DEEPBED RADIO
Sat 29th - Sun 30th
An ongoing project led by artists and supported by artists that has self set the task of profiling DJs and audio projects with roots or threads to artist led hubs in the Stroud and Gloucester area. Deepbed is an online station but it’s also a meeting place for an emerging artists community with a common interest in each other’s creativity. Follow Deepbed on facebook and instagram for weekly programme schedules and the website at deepbedradio.org to listen back to previous shows.
GALLERY PANGOLIN
In the Mix
Gallery Pangolin is now open by appointment. 'In the Mix' is a changing assortment of sculpture, prints and drawings by gallery artists, contact the gallery to arrange your own private viewing, or to request to view a particular artwork…Head to gallery-pangolin.com for further info.
INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE DAY
Sat 29th Sound Records and Trading Post
As announced earlier this year, Record Store Day as it has come to be known will not be celebrated in 2020. Instead there are three RSD 'Drop Dates' in which you can get hold of the RSD titles from local record shops: August 29, September 26 and October 24. Click here for the Sound Records fb event page and here for Trading Post event page for further information and social distancing rules. For a list of this year’s RSD releases visit recordstoreday.co.uk Trading Post 8am-5pm/Sound Records 8am-5:30pm
LANSDOWN GALLERY
Fri 28th - Sun 30th The Great Reopening!
A showstopping collection from many different, mostly local, artists curated by Jessy Plant to celebrate the reopening of the gallery. Visit lansdownhall.org for further info. 10am-4pm
SIMON MUNNERY: WHAT AM I?
Sat 29th SVA
Andy Holden, artist and curator, presents the first ever art exhibition by legendary alternative comedian Simon Munnery. The exhibition will include paintings, props, jokes, videos and archive material spanning 35 years of stand-up comedy. It will include many of his well-known characters such as Alan Parker: Urban Warrior, with whom Munnery had a cult BBC Radio 1 show, and League Against Tedium, which formed the bases of his BBC 2 television series Attention Scum.Munnery was described by The Scotsman as: ‘The closest that comedy gets to modern art’, and this exhibition will allow visitors to decide for themselves if his eclectic, profound, and humorous endeavors can be considered art, or not. Some of Munnery’s props from his 35 years of performing at the Edinburgh Festival have been transformed into sculptures, and his stick-men drawings that appear in many of his shows will be exhibited. Also on display, is the oil painting which was the center of his most recent Edinburgh stand-up show The Wreath. Munney has had brushes with the world of art before, having collaborated with Banksy on Exit Through the Gift Shop and appearing occasionally as spokesperson for the mysterious graffiti-artist. He also once sold a painting, featuring a joke about the Rolling Stones, to Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones. The exhibition features Alan Parker: Urban Warrior, returning after 25 years to amuse the crowds at Extinction Rebellion. During Alan’s stirring routine, which includes showing the crowd some of his drawings, we see many of the crowd getting arrested. We also witness a funeral, staged by Munnery in his garden, in which he ‘catches the Wreath’. Death, pretentiousness and politics are all scrutinized for jokes, but in the humour something else seeps out, and perhaps that something could be ‘art’? Visit sva.org.uk for further info. 10am 4pm
STROUD LOVE RADIO: STROUD BLOCK PARTY TAKEOVER
Sat 29th
The Stroud Block Party crew reunite on Stroud Love Radio to discuss the ins and outs of Block Party on what is the events 5th year anniversary. They’ll also be playing their favourite tunes from the Block Party era! Click here for the fb event page for further info and head to facebook.com/stroudlockdownradio for the rest of the weekend’s SLR schedule…
STROUD’S SAFELY DISTANCED SOCIAL
Sat 29th - Sun 30th Bank Gardens and the Sub Rooms
A gentle, safe community event with carefully considered, outdoor free family-friendly fun. Head to the Bank Gardens on Saturday to find out about the Stroud Book Festival, Stroud Film Festival, Stroud Theatre Festival the Stroud Steampunk Weekender and future events at Lansdown Hall plus performances from Spaniel in the Works Theatre Company and Mr Woo. Head to the Sub Rooms as they open their doors for the first time since March and find out about their future plans, restoration work, the People’s Republic of Stroud’s new home and more…Click here for the fb event page
THEO DEPROOST: LOST IN TIME
Sat 29th - Mon 31st Museum in the Park
An exhibition of photography exploring the secrets of the Museum’s stores. Theo Deproost is a still-life and landscape photographer based in London. He grew up in Stroud and has fond memories of visiting the Museum when it was still in Lansdown. Since 2017, he has been exploring our stored collection and taking photographs, with the aim of sharing some of its weird and wonderful (and usually hidden) artefacts with the wider public. Theo strives for an exploratory and imaginative approach to viewing the world around us. One of his key objectives is to break down a subject to its core components of shape, texture and colour and present it to the viewer in an unconventional and compelling way. In this exhibition you will encounter geological specimens, tropical butterflies and a selection of objects that have been collected by, or donated to, the Museum over the last century. The objects, and Theo’s images, range from the beautiful, to the slightly unsavoury, to the frankly bizarre. Book your visit online at museuminthepark.org.uk or call 01453 763394. 11am-4:30pm