, Fringe. 8pm £8adv/£9otd (Goods 2pm Free Stroud based orchestra the Capriol 8:30pm Free festival tents and sold-out concert composer on the UK jazz scene Courtney Pine and Billy Ocean, Shed) Chamber Orchestra perform halls with the likes of Iron and Wine, Ceilidh: Out of Hand who has previously performed with collaborated with artists such as Mica blackbookcafe.com Beethoven’s The Creatures of THURS 12TH Tinariwen and Gill Scott-Heron. His This up and coming band are the likes of Keith Tippett and Dave Paris, Reggae Legend Bob Marley’s sva.org.uk Prometheus and Piano Concerto No Porchlight Smokers new album released this year bears vibrant, energetic and making Stapleton. There will also be the usual son Julian and as part of Jools 1 (ft. renowned pianist James Brawn) the indelible loss of John’s friend a name for themselves. 8pm stonkingly energetic jazz jam for all THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE South-east based band playing a Holland’s Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. and Symphony in D by J.C. Arriaga. and guitar hero John Renbourn, £11adv/£10concs/£12otd/ players and singers, aficionados and THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER mash of American roots-based music, Fresh off her critically acclaimed 7:30pm £11/£9concs/Children under 16 who called John “the future of £11concs/£5U16s improvers to participate in. All are FRI 6TH blended with their own take on folk Reggae Love Songs Tour, YolanDa free available now from Subscription folk music” and to whose memory welcome, to listen or perform. 8pm 29TH SEPT –1ST OCT and country. Guitar, banjo, mandolin, Brown will perform songs from her The Worried Men Rooms ‘Headlong’ is dedicated…Edd £5otd (John Street) A one off event on Minchinhampton lapsteel and double bass accompany new album “Love Politics War” a One of Britain’s great rhythm and Donovan: Gloucestershire based highly Common to celebrate life and four voices singing hoarse but delicious fusion of reggae and jazz 18 MUSIC - LISTINGS #31 | OCT 2017

fundraise for the Refugee Community SUN 29TH £10 (profi ts going to the Goods Shed FRI 20TH Kitchen ft. live music from Solomento Saskia Griffi ths-Moore project and Macmillan Nurses.) David Newton Quartet (ska/Cuban/mento), Frankly Skanky Singer-Songwriter Saskia is a rising Fabulous jazz evening with the award (roots, reggae, dub) and two DJ areas SAT 7TH folk artist building her national profi le. winning David Newton. 7:30pm £12 including City Vinyl, Threebagsfull and The Hawthornes Frequently compared to Joan Baez, Shireman Sound. Great music, positive Joni Mitchell and Eva Cassidy for her A lively set from upbeat Cheltenham SAT 28TH vibes, weekend camping, honest food clear, enchanting tones, passionate folk rockers, The Hawthornes joined and much much more…2-8pm Son Yambu and creative melodies and her perfect, by the famous Giffords Circus Sauce Son Yambu play their irresistible natural sound, Saskia’s original songs restaurant for a pop up evening tchc.online tropical rhythms, bringing a truly draw on the genres of Americana, together with local band The sensational, authentic Latin-music roots & darker folk music. They are Hawthornes. 7:30pm £25 (including experience. Guaranteed to turn any CHRIST CHURCH NAILSWORTH at once thoughtful, mesmerizing and three course meal.) event into a fi esta! 7:30pm £15 stunningly beautiful, delivered with SUN 22ND SAT 14TH humour and style. 2:30pm Free shed-arts.co.uk The Bristol Ensemble Osiligi Troupe of Maasai Warriors thevaultnailsworth.co.uk Mozart’s sublimely beautiful Clarinet Join the Osiligi Troupe of Maasai Quintet, one of the most well-loved Warriors on their UK tour and watch chamber works for its exquisitely- PREMA ARTS CENTRE ULEY authentic and exciting Maasai tribal crafted melodic lines,is paired song and dance, plus the world- with Brahms’ lively and passionate FRI 6TH famous Maasai jumping. 7:30pm Hungarian Dances, based on Undercover Hippy £10adults/£5children traditional folk tunes. Ft. Dave Pagett Undercover Hippy’s music is best (clarinet), Roger Huckle and Rachel described as politically-driven Gouch (violins), Carl Hill (viola) and acoustic-roots reggae folk-hop, Juliet McCarthy (cello). 