Posts Tagged stroud
OperaXposed
Posted by Culture Vulture in Classical Music, Events, Live Music on October 21, 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 11, 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 30, 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 29, 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 19, 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
The Sound of Textiles?
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Events, Live Music on March 17, 2009
Stroud International Textile Festival (1-21 May, 2009) is an annual, innovative exploration of the wonder of textiles. And if that sounds like something for the initiated only… well think again and come down to the Stroud Valleys to have perceptions changed. These days textile artists create sculptural masterpieces that would grace any conventional art gallery. And Stroud’s event is world standard.
The organisers are always keen to diversify – this year Keith Tippett and Julie Tippetts play one of the most unusual gigs of their career as they bring contemporary jazz to the Stroud Subscription Rooms as part of the Festival, on Sunday, 3rd May. Tickets on 01453 760960.
British Printmaking Festival 2009
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Crafts, Events on March 4, 2009
The Impress 09 festival will bring together some of the best of British printmaking including the work of our own local printmakers. It will be a true celebration of the art of printmaking, often overlooked in the world of Fine Art. On show will also be some of the finest prints from around the world, in anticipation of our international festival in 2011 –IMPRESS ’11. Among the contributions from stars of the art world will be work in the prestigious Curwen Collection, lent by Tate Britain. This includes prints by Paula Rego and Henry Moore. Running from February 28th – March 29th in Stroud and the Five Valleys.
Stroud Open Studios
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Crafts, Events on February 25, 2009
This years festival promises a ravishing and eclectic mix of exhibitions, art, image and performance that will take place in and around Stroud, the Gloucestershire town that does so much to champion the arts. SVA, the organiser behind site09, will open up its doors for the whole month of June as the main site for the festival. Open Studios, an essential ingredient to Site09 is taking place on the weekends of 13th – 14th & 20th – 21st of June, with more than 100 participating artists.
Stroud International Textile Festival
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Events on February 11, 2009
Some of the countries leading artist-makers will be appearing at the Stroud International Textile Festival in May 2009.
The Festival is now in its fourth year, and is the UK’s only Festival that celebrates and profiles contemporary textile art linked through to traditional textile culture. It takes place in venues throughout the Stroud Valleys in Gloucestershire. 2009 will see new work from Matthew Harris – Trace Elements ; Jacy Wall – tapestries; Hilary Bower- textiles & mixed media; Mary Butcher – willow and reclaimed materials; Michael Brennand-Wood, Margot Selby, Rachel Gornall andRuth Waller & Lee Hewett will delight and surprise our senses with colour, texture and movement; and Dawn Dupreewill be bringing printed textiles alive.