Key Projects

Stroud Arts Festival - 65th Anniversary - June 2011

Stroud Arts Festival is supporting and joining with Stroud Valleys Artspace's Site Festival 2011 to present a programme of exciting events in June 2011.

FLASH - A brand new show at the cutting edge of live literature - Saturday 18th June 2011

Saturday June 18th 8pm @ Lansdown Hall, Stroud (The Space) Plus free workshop 2 - 5 pm Four performers: Lucy English, Sara-Jane Arbury, Glenn Carmichael and Anna Freeman interact with poetry and prose to focus on revelations and epiphanies in everyday lives. The sudden flash that reveals the briefest moment when everything makes sense.

LA BOHEME by OperaUpClose - Friday 24th June 2011

Friday June 24th @ The Cotswold Playhouse, Stroud La Bohème has been transported to modern day Kilburn from the original in 1830’s bohemian Paris. This adaptation is sung in English and has been conceived to make La Bohème as immediate, relevant, accessible and emotionally engaging for today’s audiences as it was when it was first performed in 1896. This young and vibrant cast of world-class trained singers, accompanied by live piano, offer a fresh take on the original for opera fans and an eye-opening introduction for those who thought opera wasn’t for them!

CATCHING THE GYPSY'S TALE June 25th 7.30pm - Traditional tales from those whose home is everywhere a

From the humour of the Gypsy King to the poignancy of an Indian Love Story, the curses and blessings in the Land of Serpents to the supernatural vengeance of a Baby Witch. Spellbinding stories, theatre, fortune-telling and stirring music following the migration of the Gypsy people from their home of Rajasthan, through Arabia, the Balkans, Central Europe and the British Isles. Told and played by storytellers Michael Loader (clarinet, recorder) and Sarah Mooney (harmonium) and musician Martin Solomon (sitar, fiddle and accordion)

LORCA IN ENGLAND - a celebration of a poet’s life

Conversations with Lorca - an exhibition of work by local artists in response to Lorca

LORCA’S BIRTHDAY, 5th June - Jazz & more

Celebrate Lorca’s Birthday, 5th June, at the Star Anise Arts Café, Stroud. Jazz & poetry event and exhibition of Lorca inspired art.

STROUD’S STORY CABARET - Stroud Storytelling Circle

Stroud's Story Cabaret is a storytelling and music event that features storytelling and musical talent from around the region, showcasing both familiar names and fresh talent for a vibrant and exciting evening. Our June performance is going to be an exciting night with two fantastic acts from Oxford, the storyteller Vergine Gulbenkian and the musician Matt Sage. Vergine Gulbenkian is a rising star of the UK storytelling scene. She draws on her story-rich Armenian background, and has performed at venues as diverse as the South Bank Centre and the British Museum. She is currently touring Fire, a 17th century love-epic told by Armenian and Turkish bards and Cradle, a recent commission for Festival at the Edge based on three mega-mother-myths.