Posts Tagged stroud
Stroud Audio Tours
Posted by Culture Vulture in Tours on March 3rd, 2010
We have recently put together some short audio tours with slideshows of landmark buildings in Stroud, you can check them out on our youtube channel.. or download the mp3’s from soundcloud. Happy listening..
Make Do & Mend
Posted by Culture Vulture in Crafts, Events on February 4th, 2010
‘Make Do & Mend’
An interactive textile installation presented by Studio Seven textile artists
Showing until 28 February 2010 at The Museum in the Park, Stroud
Presented by the Studio Seven textile artists, ‘Make Do and Mend’ first appeared at Stroud Valleys Artspace in 2008. It has now been carefully brought out of storage, dusted off and re-invented to delight visitors once again.
The installation focuses on the themes of weavers and weaving, woollen mills, the use of Stroud Scarlet cloth for military uniforms, women working during wartime, and the ethos of ‘make do and mend’. These threads are brought together by the seven artists into an atmospheric world of images and ideas which the audience is invited to explore.
Enter an Alice in Wonderland-like rabbit hole world of ‘eat me, drink me’ instructions; of objects out of scale and out of place; of looms and pulleys, fragments and whispers; of animated dummies and mechanical garments; or warp and weft weaving and unravelling across a textile landscape.
Admission £3 on the door (£2 concessions and free re-admission with badge). Open Tuesday to Friday 10am to 4pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am to 4pm.
The Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
Tel: 01453 763394
The seven artists are: Liz Lippiatt, Kathryn Clarke, Jenny Bicât, Anne Rogers, Sarah Cant, Sarah Cooke, Corinne Hockley.
In the Making
Posted by Culture Vulture in Crafts on January 7th, 2010
Stroud International Textiles in partnership with the Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
Linking the past to the present and the future
Stroud International Textiles will be unveiled an exciting new project on January 5th 2010 at the Museum in the Park.
‘In the Making’ will showcase contemporary designer craft from leading nationally acclaimed craft makers in a Museum setting.
One discipline will be exhibited at a time and reflect the innovation and high quality of British craftsmanship and will cover the broad range of disciplines that make up contemporary crafts today.
The work selected by Stroud International Textiles will be from established makers as well as new emerging makers.
We hope to offer opportunities to visitors of all ages who may not see leading contemporary work and to encourage debate and fresh observation for crafts and design.
Alongside this there will be talks and opportunities for people of all ages to engage with the work and be drawn to a greater understanding of contemporary crafts today.
Stroud International Textiles in partnership with the Museum in the Park’s Learning Officer will be organising school visits and encouraging young people to engage with contemporary craft and to take that learning and understanding back into the classroom.
There will be teaching notes and information on each discipline available for young people and visitors.
5 January – 21 February Cast Glass from Sally Fawkes, Richard Jackson & Monette Larsen
23 February -17 April Willow from Mary Butcher and Dail Behennah
1 May – 30 May Textiles with Needle felt artist Annie Hutchinson (part of the annual festival)
You will discover ‘In the Making’ in the foyer of the Museum.
Entrance Free
Opening Times:
January – March Tuesday – Friday 10 am- 4 pm Saturdays & Sundays 11 – 4 pm
April – June Tuesday – Friday 10 am – 5 pm Saturday & Sunday 11 – 5 pm
Contact: Stroud International 01453 808076 & Museum in the Park 01453 763394
Tony Meeuwissen retrospective…
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Events on November 3rd, 2009
Inventive and intensely-detailed book covers, prints and postage stamps, not to mention a sleeve for the Rolling Stones, make up just a small part of illustrator Tony Meeuwissen’s creative work since the 1960s. Next month, an exhibition in Stroud Subscription Rooms displays a selection of highlights from his career, click here for more..
Gallery Pangolin
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Events on October 21st, 2009
Gallery Pangolin opened in 1990, tucked away in the village of Chalford, near Stroud, on the slopes of the Cotswold escarpment. The gallery specialises in modern and contemporary bronze sculpture and sculptors’ drawings.
A changing selection of sculpture is always on show, including themed, group and solo exhibitions. The gallery revives the traditional association between foundry and gallery, selecting the best of contemporary sculpture cast in the workshops of leading art foundry Pangolin Editions.
The gallery works with a wide range of sculptors and is ideally placed to co-ordinate a broad spectrum of commissions in all sizes from monumental to intimate, for public bodies, private and corporate clients. More details can be found at www.gallery-pangolin.com.
OperaXposed
Posted by Culture Vulture in Classical Music, Events, Live Music on October 21st, 2009
The Subscription Rooms are delighted to welcome two of the most respected opera performers in the country to Stroud on Friday 23 October at 8.00pm.