3pm £10ot with feel good vibes and a sly bristolensemble.com sense of humour. Their live shows are packed with energy, highly interactive and are sure to leave you EGYPT MILL NAILSWORTH begging for more. Don’t miss this fantastic sound fusion this Friday FRI 13TH autumn evening. Don’t delay – book Funk Soul and Motown Party now! £14/£11concs/£12friends/ £9concs/£18otd Funk, Soul and Motown Party Night at Egypt Mill - dance the night away prema.org.uk to some classic tracks from the 1970’s and 1980’s. 7pm £20 (incl. food) UNDER THE EDGE ARTS egyptmill.com WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE

THE VAULT NAILSWORTH SAT 7TH The Bad Dads SUN 1ST A sound which has its roots in the Ben Harrison old Chicago and Delta blues mixed Accomplished guitarist and singer Ben with Americana, but which also Harrison brings a versatile and tasteful incorporates some of the many mixture of laid back acoustic classic wide ranging musical and cultural bristol from 50s-00s. 2:30pm Free infl uences of the band members. 8pm ensemble £10.50/£8.50concs + children SUN 8TH Anthony & Mariana SAT 21ST The duo of Anthony Caligagan and Ben Maggs Mariana Bühring have been exciting Inspired by wild nature, human audiences all across the Cote d’Azur. nature and the nature of love, Ben OUT Famed performer/songwriter creates tapestries with the colourful th Caligagan combines his captivating threads of his ‘stunningly beautiful 6 OCT Tea-time husky voice with Mariana’s beautiful vocals’, melodies and poetic lyrics, harmonies and soaring individual all wrapped in the warmth of range. Their set features songs from artfully played acoustic guitar. 8pm ILLUMINE BY concerts Caligagan’s two internationally £10.50/£8.50concs + children Join the professional musicians of released albums, as well as a wide LOW CHIMES Bristol Ensemble for an Autumn spectrum of tracks from rock to SAT 28TH series of chamber music concerts reggae and jazz to soul. 2:30pm Free Red Dirt Skinners Following their two acclaimed EPs, released under previous name, Hot Drawing on infl uences from folk, Feet, Low Chimes have spent the last three years touring and working on SUN 15TH Christ Church, Nailsworth country, blues, americana, jazz their debut album which is set to be released on their own label, Bellow The Bob Porter Project and everything between, the Red Records.‘Illumine’ refl ects on this time and in Marianne’s lyrics natural images A fi ne blend of mellow Alt Country Dirt Skinners’ sound is instantly are woven into narratives of new beginnings and letting go of the past, but Sunday 22 October at 3pm and gritty Roots Rock on tap ...here recognisable. 8pm £13.50/£11.50concs often serve as metaphors for darker themes. The fi rst single, ‘Sleepwalking’ Mozart’s sublimely beautiful … often described as music with a + children ‘growl & twang’. The Project offer up gained support from Lauren Laverne, Marc Riley and Vic Galloway and Clarinet Quintet is paired with a blend of originals and covers. Songs utea.org.uk earned them a live session on BBC 6 Music, and the band maintained Brahms’ lively and passionate infl uenced by the likes of Ryan Adams, momentum with further releases, ‘Blood Orange’, ‘Sulphur Silk’ and ‘Dust Hungarian Dances the three Toms (Russell, Waits & Rush) TETBURY GOODS SHED Will Blow’, picking up further support from 6 Music’s Tom Robinson. Now and Bob Dylan. 2:30pm Free joined by former Laura Marling band member Pete Roe on keys, Low FRI 6TH Chimes have developed a fuller sound, fi nding infl uences beyond folk, rock Sunday 19 November at 3pm SUN 22ND Richard George and blues. The core live elements remain, but the introduction of synths, A captivating all-Bach programme Steve Ferbrache Tetbury based musician, Richard samples and other electronics lends the music new shades and nuances. including two Keyboard Concertos Acoustic guitarist with soulful, George, premieres the launch of his bluesy voice - singing fi rm favourites, Low Chimes’ album launch will be at The Good’s Shed on Saturday 28th and the exquisite Air on the G String. new album Train Stories, featuring forgotten classic and some of the best October with support from The Magic Lantern. Tickets available from music inspired by the railways. Joined songs by the greatest artists of all by critically acclaimed Mezzo-Soprano, lowchimes.com TICKETS £10 on the door time. 2:30pm Free Maria Jagusz from Cirencester. 7:30pm www.bristolensemble.com 20 LITERATURE - PIETER TRITTON #31 | OCT 2017 #31 | OCT 2017 LITERATURE - LISTINGS 21

