August 2019
Wool & Water Festival
Marking the 20th Anniversary of the Stroudwater Textile Trust, the Wool & Water Festival is a collaboration between the Trust, the Cotswold Canal Trust and the Museum in the Park. Starting with a callout to artists to respond to Stroud's rich textile heritage the Festival has come together to feature 7 exhibitions, 2 music world premieres, poetry readings, mill visits and other community happenings spread throughout the month of September. This is a Festival with something for everybody!…
Find out more »September 2019
R is for Revolution
Make your mark. Add your views. What does Revolution mean to you? This experimental community installation will take the form of a giant alphabet - 26 printed letters - each exploring what ‘Revolution’ means to different people living in Stroud and the valleys. Gloucestershire Printmakers Cooperative's Christine Felce and Rachel Oram are inviting comments from the public in specially printed books placed around the town throughout the summer. They will then run workshops using letterpress techniques to produce the…
Find out more »October 2019
Julius Caesar
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in a modern production performed by the Cotswold Players A country troubled by civil unrest and political uncertainty. The emergence of a charismatic new leader, on a wave of popular acclaim. Some say she should be given absolute powers. But that would contravene proud democratic traditions. And it would sideline the current political elite. What is the opposition to do? And what will be the consequences of their actions? This contemporary production underlines the terrible timelessness of…
Find out more »Performative Walk – The Jacobin Fox was here!
In the summer of 1797, the ‘most dangerous man in Britain': that Jacobin fox', John Thelwall, came to stay in the Stroud area. This was after leaving London, pursued by William Pitt’s spies, to spend ten days with Coleridge and Wordsworth at Nether Stowey. He not only talked politics with the poets, but influenced the Lyrical Ballads, too. During his timet here he stayed with sympathetic local clothiers and dyers, with visits to Uley, Nailsworth, Chalford and Bowbridge. He talked…
Find out more »Revolution in Song – A Night at the Opera?
We asked mezzo-soprano Clare McCaldin to put together a programme of arias and song with a 'revolutionary' theme and she identified such a wide range of composers it was difficult to choose! The resultant programme covers composers and material which Clare felt was aesthetically, harmonically, politically or socially revolutionary. See what you think! From Beethoven to Sondheim via Wagner and Debussy, with Mozart, Cage, Ives and Kern, this is a rich and varied programme which will be musically pleasing…
Find out more »November 2019
Romeo a Juliet
Critics Circle Award winning company Ballet Cymru present an extraordinary adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece ‘Romeo a Juliet’ with music by Serge Prokofieff. Intense fighting, passionate duets and universal themes echo through dramatic and lyrical choreography. Exquisite costumes and extraordinary video projections create a world of danger and excitement where two young lovers are caught in an age old feud. ‘Romeo a Juliet’ is a dynamic and unique collaboration between 3 of Wales’ outstanding arts organisations, Ballet Cymru, Coreo Cymru (The…
Find out more »Otherstory Theatre – Taking a Holiday
Taking a Holiday is a tale of conscientious objectors and others who went on the run from conscription during the First World War - and of the networks that supported them. What does it mean to be a refugee in your own country? Who will give you a bed for the night, a job...or a means of escape? A table top and shadow puppet show based on the true stories of ordinary people in 1916/17 and the hidden history of…
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