Between them, Welsh baritone Mark Evans and soprano Elizabeth Donovan have sung at all the major Opera Houses and concert venues in the UK (including 75,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff), Europe, The Far East and the United States. Having sung with the likes of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Placido Domingo, with the English National Opera, the Welsh National Opera and at the Royal Opera House, the two are firmly established on the international stage.
In this new show ‘OperaXposed’ Welsh baritone Mark Evans and soprano Elizabeth Donovan brings the highest calibre performers in the operatic world into the local community to give you an evening of your favourite operatic and musical moments from Bizet to Andrew Lloyd Webber. Told and performed in a passionate, charming and humorous way that cannot fail to convert anyone to the magical world of opera.
Tickets: £14.00 (£12.00 concessions) on door from the Box Office on 01453 760900 or online from www.stroud.gov.uk/subrooms.
Textiles-led Dance Performances by Studio Seven
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events on August 11th, 2009
The Studio-Seven textile design group, known for its combined arts events, will be presenting a performance of CUT 2 ON FOLD at Woodchester Mansion on the 5th September at 7pm. In collaboration with Louise Flexen, Steve Skinley and Rick Morton, this innovative cross arts project was launched at this year’s Stroud International Textile Festival in May. This is the last opportunity for the public to view this visual art /dance piece.
Studio Seven will continue to show their versatility when CUT 2 ON FOLD animates the amazing unfinished Victorian Gothic interior of Woodchester Mansion. Tickets are £15 from Stroud Tourist Information Office – 01453 760960. Go to www.studio-seven.net for more information.
Food & Drink Festival puts on weight…
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events, Food on July 30th, 2009
…almost doubling in size in one year!
The launch of Stroud’s very own VegeBurger, the first Stroud Sausage Festival, a beer trail with a difference, and the much-requested return of one restaurant’s Pudding Evening.
These are just some of the highlights unveiled by organisers of Stroud’s second Food and Drink Festival. With 40 events and promotions spread across two weeks in September, the Festival aims to promote the diverse array of food and drink, grown, served and sold in the town.
Visitors will be spoilt for choice, as the Stroud Walking Festival, the annual Stroud Fringe Festival and the Open Eco Homes event will also be held at the same time. Dubbed Stroud Festival Fortnight, more than a hundred events will be spread across 17 days between 4th and 20th September.
The Food and Drink Festival was only intended as a one-off event last year. However traders overwhelmingly voted it a success, with two restaurants enjoying their busiest-ever evenings. Thanks to funding from Stroud Town and Stroud District Councils, organisers were persuaded to do it all again.
Most of the events have limited places and so early booking is advised. A 36-page Festival brochure is available from tourist offices and all participants and full details are available online at www.stroudfestivalfortnight.com
Guild Of Craftsmen Summer Show
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Crafts, Events on July 29th, 2009
The Painswick Summer Show is a selling exhibition across a range of media such as jewellery and furniture. It runs 1-31 August with demos at weekends.
Toff Milway – salt glaze potter
Paul Spriggs – furniture maker
Saturday 8 August
Anne Rogers – feltmaker
Sarah Pearson Cooke – Shibori textiles
Saturday 15 August
Richard Bossons and Rita Dawe – stonecarvers
Saturday 29 August
Susan Early – basketmaker – “Willow World”
Val Michael – leatherworker
site09: Stroud’s contemporary arts festival
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events on May 19th, 2009
site09
‘We are used to measuring a place by how busy the tills are. This is about measuring somewhere by its ideas’
This site festival now in its 13th year, presents the work of over 300 local artists in 83 sites across the Stroud Valleys during the whole of June. The site festival creates a platform for artists and artist collectives to show new work, to initiate new projects, and work collaboratively with other artists. Stroud Valleys Artspace (SVA), the festival host organisation, will be opening its doors to invite you to a month long programme of exhibitions, open studios, film screenings, talks and performance. site09 is working in partnership with Alias, which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary to a programme of activities.
One of the best things about the festival is the opportunity to meet artists living and working in the Stroud Valleys and get to know their work. There will be two weekends of Open Studios with 116 artists inviting you to see their work within their working environment, buy directly from them and to talk about their practice. Pick up the Open Studios Directory for all the information you need to plan your studio visits. site09 also brings you an eclectic mix of performance nights ranging from experimental music with Sarah Kenchington and Daniel Padden, performance poetry from festival favorite John Hegley and punk jazz from The Blessing. More information can be found at www.sva.org.uk