monologues, celebrating creative free weeks participants’ scripts will be NEW BREWERY ARTS CENTRE LITERATURE speech with this entertaining bardic read by professional actors. 7-9pm circle for all. Whatever your party £80/£70concs SAT 14TH LISTINGS piece come and share it! Arrive early for a slot (10 mins or less). 7:30pm subscriptionrooms.org.uk Modern Calligraphy with Emma Sunderland ALE HOUSE Free During the session, key modern fi resprings.org.uk RUSKIN MILL HORSLEY calligraphy basics will be covered; how WEDS 4TH/11TH/18TH/25TH Pieter to use the essential tools, mark making Rick Vick: Writing Group SUN 1ST drills to practice applying pressure to SPACEHOPPERS A weekly writing group run by Stroud Introduction to Storytelling with your new pen, and alphabet practices Festival’s Rick Vick. Discover your Fiona Eadie before moving on to whole words. TUES 3RD Emma from Emerald Paper Design will hidden voice, all welcome! 7-9pm £5 An engaging, practical workshop for Tritton be giving demonstrations each step of for further information contact Rick The Gloucester Poetry Society: beginners wishing to tell stories to the way, as well as being on hand for on 07973 225 694 Villanelles Poetry Evening family and friends or as part of their individual guidance. Get a goodie bag An evening of eclectic open mic work. Storyteller Fiona Eadie will to take away containing: 1 nib, 1 pen I fi nd it diffi cult not to like Pieter Tritton. poetry co-hosted between Jason work with you to look at the range of MINCHINHAMPTON MARKET holder, 1 pot of ink and guide sheets Conway of The Gloucester Poetry traditional stories you might tell, learn He’s easy to talk to, he’s honest and for you to practice with at home. HOUSE Society and SpaceHoppers Co- useful storytelling techniques and 10am-12pm £35 forthcoming in his answers, and when I Working Ltd. All are welcome, from develop confi dence with support and fi rst time performers or writers of plenty of fun. Based at Horsley Mill mention that I’m fl ying to Texas he very SAT 14TH SAT 21ST-22ND poetry to traditional, spoken word and with the opportunity to work outside Fiction Editing Workshop kindly wishes me safe travels amid the slam poets and poetry lovers to come in this beautiful valley. £70 Calligraphy Workshop with Gaynor current chaotic weather. It’s hard to Are you writing a book or have you along and be inspired by an evening of Goffe written one but don’t know how eclectic poetry and share a favourite Content will include learning a script, believe, then, that this former Stroud to edit? Come and learn from an poem if they like. Refreshments will SAT 28TH letter spacing and its use in lay-out industry professional how to improve resident spent ten years and ten days be provided on the night including Storytelling with Fiona Eadie and design of brief texts. Learn/ your writing and edit your draft teas, coffee and snacks - as well as fi ne-tune scripts and/or experiment Come and listen to enthralling tales, imprisoned for his part in an international manuscript in this inspiring half-day alcoholic drinks. Please bring along with script variations with led fabulous fables and elaborate lies... workshop. 9:30am-12:30pm £45 some change / cash for your donation. exercises and projects, and use in cocaine traffi cking ring. Stories are for everyone, adults contact Sophie for further info at Names will be taken on the night, short texts, scripts to select from without children are as welcome as [email protected] for people wishing to perform, so will include, italic, foundational hand, By Anna Bailey children with adults. (Suggested please arrive in good time to avoid uncial, Roman capitals, italic capitals, publishing-workshop.com minimum age 5.) 