studio and project space for contemporary art

BRICKHOUSE & The Copeland Book Market
Saturday May 4th 4-9pm
Sunday May 5th 1-6pm
Duffle, 3 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HE
www.brckhs.co.uk www.copelandbookmarket.com
Collaborators BH and CBM present a series of workshops, readings and talks held inside a temporary market. Throughout the project publications from the CBM's participant publishers and artists, as well as local practitioners work, will be on display and for sale. Programme of FREE events taking place inside the market:

Saturday May 4th 7pm       Clinic poetry collective readings to launch their 3rd publication
                              8.30pm  Michael O'Mahony / Patchfinder spoken performance

Sunday May 5th 4pm          Self publishing and book making workshop with Oliver Griffin(CBM) artist
                           5pm           Talk by Lewis Chaplin, co-founder of fourteen nineteen

The Copeland Book Market is a platform for print and publishing in the arts based around an annual, four day event at Bold Tendencies in Peckham, South London (July 18 - 21).BRICKHOUSE is an experimental curatorial project founded in London in 2009 producing exhibitions, events and artists books.  The Copeland Book Market is looking for submissions of books from local artists to include in the display, please email submissions or enquiries to info@copelandbookmarket.com.

Open Studios
Weekend one 11 th-12th May 11am-6pm
Weekend two 18 th-19th May 11am-6pm
72 artists will be opening thier studio doors in 36 open studios locations around the five valleys for two weekends showing their work. It's a fantastic insight into a diverse range of artists practice, to talk to artists and find out more about thier parctice and to buy work diirectly. Visit the Open Studios 'Taster' exhibition to see work by all the particaipating artists from 4th-19th May in the Subscription Rooms in Stroud.
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Open Studios 'Taster' exhibition
Opening Night Saturday 4th May 6-9pm
Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Special Sundays openings in May, Sundays 5th 2-4pm, 12th and 19th 11- 4pm
The Subscription Rooms, George Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 1AE
Tel:01453 760900 www.subscription.rooms@stroud.gov.uk
The Open Studios Taster Exhibition at the Sub Rooms Stroud has returned to the Site Festival once again. Showcasing the work of the Open Studio Artists, this exhibition provides a perfect opportunity to plan your visits to the studios and homes of local artists and to see and buy their original artwork.

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Open Studios
Weekend one 11 th-12th May 11am-6pm
Weekend two 18 th-19th May 11am-6pm
72 artists will be opening thier studio doors in 36 open studios locations around the five valleys for two weekends showing their work. It's a fantastic insight into a diverse range of artists practice, to talk to artists and find out more about thier parctice and to buy work diirectly. Visit the Open Studios 'Taster' exhibition to see work by all the particaipating artists from 4th-19th May in the Subscription Rooms in Stroud,

Download the Open Studios Directory from here

Browse the Directory online here

LISTENIN
Sat 1st June 7.30 pm
SVA, 4 John St, Stroud GL5 2HA 
ListenIn is a night of competative poetry from six of the hottest, young(ish) poets ever to grace Stroud's stage (and that's saying something).Never has so varied a voice collected under one roof. Featuring multi-slam winners of the spoken word. Come and listen as they pour treacley words of longings, passions and pithy observations over your eardrums. Be warned, 'THIS IS NOT A SLAM, THIS IS AN EVENING OF CONSIDERED POETRY WITH THE CUT AND THRUST OF COMPETITION.'"Will there be blood?" I hear you yell. No, not actual blood, though a poetry punch-up on the car-park could be arranged at the right price.Come and judge for yourselves (literally), and be part of the start of something really rather special. All this for a fiver, surely that can't be right!
£5 entry