10:30am-12:30pm disappointment! 6:30pm copperplate amongst others. This £4/£3/£10family (Coffee shop selling 2-day calligraphy course is suitable drinks and delicious home-made cakes spacehoppers.work for all levels – beginner to advanced MUSEUM IN THE PARK in the interval.) – as much of the tuition is on an His recent book El Infi erno the next seven years in the midst which very nearly killed me.” I think that’s what makes writing individual basis, with frequent group WEDS 11TH STAR ANISE rmt.org details his incarceration in Ecuador, of this.” As a reader, it seems to me that great: when you truly feel the demonstrations. It is also suitable as following his arrest in 2005 after he So how did the idea for El writing El Infi erno was not only author’s sentiments through their Tamsin Treverton Jones: a basic introduction to calligraphy for Windblown – Book Launch SAT 21ST was caught with £500,000 worth Infi erno come about? People often cathartic for Tritton, but necessary writing. At one point I literally shut letter carvers.10:30am-3:30pm £160 Trevor Carter: The Bard of of cocaine in his hotel room. “[The say that any hardship is just grist too. He’s spent a third of his life the shutters on the windows of our The launch of local author Tamsin Windmill Hill newbreweryarts.org.uk book] describes my almost daily to the writer’s mill, but during house in France and spent a couple Treverton Jones new book Windblown which refl ects on the “apocalyptic fi ght for survival,” Tritton says, “in his incarceration, did Tritton ever of weeks writing and writing, whilst Let the Bard of Windmill Hill turn the trail of destruction” and “remarkable absurd, bewildering and frequently the corrupt, gang-controlled, ultra- see himself writing about these “THEY CONTROLLED THE crying as I relived some of the legacy” of one of the most extreme frustrating aspects of modern life into violent prison system where there experiences? “I actually started TELEPHONES SO YOU HAD most traumatic events of my entire storms in living memory. 6:30pm laughter fodder for you! Witty, ironic was no way out, no help, no one to writing the book within two weeks life. You have to truly relive those and waspish, this is social comment turn to - just your will to live.” of being arrested, whilst I was still TO BUY MINUTES FROM events if you are to describe them SUN 29TH and cerebral stand-up at its best. A four day feast El Infi erno’s subtitle Drugs, in the cells of the Interpol police properly.” Wise Women and Witches: Come along and enjoy the Star Anise’s for book lovers of all ages Gangs, Riots and Murder is no station in Quito. I would then send THEM. THEY DID ALL THIS So what’s next for Pieter? Under Haunting Tales with Fiona Eadie wonderful food before the show. 8pm £9/£7concs exaggeration. After two years in what I’d written back to my family no illusion as to the seriousness Spirited, skilful and strong…or warty, Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th

Penal Garcia Moreno prison in in the form of a letter, and ask them WITH RUTHLESS VIOLENCE; of his crime, he’s now penning a Ian McEwan New Patron: wrinkled and wicked? Stories of both staraniseartscafe.com Quito, Tritton was transferred to to keep it safe so I could use it as a prequel to El Infi erno, which details abound and this is the time of year to November 2017 the infamous Penitentiary Litoral basis for the book. I started writing THEY WERE ARMED TO THE the events that culminated in his hear them. Join storyteller Fiona Eadie in Guayaquil. With a reputation it on three occasions, but lost spending a decade paying for it. for an afternoon of haunting, healing STROUD CONGREGATIONAL TEETH AND KILLED ANYONE stories from around the world. For as South America’s fourth most everything when I was suddenly Despite Tritton’s vivid accounts of CHURCH adults as well as for children aged 5 dangerous prison, Tritton describes transferred without warning. I prison life in Ecuador, the nightmare WHO OPPOSED THEM. I and above. 3pm £5adults/£3children it as “hell on earth”. He explains always had a feeling it would be he lived is surely impossible FRI 13TH how Penitentiary Litoral, home a book. I just didn’t think I would SPENT THE NEXT SEVEN to imagine without having museuminthepark.org.uk Harry Leslie Smith: Don’t Let My to over 8,000 prisoners, was spend anywhere near as long as I experienced it fi rst hand. And yet, Past Be Your Future completely under the control of did locked up in South America.” YEARS IN THE MIDST OF El Infi erno, for all its alien depictions THE LITTLE GEORGE Don’t Let My Past Be Your Future is a warring gangs. “They had split After nine years, Tritton of gang warfare and prison life, is survival guide for today’s generations the prison roughly in half with was repatriated to London’s THIS.” so very human. Tritton’s story is at WEDS 18TH and a memoir about persevering a borderline controlled on both Wandsworth prison, where he once involving, but by the end he through diffi cult times with one’s sides by inmates heavily armed spent the fi nal ten months of his is no longer simply our narrator: he Stroud Radical Reading Group: dignity and optimism intact. Harry The English Revolution 1640 by with handguns, machetes, knives sentence. He tells me that his family has been our guide, our companion will be introducing his new book and Christopher Hill and numerous other weapons.” have been extremely supportive, through this hell - our Virgil through answering questions about his life and work at this fundraiser for Stroud He recalls that there were regular following his release in August 2015, the Inferno. The Stroud Radical Reading Group Rachel Joyce & Cathy Rentzenbrink meet every month at the Little George Labour Party. Moving and passionate, gunfi ghts, with anything between but one can’t help wondering at the Tritton tackles his own trauma and aim to read a variety of articles Don’t Let My Past be Your Future on ‘Writing to the Heart’ four to six murders occurring great personal strength required head-on, and emerges with a fi erce and books on radical issues, feminism, interweaves memoir and polemic in a TV & Guardian food critic Matthew Fort every week. “The gangs controlled to adjust after something like this. bite of a book; if his future work environmentalism, trade unionism, call to arms. Above all, this book is a everything,” Tritton says. “[They] I ask him how he’s found revisiting is penned with the same candour politics, and current affairs. This homage to the boundless grace and THE BIG READ author William Fiennes had guards all the way up to the resilience of the human spirit. 6:30pm such a turbulent period of his life in and spirit, then I for one am looking month’s reading will be The English discussing ‘The Snow Geese’ director in their pay. They brought order to write El Infi erno. “Writing forward to seeing more from him. Revolution 1640 by Christopher Hill - a £12.50 (£25 including a signed copy of in huge quantities of drugs, mainly the book was, in many ways, very incarcerated, and lost so much in look at a turning point in the history of the book) from ticketsource.co.uk Over 30 other events for writers, cocaine and marijuana… They cathartic, but extremely diffi cult the process - it feels as though El Infi erno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and our country as the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution is marked in stroudcongchurch.org.uk readers, adults & children alike! controlled the production and sale at times, as I had to relive very there has to be something to show Murder is published by Penguin and October. 