Jordan Baseman
Green Lady
Saturday 4th, Sunday 5th, Monday 6th May
Saturday 11th-Sunday12th May 11am-4pm
INDEX | gallery, Brewery Lane, Thrupp, Stroud GL5 2BN
Jordan Baseman’s films seek to entertain, emotionally engage and challenge audiences through narration, storytelling, personal experience and belief. Recorded interviews are edited to make it seem as if the participant is speaking directly to an audience: timbre, cadence and vocabulary are reconstructed to emphasise personal accounts of individual, intimate experience. At INDEX Baseman will screen Green Lady with a programme of shorter films. Green Lady is a visual and emotional assault: a bombardment of colour and light, painstakingly built frame by frame. The visual material is syncopated to the narrator’s speech patterns, mirroring her emotive tale of watching her mother die.Using interviews, 16mm film and in-camera editing, Green Lady celebrates the collision of representation and abstraction within a constructed narrative.Green Lady was developed and produced as a result of Jordan Baseman’s 2011 residency at St John’s College, University of Oxford. Programme running time : approximately 50 minutes Screenings on the hour. Jordan Baseman will give a talk at INDEX on Thursday 9th May at 7-9pm.

10x10
John Wood and Paul Harrison
Saturday 4th May 7-9pm, Sunday 5th May 12 noon-3pm
Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May 11am-6pm Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May 11am-6pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
harrisonandwood.com
10x10

An office block

100 floors

10 colours

1 person

Work Statement
John Wood and Paul Harrison have been working collaboratively since 1993 producing single screen and installation based video works. The work investigates the relationship between the human figure and architecture, developed through short form video (20 seconds – 3 minutes) with particular emphasis on actions being formulated and resolved within a given duration. Each work holds to an internal ‘logic’, action related to duration. Within this ‘logical world’ (architectural space, the gallery space, the business office, the laboratory) action is allowed to happen for no logical reason, a tension exists between the environment and its inhabitant, play is encouraged and influences are intentionally mixed – art history, slapstick, Open University instruction, drawing, science... John Wood and Paul Harrison are represented by Carroll/Fletcher, London.

the sky has to turn black before you can see the stars
Siobhán Hapaska
Opening night: Saturday 4th May 6-9pm
4th-12th May
Saturday 10am-3pm
Sunday 5th, Monday 6th-Sunday 12th 11am-6pm
Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
www.indexgallery.co.uk
INDEX is proud to open the 2013 Site Festival with a newly commissioned installation by Siobhán Hapaska, made specifically for the Goods Shed in Stroud. Five uprooted olive trees, each suspended within a cube of scaffolding, are yoked to motors, creating unsettling yet magical vibrations. The ropes that shackle the trees to the corners of each cube suggest subjugation, hinting that the trees are being somehow enslaved. Yet their vigorous shaking is defiant rather than compliant. The trauma of uprooting clashes with this exuberant and abundant movement – a continuous ecstatic last gasp, extending the possibility of change and hope.

Negative Space presents
Come And See (Idi I Smotri)
Selected by Siobhan Hapaska
Wednesday 8th May 8pm
Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
Selected by Siobhán Hapaska to accompany her Site Festival installation, Elem Klimov's visionary 1985 epic is a startling and shocking evocation of the destablising effects of war. Taking its title from the Biblical story of the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, the film shows the physical and psychological devastation wrought by Nazi death squads during their occupation of Byelorussia in 1943, when over 600 villages were burned to the ground.
 

Canterbury Tales
Monday 6th May feast 6pm, screening 8.30pm
Knapp House Barn, Slad, Stroud GL6 7JZ

“ I told these tales for the joy of telling them.”
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Join us in the rustic splendour of the 18th century Knapp House barn for an unforgettable evening of film and feasting featuring a rare 35mm screening of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s bawdy romp through the Middle Ages. Get in the mood for the film with a Bacchanalian extravaganza of frolics, flames and feasting: gorge on wood-roasted hog with fruits of the forest and field – a sumptuous medieval banquet to celebrate nature’s bounty and fecundity, washed down with wine, gaiety and song as musicians stroll among the revellers.

Tickets: Feast and film £30. Film only £10  Book Now