7:30pm Free of alcohol. They taxed all produce traumatising events that I will never for it at the end of all this. I ask available now in book shops and @ The Subscription Rooms, coming into the prisoner-run shops forget… Many of my friends didn’t him, then, what advice he would on-line. stroudmicropub.co.uk SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS Lansdown Hall, Museum in the Park, and restaurants. They controlled survive. I witnessed murder, torture, give to someone wanting to write Stroud Library & other venues the telephones so you had to buy and gunfi ghts in the prison––riots about challenging experiences of Anna Bailey studied Creative Writing at WEDS 4TH OCT – WEDS 13TH DEC THE LITTLE VIC minutes from them. They did all and much more. During my time their own? “Grit your teeth and Bath Spa University, and now works as Introduction To Scriptwriting with this with ruthless violence; they there, 5,000 miles from home, get it down on paper,” he says, “no a freelance journalist and illustrator. She John Bassett For full programme details visit: SUN 29TH were armed to the teeth and killed several members of my family died, matter how much it makes you cry. lives in the Cotswolds with her husband An introduction to scriptwriting Stroud Out Loud anyone who opposed them. I spent and I contracted Tuberculosis, It will feel better afterwards, and and their ludicrously spoilt cat. course for beginners, or those with www.stroudbookfestival.org.uk Poetry, storytelling, song, stand-up, some writing experience. After 8 22 THEATRE / COMEDY - LISTINGS #31 | OCT 2017

Mears This Evil Thing is the FRI 20TH RoomHireStroud compelling, inspiring and rarely told Ding Foundation: Wild Life THEATRE/ story of the men who said no to Don’t miss this brand-spanking-new HAWKWOOD COLLEGE war; and the men and women who show from the masters of visual DANCE supported them; involving a dizzying theatre – Ding Foundation which journey from a chapel in Yorkshire SAT 7TH presents the story of an ordinary to the House of Commons; from an Stand-Up Comedy with Chris Head LISTINGS woman’s journey to an extraordinary English country garden to a quarry •Get a taste of stand-up with this dimension. Using puppets, music and in Aberdeen; from a cell in Richmond approachable introduction in a physical performance, Wild Life is a Castle to a fi ring squad in France. With supportive environment. Explore feast for the senses and the mind, military conscription still in force in one-liners, autobiographical stand- exploring whether our inner, wilder many countries today, and prisoners up and topical material. Develop instincts can happily sit alongside of conscience still languishing in your timing and delivery. Discover a the demands of a busy, modern life. BOLD & COTSWOLD PLAYHOUSE jails, the questions posed are as range of stand-up comedy writing Contains dark imagery and so only relevant and urgent as they were one techniques. Leave the day with loads suitable for hardy youngsters over the THURS 12TH-SAT 14TH hundred years ago. £10/£8concs from of transferable skills for speaking with age of nine. A spine-chilling, thought- trybooking.co.uk improved delivery, better timing and The Cotswold Players: Audition provoking night out for the family. Piece/Rude Awakenings more assurance in any context. Chris lansdownhall.org 7pm £10/£7concs/£8friends/£6concs Head has established himself as one of An evening of two one-act comedies… /£25family/£23concs/£15otd the UK’s leading comedy coaches and Audition Piece: Written by Pip has nearly twenty years’ experience Royall, Audition Piece is a tightly STROUD THEATRE FESTIVAL prema.org.uk as a director of live comedy. 9am-5pm scripted, light-hearted look at an LOYAL £70 (including delicious lunch and audition based around improvisation. FRI 29TH SEPT – SUN 1ST OCT refreshments) Thought-provoking and funny, this is Stroud’s Theatre Festival returns for its fi fth year offering twenty an entertaining one-act play that all hawkwoodcollege.co.uk can enjoy. Rude Awakenings: Set at companies, six venues, more than sixty COMEDY the Little Gissing Art Group’s Annual performances from local and national Exhibition and Competition, Rude performers including street theatre, SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS Awakenings is a highly entertaining children’s theatre, workshops and LISTINGS one act play which provides laughter, a more. Visit the website and pick up the SUN 8TH free programme available now for full tear or two and some truthful insights CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ART Dr Phil’s Health Revolution into the pain and pathos that can schedule! £7/£5concs/Stroudie Special Phil Hammond - NHS doctor, BBC sometimes lie beneath the surface of – six shows for the price of fi ve SAT 21ST broadcaster, Private Eye journalist village life. 7:30pm £12 stroudtheatrefestival.co.uk Clowning: A One Day Workshop and whistle-blowing comic combines with Jess Dawson cotswoldplayhouse.co.uk both of his 2016 sell-out Edinburgh fringe shows in one unforgettable SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS What happens with an audience when you stop trying? In this fun workshop evening. Laugh, sort your life out, stay MUSEUM IN THE PARK you’ll be guided to fi nd the answer. sane, plan your death and save the THURS 26TH Jess Dawson trained in Canada with NHS - all in only 99 minutes...7:30pm THURS 12TH Tall Stories Theatre Company: The clown Master Sue Morrison and has £15/£12concs Circle of Spears Productions: Snow Dragon performed with Two Hoots and her Witch Billy has everything a young goat own solo clown show. 11am-4:30pm subscriptionrooms.org.uk Circle of Spears Productions presents could need – and more besides. £25 (for booking and further info Witch, an acclaimed original historical On New Year’s Eve, Billy is looking contact [email protected]) drama by Tracey Norman which is forward to the annual visit of the facebook.com/CentreforScienceArt based on extensive research into legendary Snow Dragon, who will witch trials and actual witch trial bring him even more goodies…But transcripts. It follows destitute healer when Billy bumps into some hungry Margery Scrope, who must face her wolves in the forest, New Year’s Day accuser, Thomas Latimer, and the local seems a long way off. How will Billy magistrate Sir William Tyrell, to defend escape? And has he been naughty or herself. Tyrell listens to both sides of nice? Toe-tapping songs and lots of the story before deciding whether laughs for everyone aged 3 and up, the case should proceed to trial. Has from Tall Stories, the company that Margery really ‘bewitched’ Latimer’s brought you ‘The Gruffalo’. 1pm and Ten Tors May 2017 children, or is there a darker purpose 4pm £6 behind his accusation? Ultimately, subscriptionrooms.org.uk whatever has happened, a woman’s life is on the line.7:30pm £7/£5concs PREMA ARTS CENTRE FRI 27TH Spaniel in the Works Theatre SAT 7TH Company: Dark Tales of Vamos Theatre: Finding Joy Gloucestershire Approaching the subject of dementia Spaniel in the Works Theatre with humour and humanity, award- Company presents their lively, funny winning Finding Joy has been Whole School Open Morning performance for all the family based performed to audiences across on local folk tales. Be prepared for Europe. Praised by press and public drunken fairies, royal intrigue, mythical OUT 7th October 2017 alike for its consummate full mask beasts and more! Performed with skills, engaging storytelling, physical NOW music, poetry, puppetry and dance dexterity and emotional insight, the Senior School & Sixth Form 9am-12.00pm outside in the Museum Courtyard. company continues to involve and Wrap up well! Hot soup and mulled engage audiences across borders and THE CIRCUS OF Preparatory School 10am-12.00pm apple juice on sale to warm you up. boundaries with its wordless theatre. 7pm £7adutls/£5children/£20family Suitable for brave and imaginative OUTRAGEOUS BY KUHL people over the age of ten years, museuminthepark.org.uk From the fi rst kiss to the last breath, from the state of the heart to the state Finding Joy is accessible to hearing and Deaf audiences alike. Don’t of the world - Kuhl’s ‘Circus’ is an intelligent combination of hard and soft Co-educational from 2-18 Day and boarding LANSDOWN HALL miss Vamos Theatre’s very welcome dance and trance beats with thought provoking lyrics taken from the book Nursery Prep School Senior School Sixth Form return to Prema this autumn...You’ll Splinters & Sparks, A Collection Of Words 1971-2017 by band member Cas FRI 13TH laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll fi nd joy! 7pm Greenfi eld. 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